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Guitar gear demos:
EBow Guitar Demo
On this excerpt I am playing a guitar with an EBow.
I'm using two scales: Phrygian major 7 and Phrygian major, which I'll give fretboard shapes/patterns for below.
Guitar gear I used on this demo:
Fender USA American Standard Stratocaster
Strat was customised with Seymour Duncan JB Jnr (bridge) pickup
EBow Plus
Digitech whammy wah (used for subtle tone changes)
Guitars on this track were all recorded DI'd (plugged straight in to mixer)
Reverb added when track was mixed down
This EBow demo is an excerpt from a longer track
It's from a track called 'Red Shift', which appears on my album 'Coded Constellations' (available from GTR Music).
Three guitar parts:
The only instrument you hear on the excerpt above is guitar. There are three guitar parts, all played with the Ebow:
a bass note drone
a melody
another short melody overdubbed at 0.25 - 0.30
Guitar scales/modes I used:
Two of my favourite scales:
Phrygian major 7 (5th mode of the Hungarian minor scale)
Phrygian major (5th mode of the harmonic minor scale, also known as Spanish Phrygian)
The only difference between the two is that in Phrygian major 7 there is a major 7th, whereas Phrygian major has a minor 7th.
Phrygian major 7, 5th mode of the Hungarian minor scale:
Compare that with Phrygian major shown below. You'll see that the only difference is that the 7th is an A, not an A#:
Phrygian major, 5th mode of the harmonic minor scale:
"What scale does Ritchie Blackmore use on the 'Stargazer' solo?"
Ritchie Blackmore's guitar solo on 'Stargazer' (from the Rainbow album 'Rainbow Rising') draws heavily upon the Phrygian major scale variants as shown above.
The dramatic combination of a minor 2nd and major 3rd gives the Phrygian major scale a distinctive and oriental sound. Listen to the clip of Blackmore's great solo from 'Stargazer' below:
Ritchie Blackmore's solo on 'Stargazer', from 'Rainbow Rising':
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