What Is the Phrygian Dominant Scale? Phrygian Phun with Uncle Ben Eller
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ย. 2020
- Downloadable TABs, backing tracks, bonus guitar lessons, and MORE here: / benellerguitars
Get sweet deals on all the nice things i used in this video here: www.sweetwater.com/shop/ben-e...
TABs on instagram too! #weekendwankshop291 #weekendwankshop
Also be sure to follow me @benellerguitars on instagram this week for details on how to win a FREE Shocking Red REVV G3 pedal!!! These things rule!
Yngwie Malmsteen, Marty Friedman, Francis Bubbletrousers, Uncle Ben Eller... all hunks who have been known to throw around the ultimate exotic metal scale: The Phrygian Dominant! But what is it? How does it work? When can we use it? On this episode of Weekend Wankshop, I'm gonna tell you all about it, all the while delivering my live-stream musings on Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which is playing on mute in the background.
In this jam-packed lesson, you're gonna get theory goodies, interval concepts, chord building, diminished arpeggios, a SICK lick, and thoughts on the unorthodox fighting styles of Gandalf and Saruman. Its everything you need, and nothing you don't!
Gear: Suhr Modern Satin - REVV G3 - Fractal Axe FX III - Old Toby - เพลง
![เกิดใหม่ทั้งทีก็เป็นสไลม์ไปซะแล้ว ซีซั่น 3 - ตอนที่ 61 [ซับไทย]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ux_yeQTff6E/mqdefault.jpg)
![แฟนแนวใด๋ - ยูริ โตเกียวมิวสิค [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4_XVMuhhbsU/mqdefault.jpg)
Thanks for learning about the amazing Phrygian dominant scale with me!!! Which scale/mode do you want to learn next???
Harmonic minor scale is pretty cool.
0 3 5 but in phrygian dominant `\,(*>*),/`
Lydian has always been a favourite, especially in the context the Zelda OSTs use them.
How about harmonic minor with examples of natural and melodic minor to highlight the differences between the three scales?
I'm partial to ionian
Phrygian Dominant is the scale to play when you want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
Ya, and must be spoken with a thick Austrian accent.....
I'm so glad the music was here first.....
As yeah, that's what I want!
Make their women lament! Honey to mine ears!
Bahahahaha! 😈
i can hear this comment
Not just crush your enemies but also harvest their souls
My favorite tonality. Sounds so diabolical and.... Spanish...
I hear Phrygian Dominant and think:
"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!"
In spain we are so familiar to the phrygian dominant as it is so present on the flamenco phrases!! this is a very recognizable for musicians here
Perfect scale to accompany a bit of Phrodo.
Ben, you are the only person on this entire world, that whatches lotr and makes guitar lessons at the same time. It's hilarious :)
People don't know this, but Sauron did in fact play lead guitar in a Gwar cover band.
Excellent lesson, Uncy Bang! Happy Turkey Day to you and yours, homie.
And Sarumon recorded a heavy metal Christmas album.
This is, by far, the most comprehensive and easy-to-get deep dive on this mytical scale... I really appreciate how you mixed theory and application here, to me one of your best vids so far!
Thanks a lot for sharing this with Middle Earth!
I've been learning Dream Theater's Home by ear. I'm playing in this weird box, sounded modal and cool. similar to Phrygian but it was like a 5th mode of the harmonic minor scale. I had a nice little Eureka! moment when I realized THIS was Phrygian dominant. Really weird how raising the 3rd of Phrygian gives you a mode of harmonic minor.
Thank God for this beautiful little contained system of music theory we have to play with.
Michael Romeo got some ball and plays some sick scales like that. Would love to see you play Sea of Lies
Play the A harmonic minor scale with E as the root note. Boom, you got E phrygian dominant. Just thought this might be helpful for someone out there.
I missed you Ben.. and my all other teachers on you tube..
I was in meditation centre for two weeks.. and no communication was allowed there at all.
Love you all. 🥰🎶🤘
Uncle Ben's - Perfect Every Time.
Great stuff Ben 🔥 Love me a bit of Phrygian Phun !!
Thanks buddy!!! You’re the man.
Your backing tracks are the bomb Quist! Thanks for endless playlist of grooves to practice a billion different scales.
Awesome! Was waiting for this one!!!
Thanks Ben, Phrygian Dominant is one of my favorites to use in songwriting and this video showed me some cool new tricks in utilizing it!
Phrygian and Lydian are my favorite sounding scales. Learning some theory and then realizing I can add this over a major chord is spicy. I love learning these things, man. Keep it up.
Uncle Ben, you are a nice thing yourself! Glad you exist brother! Thanks for all the great videos!
I like that it contains diminished and augmented.
Thanks for that pattern. I didn't end up doing your lick but used that pattern and made my own thing with it that sounds pretty cool. Thanks man. 👊😎
You sold me with the Tool walkthroughs. Good stuff and presented exceptionally well, especially when the content can sound pretentious. You're a great teacher, thank you.
Great video. Well done explaining the Phrygian Dom mode. Nice and simplified.
ben, you are an awesome instructor, you give it very comfortable breakdowns, with a stitch of humor,,thanks dude!
There are a few ways of understanding modes like Phrygian Dominant - the method that's helped me the most is to build them around the minor and major pentatonic scales.
Dorian, Aeolian and Phrygian can be built from the minor pentatonic scale (meaning they will all have a flat-3rd) and adding either a major or minor 3rd and 6th:
Dorian = Minor pentatonic + Maj 2nd + Maj 6th
Aeolian = Minor pentatonic + Maj 2nd + Flat 6th
Phrygian =Minor pentatonic + Flat 2nd + Flat 6th
Ionian, Lydian and Mixolydian can be built from the major pentatonic scale (meaning they all have a major 3rd), adding either a major or minor 4th and 7th:
Ionian = Major pentatonic + Maj 4th + Maj 7th
Lydian = Major pentatonic + SHARP 4th + Maj 5th
Mixolydian = Major pentatonic + Maj 4th + Flat 7th.
Then Locrian breaks all of these rules, simply being the major scale with everything but the root and 4th flattened
( R + b2 + b3 + 4 + b5 + b6 + b7)
I hope this helps someone, it certainly helped me a lot!
I like that!!! Cool concept.
Fourths and fifths are not major or minor.
Thanks for a great lesson! You're a great teacher!
Thank you! It was awesome for me watching this video. Also it reminds me of the Killing Road solo you posted here some years ago.
I always think of Satriani because a lesson video of his was where I first ever heard of Phrygian
Stumbled across D Phryg Dom the other week and have disappeared into a glorious pit of guitar darkness ever since. Loved your video, given me some great new ideas to try out.
Happy shrediversary! You have helped me get through the corona pandemic and I have been shredding at levells I have never previously been capable of and breaking plateaus in my playing. I can't wait to dive into this lick. Hope you have a baller Thanksgiving.
Uncle Ben Eller.." a little more better"...cool man, I'm wearing a top hat with that on tomorrow \m/
Excellent instruction, Uncle Ben.
BADASS LESSON, HELP ME A LOT SINCE I'VE BEEN TRYING THESE SCALES LAST WEEKS.
I learnt so much from this video. This is a scale that I have given up on so many times.
Extremely clear instruction and clean playing. \m/
You started talking about intervals and my brain threw a rod. Think I'm gonna have to open a book.
Great video man, thanks!
Finally became a patreon. About time I've been taking your lessons for years.
...easy to love this. Great stuff. Thanks as always. 🤘😁
Great stuff. Love this channel Ben Eller rocks🤘
Your lessons are excellent!
Great video. Thank you!
You "discovered" how it's been done for literally unknown amounts of centuries. Great lesson, Ben! Thank you!
"Exotic evil pharaoh sounding stuff."
Priceless! I love your way of thinkin'. Stay weird.
I play another scale quite a bit that I've just heard labeled "Indian Scale".
It's a half and half thing in that it's 1 2 3 4 5 b6 b7 - putting it right next door to Phrygian Dominant. I've been fascinated with scales and modes for many years and how they evoke dramatically different moods so easily. "It's a long long way from Lydian to Locrian."
Bonus question: Is it Lock-rian or Low-crian? I've always said it the second way.
That's the Dorian mode of melodic minor, also known as Mixolydian flat 6. Never heard it referred to as Indian scale. Which would be a misnomer anyway because 1) Indian music is based on ragas, not scales, and 2) there's no single raga that defines Indian music. There's a lot of ragas around, some quite weird sounding. There's one with both a major and minor 3rd, try harmonizing that!
At 6:10, having never really understood how to use modes , this explanation just blew my mind.
Boom!!!!
Love the phryggin' Phrygian scale!!!
I wish your stegosaurus was a gravy boat. But then again, I wish everything could be a vessel for gravy.
Really great lesson
great lesson Ben. As an aside, one of J.R.R. Tolkein's garandson's, was in the same class as me when I was at school.
Watching the extended cuts of LotR is a Thanksgiving through New Year's holiday tradition at my house, and now I will never be able to unhear that Bilbo to Ozzy comparison.
Just so good, teaches theory in a way even thickos like myself can get. And the lick was well good thanks a lot.
Yess, finally, the one I have been waiting for.
Thank you Uncle Ben!
Love this so much, just hit like before I hit play. Thanks uncle Ben
Brilliant Uncle Ben. Thanks
This is starting to sink in , thanks uncle Ben . Your style of explanation works for me 👌
Dayum that lick is slick. Understanding modes is part of true musical mastery, thanks ben for helping us understand this shit hehe
Dude, your skills are out of this world, but your humor is out of the universe. That Bilbo Baggins / Ozzy joke just killed me
Phrygian is my favorite great lesson You make the difficult seem easy
great video! interesting, funny and some really good advice🔥👏🏻
Hey Ben, what a masterclass 👏👏👏👏
This was great.
I've been digging this scale since I started working on it a couple months ago.. never realized all the chord possibilities. From evil pharaohs to funky beatles.
Intro shred lick at 13:18
Yes uncle Ben "we must understand it a little more better". If your not on uncle Bens Patreon you are truly missing out.
"Tell me your name horse master and I shall tell you mine."
It's the scale you use when you want to summon djinn.
Ben makes me crack up all the time. By far the best guitar channel out there
Awesome lesson
Chuck schuldiner,I'm one more step close to you
Phrygian Domination !! Thanks Uncle Ben !
Iron Maiden - Powerslave - A Phrygian Dominant / Dm harmonic
You’re my fav teacher uncle Ben!
When I play the scale instead of going 12-13-16 on the low E I just switch the 16 with 11 on the A string I much easier to play
As always another rad lesson! I always think of this scale as the harmonic A minor.. Just start and stop on the E. Yngwie showed it best in his old video and plays it in Trilogy. Love ur run tho Uncle B... Great stuff!
As usual, I'm going away from your lessons with more knowledge than before. Thank you, Uncle Ben 🤜🤛
I will never see that scene with Bilbo the same way again. Thanks! :/
My favorite scale! I need one of those shirts! And a perm...apparently?
I like to think of phrygian dominant as the 5th mode of the harmonic minor scale.
Take, for example, the A minor scale. To turn that into a harmonic minor scale, simply raise the minor 7th scale degree (G) by a semitone into a major 7th scale degree (G#)
To turn this into phrygian dominant, start from the 5th note (E)
E, F, G#, A, B, C, D, E
Awesome video Ben! Thanks for your so detailed breakdowns on the kicks.
I don't know if you, in the past, have showed and talked about your recording setup and equipment you use like mics and DAW? It would be cool. Thanks you Rock!
I learned that arpeggio run from Alexi Laiho back in high school when their Stockholm Knockout Live DVD came out. He plays it during the solo section between him and Janne, the keyboardist. Like you said, it sounds super badass, but not as tough to play as it sounds. Once you get the shape into muscle memory, it's a fun one to mess around with and is a good one to keep in the ol' bag o' tricks.
Very good thanks
Awesome sauce, love that 3 notes then 4 notes concept so you restart on 1.
Phrygian Dominant has a " grief" quality to my ears ...the same with all the scales who had those three semitones in them except the Harmonic major. Keep up with the cool videos Ben... And of course have a nice day!
Man, i wish i learned music theory when i was young. Now im just old and impatient.
I was playing my geitar than I saw marty and you and then I instantly clicked !
Is that a Direwolf OD in the background? I love mine. Thanks for the lesson dude
Awesome video
There was so much Yngwie Malmsteen sounding content in this video
I was just looking this up last night because King Diamond has songs in this scale.
This is the best channel on TH-cam in the world
A lot of my students are metal-centric, they have often explored the Harmonic Minor already, and are pretty comfortable with it. They are also comfortable with power chords (root+5th). So I just explain that the Harmonic Minor and Phrygian Dominant are the same scale, and you just look at your power chord to find the Phrygian Dominant. So, if you wanna play in E Phrygian Dominant, make a power chord with E as the higher note and play Harmonic Minor of the lower note, then use your ears to learn which notes to land on. They seem to grasp it pretty quickly this way.
Nice Ozzy impression, 10/10
Thanks Ben, you make it fun to learn some shred licks… this lesson reminds me definitely of Ying Yang Milkshake😂😂
Awsome!!!
teach this and watch lotr at the same time.
uncle ben you da man !
Love your step dad lines. 👌 keep on keeping on. You will be at 500lk subs very soon i can feel it.
Uncle Ben, I’ve been a subscriber for ages, but sometimes I don’t watch every video. (I don’t know why... maybe some suppressed biological stepdad issues I need to work through) When I do watch, I always learn something cool. Thanks again!
Happy wanksgiving ..love it !
I think Sauron is full Harmonic Minor...
How kirk really play arpeggio from ride the lightning solo on the min3:55 🙏
Nice...shredding!
I watched Jaws on Telemundo in Spanish once. It was still awesome. Can't wait for phrygian submissive