How To Make Music With The HUNGARIAN MINOR Scale (aka Double Harmonic Minor)
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2024
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You may have noticed how most lessons on exotic scales for guitar just show you a couple of scale patterns and call it a day. While it's cool to know scale patterns, those are not enough for you to actually make music with the new scale you have learned.
Today we will take one of the most interesting exotic scales - the Hungarian Minor, also known as the Double Harmonic minor - and together we will see how to actually make music with it.
We will look at its chords and how to put them together and even how to use some of the most dissonant options to good effect.
In just a little more than 5 minutes from now you will be able to make music with the Hungarian Minor scale and create sounds that you have not used before.
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I've never seen a white board so clean. Teachers could learn something from him.
Haha... i believe that's not the focus of the video. But now that you mentioned it, yeah i think so too! :D
Or it's post production XD
Its an edit for contrast
Use alcohol spray. 100% ethanol
I think he cleans it with Hungarian apricot brandy!
This scale is awesome for all styles of Metal.
Because it's like lydian and harmonic minor in one scale. So much dissonance=metal as fuck. Lol
It’s incredible
Why some bunch of people like you love metal so much, don't you ever be funky or groovy..
I mean this scale is beautiful.
@@HaharuRecords exactly. This scale can be used for much more than metal/film music. And it doesn’t always sound creepy. Ok most of the times it does thi
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4:44, now that's beautiful, that Bb5/A just sounds so great. Thank you for this video !
I just sat and watched this with my undivided attention like I actually understood every word.
My favorite progression in A Hungarian minor is:
A-...
G#-...
A-...
G#. G#-.
A-...
F...
B7 (b5)...
E...
in loop
Nice!
Nice! You could also hold the F from B7b5 to add a b9 to the E :)
Jere Toikka yes, b9 (dark tense sound) is a great option!
More half steps + spicer scale. That has never occurred to me! Keep them coming :)
Famous Serbian folk punk band "No Smoking Orchestra" use this scale a lot, it's naturally part of traditional Eastern European music culture
This is one of the best music theory channels I've ever seen. Thank you very much for the lessons!
Was just learning music theory today and found your channel; so happy I did! A clear, info-rich video about an uncommon scale I've always wanted to learn about - thankyou!
one of my favorite scales.
it just goes on forever.
Super interesting! I had never heard of the Hungarian Minor. Thank you for the video!
I’m Hungarian but never heard about it, thx!!
This is the first video by you that I came across. I just loved your style of teaching. Liked and subscribed!
This one was really helpful. I've got decent working theory knowledge but didn't understand slash chords even though they are featured predominantly in my playing. These videos have really helped me see how slash chords fit in with the use of inversions. Really enjoyed this. I also use Hungarian minor but didn't fully understand it's chord scale until now. Thanks!
Interesting! This scale contains a “diatonic” neapolitan chord based on the 2nd degree, B in your example. By using that you could go through Bb7 and modulate suddenly to Eb major or minor (a tritone away with just one chord in between!!)
Fabulous lesson Tomasso. Love the content quality.
New name:
The Opethian Scale
when he gave the chords round 4:20 minutes i was like instantly Opeth! and yes the name would fit perfectly
Sprinkle diminished scale and boom you got some spicey opeth going on
Actually it's the Ritchie Blackmore scale and both Opeth guys cite Ritchie Blackmore as one of their biggest influences.
@@toddwilliamson8557 name some songs that use it… I only know “smoke on the water” from them
Great video Tommaso! One of my favorite sounds!
Your explanation is super!! Great channel. Thanks a lot for these videos.
Those chords are so dark and beautiful. Fantastic video!!!!
Excellent demonstration and super easy to understand. Hungarian minor FTW!
This guys is SO AWESOME! Just discovered his stuff. Very likeable as well. Perfecto.
Fantastic video! Such a cool sounding scale!
Your channel is amazing, thanks for your lessons
Just figured out that it's the Mixolydian Mode of this scale that gets you the Double Harmonic Minor Scale - aka, the Byzantine Scale.
Very cool, I love the chord progressions!
Yusef Lateef also has this scale in his Repository as "Persian" or "Egyptian" scales, just different modes with a huge wealth of exercises to look into. It's also the Bhainav raga in Indian music so really expresses that Eastern sound, I love it!
Love it love it love it! Thank you 😊🙏
Oh my god. Thank you so much. This has to be the scale used in clean the intro of Blasphemian by Infant Annihilator. I love that clean guitar intro, and have been trying to figure out how to get that feel somehow, and this is it. Thank you!
Thank you Tommaso... Great stuff... Another scary thing made simple 👍👌
Thanks for the video, Tommaso! :)
i was studying opeth's style and this scale sounds so close and if u add some sus chords, this will sound amazing. try to play a minor and then a sus 2 and then g sharp minor and then g sharp sus2 u will have a great voice
Now that you mention it this really reminds me of Opeth!
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Thanks for considering 😊
thank you, very enlightening explanation; ❤️❤️
Great lesson!
Fantastic! Thank you!
Thank you,Bravooo!
Helpful! Thank you!
Very nice for acoustic too!
What a lesson 😉
I wish the Bb5 was used more in this video. Seems like the tritone was being avoided when he played back that one in particular for some reason. All of these chords in a chord scale sound really beautiful together so not sure why that is. Would've also liked to see the C+ get some love too. I like this video and have only recently started watching your content, but please if you see this, don't be afraid to use those more dissonant chords!
Also! Probably not proper chord construction technique but the G# augmented sounds slightly better with the other chords than the G# minor to me.
beautiful
Excelente. Gracias por la información.
Very subdued and emotional.
I think this is my favorite UA-cam channel.
Somehow bluesy but more mysterious sounding scale.
thank you very much!
Love your Chanel!! Thank u
Awesome!
On D# note we can build a D#dim (bb3) chord. Very exotic.
thank you very much
Pedal Bass is very good for these types of scales that don't form typical funcional chords. Pure modal delight.
What a great teacher. This sounds like it could be a black metal intro.
Great video
Nice!
Thank to Will Wood i searched for Hungarian Harmonic, and now im here
I just used the "scale finder" tool, pick up the 7 notes (per octave) I like, and the tool finds for me just the "hungarian gypsy minor". Then I went to YT to check it out (how it sounds). I like it very much, and it's nothing weird in my case because I'm a depressive/dissonant black metal lover.
Very interesting. I'm going to create something nice with it.
Tomasso reads comments ❤️ just the video I was waiting for 😄
I have more coming :)
Spooky scale ... Love 💗 it
Interesting... subscribed!
Very nice 👍
Nice !!!!
Now I'm trying to do a triphop song within that scale, wish me luck! It's such a dark sounding scale.
Cool!
2 cluster chord ABC or d sharp ef ARe plauseable option
They make a interesting sound
As soon as I saw that B b5 I jumped to a Lydian sound. I was hoping you would bring up Bb5/A cause that really offers that Lydian feel
That was amazing! I've been fascinated with the Hungarian Minor Scale for quite some time. It's a really nice, exotic/dark sounding scale when used right, but it does require some understanding first. Thank you for that great video!
INSTA SUB!
P.S. An interesting song that uses it is the solo of Kind Diamonds's "Black Horsemen"
Andy LaRocque did an impressive job as always!
who asked kid
@@anthonybrank2429 Dick...Great song Anthony!
Thank you sir for this tutorial.....please make a tutorial about classical prelude and other related stuffs too...that would be more helpful....
Stravinsky actually used polychords made up of all the notes in this scale in The Rite of Spring
The chords sounded like something opeth does but the solos sounds very much like how Marty friedman makes his solos.
Exactly what i think:)
Reminded me of Rush's "Cygnus X-1"
I think that we can enharmonize "D#" (Eb) to form a chord of "Ab" with the next notes: "G#" (Ab), C and "D#" (Eb). And we can also use it as a Ab/F and there we have a "Fmin7". The function of this chord could be something like this: "Am" "Ab/F" "E6 9" "E" "Am". And it sound more like Bossa or even Jazz. Or "Am" "Ab/F" "G#m7" Am".
You have a point! Here's my retraction: ua-cam.com/video/rEqql0GCrkg/v-deo.html
When I improvise using this scale in the key of A#m, I would go with the following chord progression A#m, Am, F#, F. Sometimes I use A# diminished as a switching point between A#m and Am.
nice!
Wow!!!
Wow you just learned me that the mode (found it by ear) I use the most in my minor impros is actually called hungarian minor
That's how I found Phryigian Dominant lmao
If I didn't miss anything, the most common other scaled named "double harmonic minor" can be obtained if you start the scale at "E" instead of "A", so these two scales might be considered different modes over the same scale.
Nice video! :)
I personally use the 5th mode of the Hungarian Minor Scale when I want to get dramatic and exotic sounds :)
To get even more tension, you could modify the 5th mode so that it has a #4 :)
For example: C, Db, E, F#, G, Ab, B
Mixolydian b2 b6 #7?
@@qtube9234 Yes (if I undersand your #7 in the same way). Since some musicians notate the 7th degree differently, first I'll start with The Major Scale (Ionian) as a reference: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Then the 5th mode of The Hungarian Minor is 1 b2 3 4 5 b6 7. Another name of this scale is The Byzantine Scale :)
@@JereToikka Hmm. This scale is probably near the edge of too much tension for me :)
@@qtube9234 *natural 7
Spooky! Really spooky.
A little bit of "When the sun burns red" by Kreator from Coma of Souls or Diablo-ish...
Hello! I loved your explanation of the Hungarian Minor. I am trying to write a piano piece based off of this scale, so it really helped. Would you say that your book explains all the modes and scales like this? I am trying to see if it would be applicable to all instrumentalists other than only guitar. Thanks for this video!
Thanks :) Master of the Modes is designed for guitar, so I don't see it working for other instruments. The explanations are slightly different in there, as I do more "fretboard" work than here.
The best example to get into this scale is the folk music of Romania, Transylvania and Hungary. mostly used for violin, accordion and clarinet, look for taraf of haidouks, they are virtuous and impressive
Romanian, Transylvanian and Hungarian folk music? Would love to hear some, do you have any artist suggestions?
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You need one of this staff racks and five now markers!
Makes me think of Will Wood and the Tapeworms.
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This is a really cool scale!!! Does this scale have modes that descend from it or is that just the double harmonic major scale???
This is also called "neveser" in Turkish Makam music
i use this note most time
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In Greece we call it Niaved
So you get the Lydian with the raised fourth, plus the raised seventh of the harmonic minor. Interesting!
Reminds me of the end of “Blinded In Chains” by Avenged Sevenfold
You can also get Fm and G#maj
for D# note we can use the Augmented 6th Chord (Italian or French or German): D# - A - F (with repeated A or added either B or C) F at the bass & D# at the soprano. So it can be like that(F - A - {B or C or repeated A} - D#) Its resolution: F=> E - A=> G# - (repeated A or B or C) => B - D# => E So resolved to the Dominant Chord E
You are perfectly correct. I since made a video on the missing chord: ua-cam.com/video/rEqql0GCrkg/v-deo.html
Mastodon scales !!!
Maybe one of those triads can be inverted with D# in the bass, to use for the 4th mode.
Yes, indeed it is possible. Here's how: ua-cam.com/video/rEqql0GCrkg/v-deo.html
Reminds me of Raag Bhairavi.
4.26 that's Edgar Allen Poe right there, I'm scared too turn the lights off now
let's compose some Black Metal...
diggin' it!
That will be awesome
on the fourth you really can technically build a triad, it's just a very weird one. it would just have a "diminished third", and would essentially be a diminished triad with a diminished third. I personally think it's worth messing around with in harmonies for this scale.