A very mysterious, Arabic-sounding flamenco guitar scale - harmonic minor ✔

This is my guitar lesson on a very Arabic-sounding flamenco guitar scale, the harmonic minor. It is only one note different from the natural minor scale, but this one note changes everything, and makes it sound like very distinctive. The TABs are on Patreon: / edinabalczo
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[@JoeRivermanSongwriter]

Scales are at 0:16 1:43 1:59 2:53 3:59 Chords 7:44

[@alsydar]

This scale reminding me of something that have lost for a long time. Just beautiful and mesmerizing, thank you for this gift!

[@matooroo7931]

Edina, this is beauty. Arabic sound scales are actually exist on all over Spanish Flamenco sound. Lots of similarities. Even the Flamenco lady dress in dancing is the conservative Arabic style. The hand clamping you can here it in Arabic sounds. The drums being used was the setting chairs of the Ameers in Andalusia. It is great pleasure to hear the Spanish music today with the remaining Arabic sounds

[@elmanitasdeplomo]

Sure, Flamenco dancers look very much like “conservative” Arabs🙄

[@JoeRivermanSongwriter]

Your demeanour is a great gift. Thank you.

[@MrMattias1991]

You give such great lessons and your demeanor is uplifting and sweet

[@markwheeler8869]

So beautifully explained, Edina! It is very difficult to describe this particular scale and its use in a simple and understandable way, but you have managed to do it. Using "Caravan" as an example, instead of a flamenco Zambra, was a very good choice, since it is relatively simple and a widely-known tune.

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

Thank you Mark! I hope you are well :)

[@asimnaveed1877]

Thanks Edina.. Wonderful explanation.. God bless you

[@lifelongfan07]

Sounds cool! Very good explanation. Lots of ground covered. Then you put it all together. Yes I learned from you. Thank you Edina.

[@blackmonster4708]

sweet voice. patient and kind eyes. i bet this wonderful lady could even teach me calculus.

[@kookythecat.]

Lovely Edina! 👏🏻 I love all your vids 😍 You're looking great 👍🏻😘

[@sanchopanza3168]

Thank you very much. I'm so thankfull for discovering the guitar and YOU.

[@michaelbennett8981]

A beautiful lesson! I learned a lot :-)

[@raselahmad6500]

Hi. Edina. This improvisation is so sweet. I have already watched so many on KZbin. But it is the nicest.

[@francescogigliojr1787]

Edina your videos are great you give great direction easy to follow keep it up

[@imad7169]

Very beautiful! Just keep it up like this please!

[@albertomartinez2479]

Edina Thank you for this information. Great presentation. PEACE

[@martinehman6178]

Elegant and passionate... Bravo !

[@soulvaccination8679]

Another valuable lesson.Thank you for your amazing dedication to all that wish to learn.

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

I realised my mission and why I am doing this recently. I really want to motivate as many people as possible to learn or keep practicing the guitar. Xxx

[@gibmattson1217]

Muchas gracias. I love the Spanish/Arabic sound.

[@PhyrexianSteel]

Muchas gracias, llevo un tiempo estudiando la escala armónica menor, pero me inspiraste mucho a improvisar con ella. :)

[@kenwood9382]

Loved this video, thanx for sharing

[@sweetygoyal4603]

I love your smile.Love your video and i love you 😙😙😙 Thank you so much for these videos

[@123ubuntu666]

Oops, just noticed you were playing Harmonic minor, I didn't see the title of the video, I just recognized it be ear. It's a very distinctive scale and I was playing it earlier, after not playing guitar for months.

[@downhill240]

Great lesson!

[@deanwolfechannel]

I love your cheerful demeanour. Mind you I can never stay mad if I pick up my guitar.....

[@hanaelhosseiny2651]

such a sweet and informative video thank you

[@kennethlyneham138]

This is a very good instructive video on guitar scales. There is one thing though, there is nothing 'mysterious about Arabic sounding scales. The guitar was gifted to the Spanish by the Arabs. Classical Spanish music has a very strong Arabic influence. Even the Spanish language is influenced. For example; but for the Arabs, there would be no letter 'J'. in their language. All was made possible because the Arabs had control of the Iberian peninsular for about 780 years.

[@fusunn6941]

Thank you Edina 💕

[@RevengedScar]

I love your smile! and of course, ur content!

[@MsWacoo]

You are amazing, I love you smile. Your online tutorials are better than my music school classes.

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

Wow!! Thank you!!

[@murpyslaw]

LOVE IT!!!

[@savitaninawe2758]

You are so talented

[@MOHSEN4142]

we arabs call this scale the hijaz scale and hijaz is a name of a region in the arabian peninsula

[@123ubuntu666]

That is interesting. I will look that one up. Shukran.

[@deedakk1563]

no its not hijaz this is nahawand scale

[@deedakk1563]

hijaz is 5th mode of the Harmonic minor scale or the nahawand scale

[@MOHSEN4142]

sorry for the mistake the second part of the scale is the hijaz which gives the arabic sound

[@jehadkurdi4220]

I am an oud player. And I will say hijaz Same like my brother mohsen

[@abramhernandez1216]

Great lesson! Thanks... 👍

[@sonnymak6707]

I always like these how u play it visually isntead of those lessons where the tell you each note in relation to the string number. One look or two and together with the melodies I can do this .

[@jgomez7238]

Very nice Edina!

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

Love your playing!

[@sevyn7up]

You are awesome, thanks so much for sharing. You have a beautiful smile 😊

[@shinanbarclay67]

Thank you. I love the Arabic sound and am now practicing longer to learn it

[@GreenmanWood]

Simply wonderful, muchas gracias.

[@antonyguitar4066]

the video is useful to me, thank you

[@DavidSchmittSpanishGuitar]

Nice Edina 👌🎸🎶

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

Thank you xxx

[@raselahmad6500]

thats a very nice tune

[@panduro37]

Great explanation :)

[@donaldhenley3661]

I noticed you have no ring on those beautiful fingers you are one of the best guitarist/ musicians who I have ever taken guitar lessons from. I've been playing guitar 4 over 30 years but you add ray of sunshine to it all. Bless you

[@jblah1]

I know of a Don Henley who’s played guitar for over 30 years. Some obscure band in the 80’s

[@hamad1979]

it's a good video ... Thanks

[@deveshtomar5102]

What a voice 😍

[@ahmetyuksel6319]

Very helpful thanks a lot keep cheerful.

[@lycanfawaz]

hi Miss Adina thank you for this lesson i like this scale and im practice it thank you again god bless 🌹❤

[@DANNYAEL77]

Saludos desde Jalisco Mx.....☺☝👍👏

[@ericrose3877]

You are a sweetheart! Thank you!

[@douglasgreen5234]

Thank you.

[@jamesanderson5393]

your a good instructor and you seem very cool..

[@chhanda5475]

Nice!!!!

[@carlossorvit797]

Awesome! What kind of Guitar is it sounds awesome?

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

CAMPS

[@gsb2578]

Your smile is vicious.. Keep playing Sister.. Good video

[@frederickmutuc5677]

Wow nice thank you

[@sdfaassa]

Hola Edina, I just subscribed, I felt like I'm in official guitar class, what a great explanation and share contents 😊 keep it up, I have question may you have experience, I got alhambra 7fc which is right hand and I'm lefty, is it ok if I up down the strings in order to make it left hand?.. Your smile just wow 😍, greetings from Oman

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

Hi Oman, thank you! New Guitar videos are coming every Sunday ;) I would not recommend to change the strings like that, but maybe you can do it until you buy your left handed guitar.

[@sdfaassa]

The Spanish Guitar Hub ok teacher 😊 just temporary will turn it up down, keep up your great work

[@MusicWorldKaraoke]

Good video friend 👍👍👍

[@azolioeroach3253]

I always want to do something different. I am going to apply this lesson to electric guitar with reverb etc. Thanks for this!!!👍🤓 (I think Aerosmith may have beaten me to it with the solo in "Dream On") 🤗!!!

[@MarkFrancis99]

Thank you

[@subhasbothra9790]

Beautifully explained. Which guitar are you using in this video?

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

CAMPS

[@123ubuntu666]

You can mix Harmonic minor scale and the Phrygian Dominant scale (which is the 5th mode of the Harmonic minor scale) - it is used widely in Flamenco and Arabic music. It's even used quite a bit in Heavy Metal by people like Ritchie Blackmore et al. And as always it is well known in the classical Hindustani as well as the Jewish scales for music. Somebody probably uses it in Jazz somewhere too. Not sure if this is what you were playing or talking about, but just thought I'd pipe in all the same. Spanish guitar is not that far from the Arabic 'maqams'. All of it mixes in to everything else. Bit like the Hungarian accent (probably one of the most beautiful accents in the world). :-)

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

Thanks for your comment. Yes at the beginning I was thinking to either use this scale on a Phrygian dominant or harmonic minor because they are the same. But I recently did A minor so I thought I just link it up like this. Thanks for your comment! X

[@NeoMororo]

123ubuntu666 damn, you really know, what you r talking about

[@123ubuntu666]

+Neo Moro - I don't really. I just pick up the fragments. When I see a good video like this with someone playing and making sense of it all, it jogs me on to brush up on the old theory. Lots of fragments remain and I piece them together, but new fragments are formed as well. That is what makes a great teacher.

[@himanshu_choudhari]

Which of ur video to watch for urs increasing finger speed?? N accuracy

[@MertGorMG]

and also thinking about more of composition and rhythms

[@edwinquinones4106]

I enjoy your skills..Im new to u..but i learned alot ..Juan Serrano is how i found flamenco

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

Amazing! Very happy to hear that.

[@hellguard2002]

Caravan by the end! Sweet

[@18roselover]

Kossonom szepen nagyon jo volt

[@twoarrows2543]

Lady, you are awesome!

[@MertGorMG]

half note please keep in mind teaching me some idea that is focused on technical playing in other words phrasing

[@v1ncent111]

Thanks for the scale, where can I get the backtracking you used? :)

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

A harmonic minor rumba guitar backing track kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaCkdKRsiMhsoNU

[@mabor1999]

I love your videos ....

[@aghyadalhag-mori7344]

Cool!!

[@amanullahsultani5667]

Hi teacher , it's great

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

Thank you x

[@wanttosayadrem2551]

I love your music and Spanish guitar generally, in that also flamenco. The harmonic minor is also called Phrygian Dominant, am I correct. i subsrobed and gave Like ofc :) P.S.> I am complete amateur and don't know why is it Dominant but I know pattern of that scale so I can impovise to your backtracks

[@SoumyadiptaRay]

what guitar is this?? and what model???

[@MertGorMG]

i need to say something about how we force a single note to make it to more understandable like g# for a longer time that shows characteristic of the scale because in theory it is half note i need to search fore more so do you like to help me for this idea ?

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

Yes exactly the g# makes this scale characteristic

[@victimovtalent6036]

You can try 5 to 9 at sixth,fifth,fourth,and third strings then 6 to 10 at 2nd and 1st strings..

[@timlesspink]

great

[@boggy6060]

I don't know what your talking about, but I could watch you all day. Sigh :-)

[@dr-qs7wy]

Same....hahahah

[@shaun432]

Me too!

[@peterbrown1531]

@@shaun432 Ain't Edina something else ?

[@oranjbark7357]

can you explain me how do you know which chords are matching the scale?

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

That would be a few hours lesson haha. Depends on the sequence of the notes. If you start from the first note what is the 3rd5th and 7th note of the scale? That makes up a chord. After the second chord comes so again the root note changes and we need to look at what are the 3rd 5th and 7th note which makes up a chord but also the other notes are influencing as well.

[@paznaterratrankilo6152]

LINDA!

[@phiden44]

Is the tab available for the tune 'Caravan' ?

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

Only on Patreon!

[@GurkoKurdo]

Love you

[@hello75559]

Great and so mysterious , please more Arabic music !

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

Yes I love it!

[@aayushmaan6951]

hey! please make a tutorial...for malaguena better version! please🥺🥺

[@BESTEVAAR]

Hello! Go to Danza Mora by Sabicas or other Flamenco guitarists from Spain. You tune down the 6th string to D and then the fun begins!

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

Oh I love that song! Very difficult.

[@reinaldoferreira9503]

Faz um vídeo sobre o 5º grau da ESCALA MENOR HARMÔNICA que é o 'MODO FRÍGIO DOMINANTE'....'...Linda ESCALA muito usada no FLAMENCO....'....Obrigado do Brasil :D

[@Nour01]

Very nice! Between the minor 6th and the Major 7th is one and half (1 ½😉🎶)

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

Haha yeah that’s what I meant

[@Nour01]

Many love from Holland and Morocco.

[@JoLeng205000]

You are very good teacher and your are very gorgeous

[@alimanasfi]

Very nice players Arabic guitar pattern 👍❤

[@rodneyllanera9228]

Yngwie frequently use this scale as much as he hold his scalloped fretboard guitar

[@rustinrahul3114]

Can you give us scale tab please

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

It is available on my patreon ;)

[@jehadkurdi4220]

Great I like your Arabic scale

[@spanishjo4282]

I like your head and the face and the smile!

[@ilyasomega1972]

Love You From Algeria 🇩🇿❤🇪🇦

[@AbA46432cc]

Please make the video again but the taps are fucosed

[@Spitfireseven]

You look happy now.

[@daniglez575]

I would like to hear you play an actual classical piece

[@TheSpanishGuitarHub]

I play a lot of movie soundtracks arranged for classical guitar. But I am more into Spanish style or flamenco. But check out for example me playing the Piano. Or any Amelie songs.

[@nicolecerny]

2:50

[@sagartri1987]

I just love u...