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Originally Posted by mtsproductions
Chris:
This question is on the creative side rather then mixing so ignore it if you think its irrelevant. Are there any harmonic scales specific to metal? What I mean is, are there scales that are better for coming up with a riff? say an octatonic scale is good for action music in film and sound design, or do you guys just sit and play whatever comes to mind.
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Not just scales but modes as well. And different genres of metal revolve around different scales and modes. So technically anyone of them could be used. Shemp has proven this tenfold in his solo's for the FTA. Switching between majors and minors, lydian and dorian, pentatonic and octatonic and so on... But my personal preference is lydian. That's what I get for being a fan of Vai and Mike Patton though