| Being an old Satanic baby-roasting hippie from way back, I'm also real fond of the Double Harmonic Minor scale:
1 b2 3 4 5 b6 7 8 - major 3rd and major 7th.
The fourth mode of that is the aforementioned Hungarian Minor:
1 2 b3 #4 5 b6 7 8
The Double Harmonic Minor can be used much like the Locrian mode, to warp out of a "normal" structure - i.e., write a normal song in F, with the ordinary C and Bb chords - "La la la I love you baby", then ease on down to an E, hit the low open string, fire up your ovens....
There's a couple of synthetic variants I'm fond of:
1 2 b3 #4 5 b6 b7 7 8
1 b2 b3 3 #4 5 b6 7 8
The second one has the advantage of containing a pentatonic minor scale - one half-step up - so you can write a dumb boogie in F, then ease on down to the E, hit the low open string, chop your garlic.... |