A casual listener might think that Carlos is playing out of the Aeolian (natural minor) scale with ... starting on E. This creates a mode of A Harmonic Minor which is called E Phrygian dominant ...

Guitar lessons:: Aggressive ... changes the Phrygian scale to Phrygian Dominant. A more ‘major’ tinged sound, though still retaining the dramatic E to F semitone start, it has more of a ...