Lick of the Week #41 The Phrygian Scale Part1

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Theodore Ziras-Lick of the Week #41: The Phrygian Scale Part1
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Lesson Description:
The Phrygian Mode is based around the third note of the major scale. In the key of Eb, this 3rd note is G.
So this will be played as the G Phrygian Mode. To play the G Phrygian Mode you will start with the first note at the 6th string 3rd fret. The Phrygian Mode sounds exotic and heavy. It's a very popular mode for many heavy metal bands like Metalllica and Slayer.

The early Catholic church developed a system of eight musical modes (octoechos) that medieval music scholars based on ancient Greek modes. However, due to a misinterpretation of the Latin texts of Boethius, medieval modes were given the wrong Greek names.In medieval and modern music, the Phrygian mode closely related to the modern natural minor musical mode, also known as the Aeolian mode.
The following is the Phrygian mode starting on G, or G Phrygian, with corresponding tonal scale degrees describing how the modern major mode can be altered to produce the Phrygian mode:
Phrygian
G Ab Bb C D Eb F G
1 ♭2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7 1
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Notes from Theodore
Memorize the 5 boxes and then practice them with metronome over a Major or Major7 Chord
Always use the metronome and dont forget If you cannot walk its impossible to run.

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[FrozenSparky]

iron maiden powerslave is in this scale isnt it?

[tziras]

@FrozenSparky

no..it is Phrygian Dominant

[06a09]

soo is it basicly the mnor scale with the 2nd note flattened? sorry if i am wrong

[tziras]

@06a09

yes...you are right

[6XstringXsamurai]

I love your lessons! I'm new to modes and theory and I was messing around writing a riff with phrygian and harmonic minor and it evolved into this scale - but i don't know what it would be called...can you help? E-7,8,10, A-8,9,11, D-8,9...notes would be B,C,D,F,F#,G#,D#,B

[tziras]

@6XstringXsamurai

it is mix of those two scales you mentioned

[tziras]

@thehornypuppy

the video is very clear

[Feynaro]

Great info! Concise. Good teaching skills, great guitar skills

[Erc888]

Thanks a lot for this! 

[tziras]

@GlediSound

there is no backing track, just a tab

[TheBlueBandYTAccount]

@6XstringXsamurai It's called a 'Hybrid scale'.