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"Vakulabharanam" scale
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Anybody every used this Egyptian sounding scale?
C C# E F G G# A# C
Mr. Google tells me that this scale has a name: "Vakulabharanam"
I stumbled upon it playing my banjo, attempting to ape a funny belly-dancing tune.
It sounds kind of vaguely minor, even though it has a major third, but I don't think it can actually be categorized as either major or minor.
Sounds real nice on plectrum banjo because you can play it over droning open C and G strings, and its fun to fool around with.
C C# E F G G# A# C
Mr. Google tells me that this scale has a name: "Vakulabharanam"
I stumbled upon it playing my banjo, attempting to ape a funny belly-dancing tune.
It sounds kind of vaguely minor, even though it has a major third, but I don't think it can actually be categorized as either major or minor.
Sounds real nice on plectrum banjo because you can play it over droning open C and G strings, and its fun to fool around with.
Paul Cezanne: "I could paint for a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
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Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
C Db E F G Ab Bb C are the correct note names. The raised E instead of the usual Eb as would be dicatated by the key signature of 4 flats F minor.
There is another similar scale using all the same notes excedpt a B instead of a Bb which gives two minor third jumps
I've heard that one called Hungarian scale. It can works well over the A section of a tune like Caravan. But the sound of this scale maybe a bit limiting, it has too much a strong flavour and so gets tiring on the ears early..
That's pretty much my avenue over Caravan.
So now I know why audience goes from
You can actually use the sound successfully as the rhythm player too if you pick good voicing, the first inversion keeps the good bass movement going - i.e. just taking the C7 and raise the root and the 3rd a fret, keeping the 5th and 7th in place. Instead of shifting up and down between C7 and C#7(boring!), sometimes I'll use the C and Bb-6 voicing like
Hah I was way overthinking it, holly cow, it's a vanilla C triad.
Too much coffee and too little sleep.
It actually sounds nice in the context of the change to that Bb-6 shape.