Music Theory Basics: Modes and How To Use Them
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I Don't Particularly Like Mashed Artichokes Lately :
Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian.
-If it sounds like Santana:
Dorian.
-If it sounds like "Tequila!": Mixolydian.
-If it sounds like death metal:
Phrygian.
-If it sounds like Pink Floyd:
Aeolian.
-If it sounds like the theme for a film production Co :
Lydian.
Don't worry about Locrian. You're just playing Ionian but starting at the 7th step.
But I do like artichokes! They're great! :O
If it sounds like Zappa its lydian...
I Don't Particularly Like Modes A Lot.....mnemonics are great
I’m very worried about Locrian.
Would have thought Floyd - Dorian.
What blows my mind is the rich variety of chords Rick plays for each mode.
Chet Heflin each mode has an associated chord, which is all the notes played together.
he's a true badass.
Seriously, someone asked me the other day who my favourite guitar player is. I replied so many greats I don't think I would choose just one. He replied, come on pick one player that's had the most influence on your playing. Well that took a millisecond to answer, Rick Beato!
Rick loves his fourths!! Sus4 lydian etc. Lol. I'm like hmmm there are lydian chords??
Rick, I've been a keyboard player for decades. Lessons here and there, mostly self taught. I found your channel about six months ago. I purchased The Beato Book, and between the publication and your videos, I have grown more as a player and songwriter since discovering you than ever before. Thank you for your continued efforts and hard work to enlighten us mere musical mortals.
unfortunately i bought the book also but I hardly understand any of it so i basically never use it
@@sprenzy7936 don't quit. Start slow and keep at it!
i understand the first part of the book but starting at page 15 i don't really know anymore, like wth are the modes (you know starting out with private teacher and only ever reading sheet music)
and then it goes on to stuff like in page 17 like mixolydian #11 or like dorian flat 2.
i mean I can sit down for a few hours everyday and memorize all that but in the end those words mean nothing to me.
im curious how you started out reading this book and growing more like you said. cause all this and ricks videos are too much. like he is explaining modes and he would be playing etude esk examples only.
since your self taught i assume you're probably better than me. like you don't have to be chained to goddamn sheet music and you can acutally play and improvise some stuff
@@sprenzy7936 just checking in. Did you understood the book by now?
Sprenzy knowing how to read music puts you ahead of a LOT of guitarists when it comes to grasping theory. What is the biggest subject in the book that is giving you the most trouble?
Rick explaining how the Circle of Fifths starts with the note with the least amount of flats, circling to the note with the least amount of sharps, is the clearest way I’ve seen the Circle of Fifths explained. Something so simple, yet no one ever mentions that characteristic of the Circle of Fifths.
Also, the way Rick circles the half-steps in each mode, how those half-steps define each mode and how the same half-steps aren’t found in any other mode, lit the bulb in my brain. Again, fantastic job, Rick!
I bought Ted Greene's Chord Chemistry back in the 70s. I learned the modes but I transpose scales in my head phasing from the root note based on patterns and get lost sometimes. Back in the day there was no RUclips or anyone to tell you how to do things. I find myself playing in one mode on ascending and a different mode descending. It does sound good. Also been doing two string diatonics using harmony on the adjacent string. 50 years of playing guitar this week! Like your videos.
New Beato Book owner here. Printing out double sided B&W 2-93 Color 94-273 B&W 274-299, color 300-323, b&w 324-461 and covers in color.
I would like to see modes over chord changes!
Same!!
Me too! That is what I need to see and hear
Sometimes watching, I feel like Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap on meeting Joe Satriani - " I can see his fingers moving, but I don't know what he's doing" . Eventually, I guess.
I am very surly about not having access to information (teachers) like this when I was trying to learn guitar in a small town in Finland in the late sixties : (
Books. :)
Learning it the "old fashioned" way has its benefits... it was frustrating at times though 😁
Small town or big town Finland or anywhere else. Don’t think you will find too many tutors this good. Beato and Nolte... best music teachers I never had.
Nothing wrong with Surly. I agree there is a lot of free information here.
I know what you mean brother. I would’ve killed as a beginner to have access to all the RUclipsrs that transcribe tunes and teach them. Then Rick’s channel on top of that? Would’ve made things SOOOO much easier. There is no excuse to be a bad guitarist these days if you truly work at it, not with all the information that is out there now. The only downfall I see with kids that have learned everything straight off RUclips is that their ear is terribly undeveloped. They can play the notes, but they can’t hear a progression and name the chords or transcribe a solo.
You're everyone's favorite not for your extensive knowledge alone but for your obvious love of music and your willingness and love to share. Thank you.
Rick your videos are an invaluable source of learning and inspiration for any musician on any level. I have watched quite a few, and I never get tired of watching them. Thank you for sharing your expertise and knowledge with us.
Rick even made Locrian sound good. 👍🎸
At 5:05 I had a lightbulb moment and I think my brain exploded.
I have a feeling I will watch this many times.
Since all modes are made of the notes of the major scale, the easiest way of getting a glimpse of the sound of the modes, is to play the same major scale over different root pedal tones.
I’m glad this has been sitting here for 3 years
Wish I’d been studying then
This make me realize just how much I don't know. It's depressing.
Look at signals music studio. Jake Lizzio gives a MUCH better explanation. Beato does some great stuff, but not in this case.
Rick, you clearly know what you’re talking about. However, many of us are watching because we don’t. We need you to explain, not just recite.
I have a book and 20 videos explaining this.
@@RickBeato The Beato book is the best $40 I ever spent!
@@RickBeato Yep I consider these videos as companion book material. I plan on printing it and having the videos open and be able to markup my document. I got the lucky xmas25 discount.
Love ya Rick
Signed alsoRick :)
The video archive of this channel is a detailed take chest of great explanations. I've watched most of the theory videos multiple times as I get back to playing after a long break.
Entangled - yes! One of my favourite Genesis tunes, if not my favourite... I'd not tried playing the opening D/B chord at the 5th fret like that, but it works!
I love that with your rack full of Les Pauls, you're rocking the Dano. Sounds really nice, too.
This is totally interresting on the one hand, but on the other lenghty. It is so much easier to explain the modes by staying in one scale and starting from different scale degrees. Then it' also easy to recognize the aeolian mode as the normal minor key. But, it was also interesting to look at it from the perspective of the major scale... And probably you can also get things out of that, that else you wouldn't see.
I have learned more in one week from you, than I did in past 10 years!!!!! Where were you 10 years ago LOL
This is helping fill some gaps in my improv skills!
interesting how the example of Phrygian sound Rick gives is actually a Japanese pentatonic scale which accentuates flat sixth and flat second
I love this guy!
Rick Beato is a great music educator. Not everybody can do that.
I like how you circled the target notes to each mode. Good visual! Thanks!
This is the greatest stuff. I have been looking for an advanced music theory course and you have provided it. Thank you.
Gary Book this is basic theory
Thank you for yout expertise... I'm an ok guitar player but never really learned modes... next level.
Love this guy. My new favorite teacher., Modes explained easy enough to where I can practice them now. Or at least have clarity on how to approach them. Thanks for your time Rick.
Just discovered Beato. It's good stuff.
My recommendation to all
guitarists is Ted Greene's Chord Chemistry.
Every serious guitarist has this book
There's a great book called 'guitar handbook' which I called the Bible of guitar.
Mixolydian always just sounds like hippie jam bands to me.
That sweet Grateful Dead sound
Nothing sounds out of place when it comes to the' modes' that's why they are so unique''🎶🎶🎶🎶
I thought I knew enough music theory until I watched this video but it looks like I got a lot of work to do now Back to the drawing board for me Great video though Thanks Rick 👍🏻🇮🇪
I thought the ionian scale in C is equal to the major scale starting on the first note of the scale. Dorian and C major would be from the second note D In C Major which D-E whole step E-F half step gives a flat 3rd and The 7th would,be C which is a half step from B so B-C gives a flated 7th then to D for the octive (C-D) a whole step. And so on up the major scale
It is and it does but in the beginning of the video he said he'll do everything on C just to make it easier for us to understand how to use them...
Great lesson. Love that you added the backingtrack and played along.
Awesome music teacher and its also fun to study with him....
hey Rick! I've just discovered your channel and have been enjoying the topics, depth and professional approach to covering music theory and production. Keep up the great work and catch ya next time!
I can feel this clicking , I’m going to rewatch this soon.
I’d like to have a lesson on using modes over a standard like All of Me
This is a great sound
Rick, Thanks for your Time ... I realy enjoy watching your videos.
Excellent video, Rick. Got rid of all of my doubts about modes, finally. Thank you so much!
I'm so lost right now, I don't know what I'm missing. I can't seem to understand how these things work
You are not alone. I keep trying to get this.
I need to learn that phrygian. That goes with so many of the finger picking riffs i play.
This helped me a lot, trying to get from basic keys to understand the degrees. Thanks,
Merci Rick pour vos enseignements!
Love and respect from India. 🙏
*Positive feelings.* 🖍
This is gold!
The modes and “sound of modes” is very cool, but I remain confused how to really use them in practice. If you’re improvising in a key, or over chord changes, are you really thinking I need to jam on this with some Mixolydian chops, or am I thinking (as I always tend to do) I’m playing E pentatonic with blues notes and a bunch of other passing notes that sound cool? So are modes really just better for composition where you’re trying to capture a mood through a chord progression?
Yur rockin the Sonic the Hedgehog haircut!
Thanks Rick! This is the stuff that got me hooked on your channel! I love the rest, and this is what keeps me coming back =D
I would love it if you would go into a little bit more detail on which chords suit which modes? I know the obvious ones (Maj7 suits Ionian and Lydian ect) but you were playing some sweet chords. I need to know them. Cheers
The late, great Harold Blanchard (New Earth Sonata), would say to me there are 12 notes, play them all. At 52 I understand it now, but has taken people like yourself to realize what he meant.
Thankfully, you did multiple videos on modes..some explanations make sense to me and some just do not.
so good with that lydian voicing.
Six flats ... Feet under, the first ever serie j watched ! You got my attention !
Hey Rick,
I'm wondering how to build a cadence in any particular mode. I don't know if there's an easy answer to this... I've been trying to figure out the I-V-vi-IV equivalent to say a Phrygian or Dorian progression. Progressions that feel anchored on the mode and don't pull your ear to its related Major (Ionian) sound. Hope this makes sense! Thanks so much for your channel and dedication to teaching!
You are amazing Rick. Thank you for this.
It seems to me like the teaching of modes using the white keys (C Ionian, D Dorian, ...) doesn't approach the sense of the modes well. Instead, don't you think that the F modes (F Lydian, F Ionian, F Mixolydian, ...) would give a better appreciation of each mode, its feel, and how that feel changes as you work down that list in that order, progressively adding one flat after another? Just a thought. Also, I made up a mnemonic for that list (Letters In My Desk Are Private Letters, which is crappy because it uses Letters for both Lydian and Locrian), but if you know a better one, that would be great.
Thanks Rick!!
I've recently come across Pitch Axis Theory. Basically putting lets say, the 5th degree where the root is and playing the Ionian scale as if the root is the 5th and it becomes Mixolydian. Does that make sense??? Do you agree with how well that works?
I don't know what that theory is, but that is a way to construct modes. The way Rick explains it is more useful, at least to me. A lot of theory is interpretation, so there can be more than one right way to hear something.
@@swissarmyknight4306 I have the Beato Book. I found this other explanation useful in that it helps to explain things in a different way. I'm always researching other angles of how theory is discussed. When I find myself in a rut and stuck I look at other ways to get that next AHA! moment and continue on. It takes a lot of repetition to learn and apply this stuff creatively quickly on the fly while improvising. I like Ricks approach the most though. It helps if anyone already plays an instrument and isn't a beginner and is well beyond the videos that are the....put your index finger here on this fret, your third finger on this fret.... etc etc kind of instruction, which is all good for the intended audience. Ricks coaching is amazing and people charge good money to teach this stuff. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Rick!
What you say is correct though, starting on the fifth and playing the Ionian is Mixo. Starting on second is Dorian. I would advise just learning the intervals though. So for mixo you have flat 7., Dorian flat 3 etc. Just study and memorise it.
Great video and a tremendous amount of information...thanks for this!!!
You’re such a great human!
cool chords with the scales rick 18:37
I know this may be a stupid question but is it possible to add modes to a blues scale? I might have done it (without the theory) or just added crazy notes. hahaha. But if someone is going to play with me (che chem)....if it's a sound that is important to me, don't I need to know?
Dancin Days uses a Lydian sound in the main guitar riff.
Can you use all this modes over basic C major scale chord progression like C-E-D?
Ohh finally! someone without a freaking beard!
Your mission: Shave the world.
I’m a Dorian and mixolydian fan. You can get kind of a country sound out of mixolydian too.
31:10 - This reminds me of the opening notes to the Lost in Space Theme (1st and 2nd seasons!)
Dorian and Phrygian are Major ?? They have a minor 3d so I would have thought they’re minor scans/modes?
They are minor scales, but they are modes of the major scale
They are minor, but they are a mode of the major scale. Aeolian aka natural minor is also a mode of the major scale. So you're absolutely right with your rule of thumb, if it has a flat 3rd it's minor.
he's talking about how they differ from major scale
Look at Josh Middleton Modes Video. Explains it better that Modes are „Scales within a Scale“, like he says
@@CZA1112 thanks for that. It's really great!
I subscribe right now...Thanks Sir.
Great video, again!
Thanks Rick, this video cleared up a lot of questions that I had about modes on the guitar. Any suggestions on how to learn to play in the pocket.
Hey Rick can you demonstrate using a simple chord progression for each mode? The scales throw me off.
Wouldn't it have been nice if Frank Zappa could of joined in on the internet with Rick
Phrygian should be key Ab I think so Rick….😎 For C Phrygian…
Why can't you have a flat 1? MIND BLOWN! lol Love your videos!
major 7 is flat 1
@@wooferdevlin3571 Wow, nice. I should have said the root?
look up Harry Partch
Pink floyd has the most beautiful music.
Are modes involved in PF music ?
If not, I'm not interested in modes.
Sir when you play scale sound like Indian Raga
OK: here's my one "weird mode, or scale.
1 2 3 4# 5 6 7b
When pressed I call it "Lydian/Mixolydian". Anyone else have a more appropriate name for it? Heh, Anyone ever use it?
Wouldn't it be Lydian Dominant?....I've never used it though
It's the Lydian Dominant mode, a mode of the melodic minor scale
4th mode of ascending melodic minor.
sounds like King Crimson
Hi Rick, thank you for the interesting video.
I would like to ask a question.
Some modes in some context sound somehow "incorrect" even if they are correct on the theory.
For example, if I play a minor blues and I use the dorian on the I chord, it sounds somohow to happy for the context.
If we make an example in Bm, would the "problem" be possibily caused by giving away the G# (6 of B dorian) which would be the 3 of the II chord, which it will never come because the II chord has the b3?
Thank you
21:59 - He said “master fader.” Uh-huh-huh-huh. 😏
Sir you have decoded a lot of Steve Vai numbers!
Thank you! Very helpful.
Hey Rick, I'd love to hear your opinion on a band like Future of the Left
That dorian sound reminds me of the 60's jazz movie sound track scores. . . Or it's just my bad ear. lol
How do you set a vamp so you always start the scale from the note C like you did? What chords did you use, does the key change when you change scale since you always start the scale on the C?
I hope someone can tell me what's happening.
Hopefully you can understand what I mean, my English isn't that great.
If it tastes like mustard and mayonnaise, its aeolian
I'm still kinda new so go easy on me, but are these modes only for C or does the pattern of half steps move through each major scale?
The intervals don't change. Remember the intervals and you can apply them starting from whatever root you want
@@hansfranz8795 Thank you!!!
@@julianfields7320 You're welcome! :)
u say flat 6th in iolian but is there an sharp 6th in that modes formula
C phrygian comes from D flat major. You really wanted that tritone.
what are some easy(ish) songs to learn on piano that make use of different modes? thanks in advance
I understood the "vector-based array" comment. I guess that bachelors of science in mathematics degree with the minor in computer science I have isn't completely useless after all.
A degree that gets you some of the best-paid jobs around is hardly worthless anyway
I don't know what I did wrong in life, but I didn't get those jobs.
13:43 flying in a blue dream
Hello rick
Hi, I don’t understand why Rick uses a Csus4 for the Ionian mode example… Also, can you explain why on the Dorian mode he said we should emphasize the natural sixth?
Laaate to the party but I honestly feel signals music studio breaks it down much simpler. Ricks video is good, but still a bit much.
24:10 "it's more of an Ionian sound" ... "I'm using that sus4" huh?? The Ionian mode doesn't have a sus4. What does he mean?
Then he says 24:35 uses 3:4 and 7:8, which does make sense.
Sus4 means suspended. It implies that the 3rd was raised to a 4th, so the triad becomes 1-4-5. Sus doesn’t mean sharp or flat - since Ionian has a perfect 4th, it does have a sus4 chord. I hope I helped. When he says sus4 he means a describing the chord quality not the scale degrees