Mode 3 - phyrgian mode

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:14 pm

class music? boleh boleh...

tajuk lesson hari ni..

phyrgian - evil spanish scale from satan ?

oklah la harap2 semua dah paham about major scale and the first two modes which are dorian and ionian..right now let's talk bout the third mode - phyrgian mode..it is really popular among metal guitarist ..metallica godsmack use this alot..it has that evil yet spanish flamenco kinda sound.. so back to our example of C major

C D E F G A B C

the phrygian mode would begin as the third degree of the major scale meaning in the case of C major , the third degree would get you the scale

E F G A B C D E ..

if you play this scale on top of rhythm progression in the key of C major it would sound just like C major ..not much difference..

BUT

play this scale ( E F G A B C D E ) on a chord progression in the key of Em , you'll get that spanish sounding scale that i've been talking about....

go ahead and experiment...and form your own metal band hehe...

and one more thing..since we started from the third degree of the major scale which has this structure:

W W H W W W H
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

with phrygian mode , we'll get this new scale structure (start from the 3rd degree):

H W W W H W W

and for example the E phyrgian mode that we derived just now should conform to this structure as illustrated below..

E H F W G W A W B H C W D W E

so you can use this to find the phyrgian mode scale in any key just by following the structure which makes up the phyrgian mode..

a case example .. let say somebody is jamming in the key of Gm ..so let say you want to goreng and show off some skills by doing G phyrgian mode soloing..so just apply the structure again as which will get you the G phyrgian mode..

G H Ab W Bb W C W D H Eb W F W G

G Ab Bb C D Eb F G will be your G phyrgian then...
have fun experimenting guys!

do the goreng kirk hammet juniors!

ZiNK · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:03 pm Post subject:

correct me if i'm wrong omar... tapi kalau scale ni main dlm note E mcm scale A minor je...