Scales for metal · Guitar

Best scales for metal on Guitar

Heavy / neoclassical metal vocabulary. Harmonic minor + Phrygian dominant for the Yngwie sound; whole-tone + diminished for the modern progressive metal colour.

E Harmonic Minor

Neoclassical bedrock — Yngwie / Bach-style runs.

E Phrygian Dominant

5th mode of harmonic minor — Eastern / metal flavour.

E Phrygian

Modal metal — ♭2 → ♮1 resolution.

E Diminished Half Whole

Octatonic over diminished tension.

E Hungarian

Augmented 2nds — exotic colour.