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Ancient Esoteric Metal Riffs | Behold The Byzantine Scale

24 views - 19 Jan 2011

Wrote some esoteric sounding riffs using the Byzantine (Double Harmonic) scale... I only used 7 notes for both of these riffs.

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Major Gypsy, Byzantine, Bhairav Theta, Charhargah, Gypsy, Hijaz Kar, Maqam Zengule

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