Every white or black key could have a flat(b) or sharp(#) accidental name, depending on how that note is used. In their simplest / untransposed form, modes do not contain any sharp or flat notes. The rule ensures that every position of a staff is used once and once only - whether that position be a note in a space, or a note on a line. This step shows the white and black note names on a piano keyboard so that the note names are familiar for later steps, and to show that the note names start repeating themselves after 12 notes. To count up a Whole tone, count up by two physical piano keys, either white or black. If you have read the post on understanding the phrygian mode, you will know that the phrygian mode contains a ‘flat 2’, a ‘flat 3’, a ‘flat 6’ and a ‘flat 7’ (parallel approach). In a later step, if sharp or flat notes are used, the exact accidental names will be chosen. The Phrygian Scale (or mode) is the third of the modal scales.The Phrygian scales are related to the Major scales: E Phrygian corresponds to C Major played from the E note, A Phrygian corresponds to F Major played from the A note and so on (all relations are listed below). In contrast, for example, the lydian mode has only one semitone / half-tone separating the 7th and 8th notes, and in this case the Seventh note is called the leading note or leading tone, as the 7th note feels like it wants to resolve and finish at the octave note, when all mode notes are played in sequence. These note names are shown below on the treble clef followed by the bass clef. Notes of this scale: B C D# E F# G A. Interval structure of this scale: h (W+h) h W h W W. (W: Whole tone, h: half tone) Scale structure: 1 … The notes in B Flat Phrygian are: Bb – Cb – Db – Eb – F – Gb – Ab. column. In this mode, the 7th note is called the subtonic, and it has a whole tone (two semi-tones, two notes on the piano keyboard) between the 7th and 8th notes. © 2020 Copyright Veler Ltd, All Rights Reserved. Start making sense of chords, scales, modes and finding the key to help you be more creative on the guitar. B♭ Major - phrygian mode Page contents index for Bb Major scale in Phrygian mode. Scale degree names 1,2,3,4,5,6, and 8 below are always the same for all modes (ie. The B Phrygian has Minor scale qualities and is the same as the B Minor apart from one note, the second in the scale. 1st note is always tonic, 2nd is supertonic etc.) To apply this rule, firstly list the white key names starting from the tonic, which are shown the white column below. The 8th note - the octave note, will have the same name as the first note, the tonic note. The modes that have a subtonic as the 7th note are dorian mode, phrygian mode, mixolydian mode, aeolian mode and the locrian mode. The only difference is that, alongside the major 3rd, we also have a raised seventh. The Lesson steps then explain how to identify the mode note interval positions, choose note names and scale degree names. The white keys are named using the alphabetic letters A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, which is a pattern that repeats up the piano keyboard. For all modes, the notes names when descending are just the reverse of the ascending names. , but obviously the note names will be different for each mode / key combination. E Phrygian is the third mode of the C major scale; E Phrygian Scale Notes: E F G A B C D Phrygian Scale Formula: 1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 Phrygian Scale Intervals: H W W W H W W The phrygian mode uses the formula of semitones and tones: S – T – T – T – S – T – T Which in half and whole steps is: H – W – W – W – H – W – W Degrees of the Phrygian scale. Playing tips & learning method. The audio files below play every note shown on the piano above, so middle C (marked with an orange line at the bottom) is the 2nd note heard. One or more note in this mode has a sharp or flat, which means that this mode has been transposed to another key. E Phrygian Mode. You will also know that it is the 3rd mode of a major scale (derivative approach). Before print or download please save it first. For each of the 7 notes, look across and try to find the white note name in the mode note name. To find out more about cookies, privacy and how we use advertising, please read our Advertising Disclaimer, Contact Info - Privacy Policy - Cookie Policy, Copyright © 2007 - 2020 www.guitar-chords.org.uk, B Phrygian is the third mode of the G major scale.