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Purpose of scales?

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(@mattryan)
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What is the purpose of scales? Do they limit you when you are trying to come up with solos? If I'm improvising and focusing on a scale I hear notes in my head that are not in it.


   
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(@alangreen)
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Without scales you have no solo.

The notes you're hearing in your head are accidentals - are you using them as passing notes between Chord Tones or are you going to need chords from outside the key to harmonise them?

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