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    The document describes 12 different guitar scales from various world music traditions. It provides the scale formula for each one, including the Arabian diminished octatonic scale, Persian major scale, Byzantine major scale, Oriental dominant scale, Japanese pentatonic scale, Indian Asavari raga scale which differs ascending and descending, Hungarian gypsy minor scale, Romanian minor scale, Spanish gypsy dominant scale also known as the Jewish scale, and their typical musical characteristics.

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    The document describes 12 different guitar scales from various world music traditions. It provides the scale formula for each one, including the Arabian diminished octatonic scale, Persian major scale, Byzantine major scale, Oriental dominant scale, Japanese pentatonic scale, Indian Asavari raga scale which differs ascending and descending, Hungarian gypsy minor scale, Romanian minor scale, Spanish gypsy dominant scale also known as the Jewish scale, and their typical musical characteristics.

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    Exotic Guitar Scales

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    The document describes 12 different guitar scales from various world music traditions. It provides the scale formula for each one, including the Arabian diminished octatonic scale, Persian major scale, Byzantine major scale, Oriental dominant scale, Japanese pentatonic scale, Indian Asavari raga scale which differs ascending and descending, Hungarian gypsy minor scale, Romanian minor scale, Spanish gypsy dominant scale also known as the Jewish scale, and their typical musical characteristics.

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    Arabian Guitar Scale

    This Arabian scale is an octatonic minor scale (it has 8 notes). It is the same scale as
    the diminished scale.

    Formula

    b3

    #4

    #5

    Persian Guitar Scale


    Major scale.

    Formula

    b2

    b5

    b6

    Byzantine Guitar Scale


    Major Scale.

    Formula

    b2

    b6

    Oriental Guitar Scale


    Dominant scale.

    Formula

    b2

    b5

    b7

    Japanese Guitar Scale


    This Japanese scale is pentatonic. It's neither major or minor, the 3rd is not included.

    Formula

    b6

    Indian Guitar Scale


    This Indian music scale is called the Asavari scale or raga Asavari. A raga is
    something between a scale and a composition, it is richer then a scale, but not as
    fixed as a composition. It is more like a tonal framework for improvisation and
    composition, just as chord changes and standards are for a jazz musician. Besides a
    particular scale, ragas also have a specific melodic movement, hierarchy in tones
    and specific intonation, ornamentation, strength and duration. I'm not going into all
    the specifics of this raga, I'll only tell you that it is played differently ascending and
    descending. Descending, this scale is the same as the Phrygian scale, ascending it's
    the Phrygian scale minus the b3 and b7.

    Formula Ascending

    b2

    b6

    Formula Descending

    b7

    b6

    b3

    b2

    Gypsy Guitar Scale


    This scale is the Hungarian gypsy scale (minor). Check the second Django
    Reinhardt lick for an example. Also check out this video for a theme that uses the
    gypsy minor scale.

    Formula

    b3

    #4

    b6

    b3

    #4

    Romanian Guitar Scale


    Minor Scale.

    Formula

    b7

    Jewish Guitar Scale


    A dominant scale that's also known as the Spanish gypsy scale. The Jewish scale is
    an inversion of the harmonic minor scale (on the 5th note): E Jewish = A harmonic
    minor.

    Formula

    b2

    b6

    b7

    Origin

    Guitar Scale Formulas

    Arabian

    b3

    Gypsy

    b3 #4

    Romanian

    b3 #4

    Indian

    b2

    b2

    b3

    Persian

    b2

    Byzantine

    b2

    Oriental

    #5

    minor

    b6

    minor

    b7

    minor

    b6

    neutral

    b6

    b7

    minor

    b5

    b6

    major

    b6

    major

    1 b2

    b5

    b7

    dominant

    Jewish

    1 b2

    b6

    b7

    dominant

    Japanese

    #4

    Type

    b6

    neutral

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