Metal's secret weapon | ARABIC SCALE
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2021
- This video is about Metal's secret weapon....the ARABIC SCALE. The Arabic Scale is a close cousin of the Phrygian Dominant Scale. It shares the same notes, except you raise the 7th degree. (E-F-G#-A-B-C-D#). A perfect choice if you're looking to emulate the Marty Friedman exotic metal sound.
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all scales are awesome for metal. the more you know, the wider the options for your compositions get. i personally love just regular minor, but i also use phrygian and phrygian dominant quite a lot. also harmonic minor is amazing if you mix it with minor and just raise the 7th randomly within the context of minor when it fits, and then go back to regular minor. lydian is also quite awesome. although it sounds kinda major, each and every scale and mode can be used in a certain context. whole tone and diminished included. i am not a very skilled guitarist since i've been playing just for about 3 years now. but i've noticed that what people like about me is the diversity of my playing, and making everything very melodic and well mixed and combined. best guitar lesson that almost nobody teaches is context. it's not necessarily the notes you play, but the context in which they are played. and this channel along with jake from signals music studios have thought me the most! thank you guys!
Eb Minor Pentatonic is the Black Metal Scale since it is all of the black keys on piano.
Add 2 white keys, E & F, for Eb exotic minor. ("E " is for Erotic, and "F" is for F***s.)
The Relative Major is Gb Major Pentatonic, which is also all of the black keys.
Eb Dorian, Eb Phrygian, Eb Aeolian, Gb Ionian, and Gb Mixolydian all share the same 5 notes,
--the pentagram of black keys. The difference is only 2 white keys, but beware of what you unlock!
Can you analyze the sadygic scale or maybe one of it's modes?
The chromatic scale.
The best scale is no scale with scales like these scales
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It's called Hijaz scale in Arabic, there's a more sad Arabic scale called Alsaba, and it's even deeper than Hijaz the thing is it has micro tonal notes.
Do you know of any traditional just intonation tunings for these scales (Hijaz and Alsaba)?
I know that besides the all pervasive 2-limit octave of 2/1, the ubiquitious 3-limit twelfth, fifth, fourth and major second of 3/1, 3/2, 4/3 and 9/8, the common sweet 5-limit major and minor thirds and sixths and major tenth of 5/4, 6/5, 5/3, 8/5 and 5/2, the less common blue 7-limit subminor and supermajor thirds, sevenths, tritones (?) and subminor tenth of 7/6, 9/7, 7/4, 7/5, 10/7 and 7/3, Arabic music also uses the neutral thirds, seconds, sixths, sevenths, superfourths and subfifths of 11/9, 16/13, 11/10, 12/11, 13/12, 14/13, 13/8, 11/6, 11/8 and 13/9.
It also uses the minor seconds of 18/17 and 17/16, as well as 16/15 and 15/14. Probably lots of other intervals as well.
Nowadays Arabic music is mostly tempered in 24 tone equal division of the octave or less common 17 tone equal division of the octave, but in the past it was common to use a 17 tone (more or less just intonation) unequal division of the octave, plus imperfect repetition of this scale through the next octave, with some slight microtonal shifts of some of the notes. The Qanun is often tuned more or less to the far more accurate 72 tone equal division of the octave (compared to 12 equal, 17 equal or 24 equal, or Western Meantone like 19 equal or 31 equal for that matter), which does a pretty good job of approximating 17-limit intervals (check the xenwiki of the Xenharmonic Alliance about 72edo; also check Maqamic temperament which may be of some use for understanding Arabic tunings and theory).
I came here to say this, and that there is far more than one arabic scale (or maqam).
Sabah is my favorite, and would probably work well for dark metal stuff (I don't listen to metal much, but seems like)
Its call Mayamalvgowla in Indian Carnatic Music
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agree with the first part
@@ShredmasterScott and some 80's spandex
And a really unorthodox picking technique.
Here's a challenge for ya, Shred, Shreddy, er, Mr. Shredman. Find the happiest sounding music scale, and make it sound evil and metal af. And don't cheat by turning a major into a minor, use the proper chords under it. :p
hmmmm....this would be very difficult
@@ShredmasterScott
Yes, but it may be possible. I did say it'd be a challenge. :P
@@ShredmasterScott waiting for the "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED"
opeth has really evil sounding major-esque stuff
I like it!
Modal challenges, there for the taking.....
Hey man really wanted you to know that over the last 2 weeks I really fell in love with your channel. I love your video format. Short informative feeding the viewers creativity sprinkled with a little fun and memes. Me and my Sunday Church group really enjoy your material. keep it up man.
awesome, play some Gsus chords for me muhahaha
Yeah and hes so funny and clever, we love his style.
Sorry. This video deemed too dark for church and praise music. You're relegated to the major scale only. It seems you've been taken over by the dark side. lol.
And we have Ritchie Blackmore to thank for it's widespread use in metal!
Exactly what I was going to say.
Phrygian Dominant and Byzantine are my favorite scales. Add diminished and you have the supreme trifecta of evil 🤘
Hungarian minor scale
great scale
@@ShredmasterScott Byzantine is the 5th mode of Hungarian Minor, right?
@@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic that's what I was thinking. As in the song Misirlou.
@@BeamRider100 Yupp. I found out about Hungarian Minor after Byzantine, and it took me a long time to realize that A Hungarian Minor and E Byzantine are the same. Not sure why I didn't put em together
This channel really be doin the most shred has introduced me to so many new and creative concepts and ideas that can be applied to all aspects of music understanding
Altos consejos locoo, y buena info. Aguante Shred 🤙🏼
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This is very helpful Shred! I needed a new scale to sharpen up evilness of my compositions.
Cheers!
Damn! These are some killer riffs at the end of the video. Please write a whole song master Shred!
Dude love this channel. Im self taught relying on my ear and I love how you teach. Im actually learning wtf im doing now lol
That Arabic Etude piece was BIG. Loved the bends on it. Convert it into a full track and you may even get my soul.
Very cool sounding scale. Those chords at the end were wicked.
You are awesome as always! Really enjoyed this one!
I never was the guy who wants to learn scales but you motivated me to pick up some scales and actually learn them! Thank Scott!
Randy!! I'm in!! Love playing around with these scales using different effects on my processor.
Thanks Ive been searching for this sound.
Great lesson shred as usual thanks mate 👍🏻
This is my favorite guitar channel. Period
Great video as always, but I suggest using parentheses for symbolizing chord tensions:
E(b9)
Because writing “Eb9” is does not mean E with a flat 9.
It typically means Eb with a natural 9th, often an Eb dominant 9th chord
Just found you, buried amongst the shite of UA-cam. Great channel weird boy. Subbed af
muhahaha, awesome
I understood this! Must be a good teacher.
Thanks!
The scale I use is most like Bb Harmonic Minor, except that you flatten the fourth and fifth interval, and from the sixth it becomes a Diminished variation.
Essentially its a B Aeolian with a Diminished chord above the tonic.
Not to oversell it, the downside is it makes it harder to do traditional harmony like Gregorian Cadence. But it works with Japanese harmony fairly well.
In Pentatonic mode, however, and transposed to G tonic, it becomes sort of like Iwato with a double sharp fourth interval.
Cheers dude, will be promptly stealing this scale!
Opeth's "Bleak" intro uses this scale in a very cool way, contrasted with very bluesy bass licks
I really, really like the A harmonic minor scale, how about video on that one?
Check out his video on Phrygian Dominant, unless you were making a reference to it haha. It's a good video!
@@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic yeah i already saw it a few times, its a great video i live those pulp fiction references
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very well concept and great info
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That's why metal is huge in Egypt, the melodies feel relatable. Especially melodic death metal bands
Thanks, great video and legend!
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I figured out this scale a long time ago. I knew the harmonic minor and the phrygian dominant scales and wanted to see if something comes out of it if I combine them. never actually composed anything with it as it felt like it's not really a scale, just me fooling around (the part with the 3 chromatic notes felt off to me at the time).
turns out this is an actual scale, and it sounds amazing.
You should also cover the modes of this scale as I feel they sound very different from each other
Metal pig is mad at you for not trimming those unwieldy strings! 3:12
Also... Beebop scale. Make it metal
metal bebop?
@@ShredmasterScott Why not? You could be the first.
@@ShredmasterScott could be a fun challenge, make non metal scales sound metal af. Major scale metal, and uhhh... yeah I don’t know any other non metal scales
always loved thatnscale, especially in metal. just made a Song using it myself. thx for this!
Skill us on that FALLOPIAN scale
I just discovered my new favourite music theory channel. You're a metal viking with nick offerman's voice.
Love to see a tutorial on Dorian #4. Btw, something about this video, you remind me of Sandor Clegane from Game of Thrones.
Awesome content!
Ah, you said this was coming.
Sweet.
This one is loaded with evil Dave
One of my favourite scale, it fit really well for a Lovecraftian 'abdul ahlazred' book of the dead style (black, black death, death core or what you like)
Late to the party I know , but this entire album is really in a league of it's own . Crumbsuckers :Life of Dreams 1986. I was very close friends with lead guitarist Chuckie "Crumbsucker" Lenihan & was in a side band w/ him and recorded a 9 song EP with him . However their other original guitarist Dave "Budda" Wynne" is also an amazing guitarist . In almost every song they both unleash their own lead and rhythm attacks .Leads were traded on and off so quickly a novice would not realize there were 2 guitarists .Chuckie played an old Aria pro ll "V" with original floyd Rose . Dave played a beautiful Ibanez artist double cut guitar and that was it . They each owned 1 guitar . What they did with these 2 guitars IMO is untouchable especially as far as composing is concerned . I was always boggled at Daves style and was able to cover most of it until he played the Arabic scale which at the time I had no idea what the hell it was even though I'd heard it in many other styles of music. But this was NYHC thrash/punk /metal . This song ,Hubrun features a great example of Dave's skill at utilizing this mode/scale .The whole album is incredible . It was so incredible that Kirk Hammett stated that Chuckie was his favorite guitarist in interviews he did back in 86' He actually joined them onstage to play Hubrun at CBGB's but some skinhead assholes actually threw beer bottles at him and a fight erupted !!! They were willing to allow 1 long haired player on their stage ,but 2 ????? They ruined what should have been an epic moment in metal history (Sound recording of incident available on YT ) All should check out entire life of Dreams LP .They made a second album called Beast On My Back in 88' but Dave had left band and new guitarists used . Crumbsuckers "BOMB" is another matter of metal mastery that should be heard if you have not . Here is hubrun studio version ua-cam.com/video/TYy2cVz4cL4/v-deo.html
Incredible😮😮😮😮 & u gave us quite the laugh throughout the video😅😅
Dude, the song at 5:38 is epic. 🤘👹🤘
I love the Arabic scale in Solitude Aeturnus’ Scent of Death
Love this, and btw if you want more erotic (exotic) arabic sound, you can try some microtonal stuff like playing the major scale but using half flat 3rd and 7th, it's hard on a guitar but you can try it on the midi keyboard
That's actually my favorite scale but not for metal.
In Greece we call this Hijaz Kar and it is widely used in the Rebetiko music which is to us kinda like what blues is to the American music. Used to play in a Rebetiko band back in the day, now i have quit playing guitar all together.
Never heard of the genre, but checked it out and was impressed! Would be cool if you had any recordings of the band you were in
@@justbeenwarpzoned Glad you like it. My favorite ones are from the first period 1920s~40s It was connected to the underground and the lyrics about drugs, low life, jail time as well as love. The two musicians that influenced me the most are Yovan Tsaous and Anestis Delias, check them out.
Fun fact, the well known Dick Dale song Missirlou comes from that era and was written either by Mike Patrinos or Tetos Dimitriadis (but was probably stolen from an Egyptian musician)
I don't have any recordings of my band unfortunately.
@@justbeenwarpzoned i won't say about rembetiko, but I'll suggest you to listen to Xiwtis, he is the master of bouzouki
Why would you quit?
@@Trahzy because guitar gets boring same sound that's why I play a fm synthesizers making cool sounds
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More chord progressions and interesting chord shapes to use with these phyg dom and similar scales. PLZ!!!
Sick ass scale shred...
Yeah this one is evil
Hell yeah Shred!
Thank you Lord Shred
And now . all metal head accepted Arabic melodic for his career
I thought Phrygian Dominant sounded exotic but that M7 of the Arabic scale adds that little bit of extra flavour I like from Harmonic and Hungarian Minor, I think this is now my new fave scale! I'll have to write a piece of music with it!
This video definitely made me want to compose in these scales as well! We could get a lot of people to submit their Arabic scale songs to Shred!
4:44 Pig - Coal Chamber
Shred deserves so more much horns up.
How on earth do I hear misirlou as the actual song and not a sample for the first time yesterday, and now this is the first song he talks about. Like of all videos I could have watched after listening to misirlou, crazy lol
Shred is the man
I enjoyed this
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As an Arab guitarist I enjoyed this 😂
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Instant fan
Still waiting a video about Pelog and Slendro scale
Yes that would be nice. With those large supermajor seconds, closer to 8/7 frequency ratio than 9/8, which makes the inverted minor sevenths close to the sweet 7/4 ratio, if you use pure octaves of 2/1, which we mostly DO NOT do in these tunings. I think subminor thirds, pretty close to 7/6 are also common in these scales. The fifths and fourths deviate quite a lot from their just ratios of 3/2 and 4/3.
Harmonic minor w Hirososhi and phrygian dominant passages !!
That was a killer riff...
Thank you Habibi
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This is also called raag bhairav in Indian music.
And malavagowla in carnatic music
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Everyone: Arabic scale
Me, an intellectual: MeGaDeTh
I love it
Misirlou was my introduction to this scale. I really just use it in combination with phrygian dominant lmao
i leveled up after watching this video
I would really love to see something more comprehensive on the harmonic minor scale, and dominant stuff. I know you have done stuff on them in the past, but would love to see some practical application. I know these scales, I just never seem to find a good place for them because my ear is too used to natural scales and modes. It frustrates me because I know way too much theory, and have been playing way too long to still be short in the application of it. Anyway... 🤘
I come for the pig, end up staying for the lesson
Pedal Tones all day. Pink Floyd using them all day.
Isnt this the same as the Byzantine Scale? With the 1 b2 3 4 5 b6 7 they should be the same, but maybe I am confusing them. Would love to see a video about Harmonic Major and its modes, that Phrygian b4 mode seems to be deliciously evil.
I mentioned the Byzantine scale in the video
It is the same scale, yes. I actually didn't realize that the Arabic Scale was the same
@@ShredmasterScott whoops, shouldn't comment before watching, sorry Shred!
I think the best metal scale is death metal pig scale. That flat 2nd and flat 5th sounds really dark on this scale. Use it, Shred, so the pig will finally appreciate you!
I am a subscriber. I'm interested in your courses you talk about. Are video or book based? Are they only available to your patrion subscribers?
Kindly check Pelog and Slendro Scale
Believe it or not, I was working on that scale hours before you released this video... If it's not weird then what is?😱
I'm still waiting for the Chinese scale to be showcased in a metal context.
Exelente 👍
It's the 'dark as fuck' , beautiful to hear, shivers down your spine, wonderful metally goodness.
LMFAO....the camel!!!!!!
you know what this really reminds me of? the "desert walk" in Dune
if a normal rhythmic walk pace corresponded to a normal scale progression, the "desert walk" with its irregular steps kind of feels like the way the Arabic scale goes from 1/2 a step to 3/2 a step then back down to 1 step then 1/2 step again
anybody else feeling where I'm coming from? lol
Was the arabic scale used in "Wherever I may roam?"
Yep
What's up with metallica logo with the x?
I think you know
@@ShredmasterScott no I dont tell me
@@KenaiTobin they only play pentatonic
Marty Friedman > Kirk Hammett
Sorry, it HAD to be said! 🤘
Sweet.
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Shred is da man.Ah yes..this is a mode of what some call the double harmonic minor.Good stuff.I use it for a few seconds in my version of Red House..not everyone likes it.
I played Arabic scales by accident and now I can’t stop
I searched UA-cam for the Arabic scale.... this guy lmao
4:37 actually, flamenco sounds very Arabic! Flamenco appeared in Spain in the Middle Ages at the tail end of the Moor invasion of Spain when the country fell under Arab control
A little Shred before bed is good for the head and plays nice with us that are the living dead... muhahaha
Does your patreon page include all the positions for the scales covered in your cord bible?