Phrygian: Pedal Tones, Half-Step Cadences and the Flat 2nd

Phrygian is the darkest of the modes, and the easiest to recognise. Play an A, then the note one fret above it, then the A again. That half step is the whole sound.

Most lessons teach it like every other mode: here are the notes, here's a box, run it up and down. Run it like that and it sounds like any minor scale with one odd note. This book treats Phrygian as a tool for riffs and cadences first, and a scale to solo with second.

What's inside:

- The one-note test for when Phrygian fits and when it clashes, and why it only works for the key you're in

- The half-step cadence: the vamp, the ending and the Dm-C-Bb-Am walk down

- Pedal riffs and rhythm: the building blocks riffs are made from, and how to make two notes sound like ten

- Four one-octave patterns that run root to root, not boxes

- The route in from the minor pentatonic you already know

- Where the flat 2nd goes over every chord, and how to switch between Phrygian and natural minor

- Ten rules for soloing without licks

- Metal, the Spanish sound and film scores: what each one takes from Phrygian

- Twelve vamps to play over, plus a template for writing your own

- Phrygian in all twelve keys

Everything is in A, the same key as the other books in the series. No licks to copy, no full-neck charts. Diagrams throughout.

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