How to play Progressive Guitar: Major Blues Scale (Phrygian root?)

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[MudTide1993]

I honestly don't know what you'd call this scale, but you can certainly scratch phrygian off the list. I guess you could argue that it's a major scale with a random minor third added in and no fourth. I dunno dude. We'll just call it the crazy beard scale.

[WowVengeance]

@MudTide1993 That is my problem. Sorry with the phrygian root, my apology, I have no idea how to label the scale, and that might be a lack to my actualy tonal scale knowledge (phrygian, locrian, etc.) but you can also argue that I have the flatted third, or a major second, along with the minor second, or am I thinking this worng?

[MudTide1993]

@WowVengeance Well, there isn't actually a minor second there. If there was a Gb in this scale, then you'd have a minor second. But, to explain phrygian for you, it's the third mode of a major scale. Say you take C Major, playing the C Major scale starting on C is the Ionian mode, or just a normal major scale. Phrygian is playing the same exact scale with E (the third note of the scale) as the root. In E phrygian, you have EFGABCDE, and you can see E to F, which is a minor interval.

[WowVengeance]

@MudTide1993 Okay that makes sense, what to you have here?

Is it just an atonal mode with a a huge sense for modulation between keys or what?

[JGannaway95]

i like your beard, you should defently try to grow it as big as Andy Williams's was from Every Time I Die, that shit was EPIC!

[WowVengeance]

@JGannaway95 Oh do not fear my friend i am and will be ;)

[MudTide1993]

@WowVengeance It's not really a mode as much as its own scale. I mean, it could be a mode of another scale that contains an Ab and a Bbb (or A, the double flat is just a means of notating it in a way that fits comfortably on staff paper). It can also me seen as having its own modes inside of it. For example, if you took that scale and established G as the root, that would be the second mode of the scale. But really you can call it whatever you like, I've never really used a scale like this.

[MudTide1993]

Alright, first let's think about how we'd write out this scale. For the ease of the reader, lets go ahead and say it's F G Ab A C D E F. Now, this is pretty interesting, because you have both a minor and a major third. However, it isn't phrygian, as the main characteristic of the phrygian mode is a minor second, which doesn't exist in this scale. In relation to F Major, you have a flatted third, a flatted fourth, while the rest of the notes remain the same.