What Are Musical Modes & How To Use Them | Music Theory Lesson
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What ARE musical modes? You may have heard terms like Ionian, Dorian, Phyrgian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, or Locrian... but what do they mean? Modes are like scales, but what's the difference? Join Sweetwater's Jacob Dupre as he explains a basic concept for understanding modes that can be grasped by musicians and non-musicians alike. You'll also learn the modes of the major scale, why modes are important, and how legendary musicians like Miles Davis and John Coltrane used them for composing and improvisation.
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Best explanation on modes I’ve seen so far. Most people don’t even explain interval which is the fundamental reason for different modes
Good comments everyone. I did want to keep this short and simple, so someone with little to no theory knowledge could catch on. A lot of these comments could turn into a video all on its own. Keep makin’ em!
Thank you for this video! I'm listening to Davis' Kind of Blue for an appreciation class. This video was great to help me understand what modes actually are, and how it applies to the music I'm listening to.
This is such an excellent and EASY explanation of modes, which, I'm sorry, but my music classes in college made ridiculously harder than need be! If I ever take music students again, I am totally gonna make them watch your videos first so we have the basic language necessary to understand and collaborate with each other! I can't wait to watch ALL your videos! THANK YOU!!!
Well I have more questions about modes now. That's a good thing. Thanks for the video.
A very good simplified explanation Thank You!
I've been looking for a few years for a really good video explaining modes. Thanks so much for putting this together. It's simple, while actually giving a detailed explanation about how the half and whole steps change with the modes. (Thanks for not just saying "Dorian starts on D." Going to use this video for my theory class now that we are on quarantine and doing distance learning.
Sting is some of my favorite modal music compositions
Thanks so much for pointing out Miles. I study his music exclusively, and yes, Kind Of Blue is THE album for anyone learning Jazz to listen to, even own. I just wish another Jazz legend was mentioned, Chet Baker. I realize the video had a time limit, but the Pentatonic Scale (major & minor) could have been included.
One of the best explanations I have ever heard! Thank you! (colors in text examples and examples in jazz music also very helpful)!
Good video, would like to see more like this on music theory. Thanks!
Great explanation and demonstration! What I still struggle with is how to know when we should use the "language" of modes, and when to use the language of keys and chords - "Cm11b9/A" (yes, I completely made that up). Any guidance much appreciated!
Cm but the 11th note note in that scale u add/play is how I understand it...
Excellent explanation. Concise and no fluff! Thank you.
What a great video mate. Appreciate the support. I’m actually really understanding modes right now more than I ever have. of course I’ve watched countless videos but yours seems to be the one that I cracked the code on. Keep up the good work, and here’s a no shout out from San Francisco Bay Area
Thanks for making this video. I had never heard of modes until I was around 16, and I'd been playing music in one form or another since I was 5. Combined with the complex-sounding names, I assumed that modes were these complex motifs that only those with lots of experience in music theory could hear within the music. I didn't even think they were real at first; when someone was listing out the names, I accused him of making it all up as a joke. In all, I appreciate you breaking it down simply and making music theory seem less daunting than I'd built it up to be in my head.
I like this music theory video very much. It is really helpful! Do you mind if I share this video to the other website in China since UA-cam is blocked there. Of course, I will give sources of the original website. Thank you very much.
Learned the modes at Berklee. I believe they are very useful if you play any western music from the early 20th century to today. The modes are simply the organization of notes/scales behind diatonic harmony- music with most notes relating to a certain key etc. And most music is written in a key, so the modes help in showing the available choice of notes for the improvisor.
Would you be able to give a couple of examples?
Excellent explanation! Thanks!
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This is a good explanation of modes. 🙏
When you're describing the Miles Davis part, I don't understand how it isn't just C Major. When you say "so you get these kinds of chords," how are they different than chords formed from the C Major scale? Maybe these's a difference in how I'm understanding what you mean when you say "starting on." If you start on D, do you mean Start on D and stay in the notes of the C Major scale, or Start on D and play the notes of the D major scale? I'm also not a pianist but you may have guessed from my name.
Your first idea is correct. You start on D and stay with the notes of the C major scale. While the collection of notes is the same as C major, starting on a different note changes the sound and shifts the sequence of whole steps and half steps. This is what gives a mode its unique sound. C major obviously has a major sound, but starting the same scale on D gives you more of a minor sound (because F natural is technically the lowered third in the key of D). Modes can be confusing because you have to think in terms of 1) the root of the current mode related to its major key (D Dorian vs. D major) and 2) the parent mode (C Ionian). Furthermore, different modes imply different harmonic colors. Dorian is typically associated with quartal voicings (meaning chords built with perfect 4ths/5ths), a la Bill Evans on So What or McCoy Tyner on just about any recording, as he was one of the pioneers of modal jazz.
I hope that helps clear it up! Thx for your question!
Jacob
For Lydian, it's gotta be Flying In A Blue Dream by Joe Satriani.
I think of the modes as "moods."
Great video. I'm a little less confused. :)
Holy crap this really helped.
apparently -- once you learn what an interval is -- presto ! you can can now play miles davis --- that was the step i was missing
Brilliantly communicated!
Great Video!
Wow, this really helped me. I'm a total noob.
So the way I understand modes is that they're in relations to the notes of a given scale, not just C, right? So, for example, if I take the scale of EbM, which has 3 flats (B, E and A), starting from Eb would be Eb Ionian (or Eb Major scale), F would be F Dorian, G would be G Phrygian, Ab would be Ab Lydian, Bb would be Bb Mixolydian, C would be C Aeolian and D would be D Locrian, right?
By that logic, just by looking at the key signature and at the last chord of the sheet music (which generally ends on a I) we should be able to determine the mode, no? Or am I missing something?
I have the same question.
This is going to help me!
Fab explanation
Nice, however I have to watch it more than once.
Thanks
Very informative
I appreciate your explanation, but I think you confused "scale" with "key". There are major and minor keys, and there are modes. A scale is merely a sequence of notes starting from the root of the key or the mode. So, a D Dorian scale would consist of the notes D-E-F-G-A-B-C-D.
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so if i know any modes of a key like for example "c" i use them to find the scale across the whole neck ?
each mode has it's own pattern of intervals. there are charts available. you then take your starting tone and 'map' it from there. i know ionian is the easiest one (major key), but if you can do that, you can do them all. ionian is 1, 1, .5, 1, 1 ,1, .5. so G ionian (G major) is G, A, B, C, D, E, F#, G
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C Ionian
D Dorian
E Phrygian
F Lydian
G Mixolydian
A Aeolian
B Locrian
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An interval is a difference iin tone, not a position in scale.
There are six partials to a whole tone.
Plato describes the ancient tetracord in the Timaeus dialog, which is very difficult to understand in modern translation, but it simply reflects Pythagoras' discovery of the "harmonic intervals" (½, ⅓, ¼ . . .) which is simply a harmonic, not arithmetic series of numbers. The first division gives an octave of measure, not a length of interval. The only true harmony on the scale is at C E G (½, ⅓, ¼) as measured in the ancient tetrakys. The integration of harmony into music, therefore, likely begins where (m = n -1) measures the interval as m = 1/n measures the partial notes on a given length of scale.
Aristotle distinguishes between a length (arithmois) and a measure (mese) in numbers. The measure of the mese is equivalent to the difference between a major and minor E in the Dorian mode, as described in the video. The way up is the way down.
Look in the Arithmetic of Hippocratus for ten equations (tetrakys) which complete the "circle of fifths" which are also the "keys" of scale. Those modalities are the basis for medieval harmonies as epitomized in Gregorian Chants.
Modern music is fundamentally based on syncopated rhythm in jazz and dissonance in scale.
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Leonard Bernstein was a great teacher of music. Another program, about Beethoven' 9th, explores the origins of new scales by Debussy and Hindemith.
Thus the study of Music is not the subject of Harmony. Music is one of the original Quadrivium, which complements the trivium of ancient subjects of learning.
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Here is a very comprehensive study of where these concepts of "scale" fit into the context of Plato and Aristotle, which will explain how Music and Arithmetic are distinct from Geometry in meaning while indicating how harmony and astronomy don't change for Kepler or Galileo as geometry does change between Sir Issac Newton and Max Planck in Physics.
which guy had to drink hemlock? where do the ides of march come into play here?
Question: Why did Coltrane play a C Harmonic Minor on top of the E Dorian voicing? I don't get it. Yelp. Jazz me up, someone.
just to make some confusion. :D
I'm not a jazz player, but you could think of it as a substitution as the harmonic minor scale has the 3rd and b7 of the e minor chord. You could also think of it like playing an altered scale over a chord as you're introducing b9, b11, #11, and a #13. Another way to look at it, if e minor is the 2 chord, then Ab7 would be the 5 chord, and the root, 3rd and 5th of the Ab7 are in the harmonic minor scale. Jazz players often ignore the 2 chord and focus on the 5 chord and sometimes play altered tones over it. So in a nutshell, he was looking for ways to add color or depending on the next chord, he might be voice leading. Don't know, that is why Coltrane is a genius and I'm just some schmuck.
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I get what they are. But I’m searching high and low for someone to plainly explain how to use them. Literally how. Like the decision process, the “Understanding of whyyyyy I’m using this mode right here…” 😞
I am reminded of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood piano playing. Anybody old enough to remember?
Perhaps… 😊 ua-cam.com/video/qLijhuuQ8ow/v-deo.html
0:18 the lick?
Jim Dragon actually a little bit of “So What”
Lost me at 7:26. The title reads - what are musical modes (i.e. a beginners guide). Should be a 30 min video explaining in detail every mode.
No matter what key you're in, the major scale has the same formula for whole and half steps (W-W-H-W-W-W-H). So, use that formula starting on G flat. Go to the 7th note in that scale, which is F. Locrian is the 7th mode. Now play the F Locrian scale.
Anyone else with no musical experience get super invested in how the modes of music work after playing Mother 3?
I Don't Particularly Like Modes A Lot
Ionian
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian
Locrian
C Dorian: "Don't Take Me Alive", Steely Dan
Very eloquent but I have a headache now
You didn't tell about harmonic and how to understand normal
notes while playing.
Just use drones instead.
Keep playing a C major scale, play around.Use a C drone to accentuate the ionian.
Then use a D drone , play the SAME C major scale and hear the difference.
Or use the same Drone against different Major scales.
This video misses the point of Modes being important for melody rather than harmony.Feel it.
Modes are useless in harmony snd song.The drone is what is needed.
Indian Classical music is far closer to modes.