Exotic Guitar Scales
Add new, unusual sounds to your guitar solos
Exotic Guitar Scales is a short guitar scales course taught by Steve Stine, GuitarZoom's Master Instructor. You learn the harmonic minor, Phrygian dominant and Hirajoshi scales, how to mix Phrygian dominant and Dorian for a metal sound, and how to use the blue note. The course has 5 video lessons, about 30 minutes in total, with an 11-page PDF book.
What Exotic Guitar Scales is about
Steve breaks every skill into simple steps you can follow. In this video, he teaches the harmonic minor scale.
Free preview lesson: The Harmonic Minor Scale · 7:40
Is Exotic Guitar Scales right for you?
- Players who already know the pentatonic and major scales. These scales add new colors on top of what you already play.
- Metal and rock players. One lesson shows how to use Phrygian dominant and Dorian in a metal context.
- Players with limited time. The whole course takes about half an hour, with one scale per lesson.
Skills you'll walk away with
- Play the harmonic minor scale
- Play the Phrygian dominant scale
- Play the Hirajoshi scale
- Combine Phrygian dominant and Dorian in a metal context
- Use the blue note
What the course covers
The full lesson list is below.
Exotic Scale Lessons
The harmonic minor scale, the Phrygian dominant scale, the Hirajoshi scale, metal ideas with Phrygian dominant and Dorian, and the blue note.
Learn at your own pace
Clear video lessons
Every move is shown up close. Pause, rewind and repeat each lesson as often as you need.
Practice materials
Includes 11-page PDF book. Use them to practice what you learn in each lesson.
Yours for life
Pay once and come back any time, on your computer, tablet or phone. No subscription.
Steve Stine
Steve has taught guitar for more than 30 years and has helped millions of players in over 100 countries. He has a Music Education degree from Minnesota State University Moorhead and taught guitar at North Dakota State University. He's known for breaking hard things into simple steps you can follow. Read Steve's full story
What students say about Steve's teaching
Excellent · 4.8 out of 5 on TrustpilotRead our reviews"I'm just overjoyed to come across learning material that I've yearned for."
Andy M.Australia
"Thank you for breaking down music theory and making it so easy to learn."
Travis B.United States
"I have definitely improved and I enjoy it immensely."
Melina K.United States
"Steve Stine is the teacher that I have been looking for a long time."
Jimmy H.United States
"I discovered your courses. I find them great. It's a complete guitar journey and I learned something every week."
Philip M.United States
"It made the fretboard much, much simpler and easier to understand than I have imagined it to be."
Geoffrey E.United Kingdom
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Where to go after Exotic Guitar Scales
All About Scales
Learn the major scale in seven positions and the minor pentatonic in five, plus relative minor and short jams.
Fretboard Freedom
Learn pentatonic, blues, major and minor scales and modes position by position in C, then use them creatively in solos.
Guitar Solos
A step-by-step soloing course: lead techniques, phrasing, pentatonic scales, chord chasing, arpeggios and blues soloing.
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