When playing guitar, how do u knw which scale to use when rhythm guitar/bass is switching evry 4th beat or so?
So I know blues scales and what not, but I’ve noticed that no site actually teaches you which scale to play, depending on what the other instruments are playing. If the bass/rhythm is switching every fourth beat, do I have to switch my scale every fourth beat?
Tags: Bass Rhythm, Guitar Scale, Rhythm Guitar
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You are a muscician so you should make it up yourself buddy! There’s no set scale you need to play. You can play any scale. It would not be fun to have to play a certain scale.
The scale is the basis for what the bass and guitar is playing. The bass is just changing between chords which are the different notes in the scale and are certain intervals from the root note. When they change chords there will be multiple notes which will sound good with that particular chord and some that just wont fit. The beautiful thing about blues (if your using a 12-bar blues progession) is that if you just use your pent. blues scale almost every note you play will sound good no matter if it is the I-IV-V chord playing. This is just blues when you get into more advanced chord progessions it gets harder to find the right notes that fit, just trust your ear and experiment, like the poster above me said there are no “rules” pretty much all those “rules” were broken by the great Jimi Hendrix years ago.