Thank you for the very interesting video, once again. I hope you will go on sharing tutorials on how to play this wonderful (yet demanding) instrument!
Great! I enjoy your videos. I specially love to see the way your fingers move on the keyboard when you play a tune. Thanks for the scales book, I hope it will help me to develop the skills to get some tune on my gurdy someday!
So to play a scale at 11:54, it's just shifting your hand as quickly as possible, without any fingers going under/over the others, as per piano scales?
Interesting that on hurdy-gurdy a right-handed player will have to play ascending notes from pinky to index\thumb, which is the opposite for a right-handed guitarist (fretted instr. player). I can assume it is because of the construction of hurdy-gurdy but could it have opposite levers mechanics or can it be redesigned so that could held like a guitar neck?
@@noelle-beaudin Not sure about "wold be more difficult to play". But certainly will be a challenge to design\construct in order for the notes to go low to high from index\thumb to pinky. Hurdies are comparable to fretted instruments more or less, despite the fact the player would press buttons.
Introducing the modes other than Ionian (e.g. Phrygian here) when transposed to start on C before explaining them untransposed (e.g. Phrygian on E) could be a little confusing for a beginner. You explain Dorian, but not the others. Otherwise great stuff!
Sure, I understand you. We reference the Scale book which goes into this in a lot more detail and we're trying to keep the videos as tight as possible. All modes are explained in the reference materials, so that's why we're not overly explainatious in this video. 🙂
Mmmm.... Maybe it's because i'm a super bougie French person, i'm used to this order of modes, which makes more sense to me as minor scale is the relative sixth to the tonic of the major scale. And as C Ionian = D Dorian = E Phrygian... 1. Ionien (Ionian) 2. Dorien (Dorian) 3. Phrygien (Phrygian) 4. Lydien (Lydian) 5. Mixolydien (Mixolydian) 6. Éolien (Aeolian) 7. Locrien (Locrian) Truth be told your music level is far far far superior to mine. So i'm curious what you think of that as i've never seem the mode order you presented in that video....
Absolutely. The classical way of teaching modes is exactly that because it is based on the degree of the scales. It's how we generally learn the order, especially if you're coming from a keyboard background it makes even more sense and you've probably already been introduced to it in that order. We are giving a different approach in this video (and in the scale books) based on what players and teachers like Sergio recommends because for some folks that don't come from a music background it may make sense in the way we present here. Really, as long as people understand how they are formed and how modes relate to the tonic is all I care about.
@@noelle-beaudin my main musical background is classical Indian music. But I'm not a musician (not even a shitty one!). Thanks for clarifying. Btw Nigel says hi 😉
@@spektaloza hahaha! Well then you know even more modes and scales from classical Indian music than westerners do! One of my favorite scale books was one I can't seem to find anymore is from the jazz musician Yusuf Latif and it ran through a ton of eastern-based scales and modes that were just fascinating to me! Tell Nigel hello from me and I'm coming back over to dear old blighty again soon to visit my friends and family up in Yorkshire, so probably will pop down south for a bit.
Thank you for the very interesting video, once again. I hope you will go on sharing tutorials on how to play this wonderful (yet demanding) instrument!
You are welcome!
cant wait for section 5!
Great! I enjoy your videos. I specially love to see the way your fingers move on the keyboard when you play a tune. Thanks for the scales book, I hope it will help me to develop the skills to get some tune on my gurdy someday!
You will, just keep practicing!
So to play a scale at 11:54, it's just shifting your hand as quickly as possible, without any fingers going under/over the others, as per piano scales?
Absolutely.
Interesting that on hurdy-gurdy a right-handed player will have to play ascending notes from pinky to index\thumb, which is the opposite for a right-handed guitarist (fretted instr. player).
I can assume it is because of the construction of hurdy-gurdy but could it have opposite levers mechanics or can it be redesigned so that could held like a guitar neck?
It think if you designed the keybox in this way it would be very uncomfortable and way more difficult to play. 🙂
@@noelle-beaudin Not sure about "wold be more difficult to play". But certainly will be a challenge to design\construct in order for the notes to go low to high from index\thumb to pinky. Hurdies are comparable to fretted instruments more or less, despite the fact the player would press buttons.
Introducing the modes other than Ionian (e.g. Phrygian here) when transposed to start on C before explaining them untransposed (e.g. Phrygian on E) could be a little confusing for a beginner. You explain Dorian, but not the others. Otherwise great stuff!
Sure, I understand you. We reference the Scale book which goes into this in a lot more detail and we're trying to keep the videos as tight as possible. All modes are explained in the reference materials, so that's why we're not overly explainatious in this video. 🙂
@@noelle-beaudin I like explainatious. Think I'll adopt it ;-)
Thanks.
No, thank you! ;-)
Mmmm.... Maybe it's because i'm a super bougie French person, i'm used to this order of modes, which makes more sense to me as minor scale is the relative sixth to the tonic of the major scale. And as C Ionian = D Dorian = E Phrygian...
1. Ionien (Ionian)
2. Dorien (Dorian)
3. Phrygien (Phrygian)
4. Lydien (Lydian)
5. Mixolydien (Mixolydian)
6. Éolien (Aeolian)
7. Locrien (Locrian)
Truth be told your music level is far far far superior to mine. So i'm curious what you think of that as i've never seem the mode order you presented in that video....
Absolutely. The classical way of teaching modes is exactly that because it is based on the degree of the scales. It's how we generally learn the order, especially if you're coming from a keyboard background it makes even more sense and you've probably already been introduced to it in that order. We are giving a different approach in this video (and in the scale books) based on what players and teachers like Sergio recommends because for some folks that don't come from a music background it may make sense in the way we present here. Really, as long as people understand how they are formed and how modes relate to the tonic is all I care about.
@@noelle-beaudin my main musical background is classical Indian music. But I'm not a musician (not even a shitty one!). Thanks for clarifying. Btw Nigel says hi 😉
@@spektaloza hahaha! Well then you know even more modes and scales from classical Indian music than westerners do! One of my favorite scale books was one I can't seem to find anymore is from the jazz musician Yusuf Latif and it ran through a ton of eastern-based scales and modes that were just fascinating to me! Tell Nigel hello from me and I'm coming back over to dear old blighty again soon to visit my friends and family up in Yorkshire, so probably will pop down south for a bit.
@@noelle-beaudin Come on, come to Bretagne too!
@@spektaloza I would love that!!
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