Songs that use the Phrygian Dominant scale

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0:00 Introduction
1:13 Forty Six & 2 by TOOL
1:27 Analyse by Thom Yorke
1:49 Dream Brother by Jeff Buckley
2:01 Naughty Girl & Beautiful Liar by Beyoncé
2:38 Phrygian Dominant has an Arabic sound
3:40 blending Phrygian & Phrygian Dominant
5:04 Blinkist
6:18 the Double Harmonic scale
7:01 Phrygian dominant is a mode
7:43 Innuendo by Queen
8:18 Phrygian Dominant in Flamenco music
10:15 Break It To Me by Muse
11:07 Hava Nagila
12:03 Piano outro

[chameleon-dream-band-official]

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.

[PianoMatronNeeNee]

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.

[adamlane]

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!

[michaeleaster]

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

[zenvassilis]

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!

[aaronclift]

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

[christophergetchell]

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!

[saxpride]

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.

[carlosrobbins]

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.

[MonsieurBiga]

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)

[saabeilin]

Muse: check! Radiohead: check! Queen: check <3 Modes: 3x check, 3x <3
Thank you so much David!

[directassault]

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

[thesuncollective]

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

[musicalmooku]

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.

[Yadeehoo]

The outro is superb, Didn't know you wrote so well, but it's not surprising.

[Krixwell]

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. 😊

[RubenLaden]

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

[yeasstt]

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

[calebeschutzerlasso]

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?

[danayang]

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!