Why Your Mom Loves AC/DC - Mixolydian is their secret sauce
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Exploring the mixolydian scale and how it supports AC/DC's tracks.
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Step 1: play in mixolydian
Step 2: sing like it's physically hurting you to make those noises
Never noticed that, shame on me!) And yeah, this video is sick. Your analogies were so to the point. I'm really glad you keep on making such videos.
Ahh thank you! Your channel is great too, makes me want to make more Metallica videos... they're the reason I started playing guitar when I was 13
Hahaha! I literally came to this video as the "Up next" video off of one of your latest videos, frrrrriend!
Оп, Андрюха, привіт. Відос правда топовий.
Now I really want to hear "Born This Way" by AC/DC, the lyric is actually pretty good, and AC/DC could take the song to a whole other level...!
JunkiesTube it sounded like clearance clearwater revival
NO
Plus, if you read the news, Brian Johnson went deaf 2 years ago and retired. They’re not making any more albums.
Christopher Walkensen Christopher Walkensen He’s not deaf. He could go deaf if he keeps performing in high volume environments. They’re supposedly doing another album with Axl on vocals
JunkiesTube That song is horseshit, and it doesn’t sound anything like something AC/DC would play.
2:59 “This does not make mom want to dance”
😂😂😂
"blues lick"
Made me laugh
Well now I want to hear AC/DC cover "Born This Way" with Lady Gaga.
Funny, I wrote exactly the same few days ago xD
Lady Gaga loves acdc
🤮
@@marcoreactionary 🤮
Haha, the Lady Gaga song in ACDC style was spot on! Great explanation.
The quote at 3:12 is from an filmed interview with Angus around (i think) 1983, Flick of the Switch era. I remember watching it.
(i know that's still not a solid citation, but it's closer at least)
“Semi-Charmed Life” by Third Eye Blind is my favorite example of an extremely dark song that went under the radar because of its “happy” key, chord progression, and poppy chorus. I even remember they used the song in a trailer for a movie with Winnie the Pooh, and I’m pretty sure Poohbear was only rolling in honey and not crystal. Very few songs can actually replicate the seemingly bittersweet state of addiction (and yes addictions are completely bad, but there is always that high that draws in the affected person, and anticipation of going there). The saccharine tonality almost becomes nauseating, but that’s what makes it work so well because that’s addiction.
You definitely have a point. Here’s another one: Contrast she talks to Angels with master of puppets. Both about addiction. Completely different approaches.
This is by far the best channel for music theory on UA-cam.
Between this guy and Rick Beato I am pretty sure you can come away with a university level music theory education...
3:50 "some folks are born, made to wave the flag. Ooo, they're red white and blue..... it ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senators son"
ua-cam.com/video/caG6i_AgNkg/v-deo.html
Matias kimberlycarson
I don't hear it
Same chord progression but Fogerty plays a halfstep higher
Good ear. You may just have perfect pitch.
Only seen two of this guy's videos, I know nothing about music, but I like him.
I am really liking your content and style. Awesome job!
AC/DC actually always plays the Dorian scale over major triads usually in a I IV V progession. It’s a minor scale over major chords that share the same seventh and sixth that give their songs that nasty bite
I love these types of vids you do, a great mixture of interesting theory observations mixed with the perfect amount of humor. Let's face it there's not many people making funny videos geared towards the committed musician. A great way for me to relax and still feel like I'm doing some productive learning. please keep them coming. Thanks
You have a deep understanding of music for a young man. Keep up the good work. I'm guessing you teach. Shine on brother.
VERY Nice. And certainly, true! It's not all in the scale - naturally. But this is certainly part of the recipe. Well produced flick!
Hey, this is a great channel. Please continue and keep sharing. You are awesome!
So, last week UA-cam suggested that I watch your video on Master of Puppets.
Since then I have watched some additional content of yours.
Now I have seen this video.
I have to say, that I like what I've seen so far. Thanks for the amazing work.
You're really making music theory great, mixing it up with entertainment and trivia.
~A new subscriber from Germany
Danke! I plan to continue making music theory videos like this and hope to improve the quality, pacing, and editing
I came in here to say exactly what the guy above said
Why am I reading this in Nick Offerman's voice?
@@Arianwubbe dammit, now I am too
@@SignalsMusicStudio Three years later: You're not just a man of your word. You are effing nailing it each time!
Subbed. THIS is what we need more of in music education. Well done.
Indeed!
This is a BRILLIANT presentation and on behalf of all, thank you so very much. It is funny, accurate, short and sweet. It also opens doors regarding what was, is and can be done musically (great insert from Angus Young). Thanks again Signals Music Studio, your other postings are of a very high quality as well.
Love Always
Beatlewayne
Made me laugh when you added the vocal in the example
rexhead lol good, I called back Aaron just to do that one AWWW YEAH, I felt it was vital
Where can i hear the full version of the Born This Way cover?
Agreed, I would pay at least 5 money to hear that
I’m gonna say it
AC/DC need to cover Born This Way
I love your analysis of popular music. It's made me better musician. Thank you!
This is the most simplest explanation for a beginner delving in the modes. Awesome lesson
Jake, you are unquestionably my favorite UA-cam guitar instructor. This video is a great example why ... it's very informative, (on a subject like modal tonalities, which can be a tad intimidating), but it's also creative, entertaining and fun. It's so, "yeah" and ... "YEAH"! While things are challenging at the moment, and money is tight, you're the only UA-camr that I not only subscribe to but am also a patreon member for. As Mike Myers said in The Cat in the Hat: "How'd you get to be so smaaaat?"! Keep up the outstanding (and fun) work my brother!
Yep, this is great. I've noticed for the longest time that many AC/DC songs have a strong same-y quality to them. As soon as you played the mixolydian scale on your keyboard, it finally clicked it my mind and I was already hearing all the AC/DD songs in my head - haha!
Love the minor version of Highway to Hell too...
Sick stuff, keep them coming!
Awesome! You make everything totally clear and fun!
Excellent video, thanks`; + you have one of the best podcast voices out there.
Great video!
I love the way some some folks can make theory accessible enough to demystify the magic of what people like about music with rational explanations. I don't think most people who understand theory can do this.
You are an excellent musician and a great teacher even to someone like me whose been using mixolydian for years.I never thought of AC/DC in those terms but spot on .liked and subscribed 👍
You're a sharp Dude, Thanks for sharing it!!
and let's not forget Phil Rudd's plodding backbeat! It achieves the same disco danceability without being cheesy. The perfect foundation for everything else you've already noted ACDC builds on top of it.
Your videos are very easy to understand for non musicians, great job
Outstanding video and lesson, thanks.
I always thought Hose of the Rising Sun was about waisting your life at a casino, not a brothel, but you are making me reconsider
I've spent most of the money I've ever earned in brothels, unfortunately I squandered the rest of it.
Great stuff, man.
4:18 That's how I feel about Copacabana. The music is epic, dramatic yet happy feeling and catchy but then you actually pay attention to the lyrics and it tells a sad gut-punching story with NO happy ending and even a moral ("don't fall in love") like what?!?! And they totally mask the darkness of the story with the (arguably iconic) chorus by shifting the focus to a place rather than the characters/people, feeling like an advertisement, and all over 2-5-1s in the major scale
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL VIDEO MAN THANK YOU 😊
Thanks for the insight. Well done.
This is great man I'm glad I discovered your Channel
Great insight. Nice vocals too.
man, your tuition is awesome!
That's an interesting scale. I know mixolydian but didn't yet use it that much in my own productions. Great video with well-chosen examples. *Thumbs up*
hey, you rock, your Videos r exactly what I was looking for.
If AC/DC songs are in Mixolydian, how does Angus get away with using Minor Pentatonic so much and it sounds amazing?
Ahhh Unagi In the minor pentatonic scale (1 b3 4 5 b7) 4 out of 5 notes are the same as in the Mixolydian scale ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 b7 8). A lot of guitar players - Angus included - play the b3/minor third note of the pentatonic scale with a slight bend (usually when it‘s a bluesy song, not in an aeolian/natural minor context) which makes it sound like it‘s between a minor and a major third. I‘d say that‘s why it sounds so good.
Ahhh Unagi the Mixolydian scale belongs to dominant chords and the Pentatonic scale also derives from dominant chords.
Very informative. Thank you!
Excellent video man. 👍🏼
Your absolutely right. 25yrs ago I was listening to AC/DC at home on the stereo in the lounge room and my mum who’s never listened to AC/DC before heard Dog Eat Dog and kept asking for me to put it on she especially loved the solo. Really took me by surprise.
Gansta rap uses the same principle too of using sweet music to mask violent lyrics.
What an amazing analysis!
Bravo - nice insights and presentation!
Great stuff Jake!
who tf is jak
I saw AC/DC as a seventeen year old in the seventies in country Victoria, Australia. The local radio station put on free concerts in the park. AC/DC had only been together for two weeks and were touring for the first time. They were so loud that I heard them from two miles away and just followed the sound. Angus looked amazing in his school boy outfit. I knew that music had changed for ever. Bon Scot looked like a devil. Cool.
I know plenty songs on guitar from acdc and I note it but at the same time I didnt even know what mixolidian is, now I think it will be easy to learn about it, thats cool
Good production and great content
3:49 - AC/DC should actually release this song, it sounds fricking awesome
Swing. Swing is AC/DC's secret sauce. Back in Black's vocals are a case in point.
Back in Black is entirely straight time. I think you mixed up syncopated rhythms with swing, or heard the 16th-8th-16th ("Back in black") rhythm as an 8th+quarter triplet.
great stuff man
keep it up
Lovely video, thank you
Whole Lotta Rosie is the most perfect rock n roll song I've ever heard. I would play that to Aliens.
Yeah, the intro is GREAT...!
- But I like "Shoot To Thrill" better
I wouldn't play a song about a fat woman to an alien
love your channel dude! great communication and presentation skills. you're in my folder with biato, neeley nulty and turner. i'll check out you patreon.
Not to forget, the great Rock and Roll groove
This is one of those things you cannot unhear once you've heard it. Rick Beato made another- ever notice how every pearl jam song has a kick on the and of 2?
Awesome video!
Could you explain more about Mixolydian. Like if in a major flat the 7 th ?
This is easily my favorite explanation of the mixolydian mode.
I like these videos, theres always something new to learn
I never understood the modes until last September when I found your channel and just noticed I've written 2 songs in mixolydian without realizing.
Add two master guitarists, metronome like drums and Brian's inhuman range at his prime and you got the greatest band on the planet.
A nice keyboard doesn’t hurt. Lots of great rock bands had great keyboard sections as well. Van Halen and Bon Jovi did some pretty amazing work with their keyboards. Guns N’ Roses put one to great use in November rain. Made me wish they had a permanent one. Motley Crue used one for a couple of songs. Fire house had a nice keyboard section in love of a lifetime. And then, of course, there is steelheart.
"1 - b7 - 4 - 1" should be the mostly-heard chord progression in Hardrock music. It also appears in Gun'N'Rose's songs, e.g. Sweet Child O' Mine.
fun and informative, good job!
The progression heard at 1:50 sounds like the riff to I Can't Explain by the Who, which itself is primarily composed in mixolydian. I am noticing rock songs in mixolydian more frequently because of this video. Well done.
Geoffrey Gentry it's actually just a blues progression and scale that is the format of rock
Because it's not mixolydian. These are just typical minor scales, he turned C major into C minor by flattening the B note. That's it.
@@SG710 no. B isn't the third of C so it isn't a minor scale.
@@UnitedFeodor I didn't say that, but C major scale has a B note, not Bb. I meant the key/scale, not the chord itself.
@@SG710 I was talking about the scale as well. C minor has Eb and C major has E. And he didn't change the E note so that wasn't a C minor.
Very well done video
Still on of my favorite guitar and music theory channels these days. Thanks again for the great content.
One quick question - When it comes to modal playing (mixolydian, for example) over a normal progression (regular major, or ionian, for example), are there any things to remember to make it sound as good as possible? Should I be able to play G Mixolydian over C with no problems? What about if I'm playing the pentatonic 'shapes' of the Mixolydian scale over C instead of the full scale?
i used to literally drift off playing ac dc in my highschool band (i always hated them kinda) but it was bc i was stuck playing bass for a while bc we always had trouble finding a bass player that we could get along with, and that could play. and at the time i was the lesser of 2 guitar players so i filled in. i recall playing back in black sections entirely on open strings. the rhythm guitar and bass was always boring to me. of course im a djent man/ melodic death metal guy so adhd likely is responsible. i always assume it just takes a lot going on to keep me interested in any music. i occasionally like things solely for melodic quality if theres no tech, but its gotta be a hell of a melody hehe. this is all good information to know all the same though. you have been very helpful in my return to music and i am tremendously thankful. your videos are among the best available for snippets of useful theory etc. thanks. .
The best sales pitch for Mixolydian I've ever heard! :D
Strangely enough, my favourite tracks by Airbourne and Accept are in Mixolydian too...
Hey man GREAT CONTENT here!!! Could you imagine to make a video about their AWESOME rhythm-riffs? Like whats the music theory behind there (not just syncopation and up/downbeat things)? Like why for example in "Stiff upper lip" do the notes in this awesome rhythm-riff harmonize sooo good together?
That would be really kind!
Cheers man keep it up!
2:48 possible the best cover of any song, eva!
That Ad at the end did it for me
I bVII progression can sound very relaxing on a mix of bass, piano and drums
4:47 best advertisement I've seen in a long long time!!!!
Great video!
So nice!
I love your teaching approach, it's gold. I will have to watch every video from your channel... I do not thank you! :)
I love the Mixolydian scale. It's like the "feel good" scale.
Good stuff. Keep 'em comin'! 🎸🎸🎸
Informative and entertaining
Great vid, Was lucky enough to see AC/DC with Mal for the Black Ice tour. While i love jamming with their tune with a G400, I always associated the mixo-mode with stuff like Blue Sky from the ABB,,,root on the index finger of the 'box'.
Really doesn't matter. Play, Don't Worry :)
Yes. By flatting the G# to G, this changes the 7 chord from a G#mb5 (diminished) to a G. And since the primary chord progression used in, say, Highway To Hell, is 47 47 47 11. The chords they are using are DG DG DG AA Which is essentially the chords used in the key of D. We harmonica players have been doing this for years. The blues scale is a modified version of the mix scale flatting the 3 5 and 7, and eliminating the 2 and 6. The blues scale is 1 3b 4 4#/5b 5 7. That is why the Mixolydian scale is sometimes called the almost blues scale.
If I were to accompany Highway to Hell on harmonica I'd play a G country tuned harmonica in second position playing primarily the D G and A chords.
Very cool the way music theory goes round and round.
Outstanding
Many of their songs use minor scale chord sequences (played with all major chords), one (that I know of) uses a minor chord arpeggio, and some are straight up dominant 7 blues progressions; Mixolydian is just a fancy name for a major scale with a flatted 7th, blue notes are the notes between the major and minor chord tones and major and minor pentatonic notes work over dominant 7 chord progressions.
I was making a rock song just now in a 12 bar blues using mixolydian. It bothered me to no end that I couldn’t make it stop sounding like a AC/DC song.
Makes sense now, thanks. I guess I’ll just roll with it.
This is brilliant!
love it!
Half the comments are hating on Brian Johnson. Give him a break. Sure he isn't Bon Scott.
But he is still an amazing vocalist with a down to earth personality.
thanks for the video! mixolydian is my fav!
Very cool!
Mixolydian always sounded happier than major to me because it's all major chords usually.
Brilliant, informative, entertaining and funny