Some of you rightfully noticed a little mistake I made in the ascending melodic minor. The B-flat should be a B. 😅 Anyway, it’s not part of the modes and I cut it out of the video so you can disregard it either way for the purpose of this topic.
Hello, Anne! I know, you're quite busy, and there's a lot of stuff planned, as you mentioned, but may I ask, when will the Instruments: Brass video come out? Strings and woodwinds videos were really helpful And, anyways, thank you very much for your content. For me it feels that all the progress I made in writing music and making mock-ups is just because of what you do
@@noelleggett5368 Growing up in Central Europe we all used "B" for Bb and "H" for B Natural. Entire classical literature used B and H since we were kids. The best example to illustrate this issue are selections from Bach's Das Wohltemperierte Klavier - Preludes and Fugues. In H-Dur and H-moll (B-Major and B-Minor respectively) would occupy positions 23 and 24 in both books. For Bb we used "B" so, Prelude and Fugue in B-Dur and B-moll would occupy positions 21 and 22 in both books. I hope it helps 🙂
I really don’t understand the strict adherence to no parallel 5ths or octaves. Maybe it’s because I come from the choral world but those rules aren’t followed by modern composers at all that I’ve seen.
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen on modality and mainly because you chose only one composition to show the changes. So helpful to see the practical use and hear the changes in real time
That first page with all six scales positioned in descending order of brightness (mood) is a great way to convey this. It's hard to decide if these videos are more educational or entertaining. Thank you.
Amazing video! I don't think I've ever understood the practical use of modal chords until today. I was taught modal scales by playing all the white keys starting at C for Ionian, moving up to D for Dorian and so forth. Your explanation made way more sense 🤯
The orchestation from time 10.20 for the original is so beautiful to hear, I was rewinding it again and again Thank you @AnneKathrinDernComposer , that was so nice🎉
11:33 😊 Right ? Ha, ha ! So precious ! Great video. As always, right-to-the-point. Reminds me of my lessons when I was a kid with this 80 y.o. German organist who made me “alter” various Bach’s preludes to different modes…This approach is precisely what should be studied by all aspiring media composers. You could have actually used your own “The Jade Pendant” main theme (Peony, Peony’s Dance, The Restaurant) as an illustration of modal interchange. Then move on to “The Thief” as an illustration of the same theme in different bearbeitung…. Great strings timber BTW.
The best video I've ever seen explaining music modes ❤ I love the way you are explaining music. Your video on harmony making several different harmonies on same melody is one of my main references to watch every other while. Thank you Anne 🌹
Vielen Dank für dieses sehr hilfreiche Video. Dies ist für mich der beste Beitrag, in dem ich endlich mal verstanden habe, wie die Modi funktionieren und welche Wirkung dies haben können. Also nochmals vielen Dank !!!
Thank you very much formaking this video. I found that a much more useful and intuitive way of seeing what notes are in the particular modal scales; and also what we're trying to achieve by choosing one over the other - the brightness/darkness ranking. Great, thank you! My brain liked your way of explaining that subject.
Once again, an excellent video with very expressive examples, thank you very much for your work. We are very grateful to share your knowledge with us 🙂
Thank you very much! As a hobby composer, I only heard about modes in the way you talked about in the beginning, playing all the white keys c-c, d-d etc. But your video and the orchestration example really helped me understand it now. Greetings from Switzerland!
I truly enjoy your videos and I love how you explain it all. After seeing your video I started to try it out in my music and it’s super cool 😎. Thanks Anne for sharing such wonderful content and your love for music with is all ❤❤❤
I love watching you videos and I always learn a lot from them. It's also the first time I can see you that upset and I hope it's not because you received a lot of bad mood from viewers lately. If so, I will try to make you ignore them by repeating how much I appreciate what you do with your channel 🤩
Love your videos. Smart, cheeky, funny, and such an entertaining way to learn. Your charm and wit is a winning combo. Simple, unassuming, and a joy to watch. Thank you and my best wishes for your bright career...
Never thought to write a melody and then change the notes and harmony to make it a new mode like this - would instantly cough up sad B sections and other treatments of a theme for a movie. Very cool!
Great video here!!! I'm with you in stating that I absolutely HATE the videos where they teach modes using the white keys only and moving up one interval at a time. Super annoying. Thank you for this video. Helps me as a teacher myself to make sure I giving real world examples with my modal lessons. Awesome stuff as usual.
Love your explanation of modes all based on a tonic of C. One of my professors demonstrated modes exactly the same way, and it was (oddly) revelatory to my 19 year old brain at the time. The explanation of modes as all in the key of C major is helpful for certain instrumentalists to understand fingering and to understand how the modes relate to each other, but I agree with you that it doesn't help enough with understanding how the modes SOUND. Thanks as always for sharing your knowledge.
I found you a long time ago, but I'm a slow commenter. I now comment on all your videos. Thanks for a very inspiring way of dealing with things. I'm Finnish and my English isn't perfect, so your clear way of speaking is like beautiful music to me! Success in your career, you deserve it!👍👍🥰🥰
AKD, kudos for raising modality as a topic of conversation. The Gregorian Modes you present are a wonderful starting point to some incredible sounds, colours [correct spelling in my part of the world], moods, and musical characters. Each is wonderfully unique. Organising them light to dark is also a practical solution when we are still learning them, eventually that categorization is internalized and it becomes part of our writing language. I'm sure I'm 'preaching to the choir' in saying that the Gregorian Modes are the first in a collection of mode sets that can/should be explored by anyone looking to score film/tv/games music. Case in point, the Melodic Minor Modes have been well plundered in association with 'Space' and the SciFi Genre, as well as other genres. C D E F G Ab Bb C [1 2 3 4 5 b6 b7 1] (Melodic Minor Mode 5) is imprinted on all our brains thanks to John Williams. See the transition to underscore from the opening credits of 'Star Wars'. A little more obscure but astutely used by Tom Howe and Harry Gregson-Williams are the Harmonic Minor Modes in 'Whiskey Cavalier'. The Harmonic Minor Modes got an incredible workout in that show, but that's not the only clever bit of modal writing going on. Worthy of mention is how the Harmonic Minor modes are associated to the 'spy' plot points, and Gregorian modes (the ones you've presented in this video) are associated the 'relationship' plot points. Thank you Mr Howe and Mr Gregson-Williams for raising the bar for all of us. For the sake of it, try taking Super Locrian bb7 (Harmonic Minor Mode 7) for a spin and enjoy the spy tension. C Db Eb Fb Gb Ab Bbb C [1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 bb7 1] Much to explore and enjoy.
That was brilliant to show the difference of the modes using the same piece of music. I've been through advanced theory in college but not displayed the differences musically.❤
Wonderful topic, I love writing modally. Learning how to write modally and properly harmonizing definitely requires some practice but is so rewarding. I first learned how to do it in a jazz context and avoiding the pitfalls of letting the harmony go back to the tonal root instead of the modal root.
After receiving the midi files, I'm sorry I didn't pay for a double shot of coffee. For me, a better way of thinking of the modes. The accompanying PDF file, was also very informative. Thank you for your work.
This is great. Thanks for the explanation and examples. ( I learned about this in collge but their explanations never really made sense. These absolutely do make sense). Thanks for continuing to make these videos.
Thank you! And for the record I always enjoy your charming self. You make me laugh and I can’t truthfully remember a university music professor who did. So I’ll be back.
MIDI sequencer as a music theory teaching tool is very powerful. I wish someone had explain tonal modes with this angle when I studied them. I started to understand the deal when I was learning improvisation. But to me it was bunch of tricks : There's the leading note being altered or not, the minor scale with what you choose to do with the 6th and the major with what you choose to do with the 4th. Then there's locrian mode which I mistook for the diminished scale for a long time, but I finally got it by composing. Thanks again.
By far the best and most practical explanation of modes I’ve watched. To actually hear the difference within a familiar reference framework is brilliant. Thank you for this… in fact, could you possibly make a vid on this parallel 5ths and octaves issue within voice writing and why we’re supposed to avoid.
When I first heard modes explained as 'shifting white keys', I translated that into "what moves?" so I could better understand it. Thanks for taking that approach here.
Thank you for this video. It took me years to figure the modes out because most of the books I studied from make you compare the mode with the parent scale (I studied this stuff in Italian, so I don't know the correct term in English). And I never understood what was so magic about the modes because C Ionian or D Dorian, it's still the same notes. Until one day I decided to compare C Ionian with another parallel mode and cleared one thing. But still it still felt like I was playing a Bb Major scale and not a C Dorian scale. Then I tried to "force" some music across the different modes (like you did here with Davy Jones' Theme) and everything was clearer. I should go back and do the same exercise with the harmonic and melodic minor and their relative modes. Thanks for the video, Anne! 🔥
A really effective way to explain modality. You got me thinking about harmony changes and substitutions in a different way. I fully agree. .don't make music academic, use your heart. (ears/soul) Welcome back. Its been a stretch. Congratulations on all your important musical work.
I find the first way, all the white keys, but altering starting and end points, + playing and listening to each of those scales a helpful way to perceive it, because it’s like getting different perspectives of tonality and harmony, the paradigm shifted with each changing start & end point.
sweet! nice explanation. Just used A Locrian (yes, on purpose) for a short demo piece the other week. cool to FA&FO with sometimes. haha. Again, great video. I always appreciate someone else's way of thinking about things. May not always agree, but then sometimes I find out I'm working my brain harder than I need to. So thanks!
Excellent video Anne. I too think this is best way to learn about modes. Starting them all on the same tonal center so the difference in “vibe” is much clearer that way. Great choice of theme as well, the Davy Jones theme is one of my personal favorites! PS: The major version totally cracked me up. Not because of your arrangement or anything. But because of how cursed it sounds in major. Holy hell 🤣
11:33 - Shots fired by AK! 🔫 She's fully in her savage era and I am absolutely here for it. 😆🤣 (Also, "Phrygian" was pronounced correctly per standard English, but "Ionian" is more like "Eye-Oh-Knee-In". Hope that helps!)
Some of you rightfully noticed a little mistake I made in the ascending melodic minor. The B-flat should be a B. 😅 Anyway, it’s not part of the modes and I cut it out of the video so you can disregard it either way for the purpose of this topic.
That’s how we practiced it, at least in Europe. Melodic - ascending, natural - descending. No worries 😊
Hello, Anne!
I know, you're quite busy, and there's a lot of stuff planned, as you mentioned, but may I ask, when will the Instruments: Brass video come out? Strings and woodwinds videos were really helpful
And, anyways, thank you very much for your content. For me it feels that all the progress I made in writing music and making mock-ups is just because of what you do
Confusing B flat and B. Is that a German thing? 😂
@@noelleggett5368 Growing up in Central Europe we all used "B" for Bb and "H" for B Natural. Entire classical literature used B and H since we were kids. The best example to illustrate this issue are selections from Bach's Das Wohltemperierte Klavier - Preludes and Fugues. In H-Dur and H-moll (B-Major and B-Minor respectively) would occupy positions 23 and 24 in both books. For Bb we used "B" so, Prelude and Fugue in B-Dur and B-moll would occupy positions 21 and 22 in both books. I hope it helps 🙂
@@KrystofDreamJourney I know. That was a ‘musical joke’. (Hence my laughing emoji).
The best and clearest explanation of modal colors. Thank you
"I see a whole lot of not my f*cking problem" 😂
😂😂
She has such a coolness factor :)
I'm going to start using that phrase at work for now on. 😂😂
Ow… I’m so glad you’re back
I really don’t understand the strict adherence to no parallel 5ths or octaves. Maybe it’s because I come from the choral world but those rules aren’t followed by modern composers at all that I’ve seen.
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen on modality and mainly because you chose only one composition to show the changes. So helpful to see the practical use and hear the changes in real time
That first page with all six scales positioned in descending order of brightness (mood) is a great way to convey this. It's hard to decide if these videos are more educational or entertaining. Thank you.
This is the most helpful explanation of modes I've seen.
"Pick a struggle b*tch" is definitely the best thing I've ever heard about Locrian ever 😂 instantly subbed for that
I never appreciated the power of the modes until I watched this. Brilliant. Thanks.
So interesting. What a great teacher Anne-Kathrin is.
Wow! I have never heard modes explained in such a simple and concise way ❤ Thank you so much for this! You are amazing! Thanks as always 🎉
The greatest explanation of the different modes I’ve seen on youtube, thank you 👍
Love hearing the composition reconstituted into each mode. Its amazing how much the mood is altered.
Great piece of work showing the various modal scales - Thank you!
Your examples are the best ! Love the humor too 😅
Humor and beer! Perfect!
Your way of learning the modes is what works for me as well. Thanks for this video!
Amazing video! I don't think I've ever understood the practical use of modal chords until today. I was taught modal scales by playing all the white keys starting at C for Ionian, moving up to D for Dorian and so forth. Your explanation made way more sense 🤯
Ah wow "Measure this with your heart" is such a great phrase
Always very practicsl and clear. Many thanks!
Thank you for your service
Love the clear explanation. This video is helpful to me (and fun)!
Still loving the attitude. Everyone should apply this to life in general. And, as usual, a good informative video.
Seriously thank you. You are an amazing teacher.
Great vid! Even shows how to transpose between the modes when working in midi. Loved the bright/dark sequencing.
I love parallel octaves, and fifths, and fourths, and everything that sounds cool to our ears!!! So thanks Anne, and to hell with the snobs!!!
Finally an explanation with samples of how to use it, this is a great toolbox to have!
The orchestation from time 10.20 for the original is so beautiful to hear, I was rewinding it again and again
Thank you @AnneKathrinDernComposer , that was so nice🎉
11:33 😊 Right ? Ha, ha ! So precious !
Great video. As always, right-to-the-point. Reminds me of my lessons when I was a kid with this 80 y.o. German organist who made me “alter” various Bach’s preludes to different modes…This approach is precisely what should be studied by all aspiring media composers. You could have actually used your own “The Jade Pendant” main theme (Peony, Peony’s Dance, The Restaurant) as an illustration of modal interchange. Then move on to “The Thief” as an illustration of the same theme in different bearbeitung…. Great strings timber BTW.
Thanks for making this much more clear, and for the entertainment!
The best video I've ever seen explaining music modes ❤ I love the way you are explaining music. Your video on harmony making several different harmonies on same melody is one of my main references to watch every other while. Thank you Anne 🌹
Best explanation of modes evah, good humor adds up to MANY coffees.
Thank you, Anne!
Pure genius teaching!!
Vielen Dank für dieses sehr hilfreiche Video.
Dies ist für mich der beste Beitrag, in dem ich endlich mal verstanden habe, wie die Modi funktionieren und welche Wirkung dies haben können.
Also nochmals vielen Dank !!!
Thanks Anne-Kathrin - very helpful to see modes from a compositional perspective!!
Thank you for the helpful information and support! Keep it up and well done!👍🙏
The video is an extreme pleasure to watch, and I learned a lot. Thank you!
Thanks for your videos. Glad to see you back, Ann ❤
Thank you kindly for a really clear and demonstrative treatment of modes.
I just finished doing a deep dive into this topic. I LOVE hearing the way music can transform by moving it around different scales!
Thank you very much formaking this video. I found that a much more useful and intuitive way of seeing what notes are in the particular modal scales; and also what we're trying to achieve by choosing one over the other - the brightness/darkness ranking. Great, thank you! My brain liked your way of explaining that subject.
This is the most cristal clear practical-explanation of #Modes. Danke!
Once again, an excellent video with very expressive examples, thank you very much for your work. We are very grateful to share your knowledge with us 🙂
Thank you very much! As a hobby composer, I only heard about modes in the way you talked about in the beginning, playing all the white keys c-c, d-d etc. But your video and the orchestration example really helped me understand it now. Greetings from Switzerland!
The best UA-cam music channel is back ! ❤
wow - you give us always new perspectives to hear and to do harmonics. And new ways to forget the professor's stuff 🙂
Thanks for this video. I watched many different videos of modality. But this is simple and nice. Thanks
Excellent demonstration - thanks!
Anne-Kathrin Dern, Thank you very much!
Great explanation Anne-Kathrin and very interesting to see, how the mood changes instantly with only one different note
I truly enjoy your videos and I love how you explain it all. After seeing your video I started to try it out in my music and it’s super cool 😎. Thanks Anne for sharing such wonderful content and your love for music with is all ❤❤❤
Fantastic examples and explanations! I love how you based everything from C. That nees to happen more often with modal teaching
You are so wonderful in so many ways. thanks!
I love watching you videos and I always learn a lot from them. It's also the first time I can see you that upset and I hope it's not because you received a lot of bad mood from viewers lately. If so, I will try to make you ignore them by repeating how much I appreciate what you do with your channel 🤩
Love your videos. Smart, cheeky, funny, and such an entertaining way to learn. Your charm and wit is a winning combo. Simple, unassuming, and a joy to watch. Thank you and my best wishes for your bright career...
Sehr gut näher gebracht, danke, steckt großer Aufwand dahinter, aber deshalb ist es aussagekräftig, danke.
Never thought to write a melody and then change the notes and harmony to make it a new mode like this - would instantly cough up sad B sections and other treatments of a theme for a movie. Very cool!
Great video here!!! I'm with you in stating that I absolutely HATE the videos where they teach modes using the white keys only and moving up one interval at a time. Super annoying. Thank you for this video. Helps me as a teacher myself to make sure I giving real world examples with my modal lessons.
Awesome stuff as usual.
Love your breakdown and choice of words. Hilarious. Thank you for being real.
Love your explanation of modes all based on a tonic of C. One of my professors demonstrated modes exactly the same way, and it was (oddly) revelatory to my 19 year old brain at the time.
The explanation of modes as all in the key of C major is helpful for certain instrumentalists to understand fingering and to understand how the modes relate to each other, but I agree with you that it doesn't help enough with understanding how the modes SOUND.
Thanks as always for sharing your knowledge.
Awesome tutorial, going to practice now. Really!! 🎹
WOW, thank you Anne-Kathrin. Excellent video! and dang now I have to watch E.T.!
I found you a long time ago, but I'm a slow commenter. I now comment on all your videos. Thanks for a very inspiring way of dealing with things. I'm Finnish and my English isn't perfect, so your clear way of speaking is like beautiful music to me! Success in your career, you deserve it!👍👍🥰🥰
AKD, kudos for raising modality as a topic of conversation.
The Gregorian Modes you present are a wonderful starting point to some incredible sounds, colours [correct spelling in my part of the world], moods, and musical characters. Each is wonderfully unique. Organising them light to dark is also a practical solution when we are still learning them, eventually that categorization is internalized and it becomes part of our writing language.
I'm sure I'm 'preaching to the choir' in saying that the Gregorian Modes are the first in a collection of mode sets that can/should be explored by anyone looking to score film/tv/games music.
Case in point, the Melodic Minor Modes have been well plundered in association with 'Space' and the SciFi Genre, as well as other genres. C D E F G Ab Bb C [1 2 3 4 5 b6 b7 1] (Melodic Minor Mode 5) is imprinted on all our brains thanks to John Williams. See the transition to underscore from the opening credits of 'Star Wars'.
A little more obscure but astutely used by Tom Howe and Harry Gregson-Williams are the Harmonic Minor Modes in 'Whiskey Cavalier'. The Harmonic Minor Modes got an incredible workout in that show, but that's not the only clever bit of modal writing going on. Worthy of mention is how the Harmonic Minor modes are associated to the 'spy' plot points, and Gregorian modes (the ones you've presented in this video) are associated the 'relationship' plot points. Thank you Mr Howe and Mr Gregson-Williams for raising the bar for all of us.
For the sake of it, try taking Super Locrian bb7 (Harmonic Minor Mode 7) for a spin and enjoy the spy tension. C Db Eb Fb Gb Ab Bbb C [1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 bb7 1]
Much to explore and enjoy.
That was brilliant to show the difference of the modes using the same piece of music. I've been through advanced theory in college but not displayed the differences musically.❤
Wonderful topic, I love writing modally. Learning how to write modally and properly harmonizing definitely requires some practice but is so rewarding. I first learned how to do it in a jazz context and avoiding the pitfalls of letting the harmony go back to the tonal root instead of the modal root.
Amazing video on modes, thank you so much!
After receiving the midi files, I'm sorry I didn't pay for a double shot of coffee. For me, a better way of thinking of the modes. The accompanying PDF file, was also very informative. Thank you for your work.
Great, clear presentation. Thanks!!🎉
Thank you! This was great and well put together demonstration! ✨
This is great. Thanks for the explanation and examples. ( I learned about this in collge but their explanations never really made sense. These absolutely do make sense). Thanks for continuing to make these videos.
Thank you! And for the record I always enjoy your charming self. You make me laugh and I can’t truthfully remember a university music professor who did. So I’ll be back.
MIDI sequencer as a music theory teaching tool is very powerful. I wish someone had explain tonal modes with this angle when I studied them. I started to understand the deal when I was learning improvisation. But to me it was bunch of tricks : There's the leading note being altered or not, the minor scale with what you choose to do with the 6th and the major with what you choose to do with the 4th. Then there's locrian mode which I mistook for the diminished scale for a long time, but I finally got it by composing.
Thanks again.
By far the best and most practical explanation of modes I’ve watched. To actually hear the difference within a familiar reference framework is brilliant. Thank you for this… in fact, could you possibly make a vid on this parallel 5ths and octaves issue within voice writing and why we’re supposed to avoid.
Excellent! AKD is excellent. Simple, practical.
And fun.
Thanks Anne, love your videos
Thank for your teaching 🎉🎉 great 👍🏻
Great..!! A friendly way to teach thé uses of thé modes... Besides, in a joyful way. Thank You, Anne Kathin for sharing. Grettings from Chile.
Thank you for this it's very easy to understand from my point of view anyway...
When I first heard modes explained as 'shifting white keys', I translated that into "what moves?" so I could better understand it. Thanks for taking that approach here.
Thank you for this video. It took me years to figure the modes out because most of the books I studied from make you compare the mode with the parent scale (I studied this stuff in Italian, so I don't know the correct term in English). And I never understood what was so magic about the modes because C Ionian or D Dorian, it's still the same notes. Until one day I decided to compare C Ionian with another parallel mode and cleared one thing. But still it still felt like I was playing a Bb Major scale and not a C Dorian scale.
Then I tried to "force" some music across the different modes (like you did here with Davy Jones' Theme) and everything was clearer.
I should go back and do the same exercise with the harmonic and melodic minor and their relative modes.
Thanks for the video, Anne! 🔥
A really effective way to explain modality. You got me thinking about harmony changes and substitutions in a different way. I fully agree. .don't make music academic, use your heart. (ears/soul)
Welcome back. Its been a stretch. Congratulations on all your important musical work.
Great presentation, thank you!
"That's Modalism, Patrick!"
Thanks for another awesome video, AKD!
This is an amazing video, it must have taken ages to create the examples. Thank you so much!
Legend! Thank for the video ❤
"Go practice" at the end is epic 😅
Great expanation. Thank you!
I fn love those videos. Keep em coming please.
That you for doing this video. 🎉
HAAAAAHAHAHAHA!!! 2 fun knee!!! Yes Modality!!! so important !!! THANK YOU!!!
🎇💫🍀🍀 Great ! Thank you Anne-Kathrin !
I find the first way, all the white keys, but altering starting and end points, + playing and listening to each of those scales a helpful way to perceive it, because it’s like getting different perspectives of tonality and harmony, the paradigm shifted with each changing start & end point.
Good, that your'e back on making videos!
Excellent Explanations Anne!
Fantastic!
sweet! nice explanation. Just used A Locrian (yes, on purpose) for a short demo piece the other week. cool to FA&FO with sometimes. haha. Again, great video. I always appreciate someone else's way of thinking about things. May not always agree, but then sometimes I find out I'm working my brain harder than I need to. So thanks!
Excellent video Anne. I too think this is best way to learn about modes. Starting them all on the same tonal center so the difference in “vibe” is much clearer that way. Great choice of theme as well, the Davy Jones theme is one of my personal favorites!
PS: The major version totally cracked me up. Not because of your arrangement or anything. But because of how cursed it sounds in major. Holy hell 🤣
11:33 - Shots fired by AK! 🔫 She's fully in her savage era and I am absolutely here for it. 😆🤣
(Also, "Phrygian" was pronounced correctly per standard English, but "Ionian" is more like "Eye-Oh-Knee-In". Hope that helps!)
Why are you the only person on the internet that knows how to explain things?
Very well explained, straight to the point! And musical illustrations are awesome! My braincells received it very well thank you! 🙂
Thanks for sharing! Here's a comment for the algorithm.
very, very, very informative !!!!!