I’ve got to tell you, I’m going to keep rewatching this until it all sinks in. You know everything your talking about. You don’t over-talk or side track and you don’t try to be funny. This is exactly the kind of teaching I need and appreciate. Thanks guy!
Wow! Combining the circle of fifths with the color wheel is brilliant. It really explains the connection of the sound of each note and its relation to other notes. I've always had a fascination the the color wheel and the relationships between colors. So having the circle of fifths tied with the color wheel makes it so much easier to understand. And it's pretty, too!
You are in a league of your own. I am going to have to rewatch it a few times, but I should finally be able to understand modes because of you. Thank you.
I’ve been watching lots of videos about the circle of fifths and scales and modes. I was able to join the pieces to have an overall understanding of them but it wasn’t until this video that it all makes sense. I think it’s how the information is designed and animated plus the structure of the video where one thing takes you to the other. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
Wow, I've been duped for 50 years not knowing this modal harmony theory. Thanks. Now I can understand why theory is where it's at when writing hit songs. Thanks much !
Mike, you have great teaching ability. Knowledge is a gift shared - but teaching that knowledge is an entire other skill set! You simplify where possible, don't add anything to confuse and no added fluff. To the point and all the necessary information to increase our knowledge of music theory. You are a gifted teacher and we can thank you for the path to learning the art of music. You give us and share important knowledge here. Thank you.
This is some really important educational material you’ve added to UA-cam. This and many others of your videos should eventually be some of the consistently top viewed music theory videos for the next decade
Thank you John. You have a great teaching style filled with knowledge and theory. I am an 80 year old guitar player who is now understanding and learning the Comprehensive knowledge of The Circle of Fifths. I wish I would have learned this years ago. Keep teaching👍👏😀
Wow. I kept googling to try to understand modes, scales and chords. I have read many articles and videos, still very frustrated. So, you nailed it! I still don't understand it 100% (at 10% right now LOL), but I will keep replaying and pausing until I get it 99%! (Never 100%). Thank you Mike, your voice, animation, drawings are just right.
Whoa, your circle of fifths diagram is crazy intuitive, much better than the stuff I have seen from other theorists on YT😮 You got a sub and my respect!
I’ve had guitars since I was a kid but this year I decided to actually learn some theory. I have watched literally hundreds of music theory videos but this, hands down, is the clearest explanation of modes and the best use of diagrams. An excellent teaching tool. Now subbed.
A very good job of introducing the complexity in a simple to understand form, but most importantly giving a real world example of the theoretical. Excellent job and will be watching this many times to have it all absorbed.
One of the best presentations of music knowledge to be seen anywhere. Thank you for sharing your knowledge in this very clear and colorfully graphic way. Love it.I have some additional concepts to add to what you have created here.....another way to "perceive" the Modes on the Circle of 5ths allowing you to see every key they are in.
Wow. You actually articulated a good bit of mode theory well enough to not leave a person confused (or at best with incomplete understanding.) It was what you said leading up to 5:38 -- the end of "relative modes", relating to how the degree numbers in roman numerals are indicative of the intervallic relations of the scale degrees. I only hope I can conjure up such efficient verbiage when the need arises, LOL
This masterpiece is going into my vault 👌🏽. I have subscribed immediately after watching this video. One of the best video’s I have seen about this subject 🎶🎸🎤🥁🎹
Your approach is really well suited for people familiar with mathematics. As a beginner guitarist I recognized these relations exist, but this presentation is the whole package, animated color graphics and all. Sweet!
This is INCREDIBLE! Thank you so much for explaining this and how it all connects. Seriously such a blessing. You explained it more clearly than anyone I've ever heard, and it is so helpful. I appreciate it. Keep rocking!
Fantastic video! My mind is blown. This was insanely helpful and is going to really up the composing skills of anyone who watches. The visuals are brilliant and everything was super clear. Thank you so much!! One small thing (couldn't help myself as a neuroscientist) -- the idea that we only use a fraction of our brainpower on a regular basis is an urban legend. We use vast networks spanning virtually our entire brain to perform everyday tasks. Other than that, super in love with this vid!
You are one of the special great teachers! Turn complicated things into simple ones. On the other hand, some music professors can create simple music theory to complicate rocket science. Great job!
Best video on Modes and Borrowed Chords using the Circle of Fifths... you open my eyes with this approach, this was the missing piece of my puzzle. Thanks a lot for your great work.
Can someone explain how at 5:07 there are flats all of a sudden? I keep getting confused at how it could go from being in ionian with no flats, to then the other modes suddenly having flats if everything is deriving from the same scale?
The i chord of E Phrygian starts on E. You'd expect a ii chord of a scale to start on a note 2 semitones up from the root tonic chord, but in this case it's starting from only 1 semitone up, that's why it's a flat II chord.
Great video. Thanks for making one geared twords a more advanced summery. The variety of diagrams helped spacial relationships click. I watched the "why the circle of 5ths is important" first. 10/10
I understand the modes fairly well... but your explanations and graphics are by FAR the best I have seen! Great job... and I love the other videos of yours I have watched ! Very impressed, thanks!
I thought SignalsMusicStudio and Ben Levin had the best intuitive approach for explaning essential songwriting music theory concepts, but this is on another level.
14:56 A⁷ is not the I nor I⁷ …it is V⁷/IV the V⁷ of D (secondary dominant, essentially using the C# as a chromatic approach note to D and the G for some outside tension/spice/tritone). The D is momentarily tonicised before more chromatic movement is introduced by flattening the third, F# to F, for the parallel minor. These chromatic movements are musical techniques that help tell the story of the song. These harmonic devices are a way of expressing emotion in the song and making this link is fundamental.
Depending on how you look at it. You could say that it's a I7 going to IV like in a blues progression. Beatles were notorious for mixing blues and pop. But a secondary dominant V7/IV is also a valid analysis
@@acceptfilms9415my knowledge of the blues is limited, but I think that a I7 acts simultaneously as a Dominant and as a I (tonic) chord. It has the tension of a Dominant that wants to resolve (in this case to IV), but blues progressions often end on the I7, maintaining the bluesy tension while still being "home".
I commented on your circle of fifths video that the graphics were not only beautiful but also actually did a job. Same for this video. Great stuff and very interesting. (ps, John Lennon was one the greats as a songwriter but his knowledge of music theory was minimal. George Martin was the genius there. I think John was more “mod” than “mode” 😀).
I was with you right up until about minute 7 when you put them in parallel. I thought the Dorian started on the minor ii (D in the case of the key of C).
The minor ii, iii, vi, and diminished vii° are starting to make much more sense with this; as a result, I'm finally able to find all the major chords with the Ionian C scale as root notes. vii° is just extra flat.
I like this lesson. I will say, I don't know why I bristle about the colors schema so much but I recognize that's just a subjective thing. The content here is pretty solid and I think it would be good to do a recap of the applications at the end for people who need a summary of the more abstract parts you went over with Basic diagrams (not just in application). You really are nailing the application aspects of this. I am guessing that just sharing the concepts again at the end might help people who were lost (maybe while they're trying to cull down the information a bit and figure out what's relevant to their needs). Good job! I shared this video and hope you get more views.
Super helpful! The visual and auditory cues really reinforce each other and add a level of understanding. Liked, subbed, and appreciated. Would like to know more about the color coding and the shapes (was concentrating on modes and borrowed chords in my first go through).
A highly useful tool for visualising the various modes of the diatonic MAJOR scale, along with harmonic relationships. I'm just wondering whether there's a separate circle of fifths for the HARMONIC MINOR scale and its modes. 🤔 From recollection, Led Zeppelin's song 'Kashmir' is constructed from one of these modes. The 3 semitone interval gives an exotic sound.
I’ve got to tell you, I’m going to keep rewatching this until it all sinks in. You know everything your talking about. You don’t over-talk or side track and you don’t try to be funny. This is exactly the kind of teaching I need and appreciate. Thanks guy!
Thanks very much for your feedback-and I’m glad this is helpful! 🤘🤘
your video tutorials are the best i've ever seen .
@@antoniocuervo306 Agree
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Wow! Combining the circle of fifths with the color wheel is brilliant. It really explains the connection of the sound of each note and its relation to other notes. I've always had a fascination the the color wheel and the relationships between colors. So having the circle of fifths tied with the color wheel makes it so much easier to understand. And it's pretty, too!
Mike, this is the best teaching on modes on UA-cam. This is actually practical.
You are the BEST TEACHER IN INTERNET with a lot of difference. Thank you so much for what you do
You are in a league of your own. I am going to have to rewatch it a few times, but I should finally be able to understand modes because of you. Thank you.
I’ll either come to understand modes or die trying. Don’t give up
Thanks so much for your feedback, Gary. I definitely appreciate it, and am glad this is helpful!
The best application of Circle of fifths I've seen. Some things I'd seen elsewhere suddenly clicked when you explained from a different perspective.
Brilliant, precise, and no crap lesson from someone who knows their stuff. I will watch this again and again. Thank you.
Thank you, Seán!
My head is spinning. That's incredible! Thank you 🙏
Why aren't you not one of the top YT channels? Thank you for this one and bless you!
I’ve been watching lots of videos about the circle of fifths and scales and modes. I was able to join the pieces to have an overall understanding of them but it wasn’t until this video that it all makes sense. I think it’s how the information is designed and animated plus the structure of the video where one thing takes you to the other. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
Wow, I've been duped for 50 years not knowing this modal harmony theory. Thanks. Now I can understand why theory is where it's at when writing hit songs. Thanks much !
Mike, you have great teaching ability. Knowledge is a gift shared - but teaching that knowledge is an entire other skill set! You simplify where possible, don't add anything to confuse and no added fluff.
To the point and all the necessary information to increase our knowledge of music theory. You are a gifted teacher and we can thank you for the path to learning the art of music. You give us and share important knowledge here. Thank you.
This is some really important educational material you’ve added to UA-cam. This and many others of your videos should eventually be some of the consistently top viewed music theory videos for the next decade
Thank you John. You have a great teaching style filled with knowledge and theory. I am an 80 year old guitar player who is now understanding and learning the Comprehensive knowledge of The Circle of Fifths. I wish I would have learned this years ago. Keep teaching👍👏😀
Wow. I kept googling to try to understand modes, scales and chords. I have read many articles and videos, still very frustrated. So, you nailed it! I still don't understand it 100% (at 10% right now LOL), but I will keep replaying and pausing until I get it 99%! (Never 100%). Thank you Mike, your voice, animation, drawings are just right.
Whoa, your circle of fifths diagram is crazy intuitive, much better than the stuff I have seen from other theorists on YT😮 You got a sub and my respect!
finally something visually understandable. thank you. you are the best.
I’ve had guitars since I was a kid but this year I decided to actually learn some theory. I have watched literally hundreds of music theory videos but this, hands down, is the clearest explanation of modes and the best use of diagrams. An excellent teaching tool. Now subbed.
I’ve just taken the past month to run through your excellent uploads. Stellar content, good sir. Thank you.
Thank you, Mike! I am glad you are here and that these videos help. Cheers!
A very good job of introducing the complexity in a simple to understand form, but most importantly giving a real world example of the theoretical. Excellent job and will be watching this many times to have it all absorbed.
Best modes explanation on UA-cam, THANK YOU
Very Well Done. Probably the Best Explanation of Modes out their. Thanks.
One of the best presentations of music knowledge to be seen anywhere. Thank you for sharing your knowledge in this very clear and colorfully graphic way. Love it.I have some additional concepts to add to what you have created here.....another way to "perceive" the Modes on the Circle of 5ths allowing you to see every key they are in.
Please explain..?
Wow. You actually articulated a good bit of mode theory well enough to not leave a person confused (or at best with incomplete understanding.) It was what you said leading up to 5:38 -- the end of "relative modes", relating to how the degree numbers in roman numerals are indicative of the intervallic relations of the scale degrees. I only hope I can conjure up such efficient verbiage when the need arises, LOL
Really well explained. I've watched lots if videos on this and these by far are the easiest to understand and the best explained.
Really hit the spot and clarified modal chords for me. I will be watching it many more times to get it embedded. Thank you.
This masterpiece is going into my vault 👌🏽. I have subscribed immediately after watching this video. One of the best video’s I have seen about this subject 🎶🎸🎤🥁🎹
Your approach is really well suited for people familiar with mathematics. As a beginner guitarist I recognized these relations exist, but this presentation is the whole package, animated color graphics and all. Sweet!
This is INCREDIBLE! Thank you so much for explaining this and how it all connects. Seriously such a blessing. You explained it more clearly than anyone I've ever heard, and it is so helpful. I appreciate it. Keep rocking!
Fantastic video! My mind is blown. This was insanely helpful and is going to really up the composing skills of anyone who watches. The visuals are brilliant and everything was super clear. Thank you so much!! One small thing (couldn't help myself as a neuroscientist) -- the idea that we only use a fraction of our brainpower on a regular basis is an urban legend. We use vast networks spanning virtually our entire brain to perform everyday tasks. Other than that, super in love with this vid!
You are one of the special great teachers! Turn complicated things into simple ones. On the other hand, some music professors can create simple music theory to complicate rocket science. Great job!
Best video on Modes and Borrowed Chords using the Circle of Fifths... you open my eyes with this approach, this was the missing piece of my puzzle. Thanks a lot for your great work.
@Mike George This message comes from you or is it a fake account? because there are many scams and i'm not 100% sure about this.
Your videos are incredible! Thank you
Yes a lot of songs have borrowed chords. Circle of Fifths is the bread and butter of music. Good video buddy. 😎👍👌💯🎸🎸
Can someone explain how at 5:07 there are flats all of a sudden? I keep getting confused at how it could go from being in ionian with no flats, to then the other modes suddenly having flats if everything is deriving from the same scale?
The i chord of E Phrygian starts on E.
You'd expect a ii chord of a scale to start on a note 2 semitones up from the root tonic chord,
but in this case it's starting from only 1 semitone up, that's why it's a flat II chord.
This is gold.
This is so, soooo interesting. Thank you so much for making these videos 🙏🏻❣️
Wow this is the best explanation of borrowed chords I've ever seen. Can't wait to try this out.
Wow. That is VERY helpful to not only get the theory, but also some pretty examples from the Beatles.
Mike, I can confidently say, without your fine tutorials, I would NEVER understand these things. Thank you...
And with them i shall never understand music
Great video. Thanks for making one geared twords a more advanced summery. The variety of diagrams helped spacial relationships click. I watched the "why the circle of 5ths is important" first. 10/10
Hooray! I made it 1K. Thank you MIke, you are the best.
Brilliant work!
All my life I've been looking for this.
Yes your mode lesson is the best I've come across. It's not confusing. Thanks!
Thanks a lot. You are a great teacher!
Wonderful video.
I'm rewatching it slowly.. 🐢
Thank you.
This is blowin my mind, man! Genius. I joined your community yesterday. Cheers!
The other comments are spot on. A very nice video in a sea of otherwise more confusing content.
God, I wish this how they taught it in music theory classes. This is awesome.
The fact that we use only a part (10%) of our brain is a commun misconception, and is totally wrong. Thank for the both vids ;)
I understand the modes fairly well... but your explanations and graphics are by FAR the best I have seen! Great job... and I love the other videos of yours I have watched ! Very impressed, thanks!
At last! At last someone who finally open my mind to modes world, I was in need for this video
Nice lesson, especially the explanation about how the mode patterns on the circle of 5ths are used in real songs
Love those live graphics
This video is just simply amazing. Thank you so much for putting this out there!
You are excellent, I am seeing things more expansively and clearly than ever. I really like your singing voice, so musical.
Thank you! 🙏🤘
Absolutely brilliant, this saves so much time and faffing about!! Thankyou.
Very good man! This really deepened my appreciation of harmony
Wow. This was so amazing and helpful. Thank you!
I wish I could use that grey matter you're talkin about............
I'll spend some time re-watching this I guess.
Good lesson, thanks!
Amazing. And well done to you. These videos take time to make.
Thanks
Very interesting! Will take some time to digest it and put it to use ...
Thank you very much bro. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thanks, I learned the most about this chart from this video. 🙂
I thought SignalsMusicStudio and Ben Levin had the best intuitive approach for explaning essential songwriting music theory concepts, but this is on another level.
The diagrams are fantastic.
Very very good video.
Excellent! This video and the previous one. Thank you! Greetings from Argentina
14:56 A⁷ is not the I nor I⁷ …it is V⁷/IV the V⁷ of D (secondary dominant, essentially using the C# as a chromatic approach note to D and the G for some outside tension/spice/tritone). The D is momentarily tonicised before more chromatic movement is introduced by flattening the third, F# to F, for the parallel minor. These chromatic movements are musical techniques that help tell the story of the song. These harmonic devices are a way of expressing emotion in the song and making this link is fundamental.
This is a great comment. I like the story telling aspect that a good chord progression achieves. I hope to understand it the way that you do one day.
Depending on how you look at it. You could say that it's a I7 going to IV like in a blues progression. Beatles were notorious for mixing blues and pop. But a secondary dominant V7/IV is also a valid analysis
@@brianritzer8024hmm but when the I becomes a dom7 is it still 1 ? has it morphed? ( interesting cheers!
@@acceptfilms9415my knowledge of the blues is limited, but I think that a I7 acts simultaneously as a Dominant and as a I (tonic) chord. It has the tension of a Dominant that wants to resolve (in this case to IV), but blues progressions often end on the I7, maintaining the bluesy tension while still being "home".
@@brianritzer8024 Thanks !!!
Finally I got it. Thank you!. 😎
Thank you for sharing your knowledge of modes but lack s good explanation.
Love the concise format!
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I commented on your circle of fifths video that the graphics were not only beautiful but also actually did a job. Same for this video. Great stuff and very interesting. (ps, John Lennon was one the greats as a songwriter but his knowledge of music theory was minimal. George Martin was the genius there. I think John was more “mod” than “mode” 😀).
We use all of our brain all of the time. I wish people would stop promoting this idea.
I was with you right up until about minute 7 when you put them in parallel. I thought the Dorian started on the minor ii (D in the case of the key of C).
This is gold. Thank you!
Excellent explanation!
Excellent, like the other posters, v impressed and v useful!!!
Thank you!
Brilliant 💯🎸
Great videos. Thank you.
Wow!! amazing!!!
awesome lesson thank u 🔥🔥
Special channel this. Great work!
Very nice 👍 😘
The minor ii, iii, vi, and diminished vii° are starting to make much more sense with this; as a result, I'm finally able to find all the major chords with the Ionian C scale as root notes. vii° is just extra flat.
Great video
Extremely good!!!!!!!!!!!! So helping for me! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!
Best Teacher goin!✌️👍
Beautiful!
I like this lesson. I will say, I don't know why I bristle about the colors schema so much but I recognize that's just a subjective thing. The content here is pretty solid and I think it would be good to do a recap of the applications at the end for people who need a summary of the more abstract parts you went over with Basic diagrams (not just in application). You really are nailing the application aspects of this.
I am guessing that just sharing the concepts again at the end might help people who were lost (maybe while they're trying to cull down the information a bit and figure out what's relevant to their needs).
Good job! I shared this video and hope you get more views.
Thanks, Ian! This is awesome and very constructive feedback. Cheers.🤘
great explanations and visuals ! 🙏🏼
Super helpful! The visual and auditory cues really reinforce each other and add a level of understanding. Liked, subbed, and appreciated. Would like to know more about the color coding and the shapes (was concentrating on modes and borrowed chords in my first go through).
Thank you so much for the amazing explanation ❤
Wow you did it very well now anyone can understand
A highly useful tool for visualising the various modes of the diatonic MAJOR scale, along with harmonic relationships. I'm just wondering whether there's a separate circle of fifths for the HARMONIC MINOR scale and its modes. 🤔 From recollection, Led Zeppelin's song 'Kashmir' is constructed from one of these modes. The 3 semitone interval gives an exotic sound.
Very good indeed Sir, thanks
I should have come to Mike first. He gave more actual information in the first fifteen seconds than the other video gave in the first five minutes.
Fantastic !
Great video!