Phrygian Major | The Sound Of Spain and Neoclassical
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2020
- In this episode I discuss in detail how to use the Phrygian Major or Phrygian Dominant Mode or Scale for composition or improvisation. I talk about the unique qualities of Phrygian Major and why it's so popular in neoclassical, flamenco, and jazz music. All Orchestral sounds by Spitfire Audio sample libraries BBC Orchestra.
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I understood everything UP TO “ hey everybody, it’s Rick Beato here”. After that , my mind blew.
Haha!!!
"Let's check 'em out." was understandable...😄
Maybe subtitles would help 🤣
I burst our laughing when I read this comment...because that was precisely my thought.
LOL
Al Di Meola - "Egyptian Danza"
Queen - "Innuendo"
Alanis Morissette - "Uninvited"
Scorpions - "Sails of Charon"
Rainbow - "Gates of Babylon"
Such a killer and immediately mysterious-sounding mode...
Indeed! It may just be my personal favorite mode! Definitely one of the easiest ways to have me be really invested in a song near instantly across styles! A couple others I love with it extensively would be Tool's "46 & 2" and Symphony X's "Domination."
A lot of the Jeff Loomis Nevermore stuff is written in Phrygian Dominant. I think ABBA's 'Voulez Vous' is writen in it as well and could easily be mashed up with 'Gates of Babylon'.
Rich Saculus ... interesting that you bring up ABBA... I used to this the song “Money, Money, Money” had that same feel to it... not sure of the Phrygian Harmonic Minor Mode relationship, as I never tried to sit down and do my homework on it... but I just thought it was a trip you’d bring up ABBA as well.🤘🏻
Also Metallica-wherever I may roam.
Almost every early Dream Theater song uses Phrygian mode.
whenever Rick does this modal vids and plays demonstrations I immediately hear hundreds of beautiful, memorable movie scores.
That’s because they use these modes all the times to you with your emotions.
Don't say it too loud, he might get copy written.
Lol
*Applying for music jobs in 2020
Interviewer: Do you have a degree?
Me: No, but I've seen every Rick Beato video on youtube.
LOL Right?
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Casey Frank IKR?😂😂😂
Adam neely too
Rick beato, eh?? You're hired! Nice
The most magical thing just happened. I normally watch your videos with headphones to make sure I can get the most out of them. Today I decided to watch it with my phone’s speakers. The instant my 8yo daughter heard your chords she was so blown away she instantly said “I want to learn to play that!” The spirit of a true musician! She doesn’t know what it was she just knew she loved it. Thank you Rick for this video, the spark is officially on I’ll do all I can to keep it on all the way.
wish you and your daughter nothing but the best!
As a 1980s bass player I loved the phrygian and harmonic minor
As a 1980s hairdresser I loved the flat top.
As a 1980s TV repairman...I'm unemployed.
@@johnnyd63 As a 1980s computer programmer, I'm fixing the Hubble Space Telescope.
I dont mean to be offtopic but does someone know of a way to get back into an instagram account..?
I stupidly forgot the account password. I would appreciate any tips you can offer me.
@Darius Tristen Instablaster ;)
And now your homework from Prof Beato. Everyone needs to submit all chord inversions for all triads 1:39 and 7th chords 2:33 described in this video. Due on Friday.
Flashbacks to music theory class lol
funkhouzr ikr this gave me some whiplash 😭
A nightmare I used to have -- being in a class and knowing absolutely nothing and the work is due NOW.
Same as the Hijaz Maqam in Arabic music. And same as the Freygish scale of Jewish Klezmer Music. A quintessential 'Middle Eastern' sound too!
They don't traditionally use the western 12-tone scale, I thought?
@@EnterJustice we do use 12 tone, their is some maqam in arabic music that are similar to the western ones like nahawand : minor scale, kurd: phrygian, ajam : major scale..... etc
@@ironlarbi Theres some pretty wild scales over the road with the persian dudes. I did some music a bunch of years ago with an Iranian scale, and that stuff had scales I never imagined. When he told me "This scale isn't used in my village but from one down the valley from me" my mind was blown. So much variation
@@shayneoneill1506 yes that's the point of not using equal temperament, because every region has a distinctive sound, a 1/4 tone in Irak is a little bit diffrent from a 1/4 tone in Egypt or another country or region.
Yeah, a lot of Jewish cantorial music is in the phrygian ("Freygish") mode.
I forgot to breath @7:55 and almost pass out @8:30...but Rick help me out to live @8:45.
That's a wonderful journey 🙏🏻
The Phyregian mode is the exact scale in the Arabic music called “Hijaz”, which is the name of the region which the scale originated from in the Arabian Penensula
thanks. as my dad always said; you learn something new every day.
Not the Phrygian, the Phrygian Major is also called Hijaz.
Hi Jazz!
From memory (i.e. I could be very wrong) In Greek music hijaz is Phrygian dominant
Also colloquially known as the Hava Nagila scale. And Vakulabharanam in Carnatic music.
Rick's compositions are just laughably brilliant.
"Yeah, this one took about an hour"......(slight smile)
Al Di Meola loved this stuff. See, 'Casino' and 'Elegant Gypsy'.
In 1980 his wall of Marshalls unleashed this kind of playing
that blew everybodies minds. We (guitar players) all wore those albums out.
'Romantic Warrior' was the greatest Live Album of the FUSION days.
So true.
Agree! I was 16 1980 and never forget Elegant Gypsy and getting pulled into Master Di Meola's world. Took my brain to another level.
Yeah, Al was the first one I thought of as well...
Romantic Warrior was a studio album.
@@gedofgont1006
It was recorded live in the studio.
Hey Rick! This scale gives flavor to one of my favorite tunes by flamenco legend Paco DeLucia, “Zyryab”, which features Chick Corea. I’m a jazz violinist with perfect pitch like your son. I’ve never fully integrated theory into my Performance practice, so I’m studying on the side. This was very informative. What’s amazing about this mode is that Paco used it to honor the historic musician Zyryab, Who played for the Spanish aristocracy and is regarded as the one who inspired flamenco music. He performed on an Arabic instrument that was a predecessor to the lute and his travels brought him to Spain. I would very much enjoy speaking with you sometime. I highly recommend your books to all my students as you save me all the time it would’ve taken to research and write them. I enjoy living as a recording artist and I can play pretty much anything, or learn it. I’ve been practicing along and sharpening my skills with likes of the recordings of Chick Corea, John McGlaughlin, Bela Fleck And all of the great rock, jazz and fusion musicians you are familiar with.
But for what matters, Paco de Lucia was a 'Payo" (a white European, a Spaniard ) and not a Gitano , not a Gypsy though. Gypsies came all the way from India and many passed by the Middle East in their way to The Iberian Peninsula. Also Jews and Arabs had their input into what became Flamenco music, which is in no way the only music from Spain though, like Andres Segovia was fond of reminding the unlearned.
@@alexstewart8097 I'm not sure how any of that "matters" in the context of his comment. You seem to be attempting to "correct" claims that were never made by stirring up some sort of racial pissing-contest/purity test.
What Paco's ethnic background has to do with the song and the inspiration for it is beyond me. By his time, Gypsies had been in Spain for over 4 centuries already. And by the time they arrived, the inquisition was in full swing after 8 centuries of reconquista to take back the peninsula from Arab/Berber invaders. The Arabs had brought with them maqam Hijaz, which is the same mode used in the video, and even that was likely originally inspired by ancient Jewish prayer. Ultimately, the full array of local influences had their hand in making flamenco what it would become. Even the "white" medieval proto-Spanish "payos", through the "gama de Castilla y León", which is why much of the rest of Spanish composition retains some of the same flavor, not to mention the use of European theory rather than Arabic. And even the "white" Spanish were a mix of various Mediterranean and eastern/northern Gothic cultures before the Muslim invasion. The Andalusian Gypsies were simply the final hands in a long line of the development of proper flamenco, although after it became popular, it again returned to the broader population, who progressed it to nuevo flamenco. Paco was a key part of that further refinement and development, from street music to high art.
@@SepticFuddy I never thought a Rick Beato comment section would give me such a wicked history lesson
@@joestanley2743 UA-cam is such a strange animal, lol. Spanish history is pretty fascinating. If you're interested, there's a channel called Flash Point History that gives a pretty good basic overview of it in a watchable narrative style, starting with the rise of Islam. He's been going for a couple years and is still getting to the end of the reconquista
@@SepticFuddy It is you who seems to be attempting to "correct" claims you said were made by me( like your inferred racial-pissing contest/purity test) that revealed more about you than anything else. It is clearly that only somebody pre- thinking along those lines could have taken my words so out of context; but I guess next you'll go and try cancelling me out. Besides , you could also have saved your elementary synopsis of the history of Spain (with La Reconquista and The Inquisition and so on) because in writing to me you indeed only preached to the choir , to the already converted and validated pretty much all I did have in mind when writing my comment. And yes, Spanish music is so much more than Flamenco, like Andres Segovia liked to remind the unlearned, and much more that you could learn from UA-cam, or Hollyweird for that matter. Vaya con Dios , senor Steinhauer.
A few rock songs that I can think of that use this mode include:
Dream Theater - "Home"
Rainbow - "Stargazer"
Tool - "46 & 2"
A more mainstream example would be "Keep 'Em Separated" by the Offspring (just in that one instrumental part though).
Rainbow's "Gates of Babylon" is more like it...
Oooooh, Tool....
@@rome8180 love that song, offspring were great actually
I think 46&2 uses a Phrygian but w/ a minor third.
Spanish here, can confirm this is probably my favorite mode. As Rick says it's built upon the 5th mode of the minor harmonic scale, but I'd like to note that there's also the double harmonic scale, which is the same but with another augmented second so it sounds even darker. Like a kind of phryigian dominant but with a raised 7th. This and the standard phryigian dominant can be easily swapped at convenience as you are just raising the 7th, check it out, it's really cool, you'll like it, I personally use both of them a lot. I believe Rick already has some video on the double harmonic anyways.
DavidMCasas Double harmonic major and phrygian dominant are by far my favorite modes to write with. You should check out klezmer if you like the sound, it uses a lot of phrygian dominant and has many harmonic similarities to Spanish music.
Hmm, sounds like you're describing Hungarian minor, specifically. Which gives that nice chromaticism around the root and a dark, "exotic " sound. Which as you stated is a mode of double harmonic major
@@doransponsel4813 He's talking about the so-called "Arabic" mode, which you get if you start from the fifth note of the Hungarian minor. They're both based on what's called the "double harmonic" scale like he said--just different modes.
@DavidMCasas You should definitely check out some Ozric Tentacles, if you like the use of such exotic scales.
how do you handle the major seventh, octave and flat ninth? that's kind of weird to my ears, not bad, but weird
Great thing about watching Rick's videos is the ongoing reminder of how much I have to learn about music. Truly appreciate you!
yeah! and I'll bet after all these years he's as eager to learn new things as ever!
With both examples, I couldn't help but be reminded of some of the first times I played The Legend of Zelda, or the trailers for the games. It had a grandeur and simplicity, but with a touch of uneasiness that could represent a world soon to be ruined. Beautiful
Love to learn the musical theory behind my favourite tracks. Jazz Fusion has so much variety in it that this series fits perfectly onto the genre. I imagine Mahavishnu's Orchestra scale exploration must be wild.
this is my fav scale hands down
Thanks for all the great uploads during these hard times Rick!
As a Spanish Im honored to have an entire episode about spanish music, motifs and clichés in Rick channel. Viva er flamenco illo!!
Only it was nothing about Spanish music except that the scale is used. Beautiful compositions but not really about Spanish music. Now if Rick did a video purely on flamenco sometime..
I love that the negative harmonic mirror of the Phrygian Major is the Harmonic Major, they're two colours that when used well, sound absolutely beautiful back to back.
Loving the addition of the practical advice for these chords / how to layer them and move through them! Thanks a bunch for another excellent video Rick!
Thank you Rick. It is episodes like this one that made me an avid subscriber, an owner of each edition of your Beato Book, and a member of our Ear Training course. While every video you post has a hidden gem within it, your applied music theory videos are in a class by themselves.
The piece at the end was gorgeous!
You’ve earned this breakthrough Rick and no one can ever take it away from you. God bless.
Love these the best Rick. This is where you really shine IMHO.
Never thought of Phyrgian in this regard. It's so wonderful to learn so much history and depth from you just devoted to one mode. Amazing information
Have in mind that it's not Phrygian. It has a major 3rd.
Found you again!😂
Yes, please be aware that this is not the regular Phrygian mode.
That's some beautifully composed music Rick!
Beautiful piece at the end, Rick.
That footage you chose to go along with the music was astoundingly beautiful
Awesome as always Rick. The piano piece is amazing.
Phrygian Dominant is absolutely my favorite harmonic and melodic sonority! Hooray for a dedicated Beato video!
Awesome content as always. Both pieces are killin'.
Absolutely gorgeous, Rick. This is, hands down, my favorite mode. I love the piano pieces. Stunning, sir!
Brilliant inspiration Rick! Keep it going 🏆
Beautiful musical compositions Rick! I would not be opposed to your including more illustrations of theoretical concepts with your own pieces in future videos. It demonstrates the topic in a joyful way.
Those 2 composition pieces at the end were astonishingly good, Rick!
That sounded great Rick, beautiful.
Rick, your content is music nerd heaven. I graduated from Berklee, have been playing professionally and teaching for decades and I manage to learn so much from you. Thanks!
Absolutely adore these videos !! Invaluable stuff !
I love you Rick Beato!!! Your passion for music is contagious!! BEATO FOR PRESIDENT !!!
Rick: "It took me about an hour to compose this and mock it up."
Me: [gives up]
uh huh
What? it's not that complex of a thing? :/
He's basically just running through stuff in the mode in all kinds of ways, without any real red thread in it... no offence meant... I just don't hear, as another composer, how it's much different from almost pure improv. It sure doesn't sound like a composition that has a plan, direction, arch etc...
Yeah he has serious chops on a keyboard... but yeah...
I'm going to get lynched for this comment i'm sure.
couldn't agree more ... :(
@@Mtaalas real red thread?...... not sure what your point is.....what did you add to the episode?....Rick just used it as a demonstration
It does kind of feel like he could be a big name post modern classical composer if he wanted.
Thank you for this insightul video, Rick!
Awesome video. I love these ones on the various modes.
Just upgraded to the Beato book v4! thanks a lot! Keep up the great work!
Another fantastic video man...!
Thx for educating us..
Awesome visuals on the peices. Great video
Rick, This episode of Everything music is Awe inspiring, I've been really working on Phrygian Modes and how to understand them. Thank you again for the inspiration.
Excellent! Your usage of this scale in your compositions are beautiful! thank you
Simply gorgeous Rick!
Thanks for that, amazing compositions.
I know what I’ll be practicing tonight! Thanks Rick
Fascinating, this is a bit over my head, but very nice job making me understand it. Thanks Rick!
Thanks for your lesson and for naming properly the video. Greetings from Spain
This is pretty much the mode I jam with when I'm on the keyboard at home because it's a sound I enjoy and get hypnotized by. I didn't really know what I was playing so I definitely learned something new. Thanks Rick Beato, I've learned so much about music from you.
Those pieces were beautiful!!!!
Great Breakdown. I really enjoyed this lesson.
Rick, that was so cool when you cut to the rocket! The imagery and the music were wonderfully in sync at that moment. 😊
Thanks for doing this. Greetings from Spain
I've got a fever, and the prescription is more Phrygian Major orchestral music! Quite uplifting and needed in these mind-sinking times. Thank you Rick.
This reminds me about Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain. Thanks for the great presentation of information Rick! I enjoyed listening to the two compositions.
I was not psychologically prepared for this, lol. So much more than I was even expecting. Bravo, Beato!
Man, Rick. These are great. Thanks a lot!
Amazing - I've been using a lot of those modes in my bass solos for years and never knew what I was structurally playing. - Thanks Rick; now it's time to go get my bass, put this video on frame-by-frame, get some blank sheet music (always keep some around for occasions such as this) and map out what I've been playing, along with what you just taught me so I can tie it all together, know what I'm doing and why, and then really "wow" the guys in the band, along with the audience! - You sir, are a Master-ROCKER! 😊 (Thanks again!)
Rick:
I thought I had a good understanding of music theory, chord construction, progressions until I started watching your videos and bought the Beato Book. I usually get swamped a third of the way thru your videos.
This info was awesome. Awesome sounds! I’m going to try composing a piece like this!
Many thanks for what you are doing!
Very inspirational. Mind you, your videos are brilliantly well done along with your two compositions you had put together for this episode. Thank you.
Rick you are a hero to the universe... explaining things that are usually unexplainable from most teachers.... genius!!!
That was awesome ! Thanks Rick.
Love the discussion of triads and four note chords
I love how your videos correlate so well to your beato book.
I never studied music in school or university but have had discovered a passion in it in my early 20s
Mostly everything I know about music and how to compose is thanks to your channel and book. It has allowed me a freedom to compose in a different manor to conventional method and create some surprising results.
Thank you for always sharing and thank you for keeping us educated
My favorite scale - loved your piano pieces - beautiful!
Awesome, many thanks as always Rick. Much appreciated.
Beato...top of his game..so good with this stuff👍
The most beautiful mode I know. Thanks for the great presentation! Time to go practice....
Love the music theory, and am completely astonished by your composition prowess and how masterfully, and seemingly effortlessly, you can use what you know. Thanks
Sensational. A real master. What an amazing command of musical progressions. Truly inspiring thank you.
Thank you so much for keeping doing this kind of videos, they are the ones that made me suscribe years ago
Woah, this is such a coincidence! I just done a cover of a song called How You Like That by BLACKPINK which uses the Phrygian Major mode during the rap solo!
you’re fucking right it does
They love Phrygian mode. I heard a lot of their songs using either Phrygian or Phrygian Dominant mode. Their name BLACKpink fits their music. DARK and Exotic. 🤘
just messing with phrygian dominant this week. your timing is great, Rick! thanks for this one! very cool pieces, too.
Hey Rick, thanks for putting this together. I'm a (mostly) amateur guitarist for about 20 years now, don't know that much about music theory but enough to know that phrygian dominant is my favourite mode, and I can instantly recognise it anywhere. Clips like this help me better understand why I've always liked it, not only in the obvious flamenco, klezmer music, and gypsy music, but also in ambient tracks and symphonic pieces. Also, I was surprised to see the footage of Bran castle (a.k.a. Dracula's castle) @7:50 in my homecountry -- that was a very nice touch. :-) Cheers!
Every time I watch one of your videos I'm awestruck. You have opened my mind up to a whole new world in music. Great job Rick. I enjoy all. Your ear training class is kick'n my butt I have to say though.... Great work!
Thank you for explaining these tunes! Keith Emerson seems to has forgotten these beautiful sounds.
What a stunningly Inspiring Video . Thanks @Rick
The scoopy sounds🧐💎love Rick's channel!
Great video... cant wait to use this
Love your knowledge. Please do a big Prog special!!!!!
Liked that first composition a lot!
Thank you for teaching this.
Rick, that first piece was absolutely amazing. Where can I find more music/piano like this?!
You can buy my record on my website. It’s all modal piano music like this.
Isaac Albeniz
@@aeflash suite Iberia, specifically
So fascinating, how this video reveals your significant keyboard skills and musical understanding. Thank you for sharing everything music. Just brilliant.
This is my favorite kind of video, perfect balance of theory and examples! Also, beautiful music:)
Video is such a food for thought and so informative, it just made one distant odd scale accessible right away. 👍👍 thats power of knowledge and experience.
Awesome Rick. Beautiful!
Really super cool jams ! So cool and very talented ! Thanks Rick
Thanks for this... still learning theory and trying to train my ears to the sounds better. This helped a ton!
You are just awesome Rick!
Pure class Rick
Excellent! And I certainbly do love your song!
It’s been my favorite for decades 👍🏻🎸🎸🎶🎶
Awesome pieces, Rick!