Phrygian Dominant - in E

This is just a super quick video to demonstrate the fun of jamming in Phrygian Dominant. If you’re a guitar player there will be lots of conventional note-bending opportunities within this scale, especially since it is so closely related to a "normal" major scale. The raised third and the unusual tonic to minor 2 relationship is what immediately sets this scale apart from most every other scale. This unusual tonal mixture of the first three notes delivers a huge reward when layering solos / melodies on top.

Oh, and yes, I did take liberties with my note choices during the improv noodling in a few places - - bonus points if your ears detected those "foreign" notes that tried to invade the sacred tonal tribe of the Phrygian Dominant mode. I hope you'll enjoy the haunting, and exotic nature of this scale as much as i have. (I will probably create a Jam Track that uses this scale at some point up ahead if that would be of any interest).

The "guitar" sound is being played on my trusty Roland Juno DS using a patch that I've tinkered with, mostly by adding some extra voices with assigned velocities to help create more authentic sounding dynamics (very limited effect to be honest) and lots of trial and error with the distortion, overdrive and "amp modeling" settings. I also use the sustain pedal quite often with this patch to create some overlapping tones which sets up some weird (and quite welcomed) distorted overtone effects. I am already planning a series of videos to talk about how I use this particular patch, and my very opinionated views on pitch bending. Stay Tuned.