Allman Brothers Scale?

[brainflossrhythm]

Does anyone know what scale Duane uses? Besides the blues, I mean the major sounding scale.

[jimc20]

well i dont know if there is one definitive scale, but for say, mountain jam, go with e mixolydian. on at filmore east, duane makes a mistake on mt jam, then goes into some middle eastern scale. pretty cool.

[jackr]

I was working on Blue Sky the other day and I believe that was a mostly Major Pentatonic.

Of course he doesnt stay in one scale all the time.

[golfnutt]

I've been working on Liz Reed recently Dicky takes the first solo and its A dorian. Havent quite got to Duane's solo yet so I cant comment to his as of yet

[shakedown_04092]

Ramblin' Man is in G major Pentatonic w/ a couple of added notes for some southern flava'

EDIT: here's the version I've tabbed out for myself:

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Ramblin' Man
Dickey Betts


CHORUS:
G           F      C        G                               
Lord, I was born a ramblin' man,
G                           C                D                               
Trying to make a living and doing the best I can.
C                  G          Em               C                     
When it's time for leaving, I hope you'll understand,
G          D      G
That I was born a Rambling man.

VERSE 1:
G               C               G                               
My father was a gambler down in Georgia.
G                  C              D                               
He wound up on the wrong end of a gun.
C                     G             Em         C         
And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus,
G            D             G
Rolling down highway forty-one.


CHORUS

Pre-Jam Riff

Jam over Verse (G major Pentatonic)


VERSE 2:
G                F     C          G                               
I'm on my way to New Orleans this morning,
G              C                D                 
Leaving out of Nashville, Tennessee.
C                       G                    Em      C         
They're always having a good time down on the Bayou, Lord.
G                D                  G
Them Delta women think the world of me.


CHORUS


Chorus Ending

Jam in G Pentatonic








Ramblin’ Man Licks

Intro:

E ---15p12------------------------------------------------------
B ---------15p12---------------------------------------13--12---
G ---------------14p12-----------------12--14p12----------------
D ---------------------14—12~----12h14-----------14p12----------
A --------------------------------------------------------------
E --------------------------------------------------------------


Pre-Jam Riff:

E ---------------------12------------------------------------------------------
B ---------------12h13----15-15---15-12----------------------------------------
G ---------12h14------------------------14-14---14h15-14-12--------------------
D ---12h14---------------------------------------------------14-12-------------
A -----------------------------------------------------------------14-12-------
E ------------------------------------------------------------------------15---


Chorus Ending:

E -------------------------------------3p2h3~---
B ----------------------------------------------
G -------------5--4--2-----5--4----------------- (x2)
D ---3^5—3^5~-----------5--------5—5~-----------
A ----------------------------------------------
E ----------------------------------------------

E -------------------------------------------------15p14h15~---
B -----------------13--12--10------13--12----------------------
G ---10^12-10^12~--------------12----------12-12~-------------- (x2)
D -------------------------------------------------------------
A -------------------------------------------------------------
E -------------------------------------------------------------


They also end it a certain way, but I've never bothered to get past what you see tabbed out here

Probably should get around to doing that, but we don't play it enough right now....

[brainflossrhythm]

I was working on Blue Sky the other day and I believe that was a mostly Major Pentatonic.

Of course he doesnt stay in one scale all the time.

Amazing, that's one of my favorite songs from them, I have that song on [Deluxe] Eat A Peach Elizabeth Reed is also a good one, to the guy downstairs.

[China Cat]

duane uses dorian a lot. i think he goes modal more often than using pentatonic or blues

[nicolasalk]

duane uses dorian a lot. i think he goes modal more often than using pentatonic or blues

Oh yes, Miles Davis admired Duane solos because of the use of the modes in them

[xero92]

I Use a scale that I just sortof figured out fit. I'm sure it has a name, it'd be great if someone knew. I'll write it out for ya in e-major. The scale is some sort of fusion between major and pentatonic.

--------------------------------9-10-12-
------------------------9-10-12---------
-------------------9-11-----------------
----------=9-11-12----------------------
-7-9-11-12------------------------------
----------------------------------------

TRy that over blue sky, you'll see what i mean

[lyghtningod]

That would be a mixolydian scale, which is an A scale (A B C# D E F# G#) centered around the E.
The major E scale would have the D# rather than a D natural.

I came up with a mnemonic for the modes

I Did Pee a Lot, Mix A Lot

Ionian (major)
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian
Locrian

And no the sentence doesn't make a lot of sense, but it works.

[zambiland]

I came up with a mnemonic for the modes

I Did Pee a Lot, Mix A Lot

Ionian (major)
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian
Locrian

And no the sentence doesn't make a lot of sense, but it works.

I love it! May I appropriate it for my students?

Of course, I tend not to think of them in that order, but in a shifting order that goes something like Lydian, Ionian, Dorian, Mixo, Aolian, Phrygian, Locrian, and also Phrygian major (used for the dominant of minor chords). In fact, I tend to think of chords a lot more than scales. To me, an F in an A minor scale is a b13 and not a 6th.

[mkaufman]

I was working on Blue Sky the other day and I believe that was a mostly Major Pentatonic.

+1

mk

[tcsned]

I was working on Blue Sky the other day and I believe that was a mostly Major Pentatonic.

+1

mk

They'll add the 4th to the pentatonic in Blue Sky and there's a nice little descending riff that has a 7th (D#) but mostly pentatonic. I usually play most of their major key stuff with the pentatonic plus the 4th.

[golfnutt]

A major scale with no 7th has sometimes been refered to as "the Allman Bros Scale" FWIW..works very well with Blue Sky and Mt. jam

[Smolder]

back in high school (the seventies) I briefly took lessons from an older blues guy. He had me jamm some and stopped me asking about the scale. I was clueless... but apparently around the 7th... I was using a derivation that he found interesting and wrote down. I was listening to a ton of duane. Had not thought about that since... until just now reading this thread ; )