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Music theorists would have you believe that there is no best possible scale: Different scales have different uses, and are appropriate for different musical goals, so picking an objective "best" is not only pointless, it's actively counterproductive. And that's true... but what if it wasn't? What if we *could* work out the best scale, through the careful, scientifically grounded process of running a bunch of my favorites through a single-elimination bracket? Would that be a good idea? I mean, probably, right? 'Cause that's what I did.

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Karel P Kerezman

Ridiculous? Possibly. Entertaining? I'm here for it, at least!

Brian Miller

The best scale is the best one for what you want to convey. Also, you don't have to stick with one scale, one mode, one anything. Personally, I like running scales through cage matches.

Tom Belknap

It's all grist for the mill. It's all creative thought, packaged creatively, giving us bread for our creative souls. Looking forward to it.

mer2

Radiohead's Pyramid Song is kind of in the Phrygian Dominant, and extremely poignant. I have to say, "kind of" is doing a lot of work here, and many things that make the progression so poignant are the things where they deviate fro Phrygian Dominant.