What Are Modes in Music?
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In this third installment of his Music Master Class series, Rick Beato provides a comprehensive 30-minute overview of musical modes. He covers the three primary modal groups—major scale modes, melodic minor modes, and harmonic minor modes—explaining their characteristic notes, half-step patterns, and unique sounds, with practical examples for writing and improvising.
Rick Beato introduces the third installment of his Music Master Class series, focusing on modes. He mentions three basic modal groups: major scale modes, melodic minor modes, and harmonic minor modes.
Modes are important for writing and improvising music. Examples include 'So What' by Miles Davis (Dorian), 'Norwegian Wood' by The Beatles (Mixolydian), and many rock songs in Mixolydian.
Ionian is the major scale. In C, it's all white notes. Half steps are between 3-4 and 7-8. Characteristic notes: C major triad, 4th, and 7th.
Dorian is a major scale with a flat 3rd and flat 7th. Half steps between 2-3 and 6-7. It has a brighter minor sound because the 6th wants to resolve upward.
Phrygian has a flat 2, flat 3, flat 6, and flat 7. Half steps between 1-2 and 5-6. It has a dark, melancholy sound, often used in metal. The flat 2 and flat 6 want to resolve downward.
Lydian is a major scale with a sharp 4. Half steps between 4-5 and 7-8. It has a celestial, otherworldly sound, often used in film scoring. The sharp 4 wants to resolve upward, making it brighter than Ionian.
Mixolydian is a major scale with a flat 7. Half steps between 3-4 and 6-7. Common in rock music (e.g., AC/DC, 'Norwegian Wood'). It resolves to the tonic despite using notes from a different key.
Aeolian has a flat 3, flat 6, and flat 7. Half steps between 2-3 and 5-6. It has a sad, dark sound. Example: Sting's 'I Burn for You'.
Locrian has a flat 2, flat 3, flat 5, flat 6, and flat 7. Half steps between 1-2 and 4-5. It has a dark, unstable sound. Example: Keith Jarrett's 'Dark Intervals'.
Melodic minor is a major scale with a flat 3rd. Its modes include Dorian flat 2, Lydian augmented, Mixolydian sharp 11, Mixolydian flat 6, Locrian natural 2, and Super Locrian (altered dominant). Used by jazz musicians and Stevie Wonder.
Harmonic minor is a major scale with a flat 3rd, flat 6th, and major 7th. Its modes include Locrian natural 6, Ionian augmented, Dorian sharp 4, Phrygian major, Lydian sharp 9, and Altered dominant double flat 7.
Modes are essential tools for musicians, offering distinct sounds for composition and improvisation. Mastering them requires memorization of their formulas and characteristic half-step patterns, which can be applied across major, melodic minor, and harmonic minor scales.
What are the three basic modal groups covered in this masterclass?
Major scale modes, melodic minor modes, and harmonic minor modes.
0:37
What is the interval pattern of half steps in the Ionian mode?
Half steps are between 3-4 and 7-8.
6:25
Which mode is described as a major scale with a flat 3rd and flat 7th?
Dorian mode.
7:02
What characteristic note gives Phrygian its dark sound?
The flat 2 (and flat 6), which want to resolve downward.
9:40
Why is Lydian considered brighter than Ionian?
Because the sharp 4 wants to resolve upward, while Ionian's natural 4 wants to resolve downward.
11:12
Which mode is most common in rock music?
Mixolydian mode.
13:22
What are the half-step locations in the Aeolian mode?
Between 2-3 and 5-6.
14:40
Which mode has half steps between 1-2 and 4-5?
Locrian mode.
16:40
What is the formula for the melodic minor scale compared to major?
Major scale with a flat 3rd: 1, 2, b3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
20:49
Name the seven modes of the melodic minor scale.
Melodic minor, Dorian b2, Lydian augmented, Mixolydian #11, Mixolydian b6, Locrian natural 2, and Super Locrian (altered dominant).
20:18
What is the interval pattern of the harmonic minor scale?
1, 2, b3, 4, 5, b6, 7 (major 7th).
27:24
Which mode of the harmonic minor is also known as 'Phrygian major'?
The fifth mode.
29:14
What is the characteristic interval in the harmonic minor scale?
An augmented second between the flat 6 and major 7.
27:41
Why Modes Matter
Explains the practical importance of modes for writing and improvising, with famous song examples.
1:29Dorian's Bright Minor Sound
Highlights how the natural 6th in Dorian creates a brighter minor sound compared to Aeolian.
6:59Lydian's Celestial Quality
Describes Lydian's otherworldly sound and its use in film scoring, with a memorable demonstration.
10:33Melodic Minor Modes Overview
Provides a concise list of all seven melodic minor modes, a valuable reference for jazz musicians.
19:51Harmonic Minor Modes Overview
Completes the modal overview with harmonic minor modes, including the exotic 'Phrygian major' and 'Lydian sharp 9'.
26:58[00:00] here we go streaming
[00:04] what's up everyone happy saturday
[00:07] today is my third installment
[00:10] of the music master class series the
[00:13] first one was on uh i can't remember
[00:16] what was on basics of music theory
[00:18] second one was on
[00:20] scales and chord progressions okay this
[00:22] one is specifically on modes we're gonna
[00:25] do modes in 30 minutes
[00:27] some of you are watching this channel
[00:29] are like what are you talking about you
[00:30] guys you talking about modes all the
[00:31] time i actually haven't talked about
[00:32] modes in a very long time
[00:35] and
[00:36] there's
[00:37] three basic modal groups that we're
[00:40] going to talk about today modes are the
[00:41] major scale modes of the melodic minor
[00:43] modes of the harmonic minor now i want
[00:45] to mention a couple things so i have a
[00:47] second youtube channel that many of you
[00:48] know about it's called rickbiato 2.
[00:51] i've been uploading content there for
[00:53] the last couple months even though it's
[00:54] been in existence for five years
[00:57] and i did a video recently about two
[00:59] videos ago
[01:00] with the
[01:02] modes of the harmonic major scale that
[01:04] we're not going to get to today and i'm
[01:06] going to upload a video probably
[01:08] tomorrow on the modes of the double
[01:10] harmonic major scale
[01:12] okay
[01:13] so that will complete this list of the
[01:16] modal scales you have major scale modes
[01:18] of the melodic minor modes of the
[01:20] harmonic minor those are the harmonic
[01:22] major modes of the double harmonic major
[01:24] okay
[01:25] why are modes important
[01:29] modes are important because they can be
[01:32] used for writing they can be used for
[01:35] improvising
[01:36] there are songs that are written
[01:39] based on modes for example there's a
[01:41] song called so what by miles davis
[01:44] there's a song called impressions by
[01:45] john coltrane
[01:47] there are songs that use modes like
[01:51] norwegian wood by the beatles that is
[01:53] just all in mixolydians matter of fact a
[01:55] lot of rock songs are in the mixolydian
[01:57] mode
[01:59] let's talk about them what the
[02:00] characteristic notes are in those modes
[02:03] and how they sound okay
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[02:50] these things the ear training course
[02:53] talks about how to hear them okay how to
[02:55] hear chord progressions how to your
[02:57] modal scales how to hear modal chords
[03:00] okay we'll talk about that in a second i
[03:02] want to talk about how these scales are
[03:04] structured how these modes are
[03:06] structured
[03:07] we're going to use the the major scale
[03:10] as the basis to construct the other
[03:12] modes like what notes from the major
[03:14] scale are changed to create these other
[03:17] modes okay
[03:19] so
[03:21] the ionian mode is the major scale so if
[03:24] we're in the key of c ionian
[03:26] or key of c major
[03:30] it's just all the white notes okay
[03:32] that's those are the modes of the major
[03:34] scale okay
[03:35] and we're going to call those one
[03:37] through seven
[03:39] the reason is
[03:40] that it's easy to understand
[03:43] conceptually when you change notes from
[03:46] the major scale
[03:48] that you get these other scales but
[03:50] these are all going to be based off the
[03:52] note c
[03:53] okay
[03:54] now
[03:55] if i talk about this the sk the modes in
[03:58] the key of c you'd have
[04:02] c ionian
[04:04] d dorian
[04:05] which is a second mode e phrygian
[04:09] f lydian
[04:11] g mixolydian and so on and so forth
[04:14] but i'm going to talk about the modes in
[04:17] relation to just the note c so these are
[04:19] all going to be parallel okay because
[04:21] i'm going to show you what you do to a c
[04:23] major scale or the c ionian mode to get
[04:26] a c dorian to get a c phrygian to get a
[04:28] c
[04:29] lydian to get a c mixolydian c a online
[04:31] c locrian okay and we're going to go on
[04:33] to the other scales after that okay
[04:37] the major scale
[04:38] the ionian mode okay
[04:41] there are seven chords in this just like
[04:43] there are in the major scale they're the
[04:45] same chords c major d minor e minor f
[04:48] major g major a minor b diminished okay
[04:52] the important thing is to recognize what
[04:55] these relationships from one note to the
[04:57] next are and what a
[04:59] ionian scale sounds like and it sounds
[05:02] like
[05:04] this
[05:10] can call that an ionian chord i'm
[05:12] basically pressing all the notes in a c
[05:14] major scale
[05:16] but the important notes
[05:18] that give it
[05:20] its shape
[05:22] are the c major triad
[05:24] the fourth
[05:26] and the seventh that's
[05:29] that's the sound of ci of c ionian
[05:38] [Music]
[05:46] what's up billy some people say it's a
[05:47] little quieter quiet billy's gonna turn
[05:49] it up here yeah
[05:52] okay so these are
[05:53] these would be ionian voicings
[06:02] [Music]
[06:05] but i'm focusing in on where the half
[06:08] steps are in the scale because that's
[06:10] the most important thing you guys that
[06:12] have followed my channel for a long time
[06:15] know that i talk about
[06:17] knowing where the half steps are because
[06:18] that's actually what defines the sound
[06:20] of the mode really those notes are
[06:23] really important ones to key in the half
[06:25] steps in the ionian mode are between
[06:27] three and four
[06:28] and then seven and eight okay
[06:31] so you've
[06:32] got
[06:34] between the third and fourth notes so e
[06:36] and f and then
[06:38] between seven and eight so b and c again
[06:41] so those notes really are
[06:49] that gives you that sound of that mode
[06:51] right
[06:52] [Music]
[06:58] okay
[06:59] dorian is a very different sound
[07:02] dorian is a major scale with a flat
[07:05] third and a flat seven if i start on the
[07:08] note c and i flat the third note of a c
[07:10] major scale
[07:12] then i flap
[07:15] the seventh note i get to see dorian
[07:18] scale so there's the c door
[07:24] just let that kind of sink in that sound
[07:26] what does c dorian sound like right it
[07:28] sounds kind of like this
[07:29] [Music]
[07:44] where are the half steps between two and
[07:45] three
[07:47] and between six and seven
[07:49] those notes are really important so if i
[07:51] take the two and three i'm just going to
[07:53] play c and g in the bass
[07:57] then i'm going to take the six and seven
[08:02] there's
[08:02] [Music]
[08:06] that's
[08:08] dorian right there that gives you that
[08:10] sound but that that six is really
[08:14] important and the third
[08:15] that really describes it right there i
[08:17] put the
[08:17] [Music]
[08:19] those two notes in there and that's
[08:20] pretty much most of a
[08:22] most of a dorian
[08:24] sound
[08:25] right
[08:26] whoops
[08:29] that would be c dorian right there okay
[08:32] phrygian is characterized by a flat two
[08:35] right
[08:36] and
[08:38] this five flat six those are where your
[08:41] half steps are
[08:42] so c fringing is a c major scale with a
[08:45] flat three or sorry flat two flat three
[08:47] flat five fl all right
[08:49] flat two flat three flat six flat seven
[08:51] okay so it'd be c
[08:53] d flat e flat f g
[08:57] a flat b flat c okay so you have the
[09:01] one in flat two
[09:02] and then you have the
[09:04] five and flat six okay so this is
[09:10] a lot of times you'll hear a phrygian
[09:11] voicing
[09:13] would be a
[09:16] major triad up a half step
[09:24] that's really the sound a phrygian there
[09:28] okay because i've got that major triad d
[09:30] flat major
[09:32] over c
[09:36] so it's a minor sound with a flat two
[09:40] the flat six and the flat two give it a
[09:42] darkness because the flat two wants to
[09:45] resolve down to one and the flat six
[09:47] wants to resolve down to five okay
[09:49] that's what gives it its melancholy
[09:51] sound a darkness you hear a lot of metal
[09:53] sounds that use the phrygian mode
[09:56] okay
[09:57] anything that has a flat two
[10:00] or a flat six
[10:01] those notes want to move down they want
[10:04] to resolve down okay whereas the sixth
[10:08] in dorian actually wants to resolve
[10:10] upward
[10:11] that's why dorian is a brighter minor
[10:14] sound okay
[10:15] so if i have c dorian
[10:18] [Music]
[10:21] that a that six
[10:23] [Music]
[10:25] has a natural tendency to rise and it
[10:27] actually takes a minor mode and makes it
[10:30] sound brighter okay
[10:32] uh
[10:33] lydian
[10:35] sharp four and five
[10:37] is where the half step are and then
[10:38] between seven and eight okay
[10:41] lydian
[10:43] lydian has a
[10:44] celestial sound or
[10:48] otherworldly
[10:49] okay see lydian would be
[10:51] [Music]
[10:57] there's your lydian sound
[10:59] major scale with a sharp four
[11:05] that sharp four
[11:06] [Music]
[11:10] wants to resolve up to the fifth so the
[11:12] lydian mode has a natural lift to it
[11:15] it's a brighter sound than the ionian
[11:18] scale the ionian scale has the natural
[11:20] fore
[11:21] that wants to move down lydian has the
[11:24] sharp four that wants to move up
[11:27] that's why i call it a brighter scale
[11:30] okay and you hear that in film scoring
[11:32] all the time lydian mode is one of the
[11:33] most common mode it has a triumphant
[11:36] sound to it or
[11:38] more otherworldly if you hear um
[11:41] i'm trying to think if i'll get
[11:42] demonetized if i do this
[11:45] um
[11:46] uh i better not play it because if i
[11:48] play this one chord it's from this the
[11:50] the show is six feet under it's thomas
[11:52] newman soundtrack and the first chord is
[11:56] a lydian triad okay and and it actually
[12:00] um
[12:02] is just
[12:04] that
[12:05] okay that probably d-minus is my video
[12:07] just for that because that's actually
[12:09] the voicing that he uses there and it's
[12:11] a
[12:12] when i say a lydian triad it's one sharp
[12:15] four
[12:16] five okay as opposed to a major triad
[12:20] lydian triad
[12:22] okay
[12:24] i love the lydian mode i love all these
[12:26] modes i love all modes period um
[12:29] the next mode is the mixolydian mode
[12:31] mixolydian mode has
[12:33] the half step between three and four and
[12:36] between six and seven okay
[12:39] so
[12:40] c mixolydian is basically c major scale
[12:43] [Music]
[12:45] with a flat seven okay so once again
[12:52] there's your mixolydian sound
[12:56] [Music]
[13:06] love that sounds beautiful
[13:07] [Music]
[13:19] okay
[13:20] mixolydian is used in rock
[13:22] ac dc you name it any classic rock song
[13:26] pretty much uses mixolydian it's the
[13:28] most common mode that is used in rock
[13:31] music rock melodies i would play some
[13:34] but i'll just tell you norwegian wood is
[13:37] one that uses it that's i played it in
[13:39] the video before
[13:41] but the whole melody is
[13:43] mixolydian but i can think of a hundred
[13:46] songs that use mixolydian in the in the
[13:48] uh as a mode that's written off okay so
[13:51] basically it's that your tonic in this
[13:53] case would be c
[13:55] and everything kind of resolves down to
[13:56] c but the scale has a b flat in it right
[13:59] your you people say well aren't you in
[14:02] the key of f it's like well it's using
[14:04] the notes f major but it's the fifth
[14:06] mode and it always resolves back to c
[14:09] that's the thing about modes is that
[14:11] they have a natural tendency to resolve
[14:13] to the
[14:14] tonic
[14:16] that
[14:17] would be the five chord in the major key
[14:19] so in the key of f c is the five chord
[14:22] and mixolydian is the fifth mode
[14:24] but the song can be
[14:27] in the key of
[14:28] c mixolydian because it's always
[14:30] resolving back to c even though it's got
[14:32] the chords of f major in it right
[14:35] okay next mode aeolian right the saddest
[14:38] mode
[14:40] that has absolutes between two and flat
[14:43] three and five and flat six once again
[14:47] that flat six
[14:49] wants to resolve down
[14:51] okay and that's what gives aeolian
[14:54] two three
[14:56] flat three four five flat six flat seven
[15:01] it gives it a very dark
[15:04] sad
[15:06] i think a sad
[15:07] that gives it a sad sound
[15:24] i just love that
[15:30] [Music]
[15:32] it's beautiful beautiful i love aeolian
[15:35] [Music]
[15:39] that flat
[15:41] that flat six is just so
[15:43] sad sounding right you hear melodies um
[15:47] many great great songs use aeolian
[15:51] modes one of my favorites is a sting
[15:54] tune called i burn for you i made a
[15:55] video called the aeolian mode i've got
[15:57] videos on all these modes if you look on
[15:59] my channel
[16:01] look up lydian look up aioli and look up
[16:03] locrian leave find them all on my
[16:05] channel on this channel or my rick beato
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[16:36] for that the last mode here locrian last
[16:39] mode of the major scale has a half step
[16:40] between one and two right so it gives
[16:42] that
[16:43] darkness to it but then between four and
[16:46] flat five okay
[16:48] i found a great locrian tune so low
[16:51] grain one two flat three
[16:54] four flat five flat six
[16:57] flat seven
[16:59] back to one
[17:01] that has a real
[17:09] just
[17:10] beautiful
[17:21] so
[17:29] [Music]
[17:33] i love that there's a tune called
[17:35] opening the opening it's on keith
[17:37] jarrett's intervals
[17:40] dark intervals record
[17:42] appropriately called dark intervals
[17:45] because the first song is in locrian
[17:47] it's 13 minutes of sea locrian okay it's
[17:50] beautiful keith jarrett
[17:52] if you don't know who he is go to
[17:54] spotify go to apple music type in keith
[17:56] jarrett look up the first song on dark
[17:59] intervals came out in 1988
[18:02] and it's in locrian okay so these are
[18:03] the modes in the major scale they all
[18:05] have a distinctive sound when i hear
[18:08] this kind of a sound
[18:09] i'm like oh it's lydian i just know this
[18:12] lydian as soon as i hear that if i hear
[18:14] this sound
[18:16] i'm like oh that's aeolian it's an
[18:18] aeolian sound
[18:20] they just have such a unique flavor to
[18:22] them all of these modes have a unique
[18:25] unique sound to them right this is
[18:32] lydian
[18:34] you can hear this
[18:40] if it was this
[18:42] i would say hmm what is that
[18:44] well that's more of a mixolydian
[18:46] [Music]
[18:50] but this is
[18:52] lydian
[18:53] just a voicing has a complete sound to
[18:57] it a lydian sound if i think of the
[18:59] scale when i play that chord
[19:01] [Music]
[19:07] i'm singing very poorly a d flat lydian
[19:11] scale
[19:14] but i could sing
[19:22] so i just sang all the notes in the
[19:24] chord
[19:26] d flat a flat f g b flat e flat a flat d
[19:30] flat a flat f g b flat
[19:33] a flat
[19:35] so those are the notes
[19:37] in this d flat lydian chord sung from
[19:40] the bottom up when i hear that i hear
[19:42] those notes
[19:44] in that particular order right but i
[19:46] recognize the sound of it as a sound
[19:50] now
[19:51] the next scale we're going to talk about
[19:53] is the melodic minor scale one of my
[19:55] favorite scales that is used more
[20:00] um
[20:01] but you get use
[20:03] melodic minor is used by people like
[20:05] stevie wonder
[20:07] um
[20:08] let's see melodic minor
[20:10] i'm going to call it mel min okay so i
[20:13] have to write it all out we have melodic
[20:15] minor
[20:18] we have dorian flat 2
[20:23] we have lydian augmented i'm going to
[20:25] breathe it abbreviate these
[20:28] we have mixolydian sharp 11
[20:31] we have mixolydian flat six
[20:34] we have uh locrian natural two
[20:38] and we have altered dominant or all
[20:40] super low grain we'll call it for today
[20:42] super locrian
[20:48] now
[20:49] melodic minor scale compared to a major
[20:52] scale is a major scale with a flat third
[20:54] one two flat three four
[20:57] five six
[20:59] seven okay
[21:00] so
[21:05] okay now in classical music people go
[21:10] and then they come down
[21:13] aeolian that's what you call the
[21:15] classical melodic minor but we're
[21:17] actually going to use melodic minor as a
[21:19] constant structure like a jazz musician
[21:21] would
[21:22] great great sound now what do you do
[21:24] with these other modes well if you know
[21:25] what dorian is dorian flat too if i
[21:27] write out a dorian scale
[21:31] once you know the modes of the major
[21:32] scale right dorian flat two that's all
[21:36] it is that's why it's called that they
[21:38] they basically use the names
[21:40] of the major scale modes so once you
[21:42] know them
[21:43] all you do is you do what the scale
[21:45] tells you to do okay lydian augmented
[21:48] i'm gonna write lydian
[21:51] sharp four five six seven
[21:53] and augmented when somebody says
[21:55] augmented augmented chord they're
[21:56] talking about a sharp five so this is
[21:59] lydian augmented okay we'll come back to
[22:01] these mixolydian sharp 11 okay
[22:04] sharp 11 means sharp four so i'm going
[22:06] to write out a mixolydian scale four
[22:09] five six flat seven 7.
[22:12] i'm going to raise the fourth mixolydian
[22:15] right sharp 11 or sharp 4.
[22:17] mixolydian flat 6. i just did a post
[22:21] on um
[22:23] on instagram
[22:25] where i played
[22:27] the mixolydian flat six scale
[22:32] and
[22:34] um
[22:34] [Music]
[22:35] and i talked about how when i was in
[22:37] music school the teachers used to say oh
[22:39] mixolydian six don't worry about that
[22:41] nobody uses that it's like what
[22:43] it happens to be one of the best modes
[22:45] it's like one of my favorite modes you
[22:47] want to write beautiful melancholy
[22:50] music that has a major feel to it
[22:52] mixolydian flat six
[22:55] you'll thank me later i'm just kidding
[22:57] uh locrian natural two locrian normally
[23:00] has a flat two right so it's basically a
[23:02] low-grade scale
[23:03] i'll make the two natural
[23:06] flat three four flat five flat six flat
[23:10] seven okay so it's a low green scale
[23:12] but with a natural two
[23:14] i'll put a natural here just so you
[23:16] remember
[23:17] normally locrian
[23:19] has a flap but since we're comparing to
[23:21] the major scale we're just going to go
[23:22] like this and then
[23:24] super locrian one of my favorite scales
[23:26] one flat two flat three flat four flat
[23:30] five flat six flat seven
[23:33] okay
[23:35] the super locrian mode is used with
[23:37] dominant chords and we're going to talk
[23:38] about
[23:40] these um
[23:42] this is really a
[23:43] dominant sounding mode it's called super
[23:46] locrian but most people that i know like
[23:49] myself refer to it as
[23:51] altered
[23:52] dominant
[23:54] the reason it's called alter dominant is
[23:55] because if you take
[23:58] if let's say you're in the key of c
[23:59] right
[24:00] [Music]
[24:02] so
[24:09] it's a c major has a
[24:11] major third
[24:13] sharp five
[24:14] flat seven
[24:16] it also has the flat nine and the sharp
[24:18] nine in it
[24:19] [Music]
[24:20] so
[24:30] anytime you have an altered sound right
[24:34] that would be more of a jazz voicing
[24:37] one
[24:38] sharp nine i'm sorry one flat nine sharp
[24:41] nine third sharp four sharp five flat
[24:44] seven that's why it's called the alter
[24:46] dominant scale because it contains the
[24:48] sharp nine flat nine sharp five flat
[24:50] five in the scale
[24:51] they're just hidden by these things but
[24:53] if i go like this
[24:56] uh flat nine
[24:58] sharp nine
[24:59] flat five uh flat five
[25:01] i'm sorry this is the third
[25:03] hidden and harmonic this is the
[25:06] uh flat five and this is the sharp five
[25:09] the flat six and sure five are the same
[25:11] notes there
[25:12] this flat four is is what i
[25:14] which would be is kind of confusing but
[25:16] really that flat four is the actual
[25:18] major third okay
[25:22] these are the modes of the melodic minor
[25:25] scale these are the uh the formulas for
[25:29] the modes of the melodic minor scale
[25:32] now
[25:32] i have videos with all of these on my
[25:35] channel each one individually with
[25:38] pieces that i've written in then if you
[25:39] look up oh they're between my my normal
[25:42] channel and my rick be out of 2 channel
[25:44] go to them and search these names and
[25:46] you will find videos on each specific
[25:49] mode so you don't have to actually
[25:51] wonder i go through all the chords that
[25:52] are in them and i have a piece that is
[25:54] written in the particular
[25:56] modes okay so when you want to hear what
[25:58] they sound like or you go to page
[26:02] uh
[26:02] melodic minor would be page 18 in the
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[26:21] musician that's that's
[26:23] that's what this channel is it's a uh
[26:26] it's a music learning channel but
[26:29] think of this these things are kind of
[26:31] the textbooks that go along with you
[26:33] with them and give you a greater
[26:35] understanding if i'm talking about a
[26:37] topic and you're watching a video and be
[26:38] like what what are we talking about here
[26:42] what is this alter dominant or that we
[26:44] just open up the beato book or go to my
[26:46] ear training course you can hear it or
[26:48] you just go do a video in here and you
[26:50] hear me
[26:52] hear a video with a piece written on it
[26:54] where i talk about all the scales that
[26:55] are related to it okay
[26:58] if you go to page uh example 17 on page
[27:02] 20 we have the modes of the harmonic
[27:05] minor scale
[27:07] okay
[27:09] once again
[27:11] the modes of the harmonic minor scale
[27:14] just have a series of no of uh i relate
[27:17] them to the major scale okay so we have
[27:19] the harmonic minor scale
[27:24] harmonic minor scale is a major scale
[27:26] with a flat third
[27:30] with a and a flat six and a major seven
[27:32] so in the key of c it'd be one two flat
[27:35] three four five flat six
[27:38] major seven so you have this augmented
[27:41] second in the middle of the scale that's
[27:43] real
[27:44] which really gives it that sound right
[27:46] so that is um
[27:49] that is the harmonic minor scale i and i
[27:53] made a mistake it's on page did i say
[27:55] page 19 billy yeah page 19 okay
[27:59] the second mode is locrian natural six
[28:04] once again you take a low green scale
[28:06] one flat two flat three four
[28:09] flat five natural six flat seven okay
[28:13] it's just memorizing these formulas you
[28:15] do exactly what the scale says what the
[28:18] mode says okay the third mode is ionian
[28:21] augmented
[28:24] ionian augmented ionian one two three
[28:28] four
[28:29] sharp five there's your augmented
[28:31] six
[28:32] and seven okay
[28:35] um so
[28:37] when you go to this page you'll say okay
[28:38] i only augmented and you look at it and
[28:40] you say okay there's an e flat if you're
[28:42] in the key of c there's a triad e flat
[28:45] augmented that's based off that mode
[28:48] uh uh off that scale degree and then
[28:50] there's an e flat major seven sharp five
[28:53] chord that's built as a seventh chord
[28:56] the next mode is dorian sharp four right
[29:02] and what you do take a dorian scale
[29:05] three
[29:06] sharp the fourth
[29:07] five
[29:08] six flat seven
[29:10] um then you have phrygian major
[29:14] you do exactly what it says one
[29:17] two
[29:18] three right
[29:20] flat two is the phrygian part
[29:22] four
[29:23] five flat six
[29:26] flat
[29:27] seven
[29:28] phrygian major so it's basically a
[29:31] phrygian scale
[29:33] okay so it usually works with dominant
[29:34] chords in the key of c
[29:36] melodic minor
[29:38] it would be a g phrygian major okay so
[29:42] that scale
[29:44] um
[29:45] uh the flat six kind of acts as a sharp
[29:49] five
[29:50] right and the flat two really acts as a
[29:52] flat nine it's this is used as a
[29:57] mode over dominant chords okay it's
[29:59] really gives the flavor like um
[30:02] uh it gives a flavor of a minor key like
[30:05] a dominant chord a five chord and a
[30:07] minor key it's a great great great sound
[30:09] love phrygian major
[30:11] um
[30:13] the
[30:13] next mode here is lydian sharp nine i
[30:16] have a great video on lydian sharp nine
[30:20] lydian short now one of my favorite
[30:22] scales
[30:23] it's one
[30:24] sharp two that's the sharp nine three
[30:28] sharp four
[30:30] five six
[30:31] seven that's lydian sharp nine and then
[30:34] we have altered dominant
[30:37] double flat
[30:38] seven okay so one flat two flat three
[30:42] flat four flat five flat six i'm rushing
[30:46] here flat seven i'm trying to do it all
[30:47] in 30 minutes
[30:49] that is the formula for altered dominant
[30:51] double flat seven it's the alternate
[30:53] scale and i just
[30:54] double flat the seventh note okay
[30:56] so
[30:57] one two flat one flat two flat three
[31:01] flat four flat five flat six
[31:04] [Music]
[31:05] uh double flat seven
[31:07] [Music]
[31:08] and there's your augmented second
[31:10] interval right there at the top of the
[31:11] scale that's the ultra dominant double
[31:13] flat seven once again
[31:15] i have a video called scale wars that i
[31:17] put two different scales together and
[31:19] one of the ski in one of the pieces i
[31:21] juxtaposed the ultra dominant double
[31:23] flat seven against another scale i can't
[31:25] remember great video scale wars go back
[31:27] early in my channel and watch these it's
[31:30] one of my favorite videos
[31:32] okay these are the modes of the major
[31:35] scale melodic minor and harmonic minor
[31:38] scale
[31:39] all of this is in my ear training course
[31:41] all of it is in my beato book bundle if
[31:44] you want to know more about them and
[31:46] really study them and learn them
[31:47] discount code is rb 500
[31:50] 50 off that
[31:52] um i have a piece on the harmonic major
[31:55] scale i i actually took the harmonic
[31:57] major scale and i wrote a piece on all
[32:00] seven modes
[32:01] go to my rick beato 2 channel
[32:04] follow me there or follow me on
[32:05] instagram at rickbiota1 because i do
[32:07] improvisations
[32:09] on instagram as well but there's a
[32:11] harmonic major scale piece a piece in
[32:14] every mode i'm going to put up this the
[32:16] uh a video with a piece in every one of
[32:19] the double harmonic major modes
[32:22] okay
[32:23] you guys are amazing thank you so much
[32:25] for hanging in there these mode things
[32:27] are really
[32:29] a lot of people think they're complex
[32:31] it's just memorization that's all
[32:34] that's all you got to do just going to
[32:35] memorize you got to look at the stuff
[32:36] write it down and you'll get it
[32:38] you guys are awesome thank you have a
[32:40] great rest of your weekend we'll see you
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