Guitar: E Phrygian Over the Changes

Where E Phrygian lies at this seat, and what a chorus takes out of it.

E Phrygian runs 7 notes to the octave, laid out here on EADGBE with every E flagged. Mid-chorus the pattern is not what you need; where the root is when the chord changes underneath you is.

Very dark minor with a half-step above the tonic. Spanish, Flamenco, and metal flavor — exotic, tense, and mysterious.

Heard in: Flamenco, metal, dark film scores — Carlos Santana solos, Joe Satriani's "War", Moorish and Andalusian music.

A guitar chorus is a single line with the comp dropped, so a scale here is what the picking hand walks through between the two or three phrases it actually meant to play.

Play it slowly against the audio until it stops being a shape, then put it over two bars of a form and let the chord tones decide which of the notes you actually keep.