Metallica and Al Di Meola favour this mode for colourful riffs and solos. In the third lesson in our series on modes Stuart Ryan explores the sounds of the Phrygian mode ...

Long before people started thinking about pieces of music having ‘keys’, each mode is believed to have begun on a different note of the scale, conferring its own character to the set of notes running, ...

The flat 2nd interval - the key to the phrygian sound The character of the Phrygian mode comes from its b2nd and the clashing sound of two notes played a semitone apart. Compare the Phrygian mode to ...

Since a major scale contains seven different notes, each can act as the starting note, so there are seven different modes. They’re named after ancient Greek tribes, and they are: Ionian, Dorian, ...

This bright but unusual sounding mode became popular among shredders after Joe Satriani and Steve Vai used it in the 80s. Here, Stuart Ryan explains what gives the Lydian mode its signature sound ...

The immense success of the Atari 2600 came despite profound technological quirks — which included its musical capabilities. Sound was controlled by the Television Interface Adapter, the same ...

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Are you more Dorian, Locrian or Phrygian? There are seven modes in music… and we can reveal which one is a bit of you. In music theory, a mode is a modified scale that can determine the sound and mood ...

THE name of Charles Wood is familiar to anyone who sings or listens to Anglican church music — the anthems “O Thou the Central Orb” (1915) and Expectans expectavi (1919), his Communion Service in the ...