03-09-2005, 06:23 PM
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Metal head
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Quebec, Canada
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Help with ScaleTool software
Hey y'all guitar gurus:
I've got the ScaleTool freeware for a few weeks now, and i'm trying to figure out how to use it -no help file with it-
Anybody has experience with this software?? I can understand most of it but the precise sequence to play a scale -like a pentatonic scale- is not clear enought to me...how do you read this???
I would love to have any help on this..so far i can play pentatonics through other means, but this lil sucker is full of good stuff, i just need some help for the decoding...
Thank you!
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03-09-2005, 07:20 PM
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101 Guru
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
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bon soir...is this software midi related...???...or is it a graphics program...???i've tried to check it out...it wasn't too clear though... 
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03-10-2005, 12:09 PM
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"Gas Station Attendant"
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Ok, since you mentioned pentatonics (and it's an easy one), lets use A Pentatonic Minor as an example. When you select it, you'll see that it consists of 1,b3,4,5,b7. All you have to do is connect these in that order to construct the various positions of the scale. Note how they start over at 1 after getting to the end of the scale. Check out the pic I attached. Hope this helps 
Last edited by POD GOD; 09-09-2006 at 07:47 AM.
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03-10-2005, 07:45 PM
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Metal head
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Quebec, Canada
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POD GOD!!!!! Thank you man!! wow..that's what i needed to know!!! thank you...i thought i had to follow the numbers horizantally up to the 12th fret!! that's precisely what i need it!! thank you!!! Woohoooo!!! 
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Originally Posted by POD GOD
Ok, since you mentioned pentatonics (and it's an easy one), lets use A Pentatonic Minor as an example. When you select it, you'll see that it consists of 1,b3,4,5,b7. All you have to do is connect these in that order to construct the various positions of the scale. Note how they start over at 1 after getting to the end of the scale. Check out the pic I attached. Hope this helps |
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03-11-2005, 03:03 PM
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"Gas Station Attendant"
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by Sister_Wrath
POD GOD!!!!! Thank you man!! wow..that's what i needed to know!!! thank you...i thought i had to follow the numbers horizantally up to the 12th fret!! that's precisely what i need it!! thank you!!! Woohoooo!!! |
Glad I could help Sis 
Something else I forgot to mention is that you can move any of these patterns up 12 frets. So the open position pattern can be played at the 12th fret and the 5th position pattern can be played at the 17th fret  |
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03-10-2005, 07:48 PM
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Metal head
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Quebec, Canada
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allo le torontois: Scale tool is a small software, no sound on it...just graphics...but it got everything: all kind of scales..if you know how to read em...POD GOD help me with that..i was doing it wrong  you can find it here http://www.scaletool.com, is free... 
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Originally Posted by jimihendrix
bon soir...is this software midi related...???...or is it a graphics program...???i've tried to check it out...it wasn't too clear though... |
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03-10-2005, 07:57 PM
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101 Guru
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
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thanks sis...i just tried it out...i'm self taught...i'm always up for learnin' new things on the guitar...
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03-10-2005, 09:03 PM
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Got Lines?
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Florida.....U.S.A.
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Thanks Sister, who couldnt use one of these?!
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03-10-2005, 11:04 PM
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Buried all my heros
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Scale tool is an awesome lil proggy. i recommend it to everyone at the shop. beginners and even some of the seasoned pros too.
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