Super Locrian

I had the most delightful realization today, which is this. In music, this would be the tonic, and this would be the supratonic. We use super to mean above, just like dominant, sub-dominant, below.

Now bear with me because this is the Locrian mode, the seventh degree of the C scale. It’s a bit of an odd sounding mode, and if you wanted to play the C Locrian scale, you’d be playing basically a D flat scale starting on the key of C. Perhaps now you’d heard of the super Locrian mode.

That’s something you might play over an altered chord with a flatted fifth, or maybe a sharp five. For that, we borrow the Locrian mode and we drop the fourth degree down by a half step. That cover is one, three, flat five, seven, and gives you a nice altered sound.

But the best part is this. Sorry, she’s 19. The best part about this scale is that as far as I can figure out, they didn’t call it the super Locrian because it’s above anything else.

They just called it the super Locrian because I think they thought it was really dope. It’s like the Locrian mode, and this one’s the super Locrian mode. How awesome is that?