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David, I cannot express how much your channel has changed my life. I’ve always wanted to become a musician, but being from a small town with no music program and no access to instruments, I thought I’d missed my opportunity long ago. Watching your videos for the past few months has reinvigorated my passion for music, and in response I purchased my first guitar. Though I’m definitely a beginner, watching the way you break down these complex concepts has made musical theory approachable and understandable, whereas before I found it too intimidating to attempt to learn. You are an excellent teacher, and the hard work you have gone through to make these videos available to learners like me (for free!) is greatly appreciated. I wish you success in all your future endeavors. Thank you, and keep rocking!
i'm poor and live in a small town , i wanted to be a guitarist when i was 16 so i bought a guitar . i did see the lack of money or access as an excuse to not to do what i wanted .
Thank you so much for your kind comment! It really does impassion me to keep going when I read comments like this! Thank you for your support. I’m glad I can help 😊😊
Great video as always. One suggestion (and maybe this is just me, so take it with a grain of salt). I find that scale and modal examples (when you’re showing the scales on screen) are easier to process as a learner when you use C as the base. It becomes really obvious which scale degrees are altered (as compared to major).
I remember using the term Æolian cadence in high school. It'd usually be about a song which used the chord progression bVI - bVII - i, where as a "normal" cadence would be IV - V - I.
Sir, you are a gift to the online world. Your videos are fascinating and I especially enjoy these modally focused ones. Keep doing what you do. You are an incredibly talented musician and teacher. I wish RUclips had been around when I was learning the modes as videos like this are far more effective than just pattern memorization (guitarist speaking here). You explain the hows and whys in an easy to follow way.
Rick Beato often uses the term "Aeolian" to describe frequent use of the minor sixth in a melody or chords, which indeed gives the sound a distinct flavor as compared to major sixth minor scales like Dorian or Melodic
Thats what gives Aeolian it's sound. For major scale modes, the notes which have the tritone between them are the characteristic pitches. I.e. in A Aeolian, A B C D E F G, the 2 (9) and b6 are the characteristic tones for this scale/mode. D Dorian D E F G A B C F and B, b3 and nat6 give Dorian it's vibe E Phrygian E F G A B C D F and B, b2 and nat5 Give the sound F Lydian F G A B C D E F and B Root and #4 G Mix G A B C D E F B and F, major 3rd and b7 B Locrian B C D E F G A B and F, root and b5, Give the sound and differentiate it from major modes C Ionian C D E F G A B F and B 4th and 7th Give the sound With all these the third gives the major minor vibe, but just wanted to share this.
I really love the originals at the end. They really drive it home as something new to listen to--kind of knowledge sight reading. And they sound great :)
The verse of "Sultans of swing" is actually based on a Phrygian cadence (I - VII - VI - V), which is a remain of the modal system (Renaissance music) in the tonal system (from Baroque onwards). The VII is a passage chord, not functional, with an unaltered 7th (C), while the V chord is functional and dominant, with a raised 7th (C#).
Dude you have no idea what your channel means to me. I am a amateur musician and i have learned a lot of music theory without having any kind of formal lessons, but your channel is like my home. A resting place. I found you out from Adam Neely's video and all i do is wait for your next video. Please never change!
Every conversation surrounding the Beatles always seems to include some reference to them not really knowing anything about music theory. Which always kind of blows my mind.
I just love those vids. For real. They're helping me big time with understanding the intentions of the songs. My composing might improve soon, I hope. Thanks!
You are doing an outstanding job illustrating the scales and modes with famous examples and intelligent own analysis. No one else has managed to do this anywhere what I have come over. Brilliant!
Lovely video as always :D Especially heart the song at the end that you made. I will share this vid with my amigos. One small observation. At 8:00 we have Jolene by Dolly Parton. If I am not mistaken, it doesn't _exactly_ use the Natural Minor mode but a subset of it, i.e., there is no sixth flat note in the song. As an aside, if anyone is interested in sampling the Indian versions of the minor scales, the approximate equivalents for the natural are called Jaunpuri and Darbari while that for the harmonic goes by Keervani.
I'm just starting to learn piano at 54 years old. ( trying to stave off dementia) I felt that learning a little bit about music theory would be helpful. Since I've been watching your videos no music sounds the same. It's like when I learned how to oil paint; the whole world is seen in brush strokes.
Your method in this channel is so good. I'm vastly more of an audiophile, a music lover of almost all music, and occastionally an engineer. I do play guitar, but not enough to remember and apply anything close to the music theory that you teach on your channel. But, the song examples in all of your videos are so excellent. I can easily hear the difference between these two scales from your examples in this video, so I can absorb exactly what you're talking about just from listening. Your design of these totorials to work for both audible learners like me (and perhaps John Lennon, based on the quote of him near the end of this video) and people who study and can apply music theory, is brilliant! Please, keep it up David! Thank you. ✌️
Most Flamenco is in the natural and harmonic minor. The song form of Bulerias has this theme thru and thru. It is in the Phrygian key of A/Dm typically. Chano Dominguez CD "Hetcho a Mano" is a killer disc.
I prefer the Aeolian mode to the ever-popular harmonic minor. I can definitely see the more relaxing feel; it is my observation that certain types of relaxing music tend to avoid harmonic minor and stick to Aeolian if they are in a minor key. I was thrilled to see that "Ain't No Sunshine" was included as it was literally the first song I thought of when I saw what mode you were covering in this video. "A Time for Us"/"Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" almost counts too although it sort of breaks it by including a B-flat major chord in the key of A minor.
Love these videos! Thanks for all your hard work finding the modern music examples. One small point, the difference between mode and scale is that scale pitches have a harmonic function, whereas mode pitches do not. This makes the modes much more flexible and more contrapuntal. The first note of a mode is the Final and is much more fluid than the term Tonic which implies a specific harmonic chord rather than just a resting place. Love your original compositions at the end of these videos - they are magical.
That one note at the end of Ain't No Sunshine before the resolution sounds fantastic in harmonic minor. Such a hook. And Sultans of Swing would sounds so weird if it was only in either of the minors.
I like the transpositions you make to another "mode" to let us appreciate the difference. I wonder if that could become a kind of videos on their own...
This would have been a great video to talk about the Andalusian Cadence and songs that use it like “Hit the Road, Jack!”, “Runaway”, “Good Vibrations” and “Comfortably Numb” and many others. None the less, I love the video and hope we get songs that use the Major scale and a revamped version of songs that use the Locrian Scale (or songs that use the b5 quite a lot). Love it!
Happy to hear you not talking over your composition during the "credits". They're always a nice ending and this way it is far more enjoyable, even if some of your patreons might feel a little less appreciated this way.
6:10 Just for the sake of argument, I'd say dorian is the other more widely used minor scale in music. If you exclude classical music that is. Also, since they are modes based on the same scale, you could argue they are not really two different scales, I guess, but that's pedantic if you ask me.
Well, if anything, I learnt that I can't tell the difference between natural and harmonic minor by ear. They sound pretty much the same to me, even with the Losing My Religion/Ain't No Sunshine examples. I understand the slight difference theory-wise, but my ears just don't pick it up.
I’m surprised, since you used Street Spirit and talked about the difference between aeolian and the harmonic minor that you didn’t use it as the example to demonstrate the difference. The very last instance of the E chord (under the second “immerse your soul in love”) in the outro, they change out the G for a G# (making it a E major chord instead of E minor; it is E minor). This turns this very down minor key progression into something with a glimmer of hope- it is suggesting using musical rhetoric to suggest that if you immerse your soul in love, you can avoid the defeated depressing nihilism that the bulk of the song implies is inescapable (lyrics like “rows of houses are bearing down on me” demonstrate this sense of being trapped). It is a really subtle, easy to miss difference, but it is a significant part of what makes the song so brilliant, and it also so perfectly fit your video’s concept that not mentioning it feels like a missed opportunity.
I'm a self-taught pianist and learned chord relationships using A minor as my starting point. I only started consciously learning about music theory in the last year, and I really do see Aeolian as the first mode. Makes it hard to keep up when people name chord progressions by number, as I essentially have to transpose it from the relative minor key that I'm used to. In short - I relate to your comment!
I agree. Aeolian is the "real" scale. With no sharps or flats it starts on "A", the first letter of the alphabet. Ionian starts on "C", the third letter of the alphabet. It is thus clearly the third mode.
11:17 - I notice that you don't actually hit the Bb in your piece at all, at least not in the part that shows you playing. So it could just as well be in D-Dorian. :-) (If there is a part of the song later in which you do hit that Bb, then never mind. :-) ) EDIT: Oooh, you hit it with your left hand toward the end of the phrase. As I said, never mind. :-D
I've mostly seen "aeolian cadence" used to mean a ♭VII-I, which is kind of silly since if you've got a major tonic you're definitely not in aeolian. It's funny that he coined the term to just mean the same thing as a V-vi deceptive cadence. Even if it was resolving to the tonic, ♭VII-i (a V-vi in the relative major) already has a name, courtesy of jazz: the backdoor cadence.
Good video, but I kept waiting for you to talk about the effect of the raised 7th ton the III chord (making it augmented) or the VII chord (making it diminished). You did mention songs that only use the raised 7 on the V chord, which seems common, but I would be interested in finding songs that use the full harmonic mono progression. Perhaps another video?
David a question: is the song the Bells of Notre Dame from the Disney animation movie dorian or aeolian? The "epic" part can be either dorian or aeolian since does not use the 6th, the rest sounds very medieval but also a bit dark at times.
@@DavidBennettPiano May I point you to "Too Much Heaven" by the Bee Gees. iirc they use an Gb/Ab, with F appearing in the melody, but it is NOT written as Ab13.
I have to say I very much enjoy your videos. Music people used to tell me I have the type of mind that would relish all things music theory, but my brain's automatic reaction would be to turn on the huge and bright NOPE sign in my head. Why? Because I would remember hearing someone describing the melodic minor years prior and how it made my brain short-circuit. I mean, what if you're wanting to sort of loopity loop around the 6th and 7th degree area, changing direction on one of those two? Do you base it on where you're going to or where you're coming from? Add to this the fact I was very young when this was explained and probably assumed that "melodic minor" meant these were the notes I would HAVE to use for writing a melody in a minor key, and I was like, "This is a mess. No. With a capital hell." But, y'know, a younger version of that last bit. I had one semester of music theory in college, and I am sure we never got to modes that semester, as your videos on modes have been the missing piece in a jigsaw puzzle my brain has been trying to complete for DECADES. Thank you!
For your piece at 11:15, I would suggest adding octaves to the left hand bass to intensify the melody. Otherwise, nice job explaining the Aeolian mode.
In "My Terracota Heart" by Blur, the chorus switches between "Am F G Em" and "Am F G E7". So I can say that the song is switching between different minor scales?
Great stuff mentioning the infamous exotic bird, the aeolian cadence. So you think it's just another name for the deceptive? I've always figured it was referring instead to the movement from G to Em at the end of the song. I-vi. Could it also be that? Since it was de facto invented by the critic... why not? :) great work anyway, love your channel.
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David, I cannot express how much your channel has changed my life. I’ve always wanted to become a musician, but being from a small town with no music program and no access to instruments, I thought I’d missed my opportunity long ago. Watching your videos for the past few months has reinvigorated my passion for music, and in response I purchased my first guitar. Though I’m definitely a beginner, watching the way you break down these complex concepts has made musical theory approachable and understandable, whereas before I found it too intimidating to attempt to learn. You are an excellent teacher, and the hard work you have gone through to make these videos available to learners like me (for free!) is greatly appreciated. I wish you success in all your future endeavors. Thank you, and keep rocking!
I fell Almost the same! David bennet is a great musician educator and game changer in the music education :)
i'm poor and live in a small town , i wanted to be a guitarist when i was 16 so i bought a guitar . i did see the lack of money or access as an excuse to not to do what i wanted .
Enjoying your tune at the end - quite epic sounding - though also like yer watch, ^oo^
Could not have said it better myself.
Thank you so much for your kind comment! It really does impassion me to keep going when I read comments like this! Thank you for your support. I’m glad I can help 😊😊
That last piece being 5/4 is just chef’s kiss
😀😀
Sultan of Swing has the (in)famous "Andalucian cadence" too. You should make a video on that one. It's everywhere.
Spanish Phrygian is 🔥🔥🔥
ooh sounds interesting
I usually prefer harmonic minor. I just love the amount of tension I can create in it.
Major minor scale is great too
@JessevdV I couldn't find any information on major minor scale. What do you mean? Harmonic major 1 2 3 4 5 b6 7? Mix b6 1 2 3 4 5 b6 b7?
@@Aryckeit's aeolian with a raised 3rd in C for example:
c d e f g ab bb c
@@jessevandendoren that's just mixolydian b6 (fifth mode of melodic minor)
Actually IMO all of the songs here that are originally natural minor, sounded better on harmonic minor.
I love your composition at the end of this. It felt like rain.
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That 5/4 baseline in your song at the end is really cool.
Duuuude the piece you composed is straight fire
Thanks 😊
Thank you very much for explaining *why" things sound how they do. I particularly like your tune at the end.
Great video as always.
One suggestion (and maybe this is just me, so take it with a grain of salt). I find that scale and modal examples (when you’re showing the scales on screen) are easier to process as a learner when you use C as the base. It becomes really obvious which scale degrees are altered (as compared to major).
I remember using the term Æolian cadence in high school. It'd usually be about a song which used the chord progression bVI - bVII - i, where as a "normal" cadence would be IV - V - I.
that ‘s most popolar progression
Sir, you are a gift to the online world. Your videos are fascinating and I especially enjoy these modally focused ones. Keep doing what you do. You are an incredibly talented musician and teacher. I wish RUclips had been around when I was learning the modes as videos like this are far more effective than just pattern memorization (guitarist speaking here). You explain the hows and whys in an easy to follow way.
Rick Beato often uses the term "Aeolian" to describe frequent use of the minor sixth in a melody or chords, which indeed gives the sound a distinct flavor as compared to major sixth minor scales like Dorian or Melodic
Thats what gives Aeolian it's sound.
For major scale modes, the notes which have the tritone between them are the characteristic pitches. I.e. in A Aeolian,
A B C D E F G,
the 2 (9) and b6 are the characteristic tones for this scale/mode.
D Dorian
D E F G A B C
F and B, b3 and nat6
give Dorian it's vibe
E Phrygian
E F G A B C D
F and B, b2 and nat5
Give the sound
F Lydian
F G A B C D E
F and B Root and #4
G Mix
G A B C D E F
B and F, major 3rd and b7
B Locrian
B C D E F G A
B and F, root and b5, Give the sound and differentiate it from major modes
C Ionian
C D E F G A B
F and B 4th and 7th
Give the sound
With all these the third gives the major minor vibe, but just wanted to share this.
the gap between the 7th and 8th being longer helped so much with understanding how it wants to resolve. great editing on your part.
It's funny... Many times when I think I'm using the natural minor scale, I'm actually using Dorian. I just "naturally" raise the 6th.
I really love the originals at the end. They really drive it home as something new to listen to--kind of knowledge sight reading. And they sound great :)
The verse of "Sultans of swing" is actually based on a Phrygian cadence (I - VII - VI - V), which is a remain of the modal system (Renaissance music) in the tonal system (from Baroque onwards). The VII is a passage chord, not functional, with an unaltered 7th (C), while the V chord is functional and dominant, with a raised 7th (C#).
Your own composition at the end reminded me of a great track to illustrate the Aeolian mode - Dave Brubeck's "Take Five".
i agree everything you show us is easy to understand and makes sence
Great way of using 5/8 in the last song!
You're an awesome teacher. Glad you get to do what you love
Dude you have no idea what your channel means to me. I am a amateur musician and i have learned a lot of music theory without having any kind of formal lessons, but your channel is like my home. A resting place. I found you out from Adam Neely's video and all i do is wait for your next video. Please never change!
I love your song at the end. Beautiful.
Every conversation surrounding the Beatles always seems to include some reference to them not really knowing anything about music theory. Which always kind of blows my mind.
I just love those vids. For real. They're helping me big time with understanding the intentions of the songs. My composing might improve soon, I hope. Thanks!
You are doing an outstanding job illustrating the scales and modes with famous examples and intelligent own analysis. No one else has managed to do this anywhere what I have come over. Brilliant!
Lovely video as always :D Especially heart the song at the end that you made. I will share this vid with my amigos. One small observation. At 8:00 we have Jolene by Dolly Parton. If I am not mistaken, it doesn't _exactly_ use the Natural Minor mode but a subset of it, i.e., there is no sixth flat note in the song.
As an aside, if anyone is interested in sampling the Indian versions of the minor scales, the approximate equivalents for the natural are called Jaunpuri and Darbari while that for the harmonic goes by Keervani.
That piano segment at the end was nice. 🎹
I'm just starting to learn piano at 54 years old. ( trying to stave off dementia) I felt that learning a little bit about music theory would be helpful. Since I've been watching your videos no music sounds the same. It's like when I learned how to oil paint; the whole world is seen in brush strokes.
Aeolian is my favorite of the 7 modes, nearly all songs in that mode sound SO GOOD 🔥
I'd love to see you talk about the double harmonic scale. It's my favourite for just messing around on a keyboard
priceless data. loved it.
And that music towards the end
Spcly that rhythm..
beyond superbly exotic.
blew my mind
Just Ionian and now this series is complete!
Your method in this channel is so good. I'm vastly more of an audiophile, a music lover of almost all music, and occastionally an engineer. I do play guitar, but not enough to remember and apply anything close to the music theory that you teach on your channel. But, the song examples in all of your videos are so excellent. I can easily hear the difference between these two scales from your examples in this video, so I can absorb exactly what you're talking about just from listening. Your design of these totorials to work for both audible learners like me (and perhaps John Lennon, based on the quote of him near the end of this video) and people who study and can apply music theory, is brilliant! Please, keep it up David! Thank you. ✌️
Most Flamenco is in the natural and harmonic minor. The song form of Bulerias has this theme thru and thru. It is in the Phrygian key of A/Dm typically. Chano Dominguez CD "Hetcho a Mano" is a killer disc.
I prefer the Aeolian mode to the ever-popular harmonic minor. I can definitely see the more relaxing feel; it is my observation that certain types of relaxing music tend to avoid harmonic minor and stick to Aeolian if they are in a minor key. I was thrilled to see that "Ain't No Sunshine" was included as it was literally the first song I thought of when I saw what mode you were covering in this video. "A Time for Us"/"Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" almost counts too although it sort of breaks it by including a B-flat major chord in the key of A minor.
Me too. For me it sounds a little bit cringy
Wonderfully informative and entertaining! Thank you so much.
Love these videos! Thanks for all your hard work finding the modern music examples. One small point, the difference between mode and scale is that scale pitches have a harmonic function, whereas mode pitches do not. This makes the modes much more flexible and more contrapuntal. The first note of a mode is the Final and is much more fluid than the term Tonic which implies a specific harmonic chord rather than just a resting place. Love your original compositions at the end of these videos - they are magical.
That one note at the end of Ain't No Sunshine before the resolution sounds fantastic in harmonic minor. Such a hook. And Sultans of Swing would sounds so weird if it was only in either of the minors.
I love these videos, and I use them as a tool and as inspiration for my writing.
Great explanation David. Your videos are educational even to the professional musicians. Love your channel...wait for other videos...❤
I was just wondering about this to myself randomly in the car the other day.
Glad this video popped up.
Very tasteful use of 5/4 on the ending piece! Bravo
Thanks also for your own songs at the end of this and other great videos.
I knew as soon as I saw the title what Radiohead example was going to be used
thank you david for these videos! ❤️
Very helpful - thanks David
I love these videos so much!! Keep up the great work :)
Thanks!!!
@@DavidBennettPiano No problem mate! I seriously do love them though. I've been watching for ages now ^^
I like the transpositions you make to another "mode" to let us appreciate the difference. I wonder if that could become a kind of videos on their own...
Thanks, I always enjoy your explanatiions about harmony
This would have been a great video to talk about the Andalusian Cadence and songs that use it like “Hit the Road, Jack!”, “Runaway”, “Good Vibrations” and “Comfortably Numb” and many others. None the less, I love the video and hope we get songs that use the Major scale and a revamped version of songs that use the Locrian Scale (or songs that use the b5 quite a lot). Love it!
Thank you David!
BTW When I write songs, I tend to mix harmonic and natural minor scales
Next video: "Songs that use the Ionian Mode".
Jokes aside, nice explanation of the difference for the flat and raised 7ths.
Came here to make the same joke. You beat me to it.
That could actually be a good video topic if it were about songs that don't sound like they're in the Ionian mode but actually are.
Happy to hear you not talking over your composition during the "credits". They're always a nice ending and this way it is far more enjoyable, even if some of your patreons might feel a little less appreciated this way.
Thank you for produceing this video.
Another excellent video, brilliant, David, thank you.
Wow..... The minor/harmonic minor resolution bit.... Mind=blown
Mm I actually LOVE your piece at the end. I want to hear more
Thanks!
so helpful, as always! thanks David!
Neat 5/4 solo at the end
this is such an insanely amazing video
those panels at the back added so much contrast to the room somehow. looks great!
Lovely piece at the end.
this is a great video, thanks so much for the info and demonstrations
One of my favourite modes to compose in creates a really dark tense sound
Thank you for this wonderfully produced and informative content!🇨🇦
Nice to see R.E.M. and Red Hot Chili Peppers getting some screentime in the thumbnail. :)
6:10 Just for the sake of argument, I'd say dorian is the other more widely used minor scale in music. If you exclude classical music that is. Also, since they are modes based on the same scale, you could argue they are not really two different scales, I guess, but that's pedantic if you ask me.
Well, if anything, I learnt that I can't tell the difference between natural and harmonic minor by ear. They sound pretty much the same to me, even with the Losing My Religion/Ain't No Sunshine examples. I understand the slight difference theory-wise, but my ears just don't pick it up.
Love your videos, David.
The first 4 or 5 notes of the Aeolian scale are those of the piano in the Stones’ She’s a Rainbow.
I’m surprised, since you used Street Spirit and talked about the difference between aeolian and the harmonic minor that you didn’t use it as the example to demonstrate the difference. The very last instance of the E chord (under the second “immerse your soul in love”) in the outro, they change out the G for a G# (making it a E major chord instead of E minor; it is E minor). This turns this very down minor key progression into something with a glimmer of hope- it is suggesting using musical rhetoric to suggest that if you immerse your soul in love, you can avoid the defeated depressing nihilism that the bulk of the song implies is inescapable (lyrics like “rows of houses are bearing down on me” demonstrate this sense of being trapped).
It is a really subtle, easy to miss difference, but it is a significant part of what makes the song so brilliant, and it also so perfectly fit your video’s concept that not mentioning it feels like a missed opportunity.
What about Caffeine by Faith No More? Unbelievable tension and resolution when they move to harmonic minor at the end of the choruses.
please do one video in: How to change keys and modes properly
Amazing lesson ❤
That 'out track' is gorgeous. You should release it before I steal it!
Love your vids! Thanks for all you do!
He is better on this channel than that pedal show; these vids are amazing
As a guitarist, I can assure you that C Major is the third mode of A minor.
lols
I'm a self-taught pianist and learned chord relationships using A minor as my starting point.
I only started consciously learning about music theory in the last year, and I really do see Aeolian as the first mode. Makes it hard to keep up when people name chord progressions by number, as I essentially have to transpose it from the relative minor key that I'm used to.
In short - I relate to your comment!
I agree. Aeolian is the "real" scale. With no sharps or flats it starts on "A", the first letter of the alphabet. Ionian starts on "C", the third letter of the alphabet. It is thus clearly the third mode.
@@HerrGene Finally someone learned piano the right way.
11:17 - I notice that you don't actually hit the Bb in your piece at all, at least not in the part that shows you playing. So it could just as well be in D-Dorian. :-) (If there is a part of the song later in which you do hit that Bb, then never mind. :-) )
EDIT: Oooh, you hit it with your left hand toward the end of the phrase. As I said, never mind. :-D
I've mostly seen "aeolian cadence" used to mean a ♭VII-I, which is kind of silly since if you've got a major tonic you're definitely not in aeolian.
It's funny that he coined the term to just mean the same thing as a V-vi deceptive cadence. Even if it was resolving to the tonic, ♭VII-i (a V-vi in the relative major) already has a name, courtesy of jazz: the backdoor cadence.
Good video, but I kept waiting for you to talk about the effect of the raised 7th ton the III chord (making it augmented) or the VII chord (making it diminished). You did mention songs that only use the raised 7 on the V chord, which seems common, but I would be interested in finding songs that use the full harmonic mono progression. Perhaps another video?
Yay you used an REM example
David a question: is the song the Bells of Notre Dame from the Disney animation movie dorian or aeolian?
The "epic" part can be either dorian or aeolian since does not use the 6th, the rest sounds very medieval but also a bit dark at times.
It's a good question
Have a good day
You too!
Great work please make a video about extended chords
I’m actually making a video about upper chord extensions in a few weeks time 😊😊
@@DavidBennettPiano poggers
@@DavidBennettPiano May I point you to "Too Much Heaven" by the Bee Gees.
iirc they use an Gb/Ab, with F appearing in the melody, but it is NOT written as Ab13.
@@DavidBennettPiano
PS: also a LOT of our favorite disco songs
I have to say I very much enjoy your videos. Music people used to tell me I have the type of mind that would relish all things music theory, but my brain's automatic reaction would be to turn on the huge and bright NOPE sign in my head. Why? Because I would remember hearing someone describing the melodic minor years prior and how it made my brain short-circuit. I mean, what if you're wanting to sort of loopity loop around the 6th and 7th degree area, changing direction on one of those two? Do you base it on where you're going to or where you're coming from? Add to this the fact I was very young when this was explained and probably assumed that "melodic minor" meant these were the notes I would HAVE to use for writing a melody in a minor key, and I was like, "This is a mess. No. With a capital hell." But, y'know, a younger version of that last bit.
I had one semester of music theory in college, and I am sure we never got to modes that semester, as your videos on modes have been the missing piece in a jigsaw puzzle my brain has been trying to complete for DECADES. Thank you!
Luv ur channel
Thanks!
For your piece at 11:15, I would suggest adding octaves to the left hand bass to intensify the melody. Otherwise, nice job explaining the Aeolian mode.
I think David knows what he's doing!
Something about your original piece that you closed the video with reminds me of Vince Guaraldi's classic Peanuts Christmas album.
Hey amazing vídeo, loved it. Is the intro of Janis Joplin's Summertime in aeolian too??? Sounds like it
You should do a video about the Ionian mode called 'Songs that use the Ionian mode.
Do you actually have an examples of a songs/ classical piece which uses all three: natural, harmonic and melodic minor? looking for one for a while
In "My Terracota Heart" by Blur, the chorus switches between "Am F G Em" and "Am F G E7". So I can say that the song is switching between different minor scales?
Great as usual......
most enlightening
I spot a Casio MT--68 or MT-100 in the background :)
Great stuff mentioning the infamous exotic bird, the aeolian cadence. So you think it's just another name for the deceptive? I've always figured it was referring instead to the movement from G to Em at the end of the song. I-vi. Could it also be that? Since it was de facto invented by the critic... why not? :) great work anyway, love your channel.
I was just thinking about this a few days ago, "when is David going to cover the Aeolian mode?" 😅
I'm confused so does Aeolian not really cadence that much or you can keep going without having to have a sense of resolution with Aeolian?
@David Bennett Piano Do you have a video on how to learn the chords is a scale/mode?