you guessed it: another mode question!!!

Kev Brigden · #1 07-17-2002, 07:00 PM

What exactly is meant by the terms :

Phrygian Dominant?
and
Lydian Dominant?

can any of the modes be dominant? or: can they be diminished?

cheers

Kevin

edited thru invention of a new mode made from different spelling

Carlo · #2 07-18-2002, 09:18 PM

though i never used or studied those modes.......I'm assuming that they are the same modes but with a added flat 7th.

shawn · #3 07-21-2002, 01:25 AM

carlos, you are correct -- "dominant" implies a flatted 7, which would then say that a mode with anything other than a flatted 7 could be made dominant by doing so.

BrianH · #4 07-21-2002, 01:52 AM

ok, well...

the phrygian-dominant is a phrygian mode with a raised major 3rd. This mode is also known as the Spanish Phrygian, major phrygian or spanish flamenco. Nothing special about this mode, its a mode of the harmonic minor scale(5th mode to be precise).

Kev Brigden · #5 07-21-2002, 05:38 PM

cheers for the replys lads, im off to go do some modifications and see what they sound like....