It started as a Japanese In Sen pentatonic scale - 1 b2 4 5 b7friendship wrote:1 – ♭2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – ♭6 – ♭7 –style?Paul_C wrote:Std. tuning at the moment, but I do noodle using a modified phrygian dominant scale that is daft enough not to be recognised as a "proper" scale.
E standard has always sounded too high pitched for me (too much grunge during my formative listening years), so I keep my guitars in D standard these days.
Bennroe, I love open minor tunings.
Then I started adding a couple of notes which I later discovered made it the phrygian dominant - 1 b2 3 4 5 b6 b7
But now and again I like to throw in a couple more (bear in mind this is noodling without any backing track, so there are no actual "wrong" notes as such) which means it sometimes becomes 1 b2 b3 3 4 5 b6 6 b7
I'm sure there's a better way of describing it - I'm probably just jumping between two mostly similar scales - but that's what I generally muck about with, more often than not in D, so that I can chop together bits and pieces from different recordings and they have a passable chance of being compatible
It's nice to sometimes expand to use all the notes, and then other times drop back to the In Sen pentatonic to force myself to think a bit more about what I'm doing other than just hit the next note in the scale.
