Your presentation of this material was thorough, unpretentious, captivating, and so down to Earth. I graduated from a top music school in the US and you gave the best explanation of modes I've yet come across. Thank you for overthrowing the established modal teaching philosophy and making such accessible material!
I'd say the same thing too! I have been singing Gregorian chants for half of my life and recently I was re-introduced to modes by non-religious musicians and I was so thrown off by the theories. But then, your explanation is so clear and hits exactly what confuses me the most. So, thank you very much!
Totally agree with you Gil. While the whole program was very informative and made sense of Modes for me, it all fell into place for me in the last couple of minutes. As a student bassist currently learning about Modes/Pentatonic scales, I was most interested in application of Modes over a chord progression on the bass; how to use them on the bass to outline the chord. Thanks very much! Top Man.
There are a lot of music theory channels on RUclips but yours is he most comprehensive and with the most well explained content that shows how to apply concepts as well
That's totally genious!! I thought I was the only one who thought the same ! just wondering why he didn't add that logic to his already simplfied way on looking at modes from the start.. regardless it's an awesome lesson!! this guy really got me understanding this stuff! I just think having the flats in order from (1) would of made even more sense to allot of us . 👍👍
or you can think of the lydain of b1b,b2,b3,b5,b6,b7 so at this point if you start in c you are no longer in c cause of b1, and the only one that is not flat is 4 so raise every half a tone and instead of that it only remains #4
@Glenn Dalida not F. It'd be b5. He meant the circle of fiths clockwise (a sequence of perfect fiths) from the root of the scale : 1 5 2 6 3 7 4 whose the modes are respectively I M D Aeon P Loc and Ly. It allows us to have here the circle of emotions here: the 1st Lydyan is the brightest one, the 2nd Ionian ...and finally the darkness one is Locrian). I guess that it is his logiccal order.
Sooo true, when teacher asks you something, you can answer, but you don´t don´t konw how to use it. LOL. This was one of the best videos I´ve come across online.
This was a great video. Thank you for sharing your music knowledge with the world! In case if we have any Eastern musicians especially musicians from Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan. I hope everyone finds this useful. 1.) In western music theory, we call them modes. For example, Ionian, is a scale mode in western music. (Mostly it's used for happy songs) In Indian classical music we call them, Bilaval Thaat. Here are the rest of the" Eastern" Indian classical names for these modes.. I hope you guy find them useful. 2.) Dorian is Kafi Thaat. (Dorian is a minor scale, and it's popular in Jazz music.) 3.) Phyrgian is Bhairavi Thaat. (Minor scale) 4.) Lydian is Yaman/Kalyan Thaat. (Lydian is a major scale, and it's used for bright and dreamy songs.) 5.) Mixolydian is kamaj Thaat. (Mixolydian is a major scale, and it's used for smooth songs.) 6.) Aeolian is Asavri Thaat. (Aeolian is a major scale, and we use them for sad songs or even dark songs.) 7.) Locrian is more for soft and unresolved types of songs. I believe that Locrian is Todi Thaat. 8.) Double Harmonic scale is called Bhairav, People from Afghanistan call it, Biro. It is considered for dark songs. Darker than an Aeolian mode or Asavri Thaat. I do apologize in advance if I have made any mistakes or errors. You guys can also look me up on Spotify music, Amazon music, iTunes and other music platforms. Instagram: @Farhadhamsadaofficial Much Love, Farhad Hamsada
As a guitarist trying to master keyboards, I 've enjoyed your commentary to no end! Thanks for making something that is rather dry so entertaining-- and very sensible as well-- great job.
I was playing around yesterday, started playing a super quick arpeggio f-g-a-b-c 4 times to the bar, for four bars, then gabcd 4*4 looping over and over with left hand. It just kinda got my ear "stuck" playing F Lydian when I was improvising lead over the top with right hand... I didn't know what was happening lol. I'm a beginner so had to look up that it was F Lydian... I wasn't doing it on purpose kinda thing. But no other scale sounded as "right". Was an interesting learning moment! Even though the arpeggio was super quick it really locked in the mood/tone and of course the notes in it and the bass note make perfect sense that it was an F Lydian arpeggio. I was moments earlier playing stuff in C major scale so was kinda wondering why all of a sudden it felt more "right" to consider myself in the key of F, even though the scale I was naturally playing was not the F major scale, it was just "some other weird scale that sounds right". Fascinating the idea of "context" and if I had played that same arpeggio while playing in C major I could no doubt sneak it in without setting the tone of the song, but by playing it over and over again and with a second arp a half step up that wanted to resolve back, the context and the focus and the time dedicated kinda set the tone. Sorry enough babbling lol
Really, really terrific explanation. I always wondered what the big deal was with modes but as soon as you started playing them all but in one key it became far more obvious. Wish I'd found this years ago.
This is a great explanation of modes, since it actually explains both approaches: 1. shifted major into other tonics, e.g C ionian is D dorian (conceptually simple, but less useful) vs 2. alterations of major with the same tonic, e.g C Dorian is C major with 2 flats (conceptually harder, but more useful) (I personally would probably put lydian before ionian instead of at the end, since you go from lydian to ionian by flattening the sharpened 4th.. that way the difference between each mode is just flattering a note in the usual order, and you also kinda get the modes ordered by “brightness”.) Thanks for a great video!
This is starting out great. That is also the order I figured out myself on how to remember the modes. Since now there is logic to it. Always just either add or subtract 1 of something based on the step before the previous step: 1-2-3-4 5-6-7 (but interweaved), 7-6-5 3-2, also interweaved. This is the way theory should be thought, same as Victor Wooten does in that video about sharps and flats relations.
I flipped open a notebook and wrote down the modes, using your explanation. Remembered everything. Thanks for articulating a practical and memorable approach to modes.
Epic. You had my subs from the start --- I was on the verge of collapse, over these modes until your wonderful sense of humour, musicianship & cool way of teaching,. I'm up off the floor now & ready to learn. I've watched many videos concerning these modes & you are the best, thank you so much !!!
This video was posted 5years ago and I am just getting to understand modes and it application after stumbling on several materials. You are the Best. Thank you.
Fantastic. I decided 25 years ago to abandon my classical training and learn all my songs by ear. Now, I revisiting what I knew. This tutorial is amazing! Great job. You removed the cobwebs. Why don't you have 1M views?
The best explanation of modes I have ever heard and I have tried listening to lots of them on RUclips. Never got it. Finally, I have a handle. Thank you for your clear teaching.
Piano-Live ____ As a Guitar Student, that thinks in Mode Degree,s, your explanation , lit the dim light bulb in my head. I have been thinking backwards all this time. Now I use the the Scale degree to find the Key, and add the flats to make it interesting . Man : Thanks a Bunch !
I’ve learned a lot of this on my own over the last 15 years or so but you did really good explaining all these concepts in a way that is simple but all encompassing . 🙏
God, I wish I'd had this way of learning them (in high school/college/private lessons) and teaching modes 30 years ago, thank you! No teacher ever gave me this perspective. So freakin daunting the "traditional" way (which makes no sense, you're right). Now fun to learn and then teach 'em. Love your style, lots of fun, lol @ 31:15 "let's get crazy with the modes"
Where were you when I was taking music theory? Modes were taught in a very confusing manner. In desperation I learned how they sounded rather than learn everything else. I will share this with my musician friends and my students. Many thanks. 🙏
I was just waiting for the part, now just learn all these in the 11 other keys, great lesson. Been tryin’ to teach modes for decades and it’s always been tough explaining it. An adult student I tried explaining it to last Friday led me to this video. 🙂
Little interesting thing I noticed, (which you may mention in the video, but I havent finished it yet) Lydian kind of does continue the pattern of adding alterations in a weird way, if you think about it. The order of flats goes 7-3-6-2-5 and then 1, leaving essentially a major scale shape with the 4 sharp relative to the rest. But then everything necessarily has to get shifted up one semitone to bring it back to the appropriate tonic. Or you could just say it's the Lydian of the next semitone down(if you started in C for example, you'd have just moved from C Locrian into B Lydian), then lower that 4 to bring yourself back to Ionian and continue the pattern until you end up at the Lydian of the tonic you started with(C, in the previous example)
If you start with the Dorian [0] (T, ST, T, T, T, ST, T) observe it inverts on itself. If you take the Mixolydian [+1] (T, T, ST, T, T, ST, T) it inverts to the Aeolian [-1] (T, ST, T, T, ST, T, T) If you take the Ionian [+2] (T, T, ST, T, T, T, ST) it inverts to the Phrygian [-2] (ST, T, T, T, ST, T, T) If you take the Lydian [+3] (T, T, T, T, ST, T, T, ST) it inverts to the Locrian [-3] (ST, T, T, ST, T, T, T) Doris, Locris, Aeolis, Lydia and Phrygia were all regions of ancient Greece when the musical interval were first written down. I'm not sure I can be as complementary about this video as previous comments. Good effort!
I totally agree with you. learning the modes as a relative of the major is confusing. For me all the modes, are variant minor scales with exception of mixolydian (diminished major) and lydian (augmented major). Great presentation!
For my part i understand it as such that the modes are created when keeping the keys of a C major and then transposing the root note, then the intervals between the keys will be totally different and not anymore a "major scale setup". So major C keys over D gives Dorian, etc. Because the intervals will not be a D major scale. And all these different root note over C major scale, will give different modes, which can be applicable for every key. Because its about the changed INTERVALS and distances between the keys that gives the different characteristics. I think your way to highlight and comparing the modes to major and minor scales clarifies what happens.
FINALLY! Guitar player here and I’ve watched (not hours) but WEEKS of videos on the modes and was still in the dark. “Just play the same notes that are in the major scale but start it on the next note in succession of that major scale” HORSESH|T!!! Uh, so why does everything sound the same? BECAUSE IM PLAYING THR SAME GODDAMN NOTES, LIKE YOU TOLD ME! So, like I thought, the modes contain altered notes within the scale! Of course it does. That’s why it sounds different. Guitar teachers, stop telling players to play the same notes in the scale but start and end on the next note in succession of the scale! Just stop it. Thank you. I’ve subscribed.
Your videos are excellent. You explain things very well and offer little tips and tricks that are very beneficial to the beginning. Thank you. So glad I stumbled onto your videos.
I agree with everything you've said, but I think of Lydian as the first rather than the last. That way the pattern holds all the way through of flatting one more note to get to the next "darker" mode. From lydian, you lower the 4 to get to Ionian, and then just follow the rest of your pattern from there flatting one more note at a time to move to the next mode. We already lowered the 4 to get from Lydian to Ionian, now we continue with lowering 7, 3, 6, 2, & 5. Only thing you could lower after that is the 1 and that takes you to lydian a half-step below where you started...
Yep! I like that method too, though I think a lot of the characteristics that we think we hear are projected for us. The whole tone scale, for example, is generally described as "light", but I suspect that if you told a student the scale they were about to hear was "dark" before playing it, they would forever associate the scale with darkness...???
Fantastic video! You perfectly captured exactly how I’d been feeling about modes (eg why call it E Phrygian when it’s just C major? Who cares what note the scale starts on you never play the scale anyway?) so thank you for showing I wasn’t crazy, and for then explaining it so clearly ❤
Wow, thanks so much for this! This is a far more intuitive way of learning the modes. I know a bit about them already, just from over the years absorbing them bit by bit, but I always put off putting some serious work into them because the "traditional" way seems so needlessly complicated in all the ways you go over in the first part of the video. Again, this makes SO much more sense and it actually makes me want to get busy and learn the modes proper. Thanks again!
This video has good information. I would just like to share a few things about how I felt. 1. Rate of speech, 2. The lesson aide, which I love, but...it has words in it that you never say during the whole video, (H steps, W, steps) yes those are in the scale formula, but this is a lot of information and when you introduce more formulas or patterns, it can make it hard. Especially for an adult learner. Anyway I just thought I would share that with you. I really like how you use the keyboard during the lesson, and refer to the lesson aide on the screen, and how you put your honest opinion on how you feel about how it is taught. Thanks I learned from this. I appreciate the time and effort you put into it to help the world understand.
The best explanation of modes I've ever seen, makes me wonder if most people teaching them really understand them. Truly inspiring thank you I'm subscribed!
I love how you teach us the "not good" method as well as your preferred method :) It really helps reinforce your different ideas. The first pass gives me a general idea, then you explain using your method and it all clicks :) thank you!
Well explained !!! Modes are easy , just like u said , teachers made them complicated XD when u play a mode , all u have to do is remember distance between each key u played , and then play it somewhere else ! Different key in Arabic music there are 50 modes :) some of them use the 3/4 tone 😂 we call them Maqam which mean (state of mind )
Yes - Honestly, I only recently know a very tiny bit about what we call "non-Western" music, but I have a growing appreciation for it, that my ethnocentric upbringing did not give me
I Do Pot. Leave Me Alone, Locrian. (A handy mnemonic for remembering the order of the modes. Conceived by Locrian’s buddy as he struggled to remember the first six).
thanks a lot for this super lesson! can you please make a new lesson or explain how to integrate the modes in a simple chord progression of one key? like a I-IV-V in kex of C (C-F-G)
I had a similar question…how to actually apply them. Obviously, one can play a Major scale over an entire Major progression. But what about using different modes over each individual chord in a progression, such as; 3m7, 6dom7, 2m7, 5dom7, 1M7 Found this video on my continued search of this subject.
Nice video, the parallel way it's the best way to teach or learn this subject but...I still can't find on the whole internet an explanation about HOW to made them sound, wich chords, why they sound on those and not in others. That part plus this one will make the difference against all the rest of video trying teaching modes. Thx
I understand your logic st the beginning of the video, i.e the A minor scale should not be associated with the C major scale but I can understand why people may refer it as the C major scale except starting on the A. It's because it's an easy way to think about C major scale when improving so that I'm not worried about all the flats in A minor when improving. That takes too long to think about when playing. Just quickly think of C major but start from A.
I think the numbers do matter, because if you know your eb scale, and you know that Derain is 2, all you have to do is go to the next note and chord of the eb scale Seems really easy to keep it like that, if you want to play the 4th note of eb it’s simple
You are just a LEGEND men !! Your explanation is just outstanding🔝🔝🔝 The way u went troughouth the whole concept just opened up my eyes and ears really made me more curious about music theory and modes ! Thank you so much 🙏 God bless you!❤️👊
re traditional way - I think when you are teaching kids - all white keys are easier way for them to play and understand to start with, but also great for the ear, so it's not just one diatonic scale, and then you can swing all those scales too which is great for the feel, so I guess it's done for different purposes and can be used as such :) but super interesting material and perspective so far, thank you!
Also, it's good to see where it is in relation to the simplest piano structure so that you can make a formula based on that for each key you are working in, no?
Yeah - I totally agree. And the way I explain it makes no sense to some people, so there's not one, correct way to look at it. That's why students need many teachers, and teachers need to stay humble.
@@LearnPianoLive it's totally clear was just making the point you are making now - that different ways and explanations work for different people and purposes, so thank you for this once again great stuff! :))
@LearnPianoLive Russia. We got Italian school historically. Even the names of notes are do, re, mi e.c. And we have some strange mess with B notes/chords. They called B as H and B flat as B. It's schizophrenic a little.)
Gr8 stuff.concise.2 the Bone.Please you do a tutorial on how to build chords from these Modal scales as many Teachers skip over that part /only showing you the Manjor/Minor triad and your left with just the scal information,with no clue on how to build chords from Modes such as Dorian.Phrygian Mixo.
Finally, At last! You have done it. I have understood the mechanics of the modes for years but no one really explains how to apply the knowledge. None of the on-line videos comes close to explaining how to apply them. Your summation in the last 5 minutes really answered many questions. And yes I would love an expanded explanation of how to select chords that will harmonize with each mode.
I've watched tons of videos on modes. This is by far the best.
Wow. Thanks!
Sounds like "Layla" from Derek and the Dominos 20:03.
Your presentation of this material was thorough, unpretentious, captivating, and so down to Earth. I graduated from a top music school in the US and you gave the best explanation of modes I've yet come across. Thank you for overthrowing the established modal teaching philosophy and making such accessible material!
Wow - such nice words! Thank you!
I'd say the same thing too! I have been singing Gregorian chants for half of my life and recently I was re-introduced to modes by non-religious musicians and I was so thrown off by the theories. But then, your explanation is so clear and hits exactly what confuses me the most. So, thank you very much!
Sounds like "Layla" from Derek and the Dominos 20:03.
In all my years, I don't understand this modes. Now, I understand it! Thank you are the best!
Awww cool!!
Best explanation of modes I've ever seen. Thanks!
Great! Thanks for watching
Totally agree with you Gil. While the whole program was very informative and made sense of Modes for me, it all fell into place for me in the last couple of minutes. As a student bassist currently learning about Modes/Pentatonic scales, I was most interested in application of Modes over a chord progression on the bass; how to use them on the bass to outline the chord. Thanks very much! Top Man.
There are a lot of music theory channels on RUclips but yours is he most comprehensive and with the most well explained content that shows how to apply concepts as well
Wow - those are such kind words! Thank you so much. I'm glad you found it helpful!
If you’re going to order them, put Lydian first. Then think of Ionian as flatting the sharp fourth.
That's totally genious!! I thought I was the only one who thought the same ! just wondering why he didn't add that logic to his already simplfied way on looking at modes from the start..
regardless it's an awesome lesson!! this guy really got me understanding this stuff! I just think having the flats in order from (1) would of made even more sense to allot of us .
👍👍
or you can think of the lydain of b1b,b2,b3,b5,b6,b7 so at this point if you start in c you are no longer in c cause of b1, and the only one that is not flat is 4 so raise every half a tone and instead of that it only remains #4
Actually you’re right. Lydian was the first even if arranging them from brightest to darkest mode. Even on circle of fifths. Start from F up to B.
You a bad man devil guy
@Glenn Dalida not F. It'd be b5. He meant the circle of fiths clockwise (a sequence of perfect fiths) from the root of the scale : 1 5 2 6 3 7 4 whose the modes are respectively I M D Aeon P Loc and Ly. It allows us to have here the circle of emotions here: the 1st Lydyan is the brightest one, the 2nd Ionian ...and finally the darkness one is Locrian). I guess that it is his logiccal order.
Sooo true, when teacher asks you something, you can answer, but you don´t don´t konw how to use it. LOL. This was one of the best videos I´ve come across online.
Glad it was helpful!
This was a great video. Thank you for sharing your music knowledge with the world!
In case if we have any Eastern musicians especially musicians from Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan. I hope everyone finds this useful.
1.) In western music theory, we call them modes. For example, Ionian, is a scale mode in western music. (Mostly it's used for happy songs) In Indian classical music we call them, Bilaval Thaat. Here are the rest of the" Eastern" Indian classical names for these modes.. I hope you guy find them useful.
2.) Dorian is Kafi Thaat.
(Dorian is a minor scale, and it's popular in Jazz music.)
3.) Phyrgian is Bhairavi Thaat.
(Minor scale)
4.) Lydian is Yaman/Kalyan Thaat.
(Lydian is a major scale, and it's used for bright and dreamy songs.)
5.) Mixolydian is kamaj Thaat.
(Mixolydian is a major scale, and it's used for smooth songs.)
6.) Aeolian is Asavri Thaat.
(Aeolian is a major scale, and we use them for sad songs or even dark songs.)
7.) Locrian is more for soft and unresolved types of songs. I believe that Locrian is Todi Thaat.
8.) Double Harmonic scale is called Bhairav, People from Afghanistan call it, Biro. It is considered for dark songs. Darker than an Aeolian mode or Asavri Thaat.
I do apologize in advance if I have made any mistakes or errors. You guys can also look me up on Spotify music, Amazon music, iTunes and other music platforms.
Instagram: @Farhadhamsadaofficial
Much Love,
Farhad Hamsada
This makes so much more sense than anything I've read on modes. Thank you.
This greatly helps me after 54 years of playing by ear. These scales took me back to Chic Corea playing " Got A Match". That's where I wanna get to.
As a guitarist trying to master keyboards, I 've enjoyed your commentary to no end! Thanks for making something that is rather dry so entertaining-- and very sensible as well-- great job.
Thankful there are people like you out there committed to helping others and putting in the time to make something as excellent as this video!
Sounds like "Layla" from Derek and the Dominos 20:03.
I was playing around yesterday, started playing a super quick arpeggio f-g-a-b-c 4 times to the bar, for four bars, then gabcd 4*4 looping over and over with left hand. It just kinda got my ear "stuck" playing F Lydian when I was improvising lead over the top with right hand... I didn't know what was happening lol. I'm a beginner so had to look up that it was F Lydian... I wasn't doing it on purpose kinda thing. But no other scale sounded as "right". Was an interesting learning moment! Even though the arpeggio was super quick it really locked in the mood/tone and of course the notes in it and the bass note make perfect sense that it was an F Lydian arpeggio. I was moments earlier playing stuff in C major scale so was kinda wondering why all of a sudden it felt more "right" to consider myself in the key of F, even though the scale I was naturally playing was not the F major scale, it was just "some other weird scale that sounds right". Fascinating the idea of "context" and if I had played that same arpeggio while playing in C major I could no doubt sneak it in without setting the tone of the song, but by playing it over and over again and with a second arp a half step up that wanted to resolve back, the context and the focus and the time dedicated kinda set the tone. Sorry enough babbling lol
Very cool! Nice experimenting
Thank you. I keep coming back to this video everytime I forgot the theory
lol. Me too :) It's hard to remember it all if you're not using it all the time
Really, really terrific explanation. I always wondered what the big deal was with modes but as soon as you started playing them all but in one key it became far more obvious. Wish I'd found this years ago.
So glad! Thanks for watching and subscribing!
This is a great explanation of modes, since it actually explains both approaches:
1. shifted major into other tonics, e.g C ionian is D dorian (conceptually simple, but less useful)
vs
2. alterations of major with the same tonic, e.g C Dorian is C major with 2 flats (conceptually harder, but more useful)
(I personally would probably put lydian before ionian instead of at the end, since you go from lydian to ionian by flattening the sharpened 4th.. that way the difference between each mode is just flattering a note in the usual order, and you also kinda get the modes ordered by “brightness”.)
Thanks for a great video!
Glad you liked it! I agree with the brightness order - I have several students for whom that makes more sense
@@LearnPianoLive thanks for your reply! And thank you for your videos!
I’m looking forward to more content from! 🥰
Finally someone that explains it logically!
This is starting out great. That is also the order I figured out myself on how to remember the modes. Since now there is logic to it. Always just either add or subtract 1 of something based on the step before the previous step: 1-2-3-4 5-6-7 (but interweaved), 7-6-5 3-2, also interweaved. This is the way theory should be thought, same as Victor Wooten does in that video about sharps and flats relations.
I flipped open a notebook and wrote down the modes, using your explanation. Remembered everything. Thanks for articulating a practical and memorable approach to modes.
Sounds like "Layla" from Derek and the Dominos 20:03.
Epic. You had my subs from the start --- I was on the verge of collapse, over these modes until your wonderful sense of humour, musicianship & cool way of teaching,. I'm up off the floor now & ready to learn. I've watched many videos concerning these modes & you are the best, thank you so much !!!
So many kind words! Thank you - glad it helped!!
The absolute best explanation I’ve heard in 12 years of study. Thanks so much.
Sounds like "Layla" from Derek and the Dominos 20:03.
This video was posted 5years ago and I am just getting to understand modes and it application after stumbling on several materials. You are the Best. Thank you.
Awww Great to hear it!
Fantastic. I decided 25 years ago to abandon my classical training and learn all my songs by ear. Now, I revisiting what I knew. This tutorial is amazing! Great job. You removed the cobwebs. Why don't you have 1M views?
Lol. Thanks. Feel free to help get me there :)
The absolute best explanation of modes, and I’ve listened to dozens. Thank you, thank you!!!!
Glad it was helpful!
The best explanation of modes I have ever heard and I have tried listening to lots of them on RUclips. Never got it. Finally, I have a handle. Thank you for your clear teaching.
Great to hear!
Piano-Live ____ As a Guitar Student, that thinks in Mode Degree,s, your explanation , lit the dim light bulb in my head. I have been thinking backwards all this time. Now I use the the Scale degree to find the Key, and add the flats to make it interesting . Man : Thanks a Bunch !
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and subscribing!
I’ve learned a lot of this on my own over the last 15 years or so but you did really good explaining all these concepts in a way that is simple but all encompassing . 🙏
Wow. Cool. Thanks
Arras
God, I wish I'd had this way of learning them (in high school/college/private lessons) and teaching modes 30 years ago, thank you! No teacher ever gave me this perspective. So freakin daunting the "traditional" way (which makes no sense, you're right). Now fun to learn and then teach 'em. Love your style, lots of fun, lol @ 31:15 "let's get crazy with the modes"
Awesome
No one ever explained like this
This is great
Glad you liked it
Really clear (as can be) and helpful. I've just taken a big gulp. I now know what I don't know!!
Love this dude. Addresses exactly the questions I had learning music growing up.
Glad I could help! Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Thanks for a concise and logical presentation of the Modes.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Very brilliantly exposed and taught . I appreciate your compromise doing this section.
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching
Where were you when I was taking music theory? Modes were taught in a very confusing manner. In desperation I learned how they sounded rather than learn everything else. I will share this with my musician friends and my students. Many thanks. 🙏
Aw thanks! I'm sorry it was confusing before!
Thank you sir for this lesson your a amazing teacher
Aw thanks!
I was just waiting for the part, now just learn all these in the 11 other keys, great lesson. Been tryin’ to teach modes for decades and it’s always been tough explaining it. An adult student I tried explaining it to last Friday led me to this video. 🙂
the last 5 minutes of this video is what no other video on modes explains, thanks for the video
So glad you liked it!
excellent. clear and informative thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Fabulous - very useful - especially as I play harmonica and baritone ukulele...
Wonderful!
i sympathize with u with the way modes are taught 😭😭
Phrygian = boldness, exuberance, passion, courage, leadership, but in excess pride, rashness, irascibility, violent anger.
Lydian = good cheer, optimism, sublimity, friendliness, laughter, love and song.
Dorian = sleepiness, lethargy, laziness, slowness, mental dullness, forgetfulness, calmness, internal equanimity, well being.
Mixolydian = solidity, firmness, steadfastness, rhythm, but with a certain indolent tenacity.
Little interesting thing I noticed, (which you may mention in the video, but I havent finished it yet)
Lydian kind of does continue the pattern of adding alterations in a weird way, if you think about it. The order of flats goes 7-3-6-2-5 and then 1, leaving essentially a major scale shape with the 4 sharp relative to the rest. But then everything necessarily has to get shifted up one semitone to bring it back to the appropriate tonic.
Or you could just say it's the Lydian of the next semitone down(if you started in C for example, you'd have just moved from C Locrian into B Lydian), then lower that 4 to bring yourself back to Ionian and continue the pattern until you end up at the Lydian of the tonic you started with(C, in the previous example)
Wow. Yeah - that's a lot of brain work, but it's always amazing how all these scales and modes are related. Thanks.
Outstanding. Thank you!
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If you start with the Dorian [0] (T, ST, T, T, T, ST, T) observe it inverts on itself.
If you take the Mixolydian [+1] (T, T, ST, T, T, ST, T) it inverts to the Aeolian [-1] (T, ST, T, T, ST, T, T)
If you take the Ionian [+2] (T, T, ST, T, T, T, ST) it inverts to the Phrygian [-2] (ST, T, T, T, ST, T, T)
If you take the Lydian [+3] (T, T, T, T, ST, T, T, ST) it inverts to the Locrian [-3] (ST, T, T, ST, T, T, T)
Doris, Locris, Aeolis, Lydia and Phrygia were all regions of ancient Greece when the musical interval were first written down.
I'm not sure I can be as complementary about this video as previous comments. Good effort!
Cool! Thanks!
They are place names, but ancient Greeks named the modes differently than the medieval church theorists.
Best and far way easiest explanation of modes.
Aww thanks. Glad you liked it
You should do stand up! I finally kinda get these modes, thanks to your humorous delivery . A marvel 🤣🎹👏🏽
I appreciate that!
Wow...
Wow....
You're at the Top of the Chart for teaching modes. I seriously understand now. God Bless You and thank you soooooo..
Much
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I totally agree with you. learning the modes as a relative of the major is confusing. For me all the modes, are variant minor scales with exception of mixolydian (diminished major) and lydian (augmented major). Great presentation!
Thanks so much!
This is the teacher I want in my music class
Aw shucks. If you're a curious person, you're the kind of student I want in my class
This is great. Definitely love the personality
So glad!
Modes got to me like spring clear water. You are the best! Thank you so much for sharing.
You are so welcome!
The best ever coverage of a very, very confusing topic! Thank you.
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For my part i understand it as such that the modes are created when keeping the keys of a C major and then transposing the root note, then the intervals between the keys will be totally different and not anymore a "major scale setup". So major C keys over D gives Dorian, etc. Because the intervals will not be a D major scale. And all these different root note over C major scale, will give different modes, which can be applicable for every key. Because its about the changed INTERVALS and distances between the keys that gives the different characteristics.
I think your way to highlight and comparing the modes to major and minor scales clarifies what happens.
Cool! Yeah - there are so many ways to look at it
FINALLY!
Guitar player here and I’ve watched (not hours) but WEEKS of videos on the modes and was still in the dark.
“Just play the same notes that are in the major scale but start it on the next note in succession of that major scale”
HORSESH|T!!!
Uh, so why does everything sound the same? BECAUSE IM PLAYING THR SAME GODDAMN NOTES, LIKE YOU TOLD ME!
So, like I thought, the modes contain altered notes within the scale! Of course it does. That’s why it sounds different.
Guitar teachers, stop telling players to play the same notes in the scale but start and end on the next note in succession of the scale!
Just stop it.
Thank you. I’ve subscribed.
So glad it resonated with you! Thanks for the kind words!
Recognized the whole tone scale one minute in. Felt like a genius.
45 minutes in, not so much anymore.
:) Nice work
Your videos are excellent. You explain things very well and offer little tips and tricks that are very beneficial to the beginning. Thank you. So glad I stumbled onto your videos.
Neat
I always thought I was an idiot, but thanks for confirming it.
Amazing! Thank you so much for creating one of the best videos about modes.
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Bravo!! Clear as the high priced diamonds. Thank you for expanding my MODES knowledge! I just subscribed :)
Thanks for the sub!
thank you, finally! Things definitely clicked after I saw this video
I agree with everything you've said, but I think of Lydian as the first rather than the last. That way the pattern holds all the way through of flatting one more note to get to the next "darker" mode. From lydian, you lower the 4 to get to Ionian, and then just follow the rest of your pattern from there flatting one more note at a time to move to the next mode. We already lowered the 4 to get from Lydian to Ionian, now we continue with lowering 7, 3, 6, 2, & 5. Only thing you could lower after that is the 1 and that takes you to lydian a half-step below where you started...
Yep! I like that method too, though I think a lot of the characteristics that we think we hear are projected for us. The whole tone scale, for example, is generally described as "light", but I suspect that if you told a student the scale they were about to hear was "dark" before playing it, they would forever associate the scale with darkness...???
Thank you for your video about modes.
Glad you like them!
Fantastic video! You perfectly captured exactly how I’d been feeling about modes (eg why call it E Phrygian when it’s just C major? Who cares what note the scale starts on you never play the scale anyway?) so thank you for showing I wasn’t crazy, and for then explaining it so clearly ❤
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This is so fantastic! Thank you so much for offering this! Best explanation of modes I've come across.
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Sounds like "Layla" from Derek and the Dominos 20:03.
thank you! love the more straight forward order of the modes_
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Wow, thanks so much for this! This is a far more intuitive way of learning the modes. I know a bit about them already, just from over the years absorbing them bit by bit, but I always put off putting some serious work into them because the "traditional" way seems so needlessly complicated in all the ways you go over in the first part of the video. Again, this makes SO much more sense and it actually makes me want to get busy and learn the modes proper. Thanks again!
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The best ever presentation on the modes.
Aw thanks!
This video has good information. I would just like to share a few things about how I felt. 1. Rate of speech, 2. The lesson aide, which I love, but...it has words in it that you never say during the whole video, (H steps, W, steps) yes those are in the scale formula, but this is a lot of information and when you introduce more formulas or patterns, it can make it hard. Especially for an adult learner. Anyway I just thought I would share that with you. I really like how you use the keyboard during the lesson, and refer to the lesson aide on the screen, and how you put your honest opinion on how you feel about how it is taught. Thanks I learned from this. I appreciate the time and effort you put into it to help the world understand.
Also, I subscribed to your channel. You did an above-average job of explaining and showing the modes.
The best modes lesson on you tube by a mile ty
Thanks so much!
The best explanation of modes I've ever seen, makes me wonder if most people teaching them really understand them. Truly inspiring thank you I'm subscribed!
Wow, thank you!
I love how you teach us the "not good" method as well as your preferred method :) It really helps reinforce your different ideas. The first pass gives me a general idea, then you explain using your method and it all clicks :) thank you!
You have liberated my mind
Well explained !!!
Modes are easy , just like u said , teachers made them complicated XD
when u play a mode , all u have to do is remember distance between each key u played , and then play it somewhere else ! Different key
in Arabic music there are 50 modes :) some of them use the 3/4 tone 😂
we call them Maqam which mean (state of mind )
Yes - Honestly, I only recently know a very tiny bit about what we call "non-Western" music, but I have a growing appreciation for it, that my ethnocentric upbringing did not give me
wow , suddenly modes make sense. thank you !
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This is the correct way to teach modes, all starting in the same note in order to be able to compare moods.
I agree 100%.
So glad you like it! Thanks
I Do Pot. Leave Me Alone, Locrian. (A handy mnemonic for remembering the order of the modes. Conceived by Locrian’s buddy as he struggled to remember the first six).
they should call them moods 🤣🤣👀
same etymology
thanks a lot for this super lesson! can you please make a new lesson or explain how to integrate the modes in a simple chord progression of one key? like a I-IV-V in kex of C (C-F-G)
I had a similar question…how to actually apply them. Obviously, one can play a Major scale over an entire Major progression. But what about using different modes over each individual chord in a progression, such as;
3m7, 6dom7, 2m7, 5dom7, 1M7
Found this video on my continued search of this subject.
Yes well and truly explained.....easy to follow and well demonstrated....brilliant.....
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Nice video, the parallel way it's the best way to teach or learn this subject but...I still can't find on the whole internet an explanation about HOW to made them sound, wich chords, why they sound on those and not in others. That part plus this one will make the difference against all the rest of video trying teaching modes. Thx
Finally feel like I'm starting to grasp modes thanks to this video... subscribed!
Welcome aboard!
Amazing lesson my man! Liked and subbed. I was engaged the whole hour
Awesome! Thank you!
I understand your logic st the beginning of the video, i.e the A minor scale should not be associated with the C major scale but I can understand why people may refer it as the C major scale except starting on the A. It's because it's an easy way to think about C major scale when improving so that I'm not worried about all the flats in A minor when improving. That takes too long to think about when playing. Just quickly think of C major but start from A.
Best video on Modes and Scales in You tube
I think the numbers do matter, because if you know your eb scale, and you know that Derain is 2, all you have to do is go to the next note and chord of the eb scale
Seems really easy to keep it like that, if you want to play the 4th note of eb it’s simple
Yeah. Totally! Whatever works for you!
This was informational and entertaining...infortaining!
Thanks
Best explanation of the modes ever
Aw thanks!
You are just a LEGEND men !!
Your explanation is just outstanding🔝🔝🔝 The way u went troughouth the whole concept just opened up my eyes and ears really made me more curious about music theory and modes ! Thank you so much 🙏 God bless you!❤️👊
Thank you so much 😀
re traditional way - I think when you are teaching kids - all white keys are easier way for them to play and understand to start with, but also great for the ear, so it's not just one diatonic scale, and then you can swing all those scales too which is great for the feel, so I guess it's done for different purposes and can be used as such :) but super interesting material and perspective so far, thank you!
Also, it's good to see where it is in relation to the simplest piano structure so that you can make a formula based on that for each key you are working in, no?
Yeah - I totally agree. And the way I explain it makes no sense to some people, so there's not one, correct way to look at it. That's why students need many teachers, and teachers need to stay humble.
@@LearnPianoLive it's totally clear was just making the point you are making now - that different ways and explanations work for different people and purposes, so thank you for this once again great stuff! :))
In our musical schools they calls Am/C "parallel" and C/Cm "same-named". We also have another differences in our musical vocabulary.
Where is that?
@LearnPianoLive Russia. We got Italian school historically. Even the names of notes are do, re, mi e.c. And we have some strange mess with B notes/chords. They called B as H and B flat as B. It's schizophrenic a little.)
Your enthusiasm is really tickling. Well explained too. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for watching!
Gr8 stuff.concise.2 the Bone.Please you do a tutorial on how to build chords from these Modal scales as many Teachers skip over that part /only showing you the Manjor/Minor triad and your left with just the scal information,with no clue on how to build chords from Modes such as Dorian.Phrygian Mixo.
Sure. Help me out - like what kinds of chords? They should be the same as the relative Ionian (major) scales.
I love your videos you really take time to do this
Cool cool. I love that you take the time to watch this! Thanks
Finally, At last! You have done it. I have understood the mechanics of the modes for years but no one really explains how to apply the knowledge. None of the on-line videos comes close to explaining how to apply them. Your summation in the last 5 minutes really answered many questions. And yes I would love an expanded explanation of how to select chords that will harmonize with each mode.
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Very well explained
Glad it was helpful!
you covered in 1 lesson what others cover in 10... well done
Well done sir! Subbed. Would be great to make a similarly thorough video about applications using well known songs.
Immensely helpful, thank you!
Great!
Bravo! Great explanation. Thank you.
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