Need To Know Metal Guitar Scales 

0:50 Blues Scale 1:38 Natural Minor Scale 2:30 Harmonic Minor Scale 3:14 Phrygian Scale 4:04 Phrygian Dominant Scale

I "invented" my own scale about a year ago. Turns out it's a Locrian scale with a couple passing notes. I (of course) had no clue, LOL. My guitar teacher identified it in seconds...but *I still invented my own scale* dagnabit 😠🏴‍☠️☠️

I like this guy. He's strong and direct but he's not an asshole. He gave some of the best advise I've ever heard in all my years as a player, (I paraphrase) "Play things that people can connect with." Brilliant! Well done man.

the ending was on point! bad notes can sound awesome too. it's not the scale, or the key.. it's the context! and nobody teaches you that. that's how you become a good musician

I miss when you did vids like this shred master. Awesome lessons with good comedy mixed in.

Man I've been trying to learn guitar for years but I keep losing motivation and giving up so now I've decided instead of starting out with all the stuff they recommend like barre chords and open shapes I'm gonna learn to do what I started playing to do and shred. Once I can shred over some basic chord progressions with a fair few scales then I'll have built a foundation of knowledge. So when I go to learn the other stuff, which I will do, and I get frustrated, which I will do, I'll always have that foundation to fall back on and stay motivated. Don't get me wrong I think people should absolutely learn how to do as much on the guitar as possible and experiment in other genres but if everyone built that foundation of stuff they love first then I think a lot less people would quit.

HARMONIC MINOR SCALE FOR THE WIN

What scale do you think sounds the most “metal”? 🔴Need To Know Metal Guitar Scales TAB: @t

Great lessons Scott, what has helped me a lot is listening to all the Castlevania video game music. From the old melodies to the newest ones, now I can understand that the made a whole cool song with a 1 minute loop over just one chord. Some songs have orchestra now, but some are very simple and sound like Bach or Vivaldi. Thanks for the video.

I must say that you Rock! I'm the drummer of the disbanded "Psychosis " (Massacre Records) with no way to let loose where I live, so I'm shreading on my brother's Squire affinity. I hung out with my guitar players back in the day (like when Rising force/ marching out was shining and new) and bothered them until they showed me some Yngwie licks that I absolutely had to know. I never learned an entire song, only some cool intros and scales. As a tone deaf drummer I was showing off to a new bass player that I could play guitar and he took my left hand as I was playing and moved it up a half step and all of a sudden it sounded good!

I learned saxophone by just playing scales over and over again. It's how I teach myself the notes on the fret board.

Phrygian for me Sir !

Can't believe I've never seen this channel. I mean Scales & Muscle Groups together ? Forget about it. Hell Yeah. Dudes my Hero.

Dude. Just found your channel/video yesterday as I am a lifelong metal head who is now attempting to learn guitar. Hilarious content and incredibly fun which makes learning that much better. Keep it up Shredder!! 🤘😈👹

I find my self using the pattern the scales make more than remembering the scale letter by letter. The shape. I suppose some call it the caged system. But you can make a hell of a lot of time riffs that sounds good even if you just memorize the shape of scales and to me makes it more accessible because you’re not thinking where the notes are. Especially helps writing black metal. And even other music like punk and oi. Even find my self using it to make hardcore music.

2:48 gave me Týr vibes. Thank you for the awesome lesson 👍

Amazing video! I like that you show how to play the scales horizontally on the guitar!

The one I use The most and like the most is the dime scale. Dorian add b5. 1,2,b3,4,5,b5,6,b7.

Thank you for the last part where you suggest that you don't always need or want all the "right" notes on a scale for something you are playing.... As long as the feeling and soul is there, is what really matters

Dime was big in the blues scale.

So today Shred played on classical Kremona guitar. Greetings from Bulgaria, home of Kremona. And keep on shredding Shred.

Harmonic minor my guide. Whispers in the night.

Because of South park I have always referred to finger tapping as finger banging! In metal we finger bang those solos

Thank you bearded guitar man, you rock!

Thanks for the entertainment! Maybe Harmonic minor? Remember kiddies, know the 1 to 4 'chord' notes that you're playing over and ad lib the rest in cool ways from all sorts of scales and/or chromatic notes.

Good thing Shred kept working out during the locking! Satan be proud.

There was a cover band that I was watching, they did "Fade to Black." The guitarist lost his place in the solo. I felt so bad for the guy!

I just wanted to say how much a pleasure it’s been to come across your videos I was listening to some death, and you had the chuck shoulder and Bach video.... It was amazing. Pizza break Had me laughing my ass off. During this time and negativity it’s really nice to have something positive to look forward to, I took it in your break from playing guitar and all of a sudden started getting back into it I can’t find any of my music books and you are honestly the best thing. I really appreciate you

Think about pulling those lateral raises through your pinkies and let the elbows lead. solid work man 💪🏻

I really appreciate the workout things you slipped in there. I don't care to bulk up like crazy but I do need to get in decent shape again. That last thing you said about not being afraid to search for notes was very helpful too, thanks👍🤘.

Fukin love the Dime scale hahaha

I love playing Phrygian Dominant when playing metal many cool riffs and shred parts to write

One could go so far as to name the most prevalent scale in each of the sub genres of Metal. I.e. the Phrygian Dominant in Neoclassical metal. I'd guess that in Pop Metal, Dorian would be most popular. However, I'd have to say that the most common scale used in Metal as a singular genre would be the Natural Minor/Aeolian.

Bri good shit. This is a positive ass channel

Yes sir shred is a gee us kind of vibe towards you.!

You're Arnold presses are actually best for building that width, along with front raises. The your lateral exercise builds horizontal length of the delt. Gainz and metal is what life is all about though, and frying rear tire on a motorcycle, and DMT and Frank Zappa solos

Ah yea dime scales! Thanx shred!🤘🤘 stay healthy and SHRED!

F the algorithm man keep the videos coming you’re my favorite guitar youtuber.

Thanks for the vids, definitely my favorite channel on RU-vid.

Haha love how your doing pull-ups with the caution tape surrounding you 😂 I did the same during the virus

This video helped me alot n especially what u said at the end. Cuz I was always worried about staying in the scales n ppl judging me but that don't matter

This new format is so good, Shred. I'm laughing and learning now. Wish I could afford the Patreon subscription.

RE: YT being squirrely with the community comments. I am GUESSING that they are playing with the user interface. I noticed that the UI got more complex a week or 2 ago. little thumbvids of a couple frames on video thumbnail mouseovers appeared, the UI would stall due to an endless script which would have to be cancelled, general slowdown like when game devs just load an insane amount of effect graphics and the whole thing runs slower. The endless scripts seem to be gone now, so things seem to be changing. I see only your "WTF is going on here" comment and my 2 comments in the community post..btw, carlos santana or possibly angel Vivaldi. he is really creative.

Very helpful. Thanks man

The meme in the intro is literally Kerry King. (Though he can sometimes add good sounding dissonances)

hungarian minor scale is pretty cool

Love your attitude

Double Harmonic Major is my home scale

You Rock Shred . Statement of truth !

That is a beautiful classical guitar

I run the Dime scale. Meat and potatoes plus the gravy.

While fiddling on a track that I absolutely love, Casbah by Axel Rudi Pell, I pieced together what I just thought was an Egyptian scale - the Phrygian Dominant.

Good stuff, bro!

Appreciate you, guy! Great attitude and funny. Makes it easier to watch

Thanks Shremaster !! Vancouver Canada tuning in all the time bro !! Chinups are the best for back and pythons ....ah ah ah ah ahhh !!

I come here just for the evil laugh.

I definitely use the harmonic minor scale and the blues scales for sure. Might end up giving the Phrygian scales a try! Definitely liked what I heard! Thanks @Shred for the tips!

I believe the Seek & Destroy intro is in the A Blues scale!

Aeolian, Phrygian, The Blues Scale, Harmonic Minor, and Diminished 7th for me!

i use a combo of aeolian and natural minor with pentatonic vibes here and there and every medival mode i use depending on the chords or the key or the song feel.

Its cool to mix scales. I mostly use natural minor, but really like to use some tritons or major seventh. It makes things more interesting. I also use bit of chromatic notes to build up tentions. Its very cool to experiment

i have to clinch my sphincter while i watch this guy

I really like the shoulder width exercise haha I love Phrygian dominant

That example in the blues scale kinda sounds like Tornado of Souls

A few of those sounded so much like Judas Priest. Am I wrong?

Thank you.

Wow that lick you used as the HM scale example was nasty af 👀. I gotta get on Patreon and look at the tablature asap

I use Nine tone and Locrian mainly

that's why it still sounds okay even though I'm not hitting the right note in a scale so I thought that chromatic haa something to do with it so i started noodling with the scale cause playing same lick for any backingtracks gets boring

I invented my own scale too on my one string guitar, turns out it was just a chromatic scale i did throw in my own personal original hybrid picking technique called "its all in the hips" lol

Iommi used Dorian quite a lot. Which is cool. Great mode.

I think is pentatonic and/or blues, minor scale, armonic minor and chromatic

The Bb reminds of Diablo

Harmonic minor is my fav, love dorian (not as much for metal) and phrygian and aeolian too is old but gold. Perhaps for metal i would pick mostly phrygian. And one more thing, i think its best to mix these sounds to get just what you need

Thank you in dir

Definitely practice 1:40. Ones you’ve learned it this scale sounds it’s best when Speed and good rhythm are combined. Ones you get faster you’ll notice just how much sick sh%!# you can come up with! 😜🤘🏼

Hey! I’m a 13 year old guitarist and I was wondering what would be a intermediate metal song to do with a backing track. (Full song) Let me know a good metal song for that

Harmonic minor sets the bar with the sharp.

2:14 indeed!

Very useful for a newbie like myself. Thanks, big brother.

Phrygian is the way to go for me

Imma have to go with Phrygian

Honestly I think that they're all useful you only have to find a way to use them something I'm still trying to do

0:13 “You should hear all scales” (Listens to Metallica) P E N T A T O N I C

The best scale phrygian dominant but in D

Is the scale shape more important or the names of the notes you’re actually playing? I’ve been on this like kick lately of knowing the notes and then using that to play the modes in any key and pushing myself to find them anywhere. It helps me out quite a bit when I freestyle to jam tracks actually believe it or not. Maybe each player is different? Also what I liked about Dimebag’s solo in walk was the legato riff towards the very beginning because it’s all the minor blues scale in almost “e flat” I believe... those tunings had to have been inspired by randy rhoads.

man you are fucking awesome. you deserve more subscribers! can you make a video about the Dime scale? keep on good work. cheers from Germany

You should do a video analyzing the intro to Flatline by periphery. Guitar wise is super progressive and would be super cool to hear inversions and such

So funny and informative

Can you make the same video but slower its hard for me to learn this stuff so I can play well I have dean dimebag guitars rite now I sound good making a lot of noise!!

I’m a fan of the harmonic minor myself Edit: not much at the neoclassical metal... though I don’t try it often, perhaps I should?

Harmonic minor and Phrygian Dominant are definitely my favorite scales! For now, I'm exploring other ones

You looks like Joey jordison 🔥🤘🤘🤘

Lmao. The random “fuck you bach” 😂🤘

Guitarists: "Bass players can't shred" Me: Jokes on you. I learned the phrygian dominant with my Bass teacher

Thanks for the video shred. What would you say is a good scale to learn for Mastodon style music

Phrygian Dom in drop A

I have now invented my own genre it's called ThrashCore🎉

I love me some harmonic minor

I think harmonic minor is the most used