JPsuff
Blackstar Artist
I play a lot of things using the Dorian mode and I have come to rely on a variety of patters (still don't know all the notes yet) to accommodate a variety of musical styles.
I was wandering around YouTube and came across a video on modes and it went through the usual stuff I can't understand. Along the way it landed on the Phrygian mode. It had the basic scale box for Phrygian and I played through it and it seemed very much like the same notes I play in Dorian.
So I went in search of some Phrygian backing tracks and came across a Phrygian Blues track (Quist) and it was entitled "E Phrygian Blues".
The track was a moody vamp consisting of just two chords; Em and Fmaj7 and so I began to play the same patterns I generally use in a basic Em Blues.
What blew me away is that I could make it sound all kinds of "Middle Eastern" and moody but I was playing THE EXACT SAME NOTES I use when playing a standard Em Blues!
OK, so what's going on here?
Is it the "starts-on-a-different-root" thing again or is there something else going on?
This is really weird to me.
It's fun and even somewhat exciting -- but still very weird.
Please tell me what's going on...
I was wandering around YouTube and came across a video on modes and it went through the usual stuff I can't understand. Along the way it landed on the Phrygian mode. It had the basic scale box for Phrygian and I played through it and it seemed very much like the same notes I play in Dorian.
So I went in search of some Phrygian backing tracks and came across a Phrygian Blues track (Quist) and it was entitled "E Phrygian Blues".
The track was a moody vamp consisting of just two chords; Em and Fmaj7 and so I began to play the same patterns I generally use in a basic Em Blues.
What blew me away is that I could make it sound all kinds of "Middle Eastern" and moody but I was playing THE EXACT SAME NOTES I use when playing a standard Em Blues!
OK, so what's going on here?
Is it the "starts-on-a-different-root" thing again or is there something else going on?
This is really weird to me.
It's fun and even somewhat exciting -- but still very weird.
Please tell me what's going on...