Van anybody help me with this Scale?

[Mariler]

The other day I was practicing the A minor scale positions, but my intuition kind of guided me and I started to find all over the fretboard notes that didn’t fit in the minor shapes anymore. The sound reminded me a lot of arabian music.
I did a google search to try to find what I was playing and I found this:
Oriental Guitar Scale
The oriental scale is a dominant scale with a b2 and b5.
A Oriental Scale
A Bb C# D Eb F# G
Formula
1 b2 3 4 b5 6 b7
The notes I was finding would fit in this pattern,but I’m just a begginer in music theory and I’ve only heard about the major and minor scales, the pentatonics, the minor harmonic and the greek modes. I don’t have a clue where this scale fits and it is driving me crazy.
Does that oriental scale make sense to anyone of you???
And what is a dominant scale?

 

[Mariler]

Sorry..The topic should say:
Can anybody help me…?

 

[idssdi]

I hope this kinda amswers your question on what is a dominant scale (in the advanced section there is also a lesson on the phrygian dominant scale):The dominant key in a given musical composition is the key whose tonic is a perfect fifth above (or a perfect fourth below) the tonic of the main key of the piece. Put another way, it is the key whose tonic is the dominant scale degree in the main key.
If, for example, a piece is written in the key of C major, then the key of C is the tonic key. The key of G major is the dominant key since it is based on the dominant note for the key of C major. With a key signature of one sharp, G major features one more sharp than C major.
In music, the dominant is the fifth scale degree of the diatonic scale, called “dominant” because it is next in importance to the tonic
This is all taken from wikipedia btw.
With the scale you have there you getting pretty big into some weord jazz chords jazz chords(this actually comes straight from my own brain not wikipedia). For example in thE specific case which I presume would be a oriental. You can play thigs like Amajb5,A7, Bbaug5, Bbmajaug5. Which all seem pretty obsure to me but can sound pretty cool. Your safest bet for now would probably be to try it over dominant7 chord.
Hope this helps!

 

[Mariler]

Wow! I didn’t know I was getting into some advanced theory…I guess I’ll have to take the theory seriously, because it seems I am getting a little stuck in what I knew so far and my intuition is guiding me to learn something more complicated.
The scale sounds really awesome…I think that my ear wants to explore more “sophisticaded” options

 

[idssdi]

Yeah I’m also very much into the more advanced theory stufmf and the more exotic scales but it is kind of a wormhole and it has to kinda be your cup of tea

 

[idssdi]

You can also do D5, G5, Eb5(which are simply power chords). For all the other notes you have you can do august fifhs. These are basically just power chords but you move the 5th up a half step. So for G for example you do a Eb instead of a D(Gaug5 is also in there forgot about that one)