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Scales for folk · Guitar

Best scales for folk on Guitar

Acoustic-guitar folk vocabulary. Major + Mixolydian for the modal-folk sound; Dorian for the Celtic minor lilt; pentatonic for universal fingerstyle.

G Major

G major — folk's open-tuning home.

G Mixolydian

♭7 — Celtic / Appalachian colour.

D Dorian

Raised 6 — wistful minor.

G Pentatonic Major

Universal pentatonic for fingerstyle.

E Pentatonic Minor

Minor pentatonic for blues-influenced folk.