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How to Use the Phrygian Mode in Hardstyle Melodies

Here's how to make melodies like Rejecta. If you take the notes from his tracks, you'll see they're very similar to the Phrygian mode.

My notes from this Short

01

A mode is a flavor of the major scale

If I take all the notes from two Rejecta tracks and place them next to each other, you'll see they're very similar to the Phrygian mode.

A mode is a flavor of a major scale. If you start playing a major scale on a certain note, you get a different flavor of the major scale while it's still a major scale.

02

Add the major third to the Phrygian mode

The cool thing Rejecta does is include the major third, which is not originally in the Phrygian scale. If we add that one, we have that Rejecta feeling.

When you make melodies and accentuate the one, the two and the major third, you really get that Rejecta feeling. Play around with that, but don't rip off Rejecta.

FL Studio piano roll with three note columns: the Phrygian mode on G#, the same notes with the octave G# on top, and the same again with C, the major third, added
The Phrygian mode on G#, then the same notes with the major third, C, added.
What I use in this video

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