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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Nice. Interestingly there’s hardly any music “in harmonic minor”, where harmonic minor is used as the notes over the root chord. Those notes are almost exclusively used over the V chord, as the phryg dom scale, like Octa said. Yngwie is often quoted as playing harmonic minor, but in actual fact he almost always snaps back to Aeolian once he comes off the V chord.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
When playing a blues in a major key, my general scale is the major pentatonic overlaid on top of the minor pentatonic, which can be thought of as the Dorian with an added major 3rd (or the Mixolydian with an added minor 3rd). Then I select notes to fit with the chords. It's kind of how I think of Clapton's classic solo to Crossroads.
One can also add the major 7 to that scale over the V7 chord because the major 7 of that scale is the major 3rd of the V7 chord. Although I tend to think of it as part of an arpeggio of the V7 chord.
“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay
... and some old composers. Aeolian and Dorian and their hypos are well medieval. But yep, I hope you’re right!
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
1. They're just scales
2. Tutorials always dive in too deep. The only modes that are worth worrying about for beginners are Dorian and Mixolydian.
(and Ionian and Aeolian---but its significantly less confusing for beginners to think of these as just Major and Minor scales so beginners should pretend they aren't modes IMO)
The killer fact early on before the singing even starts is that the 2nd chord - the bVII - is a G not a G minor, which it would have to be if the song were in A Phrygian.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Are they Phrygian or Phrygian Dominant? I'm not clued up on modes.
Re Harvester of Sorrow, I thought you meant Rachmaninov's song (which is Aeolian ). Yep, phrygian. Ooh and it's got a locrian section in the middle!
Powerslave's also a good call, coz although it's a mixture of both, it makes more sense to call it phrygian than phrygian dominant because the A chord is the tonic not the dominant. So that's going up there too
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
If s is a semitone and T is a tone, then phrygian is s T T T s T T, whereas phrygian dominant is s 1.5 s T s T T.
The first set of notes is most often played as:
a) chord i in E Phrygian, or
c) chord v in A minor.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Miles Davis - So What
Santana - Oye Como Va
Phrygian
Metallica - Wherever I May Roam is heavily phrygian
Lydian
Steve Vai - The Riddle is about as lydian as you'll get with that huge #4 at the start
Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Phrygian and Lydian
Joe Satriani - Time
Aeolian
Radiohead - Street Spirit
For the Police one I think I’ll leave that out because that very Lydianish intro turns out to have all been starting from the IV chord anyway.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
The Police knew their stuff, Andy Summer is very knowledgeable about theory. Many of the Police and Sting songs use modes in very interesting ways. Based on listening to a few Radiohead songs, they seem to know alot about using them too.