The Whole Tone Scale And Its Subsets

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  • Опубліковано 29 лис 2024

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  • @squaddiepete
    @squaddiepete Рік тому

    Superbly played. And what a great sound from your instrument! I played it again, with my eyes closed, and it was easy to imagine I was listening to a true grand piano in a vast auditorium.

  • @PeterYiffin
    @PeterYiffin Рік тому +2

    I'm so excited for the symmetry video, it's a subject that's always fascinated me

    • @jaybeardmusic8074
      @jaybeardmusic8074  Рік тому +2

      Great to hear someone else is fascinated by the topic! Stay tuned and I’ll totally make a series on it soon!

  • @Zobblerone
    @Zobblerone Рік тому +3

    Just recently got into set theory a lot, mostly through analysis for Scriabin's pieces, and your work is a goldmine for that. Thank you a ton for your work!

  • @a_doggo
    @a_doggo Рік тому +3

    this is fantastic, really well put-together and easy to follow. I wish i had videos like this when I was in school - I'd get to school at 7am so I could use the piano there to play chords, maybe get a aeborsold CD to solo over if i was lucky (yeah im old)

    • @jaybeardmusic8074
      @jaybeardmusic8074  Рік тому

      Haha thanks! I am indeed making these videos because I wish someone would have told me all this growing up!

    • @bluetv6386
      @bluetv6386 Рік тому

      Don't worry, you're not that old if you are referring to Aebersold CDs instead of cassette tapes. :-)

  • @ShanevsDCsniperr
    @ShanevsDCsniperr Місяць тому

    Just discovered your channel and really appreciate the work you're doing. Have you studied the 'sixth-diminished' scales and other concepts described by Barry Harris at all? It would be incredible to hear a conversation between Harris and Scriabin.

  • @neilr5208
    @neilr5208 Рік тому +1

    Favourite subset: 4-21
    Sounds cool in PoE, used quite a bit (commonly voiced m7 TT m7, frequent in Sonata 4)

    • @jaybeardmusic8074
      @jaybeardmusic8074  Рік тому +1

      Cool voicing! (C Bb E D)
      I can imagine that set in the 1st movement of sonata 4. Would you be able to describe where in sonata 4 this set is?

  • @mantictac
    @mantictac Рік тому

    The whole tone set in its entirety is my favourite subset, quartal voicing with the augmented fourth moved down an octave.

  • @davivify
    @davivify Рік тому

    There's a place for the WTS in Summertime. I like to play it in 3rds ascending, as a fill during a break in the lyrics. There are lots of places for fills as the tempo is fairly languid.

    • @jaybeardmusic8074
      @jaybeardmusic8074  Рік тому

      Mmm nice! Would you be able to describe where I’m that song the WTS is?

  • @rosaliedeneubourg3225
    @rosaliedeneubourg3225 Рік тому

    Hello, thank you for taking up the interesting topic. I know how the full scale is structured. But where I’m still unsure is how the chords are formed on each individual whole tone level. For example, with C. Is C diminished or C augmented the right chord now? Or is that equally justified?

    • @jaybeardmusic8074
      @jaybeardmusic8074  Рік тому +1

      Are you asking how to build the whole tone scale on the two different unique places? Or are you asking what subsets you can build with it?
      Augmented fits into the whole tone scale but diminished does not.

    • @rosaliedeneubourg3225
      @rosaliedeneubourg3225 Рік тому

      @@jaybeardmusic8074 ah ok thx . Sorry, I had a thought error. True C b5 is not diminished because of the big third.
      I really just wanted to know what the standard triads are. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
      I Caug or C b5
      II Daug or D b5
      III Eaug or E b5
      IV F#aug or F# b5
      V G#aug or G# b5
      VI A#aug or A# b5
      Etc.. right? So there is no perfect 5th interval in the entire wholetone scale.

    • @jaybeardmusic8074
      @jaybeardmusic8074  Рік тому +1

      Indeed there’s no 5th (or half step or minor third) in the whole tone scale.
      Those chords you mentioned are indeed triads of the WT scale, but there are more. I prefer to just write out the pitches (I assume C b5 is C E F#).
      So if I’m to list each triad in the WT scale I’d say there’s the do re me set (C D E). Now the 7th chord set includes both (C D F#) and (C E F#) and then there augmented (C E G#). Those four chords I listed could begin on any of the 12 pitches (they just won’t all be unique though for augmented)

  • @duryi6399
    @duryi6399 20 днів тому

    Mozart used the whole tone scale in his "Musical Joke" 😅👌

  • @gigogrom216
    @gigogrom216 Рік тому +1

    Whole tone scale was first invented by Glinka in his opera "Ruslan and Ludmile" to show evil wizard

    • @jaybeardmusic8074
      @jaybeardmusic8074  Рік тому +1

      Wow that’s really cool to know where it’s first used! I had heard that Russian composers had used the whole tone scale considerably earlier than Debussy or Scriabin.
      Would you be able to comment a link to its first use for us?

    • @gigogrom216
      @gigogrom216 Рік тому

      @@jaybeardmusic8074 Of course
      Here's Glinka's overture, at the end there's a whole-tone scale in basses: ua-cam.com/video/aUYylWmAibI/v-deo.html
      Also here's Borodin's romance with usage of a whole-tone scale, portraying wild, archaic nature: ua-cam.com/video/C-LK31uKpF8/v-deo.html