megadeoxys said:Yeah, the base chord is an A5. See, the only reason i think it can be Em as well is that the chords are the same. I mean, there are no F's to prove it's Am, but also no F#'s to prove it's Em. I guess it's another mode. What do you call the unrelated sharps and flats in the main riff? I mean the name of the mode or this pattern in music.
That's the thing that gives Powerslave it's Egyptian feel. I'm studying music theory so I'm interested in this.
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whopes, there is an F5 that proves it can be Am.
Does that mean it can be some sort of diminished Em scale?
megadeoxys said:It's okay, I barely have any idea what I'M talking about
Wingman, so what about the other part?
It goes: A D Db D E D E D Db D Db Bb.
D and E don't fit in Bb.
SinisterMinisterX said:No, it doesn't.
What I said is: the obsession about scales is really stupid, considering that most rock guitarists have no idea about the theoretical background about those scales. Worry about whether it sounds good, and not what technical name to give the scale.
Don't worry about it, i've been playing for over 15 years and I don't know that much about music theoryReumeren said:I just started playing guitar, and I have NO idead what you're talking about
SinisterMinisterX said:The main riff of Powerslave (verse riff) is in A Phrygian. That's the notes of F major, but with A as the home note. Except: the lick in the 4th bar, if you had to nail it down to a scale, is indeed the 5th mode of D harmonic minor.