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C major scale should work. B lydian should also sound good and also E minor pentatonic. use your ear. try and record the chords and practice soloing over them.

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All those notes are also in Am, so if you are looking for something "unorthodox" try that...

 

 

or if the chords are separate, maybe its basically one chord per bar, try playing a mode over all of them, you can have alot of room on those cause they are power chords, so you could try something like

 

E phygerian | D phygerian | A Aeolian (Am I talked about) | and end in something like B Mixolydian

 

the phygerian will start with some cool tension, then you go to soemthing diatonic with the whole progression, semi release, followed by a really jazzy upbeat mode in the key of your final chord... this would work really well if you land on the B at the end and your next section of music goes right into some B mixo or Major grove...

 

this is the kind of stuff Im experimenting with at the moment.

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That progression looks like the one that Iron Maiden and every other power metal band use in every song. E minor is the best bet, and the other suggestions are also quite good.

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Originally posted by djmojo



the phygerian will start with some cool tension, .

 

 

ah, tell me more of this "phygerian" scale...

 

 

 

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Originally posted by djmojo

All those notes are also in Am, so if you are looking for something "unorthodox" try that...

 

 

Hmm...if all these notes were in Am, using the Am scale wouldn

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Originally posted by Anomandaris



As an aside, it should be mentioned that the 5th chord is really just an idiosyncrasy of the guitar, as opposed to a definite chord voicing. They are used to give extra 'padding' to single melodic lines to give a thicker texture which is suitable to styles which use heavier dynamics.


It's similar to the way in which octaves are frequently used in keyboard music.


The point being that while F# is not in Am, the B5 chord is still heard as being very diatonic, since the F# merely affirms the B root, rather than being heard as an independent voice.

 

 

 

A Dorian, then? That has an F#

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this chords can be a simplification of this progression:

 

Em D C B7(b9)

 

then try to play E eolian and over the B7(b9) E harmonic minor. you will sound very arabic!!

 

E eolian: E F# G A B C D

 

E harmonic minor: E F# G A B C D#

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