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Scales for film score · Piano

Best scales for film score on Piano

Modern film-score vocabulary. Lydian for the bright floating colour; Phrygian for tension; harmonic-minor modes for mystery.

F Lydian

The bright #4 — magic + wonder.

E Phrygian

♭2 tension — antagonist / threat.

C Lydian Augmented

Floating, weightless — 3rd mode of MM.

C Whole Tone

Symmetric — dream / suspended states.

A Harmonic Minor

Mystery + Eastern colour.