The Acoustic Scale



Now, here we a very special mode/scale. If you´ve done your homework on the other scales examined on these pages you´ll see that it´s basically a combination of the Mixolydian and Aeolian scale.
The great Hungarian composer Béla Bartok (1881-1945) discovered this scale in Romanian folk music and many people refer to it as the "Bartok-scale".

The scale´s root is here placed in E, followed by F#, G#, A, B, C and D. Play a sequence of an Eadd9-chord (E, G#, B and F#) and an Eadd9+5sus4-chord (E, C, A and F#) and try the scale out over it. Worth checking out.