Flamenco guitar scales

Here are the four most important scales in the Flamenco mode. This mode is called modo dórico. The notes with an accidental in parentheses are only played on the basic chord (the dominant). See Volume I, Modo Dórico.

PYTHAGORAS (about 580 to 500 BC) created the first complete diatonic scale (e1, d1, c1, h, a, g, f, e). It is made up of two similar, unconnected tetrachords (four-tone rows: whole tone-, whole tone-, half tone step) and constitutes the Dorian scale. The highest ...