Showing posts with label octave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label octave. Show all posts

Monday, April 30, 2012

Sunday, April 29, 2012

DOMINANT PHRYGIAN

Dominant Phrygian, or Spanish Phrygian as it is sometimes called (just noodle up and down the first postion and you will hear why!) is the 5th mode of Harmonic Minor.

It is made of the intervals: 1,b2,3,4,5,b6,b7.

It has a very distinctive Spanish or Arab influenced sound. Once you get even slightly familiar with this scale you'll be noodling along with the Gypsy Kings before you know it.

As usual, the free guitar scale diagrams laid out below give you the scale mapped out over the entire neck, as a 4 note per string 3 octave scale and as 7, 3note per string positions.








Thursday, April 26, 2012

The HINDU SCALE

I've gone through all the Greek Modes already, and Harmonic and Melodic, so now I'm going to start on the modes of melodic and harmonic minor.

First up is the HINDU SCALE, made from the intervals 1,2,3,4,5,b6,b7.

The Hindu scale is the 5th mode of Melodic Minor.

It's a beautiful mix of major and minor elements giving a cool eerie, mysterious and  slightly eastern feel I guess. All I can say is goof around with it yourself.

I do have a musical example for this one, nothing recorded recently, but this is a maybe 10 year old demo for a PORNOVURT song that never got played live more than two or three times.

Any how, the solo that start about 2/3 of the way through has a little Hindu section, well 2 Hindu sections. It starts out in E, there's some bends then the Hindu bit should stand out, then  it switches to A minor for a bit, then goes back to the section in E and repeats it with a few variations.



OK, dot time!

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Monday, April 23, 2012

Three octave mode patterns


This is just a summary sheet of the four note per string, three octave patterns for all the greek modes.

This was all laid out already in the sheets for the individual modes, but if you already know the seven three note per string patterns and were just looking to learn some of the longer patterns, I thought it would be handy to have all the three octave shapes in one place.

There is a lesson on modes coming soon, to put all the dots and numbers into some sort of context you all, but for now....

HERE'S SOME MORE DOTS!




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