Phrygian has a sound much like the minor scale but with a darker edge. A common choice in metal, prog and hip-hop, Phrygian introduces an exotic, unnerving sound to a song's tonality. Today we're going to look at some examples of the phrygian mode in action and also look at some similar scales including the Double Harmonic scale and Phrygian Dominant. 📍 CORRECTION 1: at 4:45 the sheet music for “Milkshake” should show three Ds before descending to C#, not just one! Sorry about that and thanks to Asle Fjeldstad for bringing it to my attention. 📍 CORRECTION 2: at 11:05 I said that "Misirlou" started as an Arabic folk song, but in fact it seems it was Greek. Thanks to Theo Querel for bringing that to my attention. SOURCES: Phrygian mode in Kendrick’s “HUMBLE”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T_xLmZ4YPc Early version of “Misirlou”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6qGy3RtwY 12 tone analysing “White Rabbit”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxp7W6H-Oig Listening In analysing “Pyramid Song”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8aSFj6zdx0 Stream my EP "The Longest March" at Spotify: https://sptfy.com/davidbennett or download it at Bandcamp: https://davidbennettpiano.bandcamp.com/ And, an extra special thanks goes to Vidad Flowers, Jon Dye, Austin Russell, Christopher Ryan, Toot & Paul Peijzel, the channel’s Patreon saints! 😇 SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/davidbennettpiano 🎹 0:00 What does Phrygian sound like? 1:00 Metal 3:00 Hip hop 5:00 Phrygian is a mode 6:28 Modal mixture 8:19 Phrygian's "middle eastern" sound 11:00 Phrygian dominant 13:00 Modal ambiguity 15:05 Piano outro