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Since learning modes of other parent scales such as from Harmonic Minor or Double Harmonic Major, this has massively opened up interesting, creative options for my writing. I write in Phrygian Dominant quite a lot as it's a very cool mode! Definitely recommend this if you're stuck in a writing rut.

Regarding Pyaramid Song, my pet theory is that it's called like that because its rhythm is 3-3-4-3-3, which is also the number of edges of each face of a pyramid (every side has 3 faces and the base is a square with 4 faces)

“Stargazer” by Rainbow - one of the best examples of the Phrygian Dominant mode and one of the best rock songs of all time.

Before I knew anything about how music works, I always associated Miserlou, White Rabbit, and Pyramid Song in my mind as being somehow similar or connected but for the life of me I could never have explained why. Now thanks to you I have an intellectual understanding of what my intuition was telling me!

You are truly a gifted teacher! You explain thing so we’ll and it makes sense! I’ve been playing for almost 2 years now and I’ve learned so much from your videos. I run your playlist on automatic while I’m cleaning my home and always learn something new just from listening.Thank you so much for sharing your expertise! Sending warm greetings from Miami.

Flamenco portion on Queen's "Innuendo" features Steve Howe of Yes on flamenco guitar. Of course, when the flamenco melody is recapitulated in the hard-rock section afterwards, Brian May is playing lead guitar that time.

46 & 2, White Rabbit, Miserlou, Hava Nagila I love all these songs despite any of them being in a genre I really appreciate, I now understand why, I also think that is why I love system of a down, I'm sure they used phrygian dominant scale in some of their song or a similar scale. I like to improvise some really basic flamenco on the guitar and I naturaly started playing on the same notes (with few changes) as miserlou, I know understand better why it works so well. Thank you for this video

Alanis Morissette's Uninvited has a verse in D phrygian dominant and a chorus in D mixolydian.

Muse: check! Radiohead: check! Queen: check

Lightbulb moment at 7:05, modes can exist from any starting scale, meaning that the modes we are most used to are just the modes of the major scale, and we can have modes of a harmonic minor scale and other scales! Thanks David :)

Wonderful as always... these 'song examples of a mode' videos are so great: thank you

We use this scale a lot in traditional Jewish music! It's a lot of fun to improvise with

I'd love if you did more analysis of traditional Jewish melodies. They're incredibly old and interesting. Look into Kol Nidre or other prayers.

I'm glad I caught this within 24 hours of the release. This is awesome. Great scale. Thank you, David. Keep this up. Love all your videos I've seen.

This is absolutely my favorite KZfaq channel. Thank you for all your amazing videos, David!

To conclude my Music graduation, I had to write a paper about a Arvo Pärt’s song called L’Abbé Agathon. At the end of the song, the soprano sings an odd musical phrase based on a scale that I couldn’t exactly describe. Now I know what it is. Can I go back 6 years in my life?

You are such a great teacher, David, and love your composition at the end - really beautiful.

Finally someone pointed out the difference in the tonic in the use of the andalucian cadence in Flamenco vs other styles! Thank you David, excellent as always!

Another excellent video from a great channel! I was hoping you would mention "Come Out and Play" by the Offspring - I can't hear this scale without immediately thinking of that song.

Your knowledge and ability to portray in an understanding manor is incredible. I have learnt alot for your videos and finally found out what my favourite scale of music is. Amazing channel great guy keep it up ❤

I really like your composition. Beautiful chord progression!

These videos help me appreciate and experience music that's been around me my whole life. Thanks for giving me a small taste of seeing music as musicians do. I feel like Dorothy opening the door and seeing a new world in technicolor.

7:10 that is the best definition of modes ever. Tutors tend to over complicate. Thank you. Simply Moving the center of Gravity

I always look forward to the ending of your videos like these when you put together something you've composed to demonstrate the sound. This one was a nice combination of relaxing and haunting!

Your piece at the end is gorgeous

The word 'exotic' comes up a lot here, with all its awkward connotations, but seems perfectly appropriate here. Those of us who grew up around major and minor scales find other tonalities, particularly when not built on modes of those scales, to be exotic. Do people who grow up with Arabic or Flamenco music around them, in the home or on the radio, who presumably don't find those to be exotic, also find songs like the Pyramid song less exotic than other Radiohead songs? Do Western pop songs built on PD or other common Arabic scales/maqams ever find popularity in the Arab world, or do they pass unnoticed? Do they even sound watered down? Anyone here who grew up with Arabic music able to share their impression of White Rabbit or the Pyramid Song in terms of its exotic feel or lack of it?

Damn David, where have you been all my life? I wish I learned all this while studying music 25 years ago, everything would've made so much more sense to me ! Thank you again for connecting the dots for me, finally!

Thanks for your videos which are really educational, and much appreciated.

Great video on this! More in depth than other ones I've used as research. Thank you!

Really enjoying your videos, thanks. Love your composition on this one.

Hey man, I really love your videos! They are education and entertainment at the same time. So good! Furthermore they inspire me to discover new music. Very refreshing :) Thank you so much!

Phrygian dominant is one of my favorite scales due to features like the contrast between the major tonic chord and the darkness associated with phrygian, as well as the interplay between I, bII and v°. Glad to see it featured. 😊

Very clear and precise with excellent timed graphics

Perfect vídeo! Beautiful music in the end! 😊

Loved learning about this. Thank you!

Best original melody I think you've done so far!

Fantastic as always!! Thank you for such a great lesson with so many cool examples and concise explanation. Much love from Maine

so helpful! thanks David!

Wow great lesson! And awesome piece at the end!

Awesome ..nice reminders all the way through.

Really enjoyed your composition at the end of the video.

I love these videos on the alternate modes, they're really great, great work! Would it be possible if you did another brightness-darkness video like you did on the normal modes but for the alternate ones please?

I love your composition at the end.

Wonderful composition of yours!

Most beautiful your composition at the end.

I never thought of taking one of the other Minor scales, and treating them modally the same way we do with Major scale etc. Modes on other minor scales is brilliant, and ill be investigating those after this video. I thank you immensely.

Very interesting segment, David. Will have to delve into the history books to learn how this scale became the basis of Middle Eastern music. Thanks!

Another perfect class!!!

Analyse is one of my favourite songs. Thanks for explaining to me now why it is so daunting

Only in the past several months have I (finally) reached a point on piano where I can experiment with exotic harmonies and it clicks. I've seen the Phrygian dominant scale before, but you showed some really interesting examples of how to build chord progressions from it. This will keep me busy for a while.

Thank you and please keep it going.

The Phrygian Major Dominant scale is known as 'Freygish scale' in Klezmer music. You also hear that in Flamenco music too. 6:39 - 'Double Harmonic Scale' is a mode of the Hungarian Minor Scale, aka 'Egyptian Minor Scale', or 'Gypsy Run', which can bee seen s a harmonic minor w/ a raised 4th degree. Likewise, the Hungarian minor/ Egyptian minor/Gypsy minor scale, also exists in Arabic music, it is the same as the 'Nawa Athar' Maqam, and it also exists in South Asian and Romany music, under different names.

One of the coolest modes ever. An absolute maximalist scale when you want to prove more is more.

Thanks for the good info.

Great video, thanks a lot! A nice 'Playbook' to study different modes might be the new King Gizzard LP called 'Ice, death, planets, lungs, mushrooms and lava', where they explore (as the first letter of the words in the title suggests) different modes on different tracks.

Nice video!

I really like that outro piece!

I was waiting for this

Nice composition Dave

Fantastic video

Great video again

Man do do your job amazingly good :)

Beautiful mode of music.

i'd say that a good chunk of the score for Dune (2021) would be in phrygian dominant, and it sounds SO EPIC

Have to say, I didn't want your outro composition to end!

Thank you! People always told me that this is the double enharmonic scale but I knew it wasn't, I just didn't know the actual name until your video!

Love these videos, please do more exotic modes

I love this mode - it’s so bold and urgent sounding. I actually am mixing a song right now called “Ruined Everything” that has an intro in G# Phrygian dominant (the song as a whole is mostly in G# phrygian). It really helps create that intense and dark atmosphere without reeling in melancholy in the process. Also, a fun fact - in terms of number of major and minor intervals, Phrygian dominant is unique in that it is the only major scale composed otherwise entirely (that is, bar the 3rd) of minor and perfect intervals: m2, m6, m7, then P4, P5, and the lone M3. Phrygian minor has four minor intervals with its m3, and Aeolian minor has three minor intervals (m3, m6, m7), but it also has a M2 which creates so much of the melancholic effect alongside them in that scale. It’s like Phrygian minor is darkness tonicized (unlike Locrian, which is very hard to tonicize and has the same intervals bar the unstable b5), and Phrygian dominant is just an acoustic or major atmosphere coupled with a maximally dark fog of minor surrounding its tonic. Aeolian dominant is not the same in darkness as it carries that melancholic nat 2 & b6, but Phrygian dominant sounds just so intense in its own way, thanks to the Phrygian urgency and boldness of the major tonic. Also, it was an amusingly common scale in the 2000s with certain rap & R&B styles :) Hence “Beautiful Liar”… There was this one producer whose name escapes me who used it all the time, he produced “Baby Boy” by Beyoncé and Sean Paul, and some other hits too. Thank you for the video David!

More scales/chords videos!!

First song that came to my mind was _Come Out and Play_ by The Offspring. That memorable guitar riff after the chorus goes up and down a B Phrygian dominant scale. B-C-D#-E-F# and back. (If you view it in isolation it doesn't matter if it's Phrygian Dominant or Double Harmonic, as the riff doesn't use that 7th)

gracias master

Mr Malmsteen loved your video and concur. The Phrygian dominant mode is like air : you can't live without it. So beautiful and mysterious.

As a self taught guitar player...this is pure gold. I always knew that the major scale had different "positions" up and down the neck of the guitar. In other words, I really had a great grasp of Ionian as a mode but learning how to actually APPLY the other modes is so refreshing now.

I love the vibe of this mode

I was just telling my wife that there aren't enough Phrygian Dominant vids out there.

As much as I love Phrygian Dominant, I wish people would explore other modes of the Harmonic Minor. I feel like it's the only one I ever hear. I want to hear more music in Ukranian Dorian or Lydian #9.

I always see Thom Yorke or Radiohead in your videos, you've mentioned they're basically your favorite band. If I were as knowledgeable in music as you are I would want to put Dave Matthews Band songs in every video I could! Edit: Speaking of, I believe one of their new songs, Madman's Eyes (which they only play live so far), is actually in this mode too. Minarets too.

08:50 interesting how this relates to I Will Survive chord progression, specifically every other chord Am Dm G C F B7 E(sus4) E (call, response - call, response - call, questioning response? - suspended-wait-for-it then resolution)

Lots of metal uses Phyrigian Dominant or related scales. "Sails of Charon" by Scorpions is a good example. Also "Caravan" by Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol.

This is a scale that is used by many metal bands. Powerslave by Iron Maiden, the Siren by Nightwish, March of Mephiso by Kamelot, and much of Nile's discography are a few examples.

A great deal of Jewish liturgy and klezmer music is written in this scale (Avinu Malkeinu for example), especially in the Ashkenazi tradition. It is sometimes referred to as the Jewish Scale.

I love Phrygian dominant and double harmonic major!

I am using phrygian dominant and harmonic minor a lot. It's my second nature when I am playing... On the other hand I always wanted to know the theoretical background of it. Wonderful explanation! Thank you!

Hi David, Great video, again! FYI: In the world of electronic dance-music, there is a whole genre where most of the songs are using a phrygian dominant mode: Goa-trance / Psy-trance. Check out mixes by Tobias Bassline or songs by Mindscape for more :) really interesting to see how this is sooo different from electronic dance music / house or techno just because of its different scale/mode. Also, check out Ozric Tentacles for more examples of these scales. Great for polyrhythms too :)

You are the bestttttt

Thanks Bruu

I've been waiting for you to make a Phrygian Dominant video! My favorite example of it is Hana-bi by Joe Hisaishi. I believe it switches between D Phrygian Dominant and D natural Phrygian

Joe Satriani’s ‘Surfing With the Alien’ uses the Phrygian Dominant mode in the solo section: C# Phrygian Dom / D# Phrygian Dom / F Phrygian Dom 😎🎸

The best mode!

That's a mix of Satie and Delibes, and you of course. Lovely and inspiring in the wings of Debussy.

Thanks good video, spicy warm sound to me.

Fusion. Rock. Hip-hop. Yes used extensively in Flamenco music. I was thinking of the "Mask of Zorro" theme song as well. Nice songwriting to the author.

White Rabbit, Innuendo, Muse, it’s crazy how many of my favourite artists/songs use this

There's almost a sense of melancholy achieved by using this scale. It's spicy and exotic and, at times, can even be erotic, but also calming, whistful, and comforting. I've been improvising over a drone with this scale, swapping between the double harmonic minor and Phrygian dominant scale. It almost always ends depressingly, sometimes even with a Picardy third; fascinating when multiple topics within music theory come together to surprise and delight our eardrums.

Quick question: Since the 3rd step is raised, shouldn't there be a G#dim chord there instead of a G chord? And a Caug instead of a C? And is there any piece of music that uses these two chords? - I may be off but still.

DMB The Last Stop was the first song that came to my mind!

9:53 omg THANK YOU

Thanks for this lesson. Age had erased "phrygian dominant" from my memory. I still played with it, I just kept calling it "umm it's some altered V chord thing, kinda half diminished. I forget." Now I know.

Great job, as always.