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i was playing a chord sequence on my guitar in F# minor , and in part of it i was going from D to C#(maj) and was humming over the top. On the C#, the notes that fitted were the notes of the F# harmonic minor scale. is there a special name for this (F# harmonic minor beginning and ending on C#)?
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Originally Posted by John Allison i was playing a chord sequence on my guitar in F# minor , and in part of it i was going from D to C#(maj) and was humming over the top. On the C#, the notes that fitted were the notes of the F# harmonic minor scale. is there a special name for this (F# harmonic minor beginning and ending on C#)?
If you mean C# D E# F# G# A B C# its a harm minor 5th mode or Mixolydian b2b6 or Phyrgian natural 3.
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ok, thanx
i did some searching and somewhere they called it a 'Spanish Gypsy' scale
what you said seems more helpful though
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Modes on the harmonic minor are some of my favorite "weird" scales. I like taking the fifth mode (the one you've just described) and adding a leading tone to it (just like you would to create the harmonic minor scale in the first place)... you end up with equidistant augmented seconds, which is really really really freaking weird. It'd be C#-D-E#-F#-G#-A-B#-C# in this situation. I made the two augmented seconds boldface so you can see where they occur in the scale. Fun stuff.
In His love,
Nate
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Originally Posted by Nate Modes on the harmonic minor are some of my favorite "weird" scales. I like taking the fifth mode (the one you've just described) and adding a leading tone to it (just like you would to create the harmonic minor scale in the first place)... you end up with equidistant augmented seconds, which is really really really freaking weird. It'd be C#-D-E#-F#-G#-A-B#-C# in this situation. I made the two augmented seconds boldface so you can see where they occur in the scale. Fun stuff.
In His love,
Nate
THat scale you mentioned (harm minor 5th mode natural 7) is a very common scale in arabic music here in the middle east. Sometimes the 7 is a 1/4 tone sharp and the b2 is a quarter tone flat to make them closer to the tonic. Try it sometime on a fretless bass/oud whatever unfretted instrument you can find.
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Originally Posted by charlie THat scale you mentioned (harm minor 5th mode natural 7) is a very common scale in arabic music here in the middle east. Sometimes the 7 is a 1/4 tone sharp and the b2 is a quarter tone flat to make them closer to the tonic. Try it sometime on a fretless bass/oud whatever unfretted instrument you can find.
Coolness. I always thought the scale had a Middle-Eastern vibe to it, but I figured it was just a westernized stereotype of what Middle-Eastern music sounded like. Interesting to hear that it's more authentic than I had pegged it to be.
In His love,
Nate