Chords for MusiCreed™ Modality Student: Hijaz scale - Amir Perelman

_ _ _ _ The Hijaz scale is one of the most common scales in world music.
You can find it from all over the world, from flamenco to Arabic music to Klezmer.
And today we're going to try and do something non-traditional with it and play some heavy metal.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ This type of brief would work very well with this kind of stance. _ _
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_ [B] _ [G] Also, the pattern [D] of chords. _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Cm] The first and second degree are always very [Ab] dominant and very popular in almost every style of [D] music.
That's the same thing I'm actually doing here _ _ _ _ _ with_ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] We have this very big interval here [Gb] _ between the second and third note.
That's where [E] an actual diminished scale could come in and sort of be combined [F] with it.
[D] Something like that. _ _ _ _
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That would go very well with the actual Hijaz.
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This is the modality tool we have here.
[G] Now we're going to straighten this dial and we're going to put on the Hijaz dial.
You can switch around to whatever dial you want in this pattern.
_ What we played before was Hijaz.
And for example, [C] my bouzouki is tuned to D, so I'm going to transpose it using the white dial like this to D.
Now you'll see the notes that construct the scale.
And you'll see the harmonic degrees which are possible to be used as a harmony for this scale. _ _
What you see is that you have a D, an [Ab] E flat, an F sharp, a G, an A, a B flat, and again a C.
And you'll see the chords are going to be on the first degree, a major or a seventh chord,
a major or a major seventh for the second degree, etc.
What we also [G] have as [Ab] _ another helpful tool to help and understand how the chords are constructed.
So for example, you can put this major triad little wheel on top.
And you're going to see that for example, the first chord [B] is going to be the 1-3-5 that constructs the chord.
It's going to be D, F sharp, and A, which makes a D major chord.
If we want to [Ab] find out any other chord, all we have to do is just switch it around, point it to the right chord.
They're not all major chords, but we have these kind of little wheels in every triad possible.
_ And you can see the notes that construct this chord.
_ Say that now suddenly you want to sing it on a lower key, and you want to transpose it to C.
All you have to do is just switch the dial around _ and reach C aligned at the first Fijaz chord.
Over here what you're going to see is the notes that construct the Fijaz in C.
And the chords are going to follow C major, D flat major, E major or [G] seventh, F minor, etc. _ _
_ _ This is actually a [D] harmonic movement even if I do it as a bass line.
It's still _ [Eb] like_ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] That gives me sort of something to play in between.
Let's [Gm] say I'll _ _ [D] do_ _
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