Lo a Day te Spon Pian cut of ob and Fd s Pleo Base) eae ee % es ‘el 07482 456788 for details meet your et tutor: Guthrie Govan uses an Al di Meola-inspired ditty to introduce the distinctive sound of the Spanish Phrygian mode complex In any given be, art with the root note fora and construct one of these sale by following the re intervals) and semitones a pLE =: ea ‘he natural minor is Sasa RETARD {Re Riee RE ATCT rd. You ca seg why by examining the Tose Ties Sms interval between the noes, There’ tone-and-guthrie's sxt¢D gear Ths natn an ta Pe Sta th ‘Hounvadtel ad cena eet aud Too. Ineter tous eine persian Lhe hal jump betven the Mat 6 and the 7, whereas the widest interval between two adjcent notes only a tone in the other minor scales This gives fn angular sound to the proceedings, which you right recognise fom certain baroque musi for death meta. ‘The aforementioned angular sound becomes ‘ven more prominent when you look at some modes ofthe harmonic minor (bear with me her, it ges Interesting ina moment In Example 1, yo will ee how Ive vriten out tr octaves ‘worth of B harmonle minor and then pulled outa Seqaent starting from the fith note. Treating this note (Fe) 26 a new root note, we get a scale with 2B S-T/-ScTST-T spacing, 25 opposed to the T-: T-I-S-PiS pattem we started With, This, my patent fiends isthe Ah mode of the harmonic Ininor scale, also kiown a8 the Spanish Phrygian, or Phrygian major Nov let's try tis thing out and hear what i Sounds like: Example 2 diagram ofl he Spanish Phrygian notes the key of F# Asis the time-honoured custom in these pages, Ive coloured all the rot notes black so that you can find the note that sounds the mos ike “home” for any par of the neck your hand may be covering. Sick onthe hacking tk on the CD and experiment with those nots to et ee or tele unique sound. Harmon Minor Example 3 shows two common scale shapes. Just to get you started, the fst coves hand Sized chunk of the fretboard, wile the second nes recurring dtave pattems and position shifts to cover litle more ground, Work through them slowly to get an idea of how the scales work and what they sound like, on the cD Example 4 is 2 transcription ofthe tune on the (GECD which brings together a couple ofthe musical styles where you would most key find the Spanish Phrygian in use. The choice of guitar tone is pure heavy meta, but the time signature fd rhythmic Rourishes are more typical of Latin ‘music. You might even hear lie amenco In there, Students asked how to describe the Spanish PPhygian sounds to thom have come with words such a Euyptan’, Moroccan, Indian and, of course, ‘Spanish So, the general verdict seems 10 be that the scale sounds exotic. The exact country of origin, onthe other hand, seems tobe ey area, Try generous amounts of overtive when playing though this tune, brightening up the Sound wth the use of righthand palm muting at the bridge. You could ply the notes using exclusively dovnstrokes (1a James Hetfield of Metlie), but I think that alternate picking is probably the way to go. Note how the occasional hhammersons ada pll-offs generate rhythmic interes, a do the syncopated notes in bar 2 ‘Bars 0 and 11 ate best ingered in fourth postion (inde finger atthe fourth fret snd so fn) 1 double-racked this tune onthe CD and couldnt resist he temptation to throw in a litle splash of hannony gular in bar 14, Youll find ‘his slight variation transerhbd separately. a Jargon buster been he mln eto he nd th et mn mae tetits ety nly ohn Deas further listening yen ou ite ‘elm Cindy ta Yalfec aster ae he Teron nna tie Ise en tana he isonet te et ie folarpoyes or he ane corer ns Incrpote ree ric ‘gue vasa cee summer 2001 —— 7Jatin metal ali meola style | 00| sutar techies sume: 2001 | wrntermiicn- | summer 200 = 60