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Originally Posted by zappa
start with the easier stuff like sabbath ac/dc deep purple and all the 70's rock . they mainly use pentatonic scales which are easier to get your head around .
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I think it may better to learn the major scale first. They're harder, but if you know the major scale, its easy to learn pentatonics because it's just the major scale with the 2 notes missing:
ie. C Major C,D,E,F,G,A,B
C Pentatonic Major C,D,E,G,A
For metal, you probably wouldn't need to ever use the major scale, except for maybe more ballady stuff, because the major scale would sound to pretty and delicate. But when I play pentatonic scales, I just think about the full major scale and make sure I don't play those extra notes.
I also highly reccomend the pentatonic blues scale. This is the one that sounds really cool to me. Metal players like Van Halen and Joe Pass of Aerosmith use it, for example
ie. C Pentatonic Blues: C,D,E,G,G sharp,A.