My favorite thing about music is how the same ideas can be used in drastically different ways. All of these modes of the melodic minor scale are used in Jazz, in classical music, and also in Indian and Arabic music. The applications are widely different, but its the same intervalic relationships. Creativity is amazing.
I'v always been too nervous to compose using any of the melodic minor modes just because of my jazz background. I know that sounds odd but hear me out: my band is a gothic/symphonic metal band; I never thought the sounds would fit the style. But you've inspired me to do some noodling Scott
I love it how balanced this video is. There is not too much talk and no noodling around you know exactly what you want to say and a quick metal example of that theory being used. Just how it should be. Thank you for this video 👍
When you explained it, it all made sense to me. Probably because I'm metal, hard rock in my heart, and you used it in a setting that I'm used to. I also watched the channel of Jens Larsen, a distinguished jazz guitarist, and he explained it from a jazz point of view. Nice to get it from slightly different directions, and how one thinks creatively in relation to the style of music you like best.
Well this scale and its modes are no secret to me. Great lesson Scott! Very well put together. I like that you include the chord scales with it! You know, you can really combine any of those arpeggios over any of the modal keys to combine new sounds.....
Dude this is far and away your best music recorded! Whatever supplements you were stacking this week was a winner, where can I download some of the stuff? Some of these riffs are fucking amazing! You’ve got to put this stuff out! This, dude THIS is the good shit..
Holy shit, I have no idea what I just watched, but I'll sign my name in blood! Buhahahahahahaha. Was searching old school 80's NHL fights and gun videos and somehow stumbled upon your video. I use to play guitar and need to pick it up again. I'm a big old school Thrash, Death and Black Metal fan with some of the favorites being Bathory, SLAYER, early Sepultura, early Morbid Angel, Danzig, Motorhead, Obituary and everything in between. This was some good stuff. I'm sure Quorthon and Hanneman approve!
Thanks Shred! Fascinating to hear a Metal Guitarist perspective on music theory. This material is actually quite lacking in this day and age of information overload.
I've learned these during my time learning fusion and jazz with greats like Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, Scott Henderson and so on. And noticed certain bands like Dream theater, Symphony X,Between the Buried and Me and Cynic,also used concepts behind those scales. I love them!
Bro I’m glad I found this channel. I love how you do your videos like a music lesson. I’m a drummer but I’m getting into guitar and these help so much. Thank You! 🤘🤘🤘
Master!! Exactly what I am studying right now...and was stuck in the rut, trying to make it metal, the guitar grimoire book, trying to apply the scales to metal. Thank you Master for these great lessons. Satan Bless you, LOL.
@@ShredmasterScott i sent ur vids to a classical guitarist friend who is wishing to pursue his masters in composition and loves metal. He says the same thing, everyone over focuses on speed and has no ides about composition and theory. He was excited to hear u do vids on wild concepts like 12 tone and metal theory
Hail Grand ShReDmAsTeR, but I knew about it... But here is one I obtained in a vision, the darkest of them all: 1 b2 b3 b4 5 b6 7 The evil Djinn would not tell me the name of this scale...
According to this site -www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/modename.html - that scale doesn't exist except as a mode of two others (which have both Indian and Greek identities): 1 2 b3 #4 5 #6 7 (2 1 3 1 3 1 1) = Mela Nitimati, Raga Nisada, Kaikavasi (Your scale starting on F: F G Ab B C D# E F) 1 #2 3 4 5 b6 7 (3 1 1 2 1 3 1) = Mela Gangeyabhusani, Raga Gangatarangini, Sengah (Greek) (Your scale starting on C: C D# E F G Ab B C).
I once heard the Altered Scale, and somebody called it the "Diminished Whole-Tone" scale, and it's stuck with me since, but boy am I glad it actually has a name 😆
I have found your channel recently, and as a music student in college i love it how u approach theory with a grain of fun. hahahahahahaha shred or die \m/
Is there a term for what you did in the first example where you played the melody twice but the second time it ended higher? Cause the moment you started the second bar I knew exactly where you were going to go with it, and I assume it's so common in music it must have a name.
This is why I'm studying classical guitar right now. Guys like Mozart could do wonders with these modes. With djent being as prevalent as it is I don't think they are as uncommon as you say though.
Nice brother. Yeah, I don't think you're gonna find these sounds in Mozart's music except for the first mode. I'm not using melodic minor like they did in the classical period though, ascending with a raised 6 and 7, descending with a flattened 6 and 7. I'm using "jazz" minor, keeping the 6 and 7 raised no matter what.
@@ShredmasterScott I'm not far enough in my education to get what you said in the second part of your comment but I think that they did use them sporadically back then. Mozart even used the whole tone scale once.
Hello Shred Master Scott, first I wanted to say thank you for doing these videos of modes within other scales other than the major scale (It's been overdone by now) and I wanted to ask you what program do you use to play those chords and keep them playing it in a background to then grab the sound of the mode playing in your guitar, like in the 8:21 part of the video!
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Any chance you'd be willing to do anything with the Ritsu scale or Ryo? I paid for your book and have no idea how to use some of these outside of that little box 😂
Could you do a video about growing and grooming your fingernails for finger picking? I've tried many times but I could never get them to look like yours.
Wondering what this scale I came up with is called. I can't find it anywhere. Does it have a name? It sounds pretty cool to my ears, maybe not to anyone else's: 1-b2-b3-#4-5-b6-b7 Basically Phrygian with a raised 4th...
@@ShredmasterScott 1 2 b3 4 b5 b6 7 I don't think it's the same scale as hungarian minor. Its a minor scale with a flatted 5 and a major 7. I recently played around with a scale and wanna know if it has a fancy name and used somewhere in music already. Hungarian minor is 1 2 b3 #4 5 b6 b7. There is not much similarity between the two besides the first 3 notes and the b6. It didn't sounded mega evil like super locrian, but there are some dissonance going on :) Or maybe I'm stupid and I don't know something that connect those 2 scales somehow xd.
"Now stop fingering those minors and let's get to it." I pretty much died. I really like the keyboard chord in the background as you play the scales and chords. And your songs are badass too. Another killer video satan would be proud of!
Yes. I am that guy who is really in a rut at the moment creatively and have been for almost 6 months. I have little motivation to pick up my guitar and practice those damn Dream Theater songs. Hearing these scales did exactly what you hoped. Time to fudge around with some scales and chords Oooooh. Evil.
This may just be my favorite channel on RUclips. I love metal. I love Satan and I love Scott
that's what I like to hear
You religious folk are always so entertaining
satan sucks!!!! christ is king and god won ;) read revelations, robert plant did!!!
My favorite thing about music is how the same ideas can be used in drastically different ways. All of these modes of the melodic minor scale are used in Jazz, in classical music, and also in Indian and Arabic music. The applications are widely different, but its the same intervalic relationships. Creativity is amazing.
Thanks for posting this, I really like how you demo all this theory / scale stuff with actual musical pieces
thanks brother, cheers
Why did I not find this channel 20 yrs ago, love this guy!
I'm 50. Been playing since 8th grade. Only now am I starting to grasp this stuff, thanks to this channel. Great presentations, all the time.
Cheers Brian, let's keep crushing it
I'v always been too nervous to compose using any of the melodic minor modes just because of my jazz background. I know that sounds odd but hear me out: my band is a gothic/symphonic metal band; I never thought the sounds would fit the style.
But you've inspired me to do some noodling Scott
yeah dude, it's crazy how this shit works....give it a go
Jazz douche
need me some goth jazz
Hellyeah_
"If it sounds good it is good"
that's right brother
I know nothing about music theory but I still watch every video you put out because they're so interesting and fun to watch
that's awesome brother
I love it how balanced this video is. There is not too much talk and no noodling around you know exactly what you want to say and a quick metal example of that theory being used. Just how it should be. Thank you for this video 👍
appreciate that brother, trying to give you guys the goods
"My uncle has a metal scale, that no one knows about..."
I UNDERSTOOD THAT REFERENCE
Hahahaaaa
"He says it used to be a scale before the modal laws"
@@fly1ngdutchman454 well played sir.
Black Barchetta
Hi Shredmaster!! Nobody else can teach metal music theory like you!! Maximum respect!!!
cheers my man 🤘
8:52 is truly LOL and perhaps this channel in microcosm... great video
I laughed the first time then I laughed again when I clicked the time stamp.
When you explained it, it all made sense to me. Probably because I'm metal, hard rock in my heart, and you used it in a setting that I'm used to.
I also watched the channel of Jens Larsen, a distinguished jazz guitarist, and he explained it from a jazz point of view. Nice to get it from slightly different directions, and how one thinks creatively in relation to the style of music you like best.
Diary of a Madman! Nice scale choices for harmonies and vocals \m/.
This Channel gives me eargasm all the time.its like a gate to hell that i like to embrace it all the time
May Satan bless you brother 🤘👺
Well this scale and its modes are no secret to me. Great lesson Scott! Very well put together. I like that you include the chord scales with it! You know, you can really combine any of those arpeggios over any of the modal keys to combine new sounds.....
Thanks Shredmmasttter ..... ah ah ah ah ah !! Killer video as always.
cheers brother 🤘
Dude this is far and away your best music recorded! Whatever supplements you were stacking this week was a winner, where can I download some of the stuff? Some of these riffs are fucking amazing! You’ve got to put this stuff out! This, dude THIS is the good shit..
That scale on 1:05 was used in the outro of adoration for none by gojira
love it
Holy shit, I have no idea what I just watched, but I'll sign my name in blood! Buhahahahahahaha. Was searching old school 80's NHL fights and gun videos and somehow stumbled upon your video. I use to play guitar and need to pick it up again. I'm a big old school Thrash, Death and Black Metal fan with some of the favorites being Bathory, SLAYER, early Sepultura, early Morbid Angel, Danzig, Motorhead, Obituary and everything in between. This was some good stuff. I'm sure Quorthon and Hanneman approve!
Thanks Shred! Fascinating to hear a Metal Guitarist perspective on music theory. This material is actually quite lacking in this day and age of information overload.
agreed my man 🤘
0:37, 7:47, 7:50
Awesome breakdown!
I've learned these during my time learning fusion and jazz with greats like Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, Scott Henderson and so on. And noticed certain bands like Dream theater, Symphony X,Between the Buried and Me and Cynic,also used concepts behind those scales. I love them!
Love this channel so much, it’s both incredibly informative and hilarious at the same time. Keep being you Scott🤘🏼
The raddddesssttttt teacher ever
This video saved me a trip to The Crossroads. Thanks, Shredmaster! \m/
07:05 that was what i was thinking when listening...jazzy metal feeling!
nice
this channel should hold contests, like "make a song with one of these modes" type things. i would totally do it, i don't even want to win anything
I pick with slot of theory guys.You know your stuff very well! Thanks.
Asparagus is lurking in a can in a nearby store. It notes your presence even as you remain blissfully unaware of its.
Bro I’m glad I found this channel. I love how you do your videos like a music lesson. I’m a drummer but I’m getting into guitar and these help so much. Thank You! 🤘🤘🤘
That's awesome to hear brother
Lucky I learnt how to read music, because you told me to. I really needed it for this video.
0:36 thanks for all the desktop backgrounds you've been making over the years.
Another amazing vid !
Great stuff, thanks. I have the Guitar Grimoire books but this brings it to life much more.
Excellent lesson
You rule shred master!!
Solid stuff as always!
You are amazing
Master!! Exactly what I am studying right now...and was stuck in the rut, trying to make it metal, the guitar grimoire book, trying to apply the scales to metal. Thank you Master for these great lessons. Satan Bless you, LOL.
amen brother, may the dark lord be praised
Yes master shred, yes master shred , yes .
affirmative
All Hail to Scottmaster Shred!
scales so secret that there actually modes. great vid! id love to see full songs of these example ideas there so good
thanks brother
@@ShredmasterScott i sent ur vids to a classical guitarist friend who is wishing to pursue his masters in composition and loves metal.
He says the same thing, everyone over focuses on speed and has no ides about composition and theory. He was excited to hear u do vids on wild concepts like 12 tone and metal theory
That’s awesome brother 🤘
Very well-presented easy to understand
I had never tried out super locrian before, gave the scale some runs now, what an insane sound. Gotta use it somewhere.
for sure brother
Yeah, and I like ultralocrian too
I love that evil laugh..... You are the best sir scott
Hail Grand ShReDmAsTeR, but I knew about it... But here is one I obtained in a vision, the darkest of them all:
1 b2 b3 b4 5 b6 7
The evil Djinn would not tell me the name of this scale...
No oficial name. Phrygian b4 natural 7. Almost an ultra phrygian mode of doble harmonic Minor.
According to this site -www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/modename.html - that scale doesn't exist except as a mode of two others (which have both Indian and Greek identities):
1 2 b3 #4 5 #6 7 (2 1 3 1 3 1 1) = Mela Nitimati, Raga Nisada, Kaikavasi (Your scale starting on F: F G Ab B C D# E F)
1 #2 3 4 5 b6 7 (3 1 1 2 1 3 1) = Mela Gangeyabhusani, Raga Gangatarangini, Sengah (Greek) (Your scale starting on C: C D# E F G Ab B C).
Harmonic Minor b2 b4, phrygian b4 natural 7. The second seems the best name.
I have never saw that scale in my life. Did you try making music with it?
Could be Persian. I'd have to check my guitar guimire
I once heard the Altered Scale, and somebody called it the "Diminished Whole-Tone" scale, and it's stuck with me since, but boy am I glad it actually has a name 😆
Idk how you dont have more subscriber's
Great video.. I think I'll get into them deeper. Sounds really cool
that's what I like to hear brother
Please do a Video on hex scales .
My favorite one goes: e-f-g#-Bb-b-d
Very evil sounding.
Great Video!!!
I have found your channel recently, and as a music student in college i love it how u approach theory with a grain of fun. hahahahahahaha shred or die \m/
Very cool stuff here, I'm sure I'll be coming back to this video several times.😎🤘
write some killer riffs brother
I want shred master Scott in my D&D group
Can't thank you enough 🤘🤘
Is there a term for what you did in the first example where you played the melody twice but the second time it ended higher? Cause the moment you started the second bar I knew exactly where you were going to go with it, and I assume it's so common in music it must have a name.
Don't know if there's a name for that...
This is why I'm studying classical guitar right now. Guys like Mozart could do wonders with these modes. With djent being as prevalent as it is I don't think they are as uncommon as you say though.
@Manny Fragoza Mozart uses them too. It's just that jazz is known for using the melodic minor.
Nice brother. Yeah, I don't think you're gonna find these sounds in Mozart's music except for the first mode. I'm not using melodic minor like they did in the classical period though, ascending with a raised 6 and 7, descending with a flattened 6 and 7. I'm using "jazz" minor, keeping the 6 and 7 raised no matter what.
@@ShredmasterScott I'm not far enough in my education to get what you said in the second part of your comment but I think that they did use them sporadically back then. Mozart even used the whole tone scale once.
Yo killer video
That superlocrian "song" sounds like a possessed Devin Townsend, I love it.... Now I'm going to write some music
C Melodic Minor is so gothic and haunting... I fucking *NEED* to write something in this scale
Man. Im actually trying on violin. Mind blowing!
Good Video👍
This I gotta see. I know a whole lot about scales.
I love your videos...
1:04 Adoration For None - Gojira outro
Hi Shred, good job as usual ! Just curious why these mode have a tone assiociated with them. Can't you play them all in A for example ?
I'll practice these scales as soon as I get the shredmaster laugh down
Good djazz lesson
Hello Shred Master Scott, first I wanted to say thank you for doing these videos of modes within other scales other than the major scale (It's been overdone by now) and I wanted to ask you what program do you use to play those chords and keep them playing it in a background to then grab the sound of the mode playing in your guitar, like in the 8:21 part of the video!
7:57 random industrial metal song.
You probably found the modal chords through the interval system? It would be cool if you did a series of vid on that topic.
indeed...you find the chord for each mode by playing every other note of the scale
Like 498 selling my soul to the dark one made me soil my slacks with laughter
YOO I DID THE CRAZIEST THING ON GUITAR TODAY AND NOW IM INFINITELY BETTER! I actually picked it up and practiced! Set up nice speakers n listened to La Cage, my fav musical, and practiced to it like 5x in a row. And now im gay uwu
The uwu proves it
Try that one : T b2 3 #4 5 6 b7 (A Bb C# D# E F# G, you can use a A major chord then D# major with this scale)
Wicked scales
thanks brother
@@ShredmasterScott you're the best man ...keep it up
I need to sell my soul to HRC? No way.
Naw, she doesn't want your soul, just your children under 8
I appreciate you .
✊🤘🤘
Any chance you'd be willing to do anything with the Ritsu scale or Ryo? I paid for your book and have no idea how to use some of these outside of that little box 😂
Good videos
It has a lot of potential. It's kinda an acquired taste because it's not used in rock or metal much. Lydian dominate is one of my favs also!
I bet you have haters bro. Youre fucking talented man!
Finally
See kids what happen when you eat your vegetables and play your melodic minor modes scales.
that's right
God dude...Lydian augmented or the Lydian #5 is my favorite. Damn! It too evil and twisted. Satan approves!
Lydian doesn't sound happy anymore
Metal+Music Theory+Guitar+Shred+Ultimate Eeeeeevil=Best guitar-related YT channel. Thanks ShredMaster!
thanks brother, let's keep blowing it up
Fuckin awesome, Shred. I never explored modes of a "normal" scale. Its a lot to take in. Freakin evil. \m/
Pale Blue Dot by Dream Theater is in Lydian Dominant
I first learned lydian dominant as a teenager from JP
@@ShredmasterScott Cool :D
Cool
Skwisgaar: WROOOONG
You should put jus "scales no one knows about" cause im bout to use this in my hip hip beats -KiddHyper
Could you do a video about growing and grooming your fingernails for finger picking? I've tried many times but I could never get them to look like yours.
Try to make them flat in the middle and curved on the sides. You want as much finger nail to come in contact with the string as possible
Wondering what this scale I came up with is called. I can't find it anywhere. Does it have a name? It sounds pretty cool to my ears, maybe not to anyone else's:
1-b2-b3-#4-5-b6-b7
Basically Phrygian with a raised 4th...
Sounds like tunes in the background score from (the running man)
Can you do a video about Harmonic Minor b5?
hungarian minor? It's in this video,
ruclips.net/video/p7ENklb1wfE/видео.html
@@ShredmasterScott
1 2 b3 4 b5 b6 7 I don't think it's the same scale as hungarian minor. Its a minor scale with a flatted 5 and a major 7. I recently played around with a scale and wanna know if it has a fancy name and used somewhere in music already.
Hungarian minor is 1 2 b3 #4 5 b6 b7.
There is not much similarity between the two besides the first 3 notes and the b6.
It didn't sounded mega evil like super locrian, but there are some dissonance going on :)
Or maybe I'm stupid and I don't know something that connect those 2 scales somehow xd.
Shred got fingernails like a werewolf to play guitar.
Beginner here. How do I understand scales?
"Now stop fingering those minors and let's get to it." I pretty much died. I really like the keyboard chord in the background as you play the scales and chords. And your songs are badass too. Another killer video satan would be proud of!
thanks brother, let's keep blowing it up
Yes. I am that guy who is really in a rut at the moment creatively and have been for almost 6 months. I have little motivation to pick up my guitar and practice those damn Dream Theater songs. Hearing these scales did exactly what you hoped. Time to fudge around with some scales and chords Oooooh. Evil.
Excellent brother, my next video is gonna have tons of fun ideas to explore