Probably because you are one of the only ones explaining it in a relatable fashion. I have been playing for 35 years and am quite proficient. I know the modes, but they always give me a headache. Usually they are explained the other way around: 'C ionian is A aeolian. So now we go from C to A aeolian and play. Listen, i sounds different'. And all I hear is C ionian with an Am chord. I guess for most people it makes more sense not to change the root, but the mode. But the gap between the two is almost never fully bridged. The only persons I saw doing that are you and Rick Beato. But your video is way shorter, so I revert back to it a lot. Thanks man!
dude, u r fucking awesome, i cant play to save my life but i use your lessons to make beats in flstudio. its frustrating not being able to play but its good to know some of this stuff
I think somewhere in the Middle East guitar teachers say: Well, this is Phrygian, sounds the most generic and traditional. And those are other modes, they`re kinda exotic
The most common mode in Arabic music is Maqam Bayati, which is kind of between minor and Phrygian in that it has a half flat second degree. (Yes, half flat, so if you start on G, the second note of the scale is between A♭ and A.) Maqam Rast is the basic mode in Persian music, and it’s between major and Dorian, so the third and seventh are half flattened.
Ionian - Prozac commercial Dorian - dating your ex again Phrygian - trailer to Desperado movie Lydian - Superman vs Boba Fett Mixolydian - Summer Camp Aeolian - Occupational Therapy Locrian - Divorce and Family Law
Um ... I have played a ii v In a minor key using locrian harmonic minor , superlocrian and lorian natural 2 I have also read ii v mastery by scott alexander. Which actually explains how to utilize scales by combining them in parallel with other scales Parallel keys is what parallel means in improv This guy shows a lack of knowledge BIG TIME Don't mistake lack of talent for genius my friends
Yep but most people will be unable to absorb this. Being a musician as opposed to a player takes real work with modes, scales understanding roots and basic theory.
This is more like what joe satriani uses Pitch Axis parallel means something else on the street It's okay cuz you ain't know When you are major I V When you did dorian ii vi also i v in melodic minor Phgrigian iii vii You were using locrian also :-) Lydian IV I. Would sound more lydian if you did not cadence to the I and played anything but the I especially The vii ( f# min 7b5) Mixolydian Your playing a ii V in c major Aeolian vi iii Really just G vi because D root and fifth with G is basically G 9 Locrian over G and D D is not in G locrian But. If you played G min 7b5 and played the 1/2 whole diminished scale on concurrence , you would find the note D This is VERY important You get the diminished principal on the vii chord You can study possibilities for the vii chord and diminished virtually 4 eva
Indeed, as I read that the "Sandopolis" music in Sonic and Knuckles wandered into my head. (Although I'm not sure if it's in Phrygian or minor; I'm not good at that yet. It _is_ "generic middle-eastern/Egyptiany" music, though.) And if it wasn't that it would've been Oil Ocean from Sonic 2. :P
@@quantspazar6731 I mean there's no such thing as super duper locrian but i guess you could assume it would basically be super locrian bb7 (sometimes also called ultralocrian) and a b1 is technically not a thing but you could interpret it as moving every note of the scale a semitone up except the root, if you did that with ultralocrian you would get mixolydian
I have 2 music degrees and I sat through confusing lectures on these things trying to figure out how these modes worked. I finally "got" it but if my professors has simply explained it like THIS I would have understood it the FIRST TIME!! Now I TEACH music theory at the local college. I am using this video for my class!!! THANK YOU!!! I too am a guitarist, but improvising a lead isn't my strength. I am a folk/classical guitarist.
Locrian: You're driving with 20 pounds of coke on you and come to a fork in the road. The police are to the left. The guy you stole the coke from is to the right. Turning around is not an option. You look back and forth to the left and the right trying to decide which way to go.
You can't make a satisfying melody because it's tonic doesn't feel like a resting place. It will just sound atonal. Like notes being played but you don't actually hear a melody.
@@fumioshwartz7114 You CAN make it sound cool, but you need to know what you're doing. There's a video here where some music RUclipsrs all try to write their own original compositions in Locrian and make it sound good, and another video where they tried to make Lydian sound ugly. In both cases I think they pretty much succeeded. (but seriously Locrian surf-rock kicks ASS! :D)
With all these descriptions of the modes' different emotions and "personalities", it's kinda making me want to draw a picture of the seven of them standing together as characters. Nobody I personally know would get it, but it'd still be fun. :)
That's beautiful! How are you gonna render locrian? Like some kind of shiny sci-fi guy, with some dissonant details in his look? Like, idk, Dali's mustache?
@@lucarinaldichini324 I'm amazed (and flattered) anybody even likes my silly idea! Actually I already did it. As Sims. :) I'd post a picture here but I can't, so... --Lydian: Dreamy and optmistic with a sci-fi flair. (Star-Warsesque white robes and a SPACE BUNS hairstyle. ;) ) Ionian: Major is the cheerful, common mode, so she's like, a happy basic b, yaknow? Pink sweater, Ugg boots, happy Popular Girl personality. Mixolydian: is ready to RAWK! (throws up the horns) Aka leather jacket, ripped denim, mohawk, etc. Dorian: Don't bother me, I'm writing my beat poetry. Or maybe a medieval ballad. I dunno. (In Sims 4 each Sim has *8* outfits, so I can explore different sides of a mode that way.) Aeolian: CRAWLING IN MY SKIIINNNN...aka goth/emo. Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way meets intellectual music discussion. :P (Although some of her outfits are elegant.) Phrygian: I could've gone with like, dark metal, but it's ALSO the scale most associated in the west with "exotic" Eastern style music. So I went with Middle-Eastern and Indian looking clothes. Locrian: CRAY. Like, I literally used the "erratic" personality trait, assigned the wrong types of clothes for different situations (a tuxedo as swimsuit for example) random face paint to sleep in because why not, etc. Not a BAD person, though. Just weird. They're all girls (female Sims have ALWAYS had more choice in fashions, it's been true since 2000) and I left each Sim as they randomised in except for changing clothes, hairstyle, makeup and accessories, so they're a mixture of body types and skintones. Sorry this is so long, but hey, I had seven characters to describe. If you have Sims 4 on PC, you can find them in the Gallery. (I actually made TWO versions--one where I used whatever DLC's I needed to in order to tweak them more accurately, and another with just basegame content 'cos not many people have a lot of DLCs. The basegame version is the one in the gallery.) The household is just called "Mode" and my name there is Queen_Zelynda. So, IF there are any other crossover Sims AND music fans here, that's where you can see them. :)
Delta Bravo it feels that way because they’re the same scale pattern and the same notes. it all depends on the key that the chord progression is in! If the progression is in c major then you’re playing the c major scale, it will sound Ionian. But if the progression is in G major, and you use G mixolydian/C major scale it will sound mixolydian
C major and G mixolydian are not the same. One is in the key of C (major) and one is in the key of G (major), mixolydian mode. See the longer answer above.
@@YouTw1tFace Ugh. Yes of course they are “not the same” But it’s also misleading to say they are not the same: to someone learning, it is critical to learn they ARE the same notes, and fingerings. Better to say “same set of notes and fingerings, different Home base/tonic
It really aint it's in a lot of metal and grunge. The only problem is that the bass chord is usually playing a power chords which is out of key. But look at a power chord as just 1 note (which is how its usually used) you'll find a lot.
There's a video called "Making Locrian sound....good?" in which some musicians all make their own locrian song. The first one is my favourite, it's this surf-rock thing and it sounds BADASS. Would absolutely believe it was a real surf-rock song from the '60s...although, kinda the song for the MONSTER that's terrorizing the beachgoers in a B-movie, not the beachgoers themselves. :P
I just saw your channel now and think it's fantastic- I have an idea for a collaboration down the line that would fit both of our styles... when I put the idea together I'll contact you, until then I'll be sharing your videos with my students, they're great with ZERO fluff!
Question. Asking now but I haven't finished the video. Is there are reason you demonstrate with the key of G? Is this for guitar adaption to teaching this technique?
It's honestly the first video that I've seen where a teacher makes reference to the modes in the same key, playing the different modes in that key, so you can hear the differences. Very well done.
Not the same key, the same starting note. This highlights the differences between them. In a single key the starting note will ascend per scale degree. C Major example: C Ionian - D Dorian - E Phrygian - F Lydian - G Mixolydian - A Aeolian - B Locrian
I think he created confusion by playing all those modes over a two note power chord. I can't see how you could play a Dorian scale starting on G over an A minor chord. I would have thought that you would have to use one of a number of minor modes starting on A. And the various features of each scale mode would give a slightly different flavor to your solo ie a minor scale with a flat 2 or a major 6. That was my take on it, maybe I have it wrong. But I don't think playing everything over a power chord helped clarify things.
gentrifried prufrock watch claus Levin his is the best and while your at it watch all of his videos on music theory ruclips.net/video/e6_2mHjGUTA/видео.html
Mark, he's just explains the difference between modes, but he's so rude and disgusting... If he prefers not to use the word "scale" doesn't mean that all people around the world are stupid and don't know the modes...
@@bxp_bass just watched the Claus Levin guy, and besides the fact that his vid starts with 3 mins of "buy my shit", litterally before anything else, he then moves on to yelling at his audience. I don't have to put up with this. Appreciate the friendly attitude of this channel here so much more!
Best music theory channel I've found so far. The simplicity and fluidity you explain the concepts make it much easier to understand. Also your voice is very elegant. You rock, dude!
Irish bagpipes? You've earned 12 angry Scots thumbs down there lad. Good presentation but watch your tongue fer cryin' outloud! My bad, hadn't seen the apology, lol.
Wow, great video. I've always heard people explain the modes like "you just start from the next note in the scale", but (at least in my brain) that would still lead playing the exact same scale. Your explanation (of moving the intervals down one) is so simple and easy to grasp. Thanks!
You're thinking of a key Relative mode, which I'm used to as well. The intervals are different, when with a different tonic tone. He's explaining Parallel mode, which is new to me. In Relative mode all the modes share the same notes in a key as you said, but they start from a different degree so they're built with different pattern of intervals from the Tonic Tone of that mode. Ionian: Tonic tone is G W H W W W H W G A B C D E F# Dorian Key of G, Tonic tone is A H W W W H W H A B C D E F# G and so on... I was confused by this video but found out that the key different in these modes are that they are Parallel, not relative. He has a great video about 'Relative Modes' that explains how the change of tonic tone can change the mood and feel of music.
@@bryandoyle7055 thanks for this comment.i was confused about the same thing. Do you know of any videos that can explain this to me clearer and go in more depth?the difference between the relative modes and the parallel modes?.
@@bryandoyle7055 Relative and parallel are just two ways of looking at the same thing. The whole step/half step sequence and the first (tonic) note are all that matters to determine a mode. The two methods are just used for a different purpose. The parallel method helps you find all modes of a fixed key (G in this case) while the relative method helps you find which modes of different keys share the same notes.
Great video, Jake! What might help out your viewers understand the modes a bit more - a very popular Dorian song is “Scarborough Faire.” Phrygian may sound familiar to some as the scale often used in Flamenco music. Lydian can be playful, and goofy, like a kitten walking on piano keys. Mixolydian is definitely a mode used a lot in Irish and Scottish music. An Aeolian tune everyone knows is “Greensleeves.” Regarding Locrian, some Harp Therapy practitioners who work with people in hospice use Locrian at the very end of life when a person is transitioning to the beyond. The mode is played improvisationally, and sparingly. The reason for using Locrian is that it does not resolve, so the person is not rooted, as s/he might be with the other modes, but encouraged to move on.
It's pretty good but makes a poor choice by calling the Ionian scale the "major scale" and the Aeolian scale the "minor scale." Still, I don't see other videos this good at showing the feel of each mode. I liked his descriptions and choice of colors for each mode.
@@chisathot750 Because there are two other major diatonic scales and three other minor diatonic scales. Calling one "the minor scale" implies the others aren't minor, and it's the same with major scales. Call them what they are: the Ionian and Aeolian scales. The lesson is on music theory, so anyone learning about the Mixolydian, Dorian, etc. scales can handle another two odd names.
This truly makes modes not only comprehensible, but enjoyable. I'm still a relative beginner at music theory, but I can follow the lessons if I pause to think about them. THANK YOU!
Excellent job of teaching. In Jazz we encounter the diminished 7th chord making Locrian an option. It is also great in heavy metal where you also encounter the diminished triad. I think a better description of Phrygian is 'Spanish' flavored it is often used in flamenco, not so much in traditional middle eastern music. You are a good teacher, I hope you are working in the community college system. Your approach has the kind of clarity our students need.
Spanish music is heavily influenced by Middle Eastern music, because the Moors occupied the Iberian peninsula for centuries after the fall of the Roman and Byzantine Empires when Islam was spreading, thus Spanish sounds part western and part eastern.
If something works well for Björk we have a fairly good indicator that it doesn't work for mostly everyone else :P Also, for some strange reason, I feel an irrational urge to object to putting "we all know and love" next to "monotony and dread". That combination, in and of itself, feels kinda Locrian: "Yes, you can do that. It's semantically perfectly valid, yes. But why would you?" :P
I'm sorry for this comment but that video helps me out understanding some characters in a game. And now I know why Locria betrayed the other one and teamed up with the antagonist in the game. Many thanks! Each of these characters in the game have also a color Ionia's color is green and they have a really good mood all the time. Doria's color is purple. They look a bit "darker" also their proportion is different from the others and they have sunglasses on. Phrygia's color is orange. They are sleeping all the time but they say that they are more serious than the other. They are also living near a volcano hits the sound color Phrygian makes. Lydia's color is yellow and they live really outpaced on a cold area. They take care of little cute snow bunnies and the snow area looks really dreamy and floaty. Mixolydia's (or Missy or Mixo) color is cyan. They also have an upbeat personality but they really have style. They protect something important with... You guess it: With three giant rock golems. Aeolia's color is red and they really don't understand the human's short life span of a human (yes these species are not human even though they look alike with a special clothing taste I really love!). A boy came to Aeolia and they gave him a special ability not knowing which tragicty is about to happen to him and they are also the first of the species who's gonna disappear. Sounds a bit tragic but for these species it's... Romantic however. Locria doesn't have a color because white isn't technically a color. Yeah Locria is a douchebag. He helps to put an innocent world in an "utopia" for someone else, eats bananas and drops the peels on the floor, so everyone is stumbling over them. And he is mean to a poor monkey. So don't hang out with Locria.
Love the little details....underlighting the styrofoam head in the colors of the text graphics for each of the different modes. Makes it really easy to grasp!
Bands like Korn played around with “alternative power chords” like half diminished triads and perfect fourths, and I used these for a while. Half Dim triads bring a lot of shock value to heavy music, and root/4 power chords have a crunchiness that you don’t get with 5ths. I personally find locrian pretty pleasing with plenty of distortion and an erratic strumming pattern
Switching from a minor 7 shell to a maj7 shell in locrian. (Such as Bmin7 shell to Fmaj7 shell) gives you a good ground work as well. Locrian gives you access to the 4 and b4 which can sound bluesy if done right.
Ahahhh...now the confusion is gone, everyone explains like its the same shit as playing the major scale in different positions, but i think its about memorising those different positions and applying with one root note, hope im right
That's how he explains it but I've seen some kick arse lessons explaining it the way you said. My confusion has just started. Is he keeping G as root and then playing in different keys???
Sorry if this adds to your confusion but I hope I can clarify some things. In this video you're right in thinking that G is always the root, all that's happening is he's changing certain intervals/notes in the G major scale, which makes each solo a different mode of that standard G major scale, such as when shifting the fifth note in the G major scale down a half step made the following solo G Lydian. In regards to whether he's playing in different keys, the backing track is 100% in G because it is clearly implied in the playing that G is the "home" note, and his solos are always in a mode (or "version") of G. Ultimately, its helpful to remember how modes work in both the way they're described in this video and the other ones you mentioned. However, it's really important to distinguish between what each type of video is trying to say, as this is what confuses a lot of people, including me for waaay too long. This video discusses what modes actually *are* in music theory (major scales with certain notes in the scale changed), whilst the videos talking about playing the major scale in different positions are discussing how you can actually play in different modes - for example, if you take the G Major scale shape and shift it 3 frets up so you're now playing a A# Major scale, you're actually playing G Aeolian at the same time as they share the same notes, whether you want to define it as A# Major or G Aeolian really depends on what key the underlying song is in. That's how I got started playing modes personally, I only knew the first position of the Major scale, so I'd just shift it up 3 frets to play Aeolian. If you asked me, I didn't even view my E Aeolian solos as being in E Aeolian from a playing position, I was playing a G Major/Ionian as this was something I was comfortable with playing - really just view it however works for you. Once you can play the generic major scale shape you can play every mode, you just shift that overall shape around to change the 7 notes of that scale, thus giving you different modes.
Should have put the ♭5 as the interesting note for Locrian. Also note that each of the 7 modes' 'interesting note' happens to be on the scale's tritone. For example, Dorian's signature note, the ♮6, creates a tritone with the ♭3.
@@trytongames7778 hope this answer isn't too late. *diminished* *means* *lowered* . in the key of c major (ionian) g is normally the fifth. diminished fifth means it's a gb (or f#), because it's lowered a semitone. a diminished c-chord (Cdim) would be c-eb-gb (compared to a Cmaj c-e-g). both the third (eb) and the fifth (gb) is lowered a semitone.
@Tryton Games a fitfh usually is the distance of 7 semitones. A diminished fifth is 6 semitones. This distance is also often called a "tritone", because its made up of three whole tones.
Major: A vast plain on which a lot of flowers grow Dorian: A shady city renowned for its nightlife Phrygian: A desert dominated by massive, ancient, mysterious beasts Lydian: A busy Space Station filled with new opportunities you never dared to dream off Mixolydian: Valhalla, where only the strongest warriors are allowed to indulge themselves in feasts, epic battles and other pleasures Minor: A village that has just been raided and raised to the ground Locrian: The lair of a powerful tyrant, whose guards could discover and kill you any second if you aren't careful
I feel a video on analysis of Dream Theatre's "A nightmare to remember" will be very helpful to understand modal interchange and how it sets different moods in the same song.
"Bagpipes originated in Ireland, when the Irish developed the uilleann pipes, they gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a Joke.." Paddy Mahoney (The Chieftains), explaining the roots of the bagpipe.
I'm doing research for some characters for a D&D campaign I'm part of, and I wanted to name a group of characters after the modes, give them a music theme. But I didn't know which vibes each mode had and how to apply them, and wikipedia was *frustratingly* analytical about it and didn't give me any help with mood or symbolism or anything like that. In 15 minutes you have solved my entire issue, you're a legend
As I was listening, I started realizing that the Dorian and Mixolydian modes were pretty much opposites. The Dorian mode has the natural sixth to make it minor but not quite so dark, and the Mixolydian has the flat seventh to make it major but not so much. They essentially do the same things, just in opposite directions.
You mean a flatted seventh to make it a little more minor. Major seventh make it more optimistic while the dominant seventh makes it a little more light hearted/drunk.
While Locrian in itself is not really pallatable in a jam session, removing it's minor 3rd and 6th(Which would correspond to A# and D#) you would get the Iwato scale which has this really cool minor Japanese timbre and you can use this in the same vein as the phrygian scale, but getting an entirely different exotic flavour.
Pentatonic scales are great fun and speaking of Iwato scale you could just check out the Hirajoshi scale which Iwato is related to according to the concepts of some composers. There’s also other exotic scales derived from the Hirajoshi.
Atom-T Yes actually I really enjoy playing on Hirajoshi espiacially on the root of D but I kinda have problems improvising on it in a way that it kinda sounds like a generic major if you don't play it from bottom to top(which with some good rythm can sound really aesthetic)
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an easy way to get a full sound is harmonizing a riff in thirds. I love writing a light, and admittedly boring, riff in ionanian, then doing the same exact riff over it in phrygian or aeolian. makes it much more palatable in my opinion even great with chords!
Absolutely an awesome and quick way to make cool sounding music... it's almost cheating- just write something cool in one shape, and do the "same thing" 2 shapes higher
Very good lesson, Thanks, Could you make another video like this one but with Melodic minor and Harmonic minor Scales modes ? Thank You for all your lessons, very helpful.
great lesson btw. Thank you very much. How come you start on G for all of the modes? I always thought in 2nd mode your home note is that 2nd note. For example you play the g scale (7 notes) but start on A and go all the way through the g scale until the A? Please help me obi wan Kenobi you are my only hope.
When I first heard the Locrian Jam, I instantly thought of Larry LaLonde’s guitar playing in Primus. For example, some of the confusing and random sounding guitar on “My Name is Mud” seems like its Locrian.
I love how you relate the modes to colors. Reminds me of the movie Mask, when Rocky Dennis conveys colors to a blind girl to feelings. i.e. warm/hot = red, cool/cold = blue.
This is awesome, thank you. Your playing in the modes really gave me a good feel for them. I'd have picked Mozart's photo for your classical music example -- Bach is often super-serious sounding, whereas Mozart is often "sickeningly happy" haha. : )
A regular diminished chord for home super imposes the locrian bb7 mode from double harmonic major -_-- home chord for locrian is a m7b5 or a locrian chord which is a 1b4b5 -_-
Even though traditional bag pipe music is Scottish... it's ok, the UK forgives you. Watch the Edingburgh Tattoo, and dispel your irish thoughts.. incidently, whisky is also scottish and spelt without an E. Fanastic lesson though.
This was the most clear explanation of modes I've come across - as someone who knows next to nothing about music theory I gained a lot from this! Many thanks
Do the notes of the modes only have to align with the notes of the tonic chord? Or do you constantly have to keep switching modes depending on the current chord being played? And if you do have to switch modes, do you have to switch the 1 in the scale degree, to match with that 1st note in the current chord which isn’t the tonic chord? Or could you just stay on the same 1 degree on the tonic chord THE WHOLE TIME, but just constantly switch (if needed) to different modes to match the following chords in the progression? I hope you understand my question lol.
Did you show Bach for 'bland major'?!? I know it's a bit nit-picky, but Bach wrote the book on harmonic complexity (ie, the 48 preludes and fugues - I'm sure you're familiar with that, of course). Apart from that, I really enjoyed the video (having just done my own tiny video on dorian and mixolydian so far).
Major is not bland, but a lot of guitarists just suck at playing in Major keys, because they are Rock/Blues/Metal players who never learned to play anything else than Minor scales. And let's be serious, the vast majority of ppl start playing guitar because of one of those genres. It's the same with music as everyting else in life, you don't get good at making interesting Major key melodies, if you spent all your time practicing in Minor.
I'm seeing this video already knowing the modes pretty well, but I have to say: the way you teach and explain those things is awesome! If that video was around when I started learning about these things, my life would've been SO MUCH easier! Great job, man!
The modes always seemed fairly straightforward to me. They're just an edginess slider. I accidentally discovered Dorian on my own before I knew what scales were. I think you made a mistake by explaining them in order of position (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, etc.) instead of brightness (Lydian, Ionian, Mixolydian, etc.), as David Bennet does in his fantastic "The Modes Ranked by Brightness" video. P.S. To me, Mixolydian is the green scale.
How does somebody this young become so very polished, confident, "experienced"? Hats off! You have a great future! Your voice and demeanor are perfect for this kind of work. It would be interesting to know if this talent is genetic or acquired from very supportive parents.
I wonder if it was like depressing and a little off balance to live in Locris. Yeah the girls there might have been known for being batsh** crazy. Never want to even date one, let alone deal with her brothers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locris#Ancient_Locris
Finally! This is a such a common sense, logical and well-explained tutorial on the topic of modes! Why is it that almost all other tutorials on modes suck?? Good grief. THANK YOU for stripping the all too common ego out of the equation and just delivering an effective explanation with examples.
Phillip Hanson Damn right. Plus, the man has great voice. Plus, he goes straight to the point. No sweepstakes, promotions, lenghty introductions, showing his kids (looking at you Scott Devine), begging for subs and likes. Plus, great video editing and some subtle humor (the ads). Simply one of the greates lessons I have ever seen.
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Never in a million years would have thought my lesson on modes would get a million views! THANKS!!!!
RUclips algorithm is at it again!
Probably because you are one of the only ones explaining it in a relatable fashion. I have been playing for 35 years and am quite proficient. I know the modes, but they always give me a headache. Usually they are explained the other way around: 'C ionian is A aeolian. So now we go from C to A aeolian and play. Listen, i sounds different'. And all I hear is C ionian with an Am chord. I guess for most people it makes more sense not to change the root, but the mode. But the gap between the two is almost never fully bridged. The only persons I saw doing that are you and Rick Beato. But your video is way shorter, so I revert back to it a lot. Thanks man!
3rd time watching as a refresher. Good stuff demands views.
You deserve all your success sir!
dude, u r fucking awesome, i cant play to save my life but i use your lessons to make beats in flstudio. its frustrating not being able to play but its good to know some of this stuff
I think somewhere in the Middle East guitar teachers say: Well, this is Phrygian, sounds the most generic and traditional. And those are other modes, they`re kinda exotic
The most common mode in Arabic music is Maqam Bayati, which is kind of between minor and Phrygian in that it has a half flat second degree. (Yes, half flat, so if you start on G, the second note of the scale is between A♭ and A.)
Maqam Rast is the basic mode in Persian music, and it’s between major and Dorian, so the third and seventh are half flattened.
So it`s kind of microtonal stuff? Got it
Yeah, Middle Eastern music is microtonal... The major, minor, Dorian and Phrygian scales are also common though; there are literally dozens of maqams
Jordan Botelho323
Exotic is relative.
@MansaMusa Muliano Haven't heard too much, but I always got a pentatonic minor "feel"
This man even gives the different modes background colors to emphasize his points. 10/10 class right there
And the haters have no class. No video, either.
Ohhhhh
He's great.
And the colors go crazy when he plays the locrian scale. Pure art
Graham Hicok c ma Ce
Oh my god this man just explained like 5 years worth of questions I’ve had in about 15 minutes
Lmaoooo
Think he just answered 30 years of questions for me
Everybody ask "What is Locrian mode?", but they never ask "How is Locrian mode?"
But why is lociran mode
I'll do you one better.. Who is Locrian mode?
And.. Where is Locrian mode?
@@Sandarpan *Whom* .
Locrian mode is the only mode not used ..as it does not sound good..
I tried to work with Locrian, but I was getting diminished returns from my practice...
I’m so stealing this.
you need to augment your practice - and scale up your work in a major way,,,heheheheh
@@snogglemonkey I would but I'm not too sharp...
It’s only a minor pun nothing to major
:)
Ionian - Prozac commercial
Dorian - dating your ex again
Phrygian - trailer to Desperado movie
Lydian - Superman vs Boba Fett
Mixolydian - Summer Camp
Aeolian - Occupational Therapy
Locrian - Divorce and Family Law
😅👌
best comment since the start of youtube !!! hahajaja
How can you even know Boba fett a year ago lol
LOL Bravo Dude
Yes sir. Bravo! God bless you
Yo what did Locrian mode even do stop cyberbullying
Davide Mura It's just shitty and uneducated musicians who don't know what to play on vii-dim.
😂😂😂
@@АнтонКузнецов-и8ю let's hear what you've done...
Um ... I have played a ii v
In a minor key using locrian harmonic minor , superlocrian and lorian natural 2
I have also read ii v mastery by scott alexander. Which actually explains how to utilize scales by combining them in parallel with other scales
Parallel keys is what parallel means in improv
This guy shows a lack of knowledge BIG TIME
Don't mistake lack of talent for genius my friends
@@johnmcminn9455 you read a book by a magician then, because the book your talking about is by Joseph Alexander 🤣
This is literally one of the best videos on the internet
indeed.
Yeah Jake's vids are awesome. He's taught me more about music theory in just a few weeks than I ever thought possible.
Well. Two girls one cup was a classic.
Yep but most people will be unable to absorb this. Being a musician as opposed to a player takes real work with modes, scales understanding roots and basic theory.
For mobile viewers
Major: 4:20
Dorian: 5:33
Phrygian: 6:49
Lydian: 7:57
Mixolydian: 8:56
Minor/Aeolian: 10:26
Locrian: 11:44
THANK YOU
Thank you... I'm about to fall 💤.
i'm hitting a Major 4:20 here, hahahahaha...hue...hue... *COUGHING*
This is more like what joe satriani uses Pitch Axis
parallel means something else on the street
It's okay cuz you ain't know
When you are major I V
When you did dorian ii vi also
i v in melodic minor
Phgrigian iii vii
You were using locrian also :-)
Lydian IV I.
Would sound more lydian if you did not cadence to the I and played anything but the I especially
The vii ( f# min 7b5)
Mixolydian
Your playing a ii V in c major
Aeolian vi iii
Really just G vi because D root and fifth with G is basically G 9
Locrian over G and D
D is not in G locrian
But. If you played G min 7b5 and played the 1/2 whole diminished scale on concurrence , you would find the note D
This is VERY important
You get the diminished principal on the vii chord
You can study possibilities for the vii chord and diminished virtually 4 eva
Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, and Locrian are sick.
My humble apologies to Scots for not crediting them for bagpipe music.
I'm Scottish and the bagpipes give me a headache man, no need to apologise lol
You should watch Adam Neely's video on why major sounds happy. It explains why some modes sound dark and why some sound bright.
Got a link?
ruclips.net/video/9rEqrPwVITY/видео.html
Thanks man, will give it a go
Phrygian sounds like the music in every desert level of every video game ever
Indeed, as I read that the "Sandopolis" music in Sonic and Knuckles wandered into my head. (Although I'm not sure if it's in Phrygian or minor; I'm not good at that yet. It _is_ "generic middle-eastern/Egyptiany" music, though.) And if it wasn't that it would've been Oil Ocean from Sonic 2. :P
Hmmm...I wonder why ❓🤔......🤣
Hijazi scale
LOL! True.
@@robinchesterfield42 my brain went to sandopolis as well
I am definitely the Locrian mode of my family.
Lol me too. Nice one
Loci? The Norse god of mischief
Looooooool
I know what you mean and that's a great comment.
Da Black sheep has been born:)
The doctor recommendation of mixolydian is HILARIOUS
Lol true, that made me laugh too hard 😆
Mai favorite!
AHHAHHAHA
It's a pretty good analogy too, to be fair to the guy.
Yea
You missed the most important one: Depeche
For real!?!
Lmao
I was gonna say lol there are only 7 and he covered them
Brilliant. 😎
this post was very
unnecessary
Makes me feel sad for Locrian. He just wants to be loved. His pattern is super easy to play but he does sound weird.
I wouldn't love a guy who screws up a village with money and happy boxes.
Bro i was actually able to use that mode, idk how lol i was just freestyling then accidentally used it
Would be a cool plot for a novel, imagine having the odd man out named "locrius" or something
@@Bacony_Cakes what a nice reference!
..
At least he cared about his mouse
@@imacommentator I'm the reference sniper.
Locrian be like *"This isn't even my final form"*
**turns into super locrian with flat 4th**
**turns into super duper locrian with a flat 1**
wait a minute
@@spenjaminn3846 sounds like an amazing scale to write 2020's theme song
@@quantspazar6731 I mean there's no such thing as super duper locrian but i guess you could assume it would basically be super locrian bb7 (sometimes also called ultralocrian) and a b1 is technically not a thing but you could interpret it as moving every note of the scale a semitone up except the root, if you did that with ultralocrian you would get mixolydian
@@Wind-nj5xz b8 may be a thing if you thibk about non-octave modes like B3-C4-D4-E4-F4-G4-A4-Bb4 with diminished octave above
I have 2 music degrees and I sat through confusing lectures on these things trying to figure out how these modes worked. I finally "got" it but if my professors has simply explained it like THIS I would have understood it the FIRST TIME!! Now I TEACH music theory at the local college. I am using this video for my class!!! THANK YOU!!! I too am a guitarist, but improvising a lead isn't my strength. I am a folk/classical guitarist.
you have such a radio talk host voice every single time i think the radio is on somewhere
Aleksandr - I could listen to that voice all day long!
Carl Taylor, ditto. I should be doing other things but his voice is so relaxing I can't help but learn about more theory.
lol...he really does.
His voice kinda sorta doesn't fit with how he looks. Definitely has that deep resonant clear radio voice.
avedic... I thought the same thing. I'm guessing he's probably in his early 20s, but he looks 15 and sounds 34.
Fully agree, he should be a DJ or new broadcaster with FOX news!
Me listening to the examples: “oh this Locrian one sounds really cool!”
Him: “obviously Locrian is bad and you should ignore it.”
Me: ☹️
Art has to do with personal taste
@adam neely
Locrian: You're driving with 20 pounds of coke on you and come to a fork in the road. The police are to the left. The guy you stole the coke from is to the right. Turning around is not an option. You look back and forth to the left and the right trying to decide which way to go.
You can't make a satisfying melody because it's tonic doesn't feel like a resting place. It will just sound atonal. Like notes being played but you don't actually hear a melody.
@@fumioshwartz7114 You CAN make it sound cool, but you need to know what you're doing. There's a video here where some music RUclipsrs all try to write their own original compositions in Locrian and make it sound good, and another video where they tried to make Lydian sound ugly. In both cases I think they pretty much succeeded.
(but seriously Locrian surf-rock kicks ASS! :D)
Locrian sounds like you’re trying to find the scale to a new chord progression
Light to Dark:
Lydian, Ionian, Mixolydian, Dorian, Aolian, Phrygian, Lochrian
And at each step, you're lowering one note by a semitone. Just saying.
LIMDAPL needs a good mnemonic phrase
@@williamnathanael412 Wow that's a very inciteful way to look at it.
@@mike-ue4wy It may be odd but I've been using: Lilly is Mainly Damp And Pale Lately.
Shouldn't Ionian be considered lighter than Lydian?
With all these descriptions of the modes' different emotions and "personalities", it's kinda making me want to draw a picture of the seven of them standing together as characters. Nobody I personally know would get it, but it'd still be fun. :)
I wanna see it now! haha!
The Magnificent Seven
That's beautiful! How are you gonna render locrian? Like some kind of shiny sci-fi guy, with some dissonant details in his look? Like, idk, Dali's mustache?
That sounds cool
@@lucarinaldichini324 I'm amazed (and flattered) anybody even likes my silly idea! Actually I already did it. As Sims. :) I'd post a picture here but I can't, so...
--Lydian: Dreamy and optmistic with a sci-fi flair. (Star-Warsesque white robes and a SPACE BUNS hairstyle. ;) )
Ionian: Major is the cheerful, common mode, so she's like, a happy basic b, yaknow? Pink sweater, Ugg boots, happy Popular Girl personality.
Mixolydian: is ready to RAWK! (throws up the horns) Aka leather jacket, ripped denim, mohawk, etc.
Dorian: Don't bother me, I'm writing my beat poetry. Or maybe a medieval ballad. I dunno. (In Sims 4 each Sim has *8* outfits, so I can explore different sides of a mode that way.)
Aeolian: CRAWLING IN MY SKIIINNNN...aka goth/emo. Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way meets intellectual music discussion. :P (Although some of her outfits are elegant.)
Phrygian: I could've gone with like, dark metal, but it's ALSO the scale most associated in the west with "exotic" Eastern style music. So I went with Middle-Eastern and Indian looking clothes.
Locrian: CRAY. Like, I literally used the "erratic" personality trait, assigned the wrong types of clothes for different situations (a tuxedo as swimsuit for example) random face paint to sleep in because why not, etc. Not a BAD person, though. Just weird.
They're all girls (female Sims have ALWAYS had more choice in fashions, it's been true since 2000) and I left each Sim as they randomised in except for changing clothes, hairstyle, makeup and accessories, so they're a mixture of body types and skintones.
Sorry this is so long, but hey, I had seven characters to describe. If you have Sims 4 on PC, you can find them in the Gallery. (I actually made TWO versions--one where I used whatever DLC's I needed to in order to tweak them more accurately, and another with just basegame content 'cos not many people have a lot of DLCs. The basegame version is the one in the gallery.) The household is just called "Mode" and my name there is Queen_Zelynda.
So, IF there are any other crossover Sims AND music fans here, that's where you can see them. :)
Begginers: Oh yeah I'm soloing in C major, whatever.
Me, an intellectual: Check out this solo in *G mixolydian* 😎
I'm kind of viceversa. I'm soloing in G mixolydian and start thinking... Isn't this just C mayor? Am I doing something wrong?
Delta Bravo it feels that way because they’re the same scale pattern and the same notes. it all depends on the key that the chord progression is in! If the progression is in c major then you’re playing the c major scale, it will sound Ionian. But if the progression is in G major, and you use G mixolydian/C major scale it will sound mixolydian
I m soloing in C maj= A min= G mixo
C major and G mixolydian are not the same. One is in the key of C (major) and one is in the key of G (major), mixolydian mode. See the longer answer above.
@@YouTw1tFace
Ugh. Yes of course they are “not the same”
But it’s also misleading to say they are not the same: to someone learning, it is critical to learn they ARE the same notes, and fingerings. Better to say “same set of notes and fingerings, different Home base/tonic
Locrian deserves a full video, is really different and weird.
Use the 5th as a passing note, focus that 6th instead. The R37 are all normal for a minor scale.
It really aint it's in a lot of metal and grunge. The only problem is that the bass chord is usually playing a power chords which is out of key. But look at a power chord as just 1 note (which is how its usually used) you'll find a lot.
There's a video called "Making Locrian sound....good?" in which some musicians all make their own locrian song. The first one is my favourite, it's this surf-rock thing and it sounds BADASS. Would absolutely believe it was a real surf-rock song from the '60s...although, kinda the song for the MONSTER that's terrorizing the beachgoers in a B-movie, not the beachgoers themselves. :P
@@robinchesterfield42 that's partly because Sammie G is just that good.
One of the best explained mode videos I've ever seen - I'm linking and promoting you through my own channel. Keep making good stuff!
I just saw your channel now and think it's fantastic- I have an idea for a collaboration down the line that would fit both of our styles... when I put the idea together I'll contact you, until then I'll be sharing your videos with my students, they're great with ZERO fluff!
Sounds great! Thanks so much for that. Yep, I like to get to the point :p
Extraordinary! Well explained! Thank you so much!
Same.
Question. Asking now but I haven't finished the video. Is there are reason you demonstrate with the key of G? Is this for guitar adaption to teaching this technique?
It's honestly the first video that I've seen where a teacher makes reference to the modes in the same key, playing the different modes in that key, so you can hear the differences. Very well done.
Not the same key, the same starting note. This highlights the differences between them.
In a single key the starting note will ascend per scale degree. C Major example: C Ionian - D Dorian - E Phrygian - F Lydian - G Mixolydian - A Aeolian - B Locrian
I think he created confusion by playing all those modes over a two note power chord. I can't see how you could play a Dorian scale starting on G over an A minor chord. I would have thought that you would have to use one of a number of minor modes starting on A. And the various features of each scale mode would give a slightly different flavor to your solo ie a minor scale with a flat 2 or a major 6. That was my take on it, maybe I have it wrong. But I don't think playing everything over a power chord helped clarify things.
Your vids on modes changed my life.
Ok it didn't change my life, but it SERIOUSLY changed my guitar playing.
Viktoria Frei which in turn, changed your life
I’ve been preaching people learn modes like crazy. I’ve been playing for 17 years and it’s so important to soloing and being able
To shred
Life Changing....yes
Your video is the only explanation of modes I've seen that made sense to me thanks
gentrifried prufrock watch claus Levin his is the best and while your at it watch all of his videos on music theory ruclips.net/video/e6_2mHjGUTA/видео.html
also watch Vinnie Moore's explanation
mark heyne He’s just showing how each mode sounds different by using the same root note/chord.
Mark, he's just explains the difference between modes, but he's so rude and disgusting... If he prefers not to use the word "scale" doesn't mean that all people around the world are stupid and don't know the modes...
@@bxp_bass just watched the Claus Levin guy, and besides the fact that his vid starts with 3 mins of "buy my shit", litterally before anything else, he then moves on to yelling at his audience. I don't have to put up with this. Appreciate the friendly attitude of this channel here so much more!
Dude, I know this vid is old but dude, 20 years of trying to understand the application of modes was answered in 3.5 minutes. Dude, thanks
Best music theory channel I've found so far. The simplicity and fluidity you explain the concepts make it much easier to understand. Also your voice is very elegant. You rock, dude!
Irish bagpipes? You've earned 12 angry Scots thumbs down there lad. Good presentation but watch your tongue fer cryin' outloud! My bad, hadn't seen the apology, lol.
Wow, great video. I've always heard people explain the modes like "you just start from the next note in the scale", but (at least in my brain) that would still lead playing the exact same scale. Your explanation (of moving the intervals down one) is so simple and easy to grasp. Thanks!
You're thinking of a key Relative mode, which I'm used to as well. The intervals are different, when with a different tonic tone. He's explaining Parallel mode, which is new to me.
In Relative mode all the modes share the same notes in a key as you said, but they start from a different degree so they're built with different pattern of intervals from the Tonic Tone of that mode.
Ionian: Tonic tone is G
W H W W W H W
G A B C D E F#
Dorian Key of G, Tonic tone is A
H W W W H W H
A B C D E F# G
and so on...
I was confused by this video but found out that the key different in these modes are that they are Parallel, not relative. He has a great video about 'Relative Modes' that explains how the change of tonic tone can change the mood and feel of music.
@@bryandoyle7055 thanks for this comment.i was confused about the same thing. Do you know of any videos that can explain this to me clearer and go in more depth?the difference between the relative modes and the parallel modes?.
@@bryandoyle7055 Relative and parallel are just two ways of looking at the same thing. The whole step/half step sequence and the first (tonic) note are all that matters to determine a mode. The two methods are just used for a different purpose. The parallel method helps you find all modes of a fixed key (G in this case) while the relative method helps you find which modes of different keys share the same notes.
Great video, Jake!
What might help out your viewers understand the modes a bit more - a very popular Dorian song is “Scarborough Faire.” Phrygian may sound familiar to some as the scale often used in Flamenco music. Lydian can be playful, and goofy, like a kitten walking on piano keys. Mixolydian is definitely a mode used a lot in Irish and Scottish music. An Aeolian tune everyone knows is “Greensleeves.”
Regarding Locrian, some Harp Therapy practitioners who work with people in hospice use Locrian at the very end of life when a person is transitioning to the beyond. The mode is played improvisationally, and sparingly. The reason for using Locrian is that it does not resolve, so the person is not rooted, as s/he might be with the other modes, but encouraged to move on.
That's the most interesting thing I've read all day
My name is Dorian and it’s also my favourite mode
Edit: it also made it kinda weird every time you said it
Haha xD
i love Dorian..
I showed this to my nine-year old... He said, "Daddy show me locrian. I wanna prove this guy wrong." I'm anxious to see what he comes up with.
"Health Insurance commercials" LMAO!
This is the best lesson on modes “PERIOD”
*periodt
It's pretty good but makes a poor choice by calling the Ionian scale the "major scale" and the Aeolian scale the "minor scale." Still, I don't see other videos this good at showing the feel of each mode. I liked his descriptions and choice of colors for each mode.
@@siguardvolsung explain
@@chisathot750 Because there are two other major diatonic scales and three other minor diatonic scales. Calling one "the minor scale" implies the others aren't minor, and it's the same with major scales. Call them what they are: the Ionian and Aeolian scales. The lesson is on music theory, so anyone learning about the Mixolydian, Dorian, etc. scales can handle another two odd names.
@@siguardvolsung could you link some videos explaining this qith more detail?
This truly makes modes not only comprehensible, but enjoyable. I'm still a relative beginner at music theory, but I can follow the lessons if I pause to think about them. THANK YOU!
Excellent job of teaching. In Jazz we encounter the diminished 7th chord making Locrian an option. It is also great in heavy metal where you also encounter the diminished triad. I think a better description of Phrygian is 'Spanish' flavored it is often used in flamenco, not so much in traditional middle eastern music. You are a good teacher, I hope you are working in the community college system. Your approach has the kind of clarity our students need.
Indeed, Phrygian reminded me of Ravel's "Bolero". Excellent video, thanks.
Spanish music is heavily influenced by Middle Eastern music, because the Moors occupied the Iberian peninsula for centuries after the fall of the Roman and Byzantine Empires when Islam was spreading, thus Spanish sounds part western and part eastern.
Locrian is kinda useful for conveying that mixture of monotony and dread we all know and love. Army of Me by Bjork uses it well.
Yup. I was going to say "Army of me" is a VERY DECENT use of Locrian. Many would say extraordinarily beautiful. Certainly not boring.
If something works well for Björk we have a fairly good indicator that it doesn't work for mostly everyone else :P
Also, for some strange reason, I feel an irrational urge to object to putting "we all know and love" next to "monotony and dread". That combination, in and of itself, feels kinda Locrian: "Yes, you can do that. It's semantically perfectly valid, yes. But why would you?" :P
Also, Doom is in Locrian.
I'm sorry for this comment but that video helps me out understanding some characters in a game. And now I know why Locria betrayed the other one and teamed up with the antagonist in the game. Many thanks!
Each of these characters in the game have also a color
Ionia's color is green and they have a really good mood all the time.
Doria's color is purple. They look a bit "darker" also their proportion is different from the others and they have sunglasses on.
Phrygia's color is orange. They are sleeping all the time but they say that they are more serious than the other. They are also living near a volcano hits the sound color Phrygian makes.
Lydia's color is yellow and they live really outpaced on a cold area. They take care of little cute snow bunnies and the snow area looks really dreamy and floaty.
Mixolydia's (or Missy or Mixo) color is cyan. They also have an upbeat personality but they really have style. They protect something important with... You guess it: With three giant rock golems.
Aeolia's color is red and they really don't understand the human's short life span of a human (yes these species are not human even though they look alike with a special clothing taste I really love!). A boy came to Aeolia and they gave him a special ability not knowing which tragicty is about to happen to him and they are also the first of the species who's gonna disappear. Sounds a bit tragic but for these species it's... Romantic however.
Locria doesn't have a color because white isn't technically a color. Yeah Locria is a douchebag. He helps to put an innocent world in an "utopia" for someone else, eats bananas and drops the peels on the floor, so everyone is stumbling over them. And he is mean to a poor monkey. So don't hang out with Locria.
What game is that?
@@miketheperformer5972 It's Mother 3. It never got a release outside Japan. But there is a Rom Hack with a very good English translation
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Mahammed
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For anyone who didnt already know this one
Thanks 🙏
I don't particularly like modes a lot
@@existential_fred That's because you don't know how to use them lol. They're so cheesy!
@@gustavomelles1 thats another trick. I(ionian) dont (Dorian) particularly (phrygian) and etc
@@RichieHelf I didn't notice at first
Dorian sounds a bit medieval-ish to me.
100%
Alfred Schlicht
Not when Angus plays it!
See Shook Me All Night Long solo.
Spot on!
Ionian: 4:44
Dorian: 5:33
Phrygian: 6:50
Lydian: 8:01
Mixolydian: 9:00
Aeolian: 10:30
Locrian: 11:45
Why diss locrian? that jam sounded sweet
Best mode video ever. Nobody else explains it quite right.
Really well put together and nicely explained :)
locrian and phrygian are good for math metal and grind.
Love the little details....underlighting the styrofoam head in the colors of the text graphics for each of the different modes. Makes it really easy to grasp!
Bands like Korn played around with “alternative power chords” like half diminished triads and perfect fourths, and I used these for a while. Half Dim triads bring a lot of shock value to heavy music, and root/4 power chords have a crunchiness that you don’t get with 5ths. I personally find locrian pretty pleasing with plenty of distortion and an erratic strumming pattern
Switching from a minor 7 shell to a maj7 shell in locrian. (Such as Bmin7 shell to Fmaj7 shell) gives you a good ground work as well. Locrian gives you access to the 4 and b4 which can sound bluesy if done right.
Ahahhh...now the confusion is gone, everyone explains like its the same shit as playing the major scale in different positions, but i think its about memorising those different positions and applying with one root note, hope im right
bingo!
That's how he explains it but I've seen some kick arse lessons explaining it the way you said. My confusion has just started. Is he keeping G as root and then playing in different keys???
Sorry if this adds to your confusion but I hope I can clarify some things. In this video you're right in thinking that G is always the root, all that's happening is he's changing certain intervals/notes in the G major scale, which makes each solo a different mode of that standard G major scale, such as when shifting the fifth note in the G major scale down a half step made the following solo G Lydian. In regards to whether he's playing in different keys, the backing track is 100% in G because it is clearly implied in the playing that G is the "home" note, and his solos are always in a mode (or "version") of G. Ultimately, its helpful to remember how modes work in both the way they're described in this video and the other ones you mentioned. However, it's really important to distinguish between what each type of video is trying to say, as this is what confuses a lot of people, including me for waaay too long. This video discusses what modes actually *are* in music theory (major scales with certain notes in the scale changed), whilst the videos talking about playing the major scale in different positions are discussing how you can actually play in different modes - for example, if you take the G Major scale shape and shift it 3 frets up so you're now playing a A# Major scale, you're actually playing G Aeolian at the same time as they share the same notes, whether you want to define it as A# Major or G Aeolian really depends on what key the underlying song is in. That's how I got started playing modes personally, I only knew the first position of the Major scale, so I'd just shift it up 3 frets to play Aeolian. If you asked me, I didn't even view my E Aeolian solos as being in E Aeolian from a playing position, I was playing a G Major/Ionian as this was something I was comfortable with playing - really just view it however works for you. Once you can play the generic major scale shape you can play every mode, you just shift that overall shape around to change the 7 notes of that scale, thus giving you different modes.
Don't memorize the scale positions, memorize the notes of the scales and your fretboard and then positions really don't matter.
Should have put the ♭5 as the interesting note for Locrian.
Also note that each of the 7 modes' 'interesting note' happens to be on the scale's tritone.
For example, Dorian's signature note, the ♮6, creates a tritone with the ♭3.
That's because the half steps give these scales their color, and the tritone in the modes is between the two occurences of a half step.
11:02 How he unwillingly referred to Pink Floyd..
Could you do more stuff like this? "Here's a concept, here's how you play with it to create a certain feeling"
locrian is just phrygian with the diminished 5th. it makes great metal.
I’m new to music theory, what does diminished mean
@@trytongames7778 hope this answer isn't too late. *diminished* *means* *lowered* . in the key of c major (ionian) g is normally the fifth. diminished fifth means it's a gb (or f#), because it's lowered a semitone. a diminished c-chord (Cdim) would be c-eb-gb (compared to a Cmaj c-e-g). both the third (eb) and the fifth (gb) is lowered a semitone.
@Tryton Games a fitfh usually is the distance of 7 semitones. A diminished fifth is 6 semitones. This distance is also often called a "tritone", because its made up of three whole tones.
What other mode(s) would give a metal edge? I'm not a metal guy but I want to add a bit of metalish sounds in my guitar playing.
... Omg, well I'm so dumb, this is the easiest and obvious way to remember it. Kudos to you, good sir, you made my life a lot simpler haha!
Major: A vast plain on which a lot of flowers grow
Dorian: A shady city renowned for its nightlife
Phrygian: A desert dominated by massive, ancient, mysterious beasts
Lydian: A busy Space Station filled with new opportunities you never dared to dream off
Mixolydian: Valhalla, where only the strongest warriors are allowed to indulge themselves in feasts, epic battles and other pleasures
Minor: A village that has just been raided and raised to the ground
Locrian: The lair of a powerful tyrant, whose guards could discover and kill you any second if you aren't careful
I feel a video on analysis of Dream Theatre's "A nightmare to remember" will be very helpful to understand modal interchange and how it sets different moods in the same song.
hey great video but i think bagpipes are from scotland not ireland :)
The bag pipes originate in Baghdad
"Bagpipes originated in Ireland, when the Irish developed the uilleann pipes, they gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a Joke.." Paddy Mahoney (The Chieftains), explaining the roots of the bagpipe.
I'm doing research for some characters for a D&D campaign I'm part of, and I wanted to name a group of characters after the modes, give them a music theme. But I didn't know which vibes each mode had and how to apply them, and wikipedia was *frustratingly* analytical about it and didn't give me any help with mood or symbolism or anything like that. In 15 minutes you have solved my entire issue, you're a legend
might have found the Adam Neely of guitar
HAHAHAHHA was just thinking that! Both are absolutely amazing!
absolutely 😂
As of before this video ma boi adam was the only one i wanted to listen to. Now there are two :)
He's far from that. He doesnt even know what is modal music. Finalis? Repercussion? Nah, Id better play some rocknroll!
BASS!!!!
As I was listening, I started realizing that the Dorian and Mixolydian modes were pretty much opposites. The Dorian mode has the natural sixth to make it minor but not quite so dark, and the Mixolydian has the flat seventh to make it major but not so much. They essentially do the same things, just in opposite directions.
You mean a flatted seventh to make it a little more minor. Major seventh make it more optimistic while the dominant seventh makes it a little more light hearted/drunk.
When I close my eyes I hear Jeff Goldblum
You are by far one of the greatest teachers on youtube!
True!
While Locrian in itself is not really pallatable in a jam session, removing it's minor 3rd and 6th(Which would correspond to A# and D#) you would get the Iwato scale which has this really cool minor Japanese timbre and you can use this in the same vein as the phrygian scale, but getting an entirely different exotic flavour.
yes. The classical church modes become really interesting when you modify them :)
Pentatonic scales are great fun and speaking of Iwato scale you could just check out the Hirajoshi scale which Iwato is related to according to the concepts of some composers. There’s also other exotic scales derived from the Hirajoshi.
Atom-T Yes actually I really enjoy playing on Hirajoshi espiacially on the root of D but I kinda have problems improvising on it in a way that it kinda sounds like a generic major if you don't play it from bottom to top(which with some good rythm can sound really aesthetic)
Mixolydian is just Irish that's fucking amazing
Man... you had me cracking up with the mixolydian advertisement! Love it! And I'll check with my doctor!
great lesson. i'd really like to hear you to talk about altered modes and whole tone scales or octotonic scales. thanks :)
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Locrian is the left over staff, dont have any use.
Army of Me: Hold My Beer
Exactly what I was thinking. But then, that's just Bjork, making weird/"useless"/"not even music" stuff sound great
*I just realised... You look and sound like Symour Skinner from the Simpsons!*
Amrit Mehta lol
time to steam some hams!
When he plays lydian
I was thinking a bit Obama. You know camp but without the torture and the drones and what not.
I was think of Joe Flanders from the Average Joe show on RUclips
14:40 - ♪♫ "Dancing days are here again as the summer evenings grow..." ♬ Keep going!
an easy way to get a full sound is harmonizing a riff in thirds. I love writing a light, and admittedly boring, riff in ionanian, then doing the same exact riff over it in phrygian or aeolian. makes it much more palatable in my opinion
even great with chords!
Absolutely an awesome and quick way to make cool sounding music... it's almost cheating- just write something cool in one shape, and do the "same thing" 2 shapes higher
Very good lesson, Thanks, Could you make another video like this one but with Melodic minor and Harmonic minor Scales modes ? Thank You for all your lessons, very helpful.
great lesson btw. Thank you very much. How come you start on G for all of the modes? I always thought in 2nd mode your home note is that 2nd note. For example you play the g scale (7 notes) but start on A and go all the way through the g scale until the A? Please help me obi wan Kenobi you are my only hope.
Björk pulled off Locrian mode in "Army of Me", but yeah, it's really tough to use well.
that's in phrygian, the natural 5th is a strong component of that song
I think @WondrousMoose is referring to the bass line
When I first heard the Locrian Jam, I instantly thought of Larry LaLonde’s guitar playing in Primus. For example, some of the confusing and random sounding guitar on “My Name is Mud” seems like its Locrian.
This one locrian was beautiful with an undertone and sense of danger
I love how you relate the modes to colors. Reminds me of the movie Mask, when Rocky Dennis conveys colors to a blind girl to feelings. i.e. warm/hot = red, cool/cold = blue.
This is awesome, thank you. Your playing in the modes really gave me a good feel for them. I'd have picked Mozart's photo for your classical music example -- Bach is often super-serious sounding, whereas Mozart is often "sickeningly happy" haha. : )
Locrian is sick for metal though
Ultra Locrian is hotter tho
I've found that, when used right, it's also pretty good for neurofunk.
Yea.. for e.g. Lamb of God extensively utilises F locrian
thatguywhodoesstuff that has largely to do with distortion
Well then, now I know - I was a total Locrian in high school
A regular diminished chord for home super imposes the locrian bb7 mode from double harmonic major -_-- home chord for locrian is a m7b5 or a locrian chord which is a 1b4b5 -_-
I blame my terrible guitar skills on Locrian mode. It gets me chicks.
The note of interest of Locrian is DEFINITELY the b5. If you don't play that b5 it's just "normal" phrygian.
Wow, what a great explanation. Dude you are such a fantastic instructor
Locrian works well for dark metal. Enter sandman by metallica is in locrian (uses the flat fifth frequently in the intro)
So is The Shortest Straw.
Even though traditional bag pipe music is Scottish... it's ok, the UK forgives you. Watch the Edingburgh Tattoo, and dispel your irish thoughts.. incidently, whisky is also scottish and spelt without an E.
Fanastic lesson though.
Subbed, you're smart and seem like a nice guy. That does it for me. Also, LOVE writing metal riffs in Lydian.
This was the most clear explanation of modes I've come across - as someone who knows next to nothing about music theory I gained a lot from this! Many thanks
Do the notes of the modes only have to align with the notes of the tonic chord? Or do you constantly have to keep switching modes depending on the current chord being played? And if you do have to switch modes, do you have to switch the 1 in the scale degree, to match with that 1st note in the current chord which isn’t the tonic chord? Or could you just stay on the same 1 degree on the tonic chord THE WHOLE TIME, but just constantly switch (if needed) to different modes to match the following chords in the progression? I hope you understand my question lol.
Did you show Bach for 'bland major'?!? I know it's a bit nit-picky, but Bach wrote the book on harmonic complexity (ie, the 48 preludes and fugues - I'm sure you're familiar with that, of course). Apart from that, I really enjoyed the video (having just done my own tiny video on dorian and mixolydian so far).
Major is not bland, but a lot of guitarists just suck at playing in Major keys, because they are Rock/Blues/Metal players who never learned to play anything else than Minor scales. And let's be serious, the vast majority of ppl start playing guitar because of one of those genres.
It's the same with music as everyting else in life, you don't get good at making interesting Major key melodies, if you spent all your time practicing in Minor.
I’ve learned so much I never knew before about guitar just from a few of this guy’s videos. So helpful.
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Mixolydian, in my opinion is sweeter than the major scale. The major would be a watered down & diluted version of the mixolydian lol
I'm seeing this video already knowing the modes pretty well, but I have to say: the way you teach and explain those things is awesome! If that video was around when I started learning about these things, my life would've been SO MUCH easier! Great job, man!
Me too!
BEST explanation of modes I've seen so far! Your lessons are filling in SO many gaps in my theory learning. YOU ARE THE MAN
The modes always seemed fairly straightforward to me. They're just an edginess slider. I accidentally discovered Dorian on my own before I knew what scales were.
I think you made a mistake by explaining them in order of position (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, etc.) instead of brightness (Lydian, Ionian, Mixolydian, etc.), as David Bennet does in his fantastic "The Modes Ranked by Brightness" video.
P.S. To me, Mixolydian is the green scale.
How does somebody this young become so very polished, confident, "experienced"? Hats off! You have a great future! Your voice and demeanor are perfect for this kind of work. It would be interesting to know if this talent is genetic or acquired from very supportive parents.
He's about 35...
@@RagggedTrouseredPhilanthropist Still applies
Poor Locrian, always the bridesmaid.....
The ugly bridesmaid!
Haha
I wonder if it was like depressing and a little off balance to live in Locris. Yeah the girls there might have been known for being batsh** crazy. Never want to even date one, let alone deal with her brothers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locris#Ancient_Locris
Ao Heartsdale Interesting. Are all modes derived from Greek language or Greek territory?
+Mike D. basically, yes
Learned more about music theory on this video than I have playing music as a hobby for a decade and a half. Thank you!
Finally! This is a such a common sense, logical and well-explained tutorial on the topic of modes! Why is it that almost all other tutorials on modes suck?? Good grief. THANK YOU for stripping the all too common ego out of the equation and just delivering an effective explanation with examples.
Phillip Hanson Damn right. Plus, the man has great voice. Plus, he goes straight to the point. No sweepstakes, promotions, lenghty introductions, showing his kids (looking at you Scott Devine), begging for subs and likes. Plus, great video editing and some subtle humor (the ads). Simply one of the greates lessons I have ever seen.