Learn This Psychedelic Indian Guitar Scale - Wail Guitar Jam Lesson

Learn to play this guitar scale with an Indian psychedelic feel.
In this lesson you'll learn how to play this really cool sounding scale, an easy guitar chord progression to play over the top of and how to use this scale to improvise and create your own sounds.
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[@pthelo]

Thanks for this! I was trying to get a psych rock feel using the harmonic minor scale, but things kept sounding like neoclassical metal. The major key vibe of this is super helpful. Namaste! 🕉️

[@WailGuitar]

Unreal! Happy to know it's helped and would love to hear you using it. Namaste back at ya!

[@pthelo]

@@AlexTamMusic For real! And that was NOT the vibe I was going for. :D

[@whatsup968]

Easy mistake to get India and Perth mixed up. I do it all the time 😂 ❤️

[@stephenhanlin2388]

This was great, thank you. Feels like Jerry to me. Am I right?

[@andrewjones_fitness]

what is the actual name of the scale?

[@moustachebro]

It's a pentatonic minor with a M3rd

[@jacobjallen2620]

Mixolydian pentatonic

[@mongezisibande9289]

@@jacobjallen2620 Blessings

[@sidewalkchock]

Basically mixolydian without the 2 and 6

[@johnmichelx]

Where would I play this scale over d minor?

[@Freeworldarchitect]

Im watching this one year to the day this was posted. Something specials coming. 🎉 #trip

[@onehellofameme6166]

how can I work on extending this scale?

[@evermore7458]

The Steve hillage riff

[@jamesaron1967]

Although it's a bit of a misnomer to equate them, the Indian 'scales' are commonly called ragas of which there were hundreds at one time. You can only reproduce an approximation using a western instrument with twelve-tone equal temperament. To appreciate the true sound of Indian scales you'd have to retune a western instrument but that is very difficult on a fixed-fretted stringed instrument, unless you bend the strings to acquire the correct cent of each note. On a non-fretted instrument such as a violin it is much easier because all you need to do is shift the position of the stopped note slightly to hit the right intervals. In any case, when you played the Indian scale it did remind me a lot of my Indian music lessons on sitar. Om shanti, peace

[@jamesaron1967]

@AnneONymous-m7w Exactly! Some luthiers build guitars with movable frets as well as fretless models. They even incorporate sympathetic strings for a more authentic Eastern sound. They tend to be specialist builders and their instruments are usually expensive but they can be ordered. At one time, I was thinking of acquiring a guitar like that but had second thoughts because my main interest is Indian music. It made more sense to stick with traditional instruments intended for playing ragas.

[@mangsian1266]

Great Lesson, I love it

[@nocturnalsynthetic]

Sounds like the arpeggiated chord played after the 2nd chorus in Strawberry Fields Forever

[@JaideBull]

Fantastic thanks guys!

[@matsverschueren7976]

this is what I needed !

[@bksmith82]

why not turn off the snare if you're going to make a video? lol

[@WailGuitar]

We are dumb asses

[@jaronjammer7516]

@@WailGuitar lmao

[@jwardbass4452]

@@WailGuitarlmfao we appreciate the candidness

[@GrimpleGromble]

Very cool!