If you like to play this kind of music please try my mini course here www.arabicguitar.net 15 oriental hijaz licks, it includes guitar pro tabs/pdf tabs/mp3 audio/video files/scale maps in different keys.
I'm sure I'll get there at some point before long, but right now I am achieving new heights for me. I need to work through that first. Your half hour funk jam (kinda like Boz meets Hall and Oates) just brought the best solo out of me I have ever played by far. Dorian is my realm, it seems. LOL I'll see if I can't record a small section and share it with you privately on Google Drive, for your insights. And to think. 6 months ago I suffered a music spiritual crises and almost quit playing after 50 years. Thanks brother. You did a good thing here. I'm much appreciative.
So there's me on the floor in the middle of a darkened room at 2am, wearing my t-shirt on my head and my sun glasses, clutching my guitar as the third wave of acid kicks in and I've been playing to this track for over an hour, but I can't find my camel
I really like that you have lessons involved with the track. It may not seem like much, but it really says the stuff that is never said in most regular youtube lessons. PLUS a badass jam track.
Finally someone actually playing Phyrgian Dominant! Everyone else just talks about it & does a small riff. I wanted to hear an actual song, great job. Thanks for sharing.
For anyone trying to explore the guitar neck, the modes are; E Phrygian Dominant (Root E - min 2nd - Maj 3rd - 4th - 5th - min 6th - min 7th ) F Lydian #2 (Root - aug 2nd - Maj 3rd - aug 4th - 5th - Maj 6th - Maj 7th.) G# altered bb7 mode (Root G#- min 2nd - min 3rd - dim 4th - dim 5th - min 6th - dim 7th) A Harmonic Minor (Root A - Maj 2nd - min 3rd - 4th - 5th - min 6th - Maj 7th) Locrian #6 (Root B - min 2nd - min 3rd - 4th - dim 5th - Maj 6th - min 7th.) Ionian #5 ( C Root - Maj 2nd - Maj 3rd - 4th - aug 5th - Maj 6th - Maj 7th) Dorian #4 (Root D - Maj 2nd - min 3rd - aug 4th - 5th - Maj 6th - min 7th.)
@@chusssMusic I am plying this while closing my eyes, and seeing myself in the middle of the desert, sitting on a stool, playing the guitar, while some people are coming towards me from far away, riding a camels, with swords in their hand, and black scarfs around their head. I see caos.
Yo guys, I see you like this track with 200k+ views and 2k Likes. Thanks for your support. Listen if you like this track you might as well like the tracks in this playlist bit.ly/egyptianbackingtracks17-1 or here on Spotify spoti.fi/2plR7UJ
Thanks so much for a great Phrygian mode backing track. Just what I needed for what I wanted to play. Here’s a link to my improv. I also put a link to yours in my description.👍 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kNyfmTNYpqo.html
Thanks for the track! E Phrygian Dominant scale notes: E F G# A B C D E (a Phrygian mode scale with raised 3rd). Oh, I noticed you have a listing of it a little ways into the video; here it is again anyway for those reading comments to copy and paste if needed. For classic rock fans: this is the same scale used by Stevie Winwood for the piano solo in Traffic's "Glad" (at the end, where there's a two chord jam, D7 to E7) off the "John Barleycorn Must Die" album.
So, I guess my true purpose in life now is to nail this scale on an otamatone? Great track though, been using it for practice on guitar for over a year, and it works on my little buddy too :P
Of all the Phrygia dominant backing tracks, this is the most effective. While I'm improvising, I close my eyes, and see myself in the middle of the desert, with lots of pyramids, and some militaries raiding the place with camels, and a black scarf. I see caos.
I've been messing around with this and variations on it for a lot of years, but I've never really seen it laid out like this. I was flying through this now. I just have to memorize the blocks for this scale like I did when I started and it'll be another great tool in my musical Batbelt. Thanks so much.
It's crazy how well I taught myself this scale. I never knew what it was called I just loved how it sounds and how fun it is to play. It's a really metal scale too with how well the diminish arpeggios fits in.
Check these backing tracks if you like heavier music ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-k2aMgRUTCRQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WiMCallhXHc.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w-f65dq4sVE.html
Thanks Darrel, Happy to see it was useful for you. Here is a playlist with some lines you can play along with similar tracks bit.ly/arabicguitarvol1ex please share with some of your friends :)
Here is an improvisation I did over this backing track: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9DHQXzBQ7JE.html Thanks to anyone who checks it out!
I am so glad this is here!! Getting to listen to something that I wouldn't normally listen to (other than Ra) peeked my interest in discovering music of other people. America is so closed off, man!!
Love it! In the last few minutes I've found more sexy chord progressions than i have in the last month! Caug-E7-Am... Am-Dm7-Bm7... Dm-Caug-Dm7/Bm7-E7... Mmmmm.... 🤤
This is such a cool and helpful video! I'm very insecure when it comes to playing in new scales I haven't used before but this video helped me in finding decently sounding melodies to base my improv off A LOT. You rock!
Salam ya5ouya, It's Gaby Jawhar from Lebanon, Tra'k Gamda Geddan, is it possible to use this track to upload my improvisation over it? Thank you in advance
Thanks for this track, i used it to ventilate a lot of emotional stress i had lately and had an almost spiritual experience. I was just jamming, no thinking, like aimlessly wandering through a desert.
Great Jam Track, I'm just a rookie guitar player and I can jam with this and start expanding my creative limits. Keep up the good work and keep the jam tracks coming man!
1 remark - Egypt was never arabic country! It was only conquered by islamists. BTW the Phrygian is also not arabic scale but rather typical for Flamenco style or some dark metal riffs. Except that, it's very interesting video!
Well. E Phrygian has a G. Phrygian Dominant however, has a major 3rd so it has G# that is the only difference between Phrygian and Phrygian dominant. Hope you enjoy the music.
This track is amazing, great work right here. Food for thought: what if you were to take this a step further, and raise the minor 7th to the major 7th? Would be kind of like the phrygian dominant mixed with a harmonic minor. Tasty stuff
Well, if you do that you could get another tasty Arabic scale. It is also used in other Countries and regions. It is mostly known as Byzantine. Exotic.
Yes, It has many names though.. Gypsy or Spanish Phrygian, In Arabic it is called Hijaz or the Egyptian scale. I am sure there are many more names. In all cases it is just the 5th mode of the Harmonic Minor Scale.
Try G# being Half flat Quarter tone it from the G with a bend. Also you C can be quarter flattened or sharpened too. But that's not so necessary to get the vibe. On fast sweeps you don't need to bother to bend to the quarter tone, but you get the drift.. Of course that's where scalloped fretboards come in. The Hijaz is basically the scale you are playing here, but the Hijaz scale has the C quarter toned up. The 5th position of the Nahawand scale gives you Phrygian Dominant, but im not sure they use different positions of the eastern scales like we do the standard major scale. There's a whole ton of scale variants.
There are 8 main maqam families in Arabic music. Each maqam has many variants and sub-scales. There is one version of Hijaz that doesn't have any quarter tones. It is the one called Phrygian Dominant in western music. The concept of modes is also applied in Arabic maqams and that what gives us a big number of scales, also same scales have different names when played from different roots.
@@chusssMusic The arabic modes I was taught by an arabic musician were 7 main ones. Rast/Saba/Bayati/Nahawand/Hijaz/Kurd and Huzam. The varients were Sikah/Shad Arban/Ajam Ashiran/Hijaz Kar/Nawa Athar/ Nakiz and Suznak. Non of these are the Phgrian scale.. I seem to remember reading that this derived from Egyptian, not arabic scales. There are many that do not use quarter tones. In fact the Kurd scale is in fact the major scale starting at the 4th position... so that's of course the Lydian. The other notable 'no quarter tone scale' is the Nahawand. This uses 3 semi tones/3 tones and a tone and a half interval. Most of the additional scales i listed also dont use quarter tones. So out of the 14 scales listed here, 7 do and 7 dont use quater tones. 4 use 1 quarter tone and 3 use 2 quater tones. Its quite crazy the amount of scales out there. If i remember correctly the Arabian music doesn't use modes of the scales. For instance the Hijaz and Huzam are what we would refer to as modes of the same scale. Except because the notes can be quarter notes, the Huzam starts from either a quarter down or quarter up on the Key note. What i was describing up above is a bastardised version of the Phygrian Dominant.
@@PrincePloppy Thanks for taking the time to write this comment, in this crazy time, people don't have energy for anything longer than 3 seconds :) . Anyway, I don't know the school which your Arabic music teacher used in the classification you mentioned. I am self-taught and I follow the most popular traditional school and the main scales are Saba - Nahawand - 3ajam - Bayat - Sika - Hijaz - Rast - Kurd. Nahwand is the minor scale or Aeolian , 3ajam is the major or Ionian, Kurd is the phrygian (My knowledge is different than yours when it comes to this) . The variants are many that I don't memorize but I can always use once I am comfortable to play with the main ones. The other modes are also used seldom in Arabic music but I am not familiar with the names and some of them are coming from Turkey, Perisa, Armenia, Kurdstan, Azerbaijan and other countries. If you like some useful resources on Arabic music I'm happy to share.
I don't know I still get lost trying figure out tabs. Mos people say that being lefty doesn't make any difference but if I hold my guitar like a right handed person it all makes sense. Maybe I just need to practice, I don't use tabs very often.
Hope this might help. Scale diagrams for left handed guitarists onlybackingtracks.me/2019/02/12/e-phrygian-dominant-scale-charts-for-left-handed-guitarists/
I’m asking you for a favor , Can you please show E Phrygian ( linear in relationships to the harmonic minor ) Ephrygian or the notes of. I had eye surgery. Thanks.
I love sizzling to this track. I first heard rock guitar played in this type of mode when Richie Blackmore blew me away with Gates of Babylon. I'm not 1 millionth the guitarist that Mr Blackmore is, but I love playing molten lava hot electric guitar licks in the Middle Eastern style THANKS FOR INSPIRING ME CHUSS MUSIC ❤❤❤❤!!!
I am looking at the notes, and I see that they are the same as A minor harmonic, You are simply starting on the 2nd, and sharpening the 7th. sounds very cool.
@@chusssMusicSo I played a D minor at one point during the chord progression, and it sounded very cool. I followed it with an E major. You have produced a very cool jam, thanks
I got a fret zealot which includes many "foreign" scale types if you will. Its so very very cool to play the Arabic scale over this E Phrygian. I never would ever have played something like this. So fun to play a style completely new. Great backing track. Thanks for helping expand my mind!
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Chuss you are the very great Man . I Listen to all your Music All the day and night, during travell,during Early morning when i wake up, and go to bed ... Phrygian scale is my Drug which strenthening Me.And a small request, I want you to Make some other Music clips(phrygian scale) using Classical or acoustic guitar.I Hope u will See my comment.please please....
It is so refreshing to play with a totally different scale. Notes that I would never really put together just naturally flowed from my fingers. Thanks so much. It expands my range and gets me out of the rut. I appreciate it
Awesome! Now, I found that while this is an E phrygian dominant based track, it sound good in 12 fret ofc, but why it sound so awesome in 7 to 11 fret? what Im playing in 7 to 11 fret if you get what i mean? Thanks in advance :)
Cool question, the interval between fret 7 and 11 on string A is the one that gives this mode its exotic flavor. You have good ears since you realized it :)
Thanks :P, I really hooked on this, first thoughts was "Slash surely used this on Anastasia" :D. Now when Im not very smart on theory stuff etc, but I try to understand as much I can, but this Ajnas stuff is kinda weird. btw... can "Jens" refer like... Lick? :D
A Harmonic minor in case you're lost. Thanks again. Very helpful to E tonic the harmonic minor. I need a lot more work with the Phrygian of the harmonic minor. I tend to fall back to the A root. Thanks for this wonderful Etude.
Verrrrry cool video. Awesome idea. This is really an excellent teaching tool. I wish I had this when I was first learning to play. I will be using this A LOT from now on in my lessons with my students (and will definitely make sure to support on patreon). This really just gives me 28394959933 new idea for how to teach this material to my students. Again, thanks a million, al from ohio
