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
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.
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 ruclips.net/video/k2aMgRUTCRQ/видео.html ruclips.net/video/WiMCallhXHc/видео.html ruclips.net/video/w-f65dq4sVE/видео.html
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!!
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 :)
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.
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.
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!
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!
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
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!
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.
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
Ohh! Rock on.. :) Thanks for sharing.. this is such a unique experience. :)
Lord V - That's hysterical. You win the internet today.
Seek medical attention...!
Ahh to b young. Love it !
@@jstnxprsn Agreed, so lmfao!
This is the kind of scale we play arabic music to in our country, nice to hear western touch on it
Fuck yah with I could shred with yall
love arabic music so mesmerizing
It's beautiful
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.
Glad you liked it!
This is not phrygian its harmonic minor
@@campbellshypnogogicoratori1488 Phrygian dominant is a mode of harmonic minor.
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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.)
Thanks for that.
@@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.
the 7th degree is not the altered jazz or superlocrian
@@MrRanzaman fixed.
@@Thiago_Alves_Souza number one ;)
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.
I agree....the spirit of metal flow through this scale 🤪
Check these backing tracks if you like heavier music
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ruclips.net/video/WiMCallhXHc/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/w-f65dq4sVE/видео.html
Oh my goodness. I felt entranced with my own playing.
RUclips was built for this. To stumble upon these treasures.
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.
Me: *In the middle of shredding a sick phryg dom line
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It doesn't even need a guitar. This track is so fire
IT'S NOT EVEN A BACKING TRACK, IT'S PURE FIRE :OOO
Jan Lewandowski it's amazing
after 8 minutes 19 seconds, i feel like i am playing guitar solo in a desert.
Yessssssssss
@@chusssMusic Your the boss, i just saw your page of Egyptian backing tracks, they are all soo freaking gooood, nice work bro!!
hands down one of the best backing tracks i've found
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.
Thanks John. I will definitely give it a listen.
i found so many new riffs/patterens jamming with this. Thx A Million !
the metal works so well with this...
I played solo on this backing track and it was epic...thanks alot for such beauty
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.
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.
That was the intention.. Enjoy :)
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
My nephew records slot of this type of music in his studio. Kinda hypnotic.
Was listening to this while practicing it on guitar, had a break, look outside and there is a damn sand dunes every where
I made so many licks and wonderful lead lines thanks to this backing track.
Man! Such a ''Powerslave''-like scale❤ Love it!
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.
That's the aim.. please share with your music friends to help spread the experience
guitcoverxy 1000000.I cannot say.thank you enough for.the.shared knowledge!!!!
So sick, i felt like 1000 times better while improvising in this scale, need to study that
Nice info in there too bro. Its not just a backing track, its a lesson. Thanks.
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!!
I really appreaciate the bass on this. Like, a lot more than I thought I would. It's a real jam.
Thanks for the track! Shout out to the 5th mode of A Harmonic minor!
Cool Stuff. I play Darbuka, Tar, Riqq...finally contemporary music to jam with. Expanding the horizon.
Rock on! It would be great if you could post a video :)
Keep coming back to this one, love it! Thanks again Chusss!
I can jam to this all night long, just feel the mystic fretboard
Know the feeling on that 1 🎸🇳🇿
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@@osielrubio9813 Fantastic!
Dude this is straight gold man thanks for uploading
what an amazing track. can not stop jamming. thank you
Ive been morphing slowly to this genre Wen i stumbled across omg ! I just exploded with creativity Way freakin cool
Happy you like it Raymond. You can find some more here bit.ly/egyptianbackingtracks17-1
I am playing @ the feet of the all-seeing vishante - all is bliss, all is bliss!
i jammed to this on flute and came up with some cool, different stuff thank you for an awesome track!
Kool Natalie. If you could post some video of your jam it would be great.
i love this one. its pretty freaking god for progressive improv
The best sounding scale in my humble opinion, cheers!
Love this track.....
This was exactly what I was searching for
mate the pointers are really helpful thank u!
Man this track is great. Even if you're just going for it and trying to find the notes in between, it sounds killer.
Love the scale! The soundtrack reminds me of some games! Love it!
This track gave me goosebumps!!!! Such a unique track
Love this backtrack! Having a great time learning the scales!
V. Cool, thanks Chuss Music. Am living in Dubai these days, so I hear these scales all over the place. Keep up the great work!
Rock on!
really dig the lesson comments as the track plays - super useful thanks
Glad you like them!
Thanks again Chusss.. I am getting in the mood for the Jins and Jens of your music. I can't put my guitar down..
Hijaz pack to be released soon, stay tuned :) facebook.com/onlybackings
This is great just to relax to.
Thanks For Solid Theory! “ “ Was disappointed, While exploring the Arabica System , Would never have understood, With out These Videos
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 :)
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.
You're very welcome!
عشت يا ملك، ٥ ساعات دون توقف شريدينغ عليها :)))
100% 😎
thank you. enjoyed playing over this track
Glad you enjoy it!
So this is a name of a scale I use 90% of the time... Cool! Thanks!
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.
Cool, it sounds like the soundtrack for some action movie taking place in the middle east. :)
Exactly. :)
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!
Happy to receive your comment Jan, Hope you have a good and useful time jamming along with our tracks :)
For a while I found my self on a camel playing guitar in desert
..your camel can play guitar? Very cool, man.....
What a beautiful channel.
This helps me on creating an Arabian sounding composition. Thank you!
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!
thank you! I'm glad I found your site
I learn so much playing this one over and over again...
Do more please.. The Arabian scale is my favorite.. Thanks :)
Fantastic track!! Well done. Thank you. ✌️❤️🎶
Wowww I loved this backtrack!
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
well put together, really appreciate the tips and scales in the vid.
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
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!
Mind-blowing!! Loved jamming to it!!
Im getting the hang of this one ....i love how at 8 to 12 sounds beautiful then switch up to 7 and 11 and its dark but beautiful
Excellent!
Thank you!
Awesome stuff!
Ah I've been meaning to practice this scale for ages lol thanks
Rock on :)
Very good track
Gracias y las mejores vibras +++ para ti
Love jamming on this
thank you for guiding the solos! don't see that in many jam tracks, props
Cool I sometimes get stuck in the same pentatonic scale. Your videos help expand everyone's ability to solo on the fly.
Good to hear Scott. Hope you have a good time with other tracks on the channel
damn thats good. Love soloing over most of it and just chugging E and F when the louder drums kick in
This track makes me feel like I'm actually there
I enjoy very much exercising on this track... thanks a lot for sharing.
Greetings,
Awesome track.
Wonderfull lesson thanks 🌹🌹🌹
Glad you liked it!
if there was an extra like button i would. fucking nice. thanks!
Thanks Shane, if you like you can listen to more similar tracks here chusss.bandcamp.com/album/egyptian-scales-backing-tracks-2017-vol-2
THANKS,THANKS,THANKS!!!!!!!!
Works great with A Harmonic Minor! Cool Track! Thanks
No accident, it's the 5th mode of harmonic minor. Play A harmonic minor normally but start and end from E to E see how it tastes.
OK - that is great. this was such a refreshing track to play over
Thanks so much for this. I've been play some of these jens a lot lately...didn't know it was Phryg Dom. Very cool. Backing track slams.
¡Thanks for this!
Our pleasure!
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.
This is, an absolute banger. Wonderful backing track, and I friggin live phrygian dominant. Much appreciated!!
awesome sounds and textures very insipiring and its 84 bpm by the way
You are right. I can't remember :D
I love this shit , Arabic style ! Blackmore, sckenker, malmsteen,di miola type stuff
Thank you for this. Great lay out and great study.
Thanks Larry. Hope you have a good time jamming on our channel :)
Sounds great man!!! Very good job!!! Wonderful music!!
Most excellent!
e x a c t l y . what I have been looking for. great work! thanks