The Phrygian Dominant Scale for Guitar — Free PDF (in E)

You've heard this scale a thousand times, even if you've never named it. It's the sound of Yngwie Malmsteen tearing up the neck, of flamenco guitar, of the theme that plays when the villain walks in. That exotic, faintly Spanish, slightly sinister flavour is the phrygian dominant — and it's one of the most usable "exotic" scales you'll ever learn.

Trouble is, most free scale resources hand you a box of dots and leave you there. You end up running the shape root to root, wondering why it sounds like nothing. This is the opposite of that.

What's inside:

• The full E phrygian dominant shape across the whole neck — one connected map, not five disconnected boxes.
• The two notes that actually make it sound the way it does (miss these and it falls flat).
• Three licks in tab you can use straight away — the tension-and-release move, the neoclassical descent, and the flamenco idea.
• The chords it lives over (E7♭9 resolving to A minor) so you can hear it in context.
• The common mistakes that stop most players getting the sound — and how to avoid them.

Written for players who can find their way around the fretboard but want the exotic sound without wading through a theory lecture first. In E, standard tuning — the most satisfying key to play it in on guitar.

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And if you get the taste for it, this is just one of a whole family of exotic scales — the free Exotic Scales Builder and the Intermediate Scales Handbook (Exotic Scales Edition) pick up where this leaves off.