Originally Posted by: ajweibeI apologize if this has already been established, but I have not had time to read the above advice.

I saw that somebody mentioned the Phrygian Scale, which is a great choice for a Spanish sounding scale. That scale is based off the third mode of Major.

There is another scale though often referred to as the Spanish/Jewish scale. It's formally called the Phrygian Major scale and it's based off the 5th mode of Harmonic Minor.

What you do- take a Phrygian scale that you already know, and raise the third note a half a step. That'll give you the Phrygian Major scale. Or if you want to think about it this way- it has a lowered second, lowered 6th, and a lowered 7th. Whereas the Phrygian scale has a lowered second, LOWERED THIRD, lowered 6th, and lowered 7th.

That's commonly referred to as the Phrygian Dominant scale. But, I've heard it called the Phrygian Major from time to time.

That's the scale my tutorial, I posted above, is about.

Awesome scale. It lives on it's own really nice but is also very powerful of Dominant 7 chords in general, especially when a Dom 7 chord is used as the turnaround for a minor progression.