New Scales.

I've got a fair few in on ChordsAndScales.co.uk with notes, fretboard layout and formula.

As far as new scales go, perhaps give the major blues scale a shot; I think it sounds really "different" but in a good way, if you know what I mean. But if you're looking for originality, perhaps the answer could lie beyond scales. Like, if you're playing, and you "feel" what the next note should be (you know, the one that just sounds right in your head), take some time to figure out where that note is on the guitar, and play it, regardless of whether or not it falls in the scale pattern. Originality is all about playing that song in your head that no one else has hear before :smile:

easy solution here, and a fun one too . . . learn some actual solos by bands/artists you like

it will probably show you how much mileage you can get out of that pentatonic scale and even open up some new ideas to you etc.

plus you'll learn some time proven riffs!

good luck

Here is a pretty good site that will give you just about any type of scale you're looking for in any key you want:

http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/guitar/index_rb.html

Dan

hey dan thats just what i have been searching for !! nice one smoke

Originality and innovativity don't have much to do with scales but how you use them.

I gotta agree with Arjen on this.

The problem you identify is that you don't feel you're using scales creatively. Learning more scales doesn't address that problem at all. Indeed, it kind of avoids it altogether.

Agree with A & K: It's not the scales or the notes in them, but how you are choosing to play them. You probably need to explore tension and resolution, phrasing, rhythmic patterns, dynamics, chromatics and passing tones, intervals ... the list goes on ...