Members Terje Posted November 25, 2003 Members Posted November 25, 2003 You take a regular phrygian scale and raise the 3rd. A friend of mine calls this scale phrygian major. Starting on E we would get E F G# A B C D, sounds nice over an E7 chord. Works over the V chord in tunes in Am or over the V chord in a blues in A. Actually it also works for a blues in E. Sounds sort of Arabic to me. I see it as a minor scale, starting on the 4th note (A). But it doesn't matter really, I just wanna know what either of these two scales are called.
Members edeltorus Posted November 25, 2003 Members Posted November 25, 2003 Hi Terje.As already said it: It's called Phrygian Major. Other names for it are: Harmonic Minor 5, Jewish , Spanish , Ahava Raba , Flamenco II. It's a common scale for shread, metal. Just play some fast sequences over it, and you instantly sound like Ingwie There's nothing special about this scale, it's just the 5th mode of harmonic minor, so it's been used in the western classical music for several hundered years. The scale starting from the 4th note (the minor scale you've mentioned) is just harmonic minor.Btw, this scale, along with the normal phrygian is the most common dominant scale for minor progressions. You can play it over dominant chords and their substitutions in progressons that resolve to the aeolian minor chord.I tried HM5 over blues-progressions a couple of times, but my ears decided that this is not such a good idea.Another usefull mode btw is the 4th harmonic minor mode (starting from the D). It's dorian #11, sounds like a mix of lydian and dorian to me.. Very powerfull, and not as overused as Phrygian Major, but unfortunately not as easy to get into.
Members Terje Posted November 25, 2003 Author Members Posted November 25, 2003 Thank you so very, very much for all the info. Some really useful tips there too (apart from how I can sound like Yngve ).
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