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0:00 Intro.
1:13 Forty Six & 2 by TOOL.
1:27 Analyse by Thom Yorke.
1:49 Dream Brother by Jeff Buckley.
2:01 Naughty Woman & Beautiful Phony by Beyoncé.
2:38 Phrygian Dominant has an Arabic noise.
3:40 mixing 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.
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@David Bennett Piano Oh! I just noticed that you recently hit 700K subscribers!! Congrats!!
hello David. I am western listener/musician and absolutely adore the sound of Phrygian and all of its various versions. Please please please make more videos about Phrygian. I need more Phrygian 😅
hi david, crying lightning riff by the arctic monkeys would have been a great song for the video. It’s literally just walking up the scale
Doesn’t this sound like a harmonic minor ?
@Ogolo Daniel after searching, he actually uses the hungarian minor
These videos teach me more about music than school does!
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Hi David, I’m getting back into metal again Slayer and Metallica, there’s lots of chromaticism, but not in a bluesy way. I never use chromatism, in a non bluesy way in my music. Are there guides to how to do it, classical composers do the same. It’s like they know the rules and they also know how to break them too. A video about this would be kind of good.
I always see Thom Yorke or Radiohead in your videos, you’ve mentioned they’re basically your favorite band. If I were as knowledgeable in music as you are I would want to put Dave Matthews Band songs in every video I could!
Edit: Speaking of, I believe one of their new songs, Madman’s Eyes (which they only play live so far), is actually in this mode too. Minarets too.
Wonderful as always… these ‘song examples of a mode’ videos are so great: thank you
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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?
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.
I wish people would explore other modes of the Harmonic Minor. I love Phrygian Dominant, but I feel like it’s the only mode I ever hear from the Harmonic Minor. I want to hear more music in Ukranian Dorian or Lydian #9.
Have you ever tried modes of the Melodic Minor? Those can be really bizarre and interesting too.
@rome8180 I have all the modes of all parent scales written down, but I definitely need to spend more time exploring them! Hungarian Minor is another I use from time-to-time (from the DHM scale), but will check out the ones you mention👍
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.
Alanis Morissette’s Uninvited has a verse in D phrygian dominant and a chorus in D mixolydian.
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)
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.
It’s still uttetly fascinating to me that mere patterns of sounds can evoke emotions in our brains. Obviously a great deal of this is due to a lifelong education connecting certain music with emotive lyrics, but I’m still curious the intrinsic neuroscience of why some notes seem to increase tension & others relieve it…
Here this scale is simply exotic to me. Is this only due to my education in Western music or is there something objectively “off kilter” about it..?
I’ve got a ways to go before I’ve absorbed the vocabulary describing various aspects of music, but these videos are proving to be fascinating, nonetheless, so thankyou @David Bennett.
“Stargazer” by Rainbow – one of the best examples of the Phrygian Dominant mode and one of the best rock songs of all time.
Gates of Babylon is a better example.
Ritchie Blackmore may have done more for the Phrygian Dominant mode than any other composer ever before him.
@Jori Diculous yes, “The Gates of Babylon” is a bit more straightforward of an example, but the guitar solo and many other sections of “Stargazer” are excellent demonstrations of what Phrygian Dominant can do for a song.
And whoever is interested in an in depth analysis of Gates of Babylon, Doug Helvering just put out a video on it yesterday. Highly recommended.
Would the exotic guitar fill from “Come Out and Play” by The Offspring be Phrygian Dominant or Double Harmonic? (On the album there’s a hidden track that expands on this fill in a lot of interesting ways.)
That’s B Phrygian Dominant. The double harmonic or Byzantine scale is used in Stargazer, IIRC.
I’d love if you did more analysis of traditional Jewish melodies. They’re incredibly old and interesting. Look into Kol Nidre or other prayers.
Phrygian dominant is also known as “di fraygishe shtayger” (literally: the phrygian ladder/scale) in Yiddish
The tune at the end brought to mind “The End” by the Doors. Ray Manzarek was classically trained and a lot better musician than most people realized and Robbie Krieger had roots in flamenco.
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.
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!
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!
As much as I love Phrygian Dominant, I wish people would explore other modes of the Harmonic Minor. I feel like it’s the only one I ever hear. I want to hear more music in Ukranian Dorian or Lydian #9.