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Lessons

Song Examples

Phrygian Dominant

Phrygian with a raised 3rd - dark and powerful

Intervals
1♭2345♭6♭7
Characteristic

♭2 + 3

Tonic Class
Major 7 Minor 7 Dominant Minor-Major 7 Diminished

Camping on I7

A common choice is to just play the I7 chord for a while. You can easily convey the character of the entire mode by doing this.

And note that 2 out of the 3 non-chord-tones in the scale, the ♭2 and the ♭6, are spicy dark chord extensions over the I7 (a ♭9 and a ♭13).

I7 alone