G Phrygian dominantScale
Formula
G Phrygian dominant on the chromatic circle
G Phrygian dominant is the 5th mode of the Harmonic minor family. Pick another note on the circle to open the scale that starts there.
G Phrygian dominant across the fretboard
Every note of the scale up to the 16th fret, named by its degree. The root is a ring. Step through the five CAGED positions one at a time in the scale library.
Chords in G Phrygian dominant
Stack every other note of the scale from each degree and you get its chords. Open any of them in the chord library.
Where G Phrygian dominant fits
Flamenco, Middle-Eastern music, klezmer and metal. Over the V7 of a minor key, or as a home sound over a major chord with a ♭9.
G Phrygian dominant is mode 5 of the harmonic minor family. The same notes played from each of its other degrees give the family's other modes:
- G Phrygian dominant
- A♭ Lydian ♯2
- B Altered 𝄫7
- C Harmonic minor
- D Locrian ♮6
- E♭ Ionian ♯5
- F Dorian ♯4
Move one note by a half step and you get a different scale:
Phrygian dominant scale in every key
G Phrygian dominant scale questions
What notes are in the G Phrygian dominant scale?
G A♭ B C D E♭ F. As degrees from the root: 1 ♭2 3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7.
What is the G Phrygian dominant scale formula?
1 ♭2 3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7, or in steps between the notes, H 1½ H W H W W (W is a whole step of two frets, H a half step of one fret, 1½ three frets).
How do you play the G Phrygian dominant scale on guitar?
This page draws every note of G Phrygian dominant up to the 16th fret, each named by its degree with the root as a ring. To learn it a few frets at a time, open it in the scale library and step through its five CAGED positions, from the G shape to the E shape to the D shape to the C shape to the A shape.
What chords are in the G Phrygian dominant scale?
G7 (I), A♭maj7 (♭II), B°7 (iii°), Cm(maj7) (iv), Dm7♭5 (v°), E♭maj7♯5 (♭VI+), Fm7 (♭vii).
When is the G Phrygian dominant scale used?
Flamenco, Middle-Eastern music, klezmer and metal. Over the V7 of a minor key, or as a home sound over a major chord with a ♭9.