F#! [Fainting.] would you kindly clarify about the F#?
OK - the following
pull only notes are all in the F# 'Blues' scale - and include the whole scale!
Blues = tonic - minor 3
rd - 4
th - flat 5
th - 5
th - minor 7
th - tonic
You then finger like this ... (on some kit the top 'E' is inner row)
The pattern your fingers then make across the rows goes
G.G.D - G.D.D .. repeat pattern) Suck it and see. If you start on 'A' pull with the
same sequence of buttons you get an A 'major' Blues.
All standard boxes have this 'build in'. The pull Blues scale is a semitone below tonic note of your inner row. So a D/
G pulls F# Blues, G/
C pulls B Blues .. C/
F pulls E Blues. My nephew's doing GCSE (yup!) jazz on piano. That's why this 'first attempt' made so much more sense than all that push/pull stuff. Also a nice surprise for any session unfriendly guitarist playing E or E7 chords with his capo on 1
st fret to repel boarders
This scale (on a D/G) also works over A myxolydian (much Country and Western stuff)
Apologies to eitreach, but please do have a go too. It really gets your fingers crossing the rows and also saves wear and tear on your poor left arm
D3R
Been advised to try my diagram as an attachment - here goes ...