Phrygian Dominant: The Most Hauntingly Beautiful Scale

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LESSON SUMMARY
If you’re a jazz lover, then you probably know what it’s like to be enchanted by a particular melodic or harmonic sound. It can happen at a live performance or while listening to a favorite recording. Either way, some harmonic sounds just have a way of lingering in your ears with their exquisite beauty. Such is the sound of the Phrygian Dominant Scale. In today’s Quick Tip, The Phrygian Dominant Scale-The Complete Guide, John Proulx unpacks this exotic and hauntingly beautiful improv scale.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - What is the Phrygian mode?
01:14 - Phrygian Dominant Scale
02:49 - Technique: Resolving the Phrygian Dominant Scale
06:00 - 3 Improv Techniques
06:33 - 1. Scale Clusters (Beginner)
08:22 - Play with Backing Track
10:08 - 2. Turns (Intermediate)
12:18 - Play with Backing Track
14:28 - 3. Triad Pairs (Advanced)
17:37 - Play with Backing Track
20:24 - Conclusion
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@PianoWithJonny Жыл бұрын

00:00 - Intro 00:42 - What is the Phrygian mode? 01:14 - Phrygian Dominant Scale 02:49 - Technique: Resolving the Phrygian Dominant Scale 06:00 - 3 Improv Techniques 06:33 - 1. Scale Clusters (Beginner) 08:22 - Play with Backing Track 10:08 - 2. Turns (Intermediate) 12:18 - Play with Backing Track 14:28 - 3. Triad Pairs (Advanced) 17:37 - Play with Backing Track 20:24 - Conclusion

@MorisoniProductions Жыл бұрын

Just a comment of appreciation for all the care and thoroughness that obviously goes into these lessons. They are so well constructed and paced that they push you without any force to get better. Meanwhile enjoying every step along the way. Thank you!

@drgruber57 Жыл бұрын

I always thought the harmonic minor scale sounded middle eastern. After watching this video I sat at the piano and realized that the phrygian dominant scale is the harmonic minor, but starting on the 5th degree of it. 😮

@maloneycraig Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Great stuff, but you would have thought he would have mentioned that C Phrygian Dominant is just the fifth mode of F harmonic minor.

@itorres008 Ай бұрын

Yeah, I heard it and thought it sounded like harmonic minor. Took me a couple of minutes to figure which harmonic minor and the interval relationship, which I thought of as the harmonic minor of the note a fourth below instead of "starting on the fifth degree of it". 🙂 I guess that would be more useful since, to determine the fifth degree of the Phrygian Dominant scale, you'd need to work out what the scale is, which is what you want to get a shortcut for.

@lim7lim Жыл бұрын

This was terrific. I especially liked the advanced left hand accompaniment, with its more Latin/Arabic flavor. I added it to all three right-hand riffs (triads, clusters, and turns), and it takes them to another level. Thank you ❤

@Sannahmusic Жыл бұрын

I love this scale! Thank you for this informational video, I really enjoyed it! 🎶🙏🙏

@jimkangas4176 Жыл бұрын

well done and very helpful.

@trickerknicker1030 Жыл бұрын

Awesome scale for noodling 😊. Thanks so much

@carlcgarrett3 Жыл бұрын

Excellent lesson.

@anandgodane8022 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much sir ❤️

@polarblade1159 8 ай бұрын

My favoirite scale!!! I'm officially addicted to b9 scales

@lawrencetaylor4101 Жыл бұрын

Sounds great but it's out of my pay grade. I have to get my chops and then I'll come back to this since it sounds beautiful.

@kewsepehr1060 Ай бұрын

Excellent!!! The only confusing part was with the rhythm, as i, for one, found it difficult to repeat after you 😒

@toechop Жыл бұрын

Can you please tell us how you display the notes on your video, is that a software program?

@phoenixchiron755 Жыл бұрын

Was a little confused on the cluster progression, why drop to the "D" instead of the "Db" on the third chord when the "Db is in the Phrygian Dom scale? I understand its semitone downward movement, but that's where I get confused, as when an out of scale note is OK, when we are taking about a distinct Phrygian Dom scale. thx!

@pedalsteelguitarjazzbebop4889 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like Salsa!

@ettorehelton4022 Жыл бұрын

Is " e lucevan le stelle" Tosca Giacomo Puccini a Phrygian scale??

@rawshoe 6 ай бұрын

I'm trying to understand this old Macedonian song "Jovano, Jovanke", interested mostly in the version by Miroslav Tadic and Vlatko Stefanovski, is this what is happening in that song or is it just harmonic minor? That Jewish song example sounds a lot like it but I'm not sure.

@ptose Жыл бұрын

1:19 I'm not sure I got the way you went from the normal phryigian to phrigian dominant. I mean I see you're playing a E instead of E flat but why

@drgruber57 Жыл бұрын

My guess is that a mixolydian scale has a major third, rather than a minor third like the phrygian scale has. Of course, that doesn’t explain the flat 6th (flat 13). Which is why he gave another way of looking at it. Just my guess. See my other, separate comment.

@chandlerfelty1284 2 ай бұрын

Making the 3rd natural instead of flat adds a tritone between E natural and Bb. Like the mixolydian(dominant) scale

@namenlos40 Жыл бұрын

Why don't you just call it a minor harmonic scale.

@ocean_0602 Жыл бұрын

It just depends which note you make your tonic. For example G phrygian dominant and C harmonic minor are enharmonically equivalent, just depends if you start on G or C.

@codetech5598 Жыл бұрын

@@ocean_0602 If you can make any note the tonic (just by being the first note you play) then what is the meaning of the tonic?

@ocean_0602 Жыл бұрын

@@codetech5598 It determines how you harmonize (which chords you'll play). The tonic becomes the 1st degree and root of the scale and from there you can determine the other degrees by simply counting up the scale. Let's say we choose E harmonic minor. E would be the tonic and 1st degree. If we do a chord progression like i-bVI-ii-V (1-6-2-5), it would be Em - C - F#dim - B, since E is the 1st note, C is the 6th note, F# is the 2nd note and B is the 5th note in the scale. Now if we choose the B phrygian dominant scale, even though it shares the same notes as E harmonic minor, the scale degrees will change since B becomes the first note and 1st degree. So for example the II chord in this scale would be C major whereas in E harmonic minor it was F#dim. Hope this helps!

@codetech5598 Жыл бұрын

@@ocean_0602 I thought the tonic was supposed to be "home" and the scale would have a leading tone to set up for the tonic going home, but that does not seem to be the case for these oddball scales.

@goneretired7030 Жыл бұрын

They are trying to get folks to improvise based on chord, not key. Home base would be root of the chord, not tonic of the key.