Middle Eastern Lead

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In today's lesson, we'll create a Middle Eastern sounding lead with the use of the Phrygian dominant scale.

A dominant scale is a scale that has a major 3rd and a minor 7th. In that matter, the Mixolydian mode is a dominant mode. We actually refer to the chord that's built on that mode the Dominant 7 chord...

That means that a Phrygian Dominant scale is a Phrygian mode to which we'll transform the 3rd into a major 3rd. There is no need to alter the 7th since it's already a minor 7th.

We will play in C Phrygian dominant with a modulation in Db Lydian, which is very close to C Phrygian dominant.

I also included some detailed spoken explanations for your convenience and all the examples are recorded over a click.

Have fun!

Lesson Questions, Feedback & Comments

Kristofer Dahl	23rd February 2008
GMC Founder & Rocker	Oh David I love this! I am sorry if I you covered this somewhere - but is there anything general you can say about how arranged the string harmonies for this piece? I love this feel!

Vurpa	23rd February 2008
Member	Awesome lesson David!

DeepRoots	23rd February 2008
Member	Iv been practising the phrygian dominant- but this is an awesome way to get cool sounds from the scale- cheers Dave

Toni Suominen	23rd February 2008
Instructor	Awesome lesson David!! Great work!

Tuubsu	23rd February 2008
Member	That was great! gonna start practicing it right away!

Muris Varajic	23rd February 2008
Instructor	Brilliant topic and lesson David,love it!

Juan M. Valero	23rd February 2008
Instructor	Cool sound my friend !!! and interesting lesson

Joe Kataldo	23rd February 2008
Instructor	very beautiful

botoxfox	23rd February 2008
Member	Very ool.

botoxfox	23rd February 2008
Member	Cool I mean lol

Ivan Milenkovic	23rd February 2008
Instructor	Interesting composition man, love the middle eastern sound!

Gen	23rd February 2008
Member	Nice Lesson!

Nemanja Filipovic	23rd February 2008
Singing Instructor	great lesson

The Uncreator	23rd February 2008
Fire Up The Blades, Moderator	Very impressive, I love to use Phrygian more than anything else, and this has given me some cool ideas!

David Wallimann	23rd February 2008
Instructor	Thanks everyone, for the strings I just played C5, DbMaj. Just following the basic chords. Then I followed some parts of the basic theme harmonizing it sometimes.

Bogdan Radovic	23rd February 2008
Bass Instructor	Awesome lesson David !! Really good composition and great theme also!

Pablo Vazquez	23rd February 2008
Instructor	Very Nice Lesson, David! Great Melodies!

USAMAN	23rd February 2008
Member	One Word..... NICE.

Power_Arctica	23rd February 2008
Member	Awesomeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

SLASH91	23rd February 2008
Member	Awesome lesson!

Gabriel Leopardi	23rd February 2008
GMC Coordinator & Instructor	wou! I love how this lesson sounds! Good job! Can't wait for a second part of this one!!

swingline	23rd February 2008
Member	Arabian Nights!!!!

Nick325	23rd February 2008
Member	nice job

Hisham Al-Sanea	24th February 2008
Instructor	welldone David .

Dejan Farkas	24th February 2008
Instructor	Sounds excellent

Jeff	25th February 2008
Member	David this just sounds awesome!

david80	25th February 2008
Member	Great lesson David D)

David Wallimann	26th February 2008
Instructor	Thank you! :-)

Rickabee	29th February 2008
Member	Love that Phrygian mode. Reminds me of Pink Floyd/Gilmour but with an added eastern flavour. Very cool! Thanks

Rickabee	29th February 2008
Member	Love that Phrygian mode. Reminds me of Pink Floyd/Gilmour but with an added eastern flavour. Very cool! Thanks

ibanezkiller	29th February 2008
Member	By far my favorite lesson!

Danilo Capezzuto	2nd March 2008
Instructor	Great lesson

Carlos Carrillo	21st March 2008
Instructor	excellent lesson and nice job!!!!!!!! thanks David

Melodicintenions	4th April 2008
Member	can you do the second half of this like your Phrygian Dominant Soloing exercise to spice things up I wanna master this sorda style as well it compliments metal so well when done properly Thanks!