[Winterland]

Does anyone have an example? I was trying to figure out some Allman's stuff and it seem that this is a common scale used in their songs.

[lostsailor8782]

A what kind of scale ????

[st. stephen]

never heard of it, but for me the name says that it's an six (hexa?) note scale.......
ummmmm...that doesnt help
sorry

[jck_strw]

Hexatonic? I'm not up on all my scales, but I never heard of this one. Sounds like something Slayer or Black Sabbath or somebody might play.

Devilatonic? Evilatonic?

[Benthegoodbum]

Don't you play none of that hoodoo music boy!

[strumminsix]

Try these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_scale

http://www.franksinger.com/hexatonics.htm

I knew nothing before I clicked and found that I used some parts of it without knowing it and I'm guessing you do too.

In fact I'd hazard a guess and say we all use the blues one.

[mttourpro]

Hexatonics are elegantly simple. They consist of two mutually exclusive triads, usually a whole step apart, which are combined to create a six note scale.

This is from the bottom link and seems to suggest a slightly different definition that the wiki link given that the wiki info says it could be any 6 note scale wheras the other is more jazz-based in nature as it (the notes in the scale) would have to outline 2 different chords (as their example shows). I believe the bottom link is more accurate.

[Rev_Roach]

I have read about (but not really applied) a scale called the whole tone scale which, as the name suggests, has the interval of a whole step between each degree. These scales have 6 notes, so they could be called hexatonic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_tone_scale I only scanned it, but noticed that it said the Simpsons theme uses it. Gotta go see that movie...

[Django]

I read Dickie Betts discussing the Hexatonic scale in an old Guitar Player, I seem to remember it as a major pentatonic scale with an added flat 3rd.

[mrMix]

It's a 6 tone scale. Add a 9th (2nd) to a pentatonic. Here's something to try - on an A Blues (I7, IV7,V7) Use the Am Pentatonic and at the chord change try and nail the 9th. It'll send you off in a new direction and add a nice sound.