@ its “the lick”. its a joke for musicians, particularly jazz musicians, that this lick appears in so many jazz tunes and people incorporate it into their solos and such. look it up, it’s funny
35:46 my go-to example of Locrian is “Dust to Dust” by John Kirkpatrick. ua-cam.com/video/5-lJMalRMew/v-deo.htmlsi=UnYuDWNiybl9k6eH Seemingly written to intentionally use the Locrian mode, it certainly has a lyrical theme to match!
oooh that is DARK, and definitely the most locrian tune i've ever heard. I feel like tertian locrian harmony tends to break the mode for me so the tune staying mostly unison maintains the mode super well. and all diatonic to locrian!
Fun fact: For 8-bit Music Theory's video all about the Locrian mode, he was actually able to find an example of a Nintendo tune that's fully in Locrian, being the Samasa Desert theme from the Legend of Zelda Oracle games.
Cadence is undoubtedly aware of him, and I think probably intentionally avoids using examples he's already covered to avoid being called a copycat. I think her example is better anyway since it's more sophisticated and frankly, just a better piece. I do disagree with her though that it is impossible for there to be a Locrian tonality. This comment comes mostly from a modern "block chord" mentality imo. It's actually not difficult at all when you uphold good modal melodic standards (the b3 - b2 - 1 melodic formula is just as powerful in Locrian as it is Phrygian.) And that is where 8 Bit's example shines
I have worked in music my whole life, avid listener and musician myself, always had a hard time with theory, this single video has been unlocking so many things for me since it appeals directly to my OCD obsessions; Nintendo and music! I see things visually when I hear and the visual aides in your videos are very impactful. Thank you :) I can’t say it enough :)
videos like this always help me appreciate nintendo music so much more, as if it wasn’t 90% of the video game music i listen to anyways 😅 i highly doubt a video like this would work for any other studio and i think that’s so cool
your mixed meter video inspired me to make a song in 18/8 (it switches between 7/8 and 11/8 every bar (7-eleven lmao)) and your videos got me more into music theory overall so thanks for that! we'll see if any new ideas come from this video
A better way to sort modes is from brightest to darkest you can evaluate by number of flats Lydian 1# Ionian 0 Mixolydian 1b Dorian 2b Aeolian 3b Phrygian 4b Locrian 5b … like in the circle of fifths
Definitely, and another property of this arrangement is that it puts similar scales next to each other. Each mode differs from the next by exactly one note or scale degree.
Yeah, I was gonna comment about light to dark. It's more nuanced then the usual "happy" vs. "sad" that one might intially assume, or even the major vs. minor typing. At the very least, Locrian's at the table this time! :P
I just finished my third semester in music school, and I always assumed aolian and ionian were synonyms for natural minor and major, so this video was actually really helpful!! Thank you!!
"Scales normally span a single octave, therefore they start and end on the same note" Double-mode microtonal scales: **laugh quietly in the background**
That is actually why Locrian causes all the problems it does. Nothing is normally truly left over when the scale spans a true relation, including the minor ninth.
Narshe Mines from Final Fantasy 6 (the A section) is convincingly Locrian through 2 methods: sheer repetition, and making the one other chord it uses besides the tonic sound as dissonant and gross as possible. The tonic is almost always in the form of a B half-diminished chord, and the half-diminished chord on rare occasions can be pretty, even oddly bright (see Molgera's bridge for an example), meanwhile the one other chord is an F major seventh sharp eleventh with no fifth and the major seventh moved down so it rubs right against the F.
I learned more about modes in 30mins of this video than I did having theory lessons for the past few months, where modes were the only focus. This is a crazy good video thank you!
Excellent video as usual! Your analysis leads me to think some about the symmetries of modes. I don't know if you are familiar with it, but the pairs in that table at 33:45 are exactly the pairs of inverses we get using negative harmony. So your instinct is spot on. Interestingly, negative harmony also backs the claim that locrian (or any scale that lacks a perfect fifth) can not be a tonality. If you try to invert locrian, you get a scale with a sharp tonic, which makes little sense. If you treat that tonic as the regular tonic of a new scale, you get just another instance of locrian... (transposed up a half step) 35:22 You talk here about how locrian is like the opposite of lydian, since they can both be derived by stacking consecutive notes in the circle of fifths, but in different directions. I just thought I'd add that they are also opposites in another way. If you take the pattern of steps in lydian, WWWHWWH, and you reverse it, you get locrian: HWWHWWW. This is equivalent to a reflection using the tritone as the axis (related to, but not exactly identical to, negative harmony) Looking at the modes of major using this reflection about the tritone, the related pairs shift to: Lydian : Locrian Ionian : Phrygian Mixolydian : Aeolian Dorian : Dorian Yes, using this analysis, dorian is its own reflection. That's because it's the only mode of major for which the pattern of steps is palindromic: WHWWWHW
yes, and also i think that this phrygian variation that is more common in middle eastern and spanish music instead of the normal phrygian, at least in my knowledge, because of the arabic sound of the 1.5 tone interval of that scale
Cadence you should talk about the reharmonization in the sonic cd sound track!! Every theme has three alt versions with completely different vibes, plus some of those have really interesting sounds (my favorite is the one called “special stage” it’s pretty recognizable)
CASTLE BLECK MENTIONED we're one step closer to an actual analysis... it's like you're teasing us besides that, i'm actually working on a "scale explorer" website, and this video is really helpful, thanks!
the legend of zelda oracle of seasons, samasa desert theme is in locrian it outlines a E half diminished(sus4, flat9 chord) which is a very intresting sound also it uses the flat 7 in the bassline to resolve up to the root to ground the tonic i hope you will cover this song in part 2! thanks Cadence Hira, i love your videos
the section on Ionian is very interesting and really contextualises the minimalist and impressionist influences on videogame music and Ambient music to me. i really didn't think there was any difference with Ionian vs major
been playing guitar for 6 years, taking music theory and guitar next semester for the first time. I will truly be happy to gain a fraction of the knowledge you display. thanks for the vids
Unfortunately I never uploaded it to the internet but I wrote an unambiguously Locrian tune as an exercise at university. I omitted the fifth from the harmony so the tonic chord only had the root and third, but it was all over the melody and I made sure it never felt like anything else. I think the chord sequence was something like Bm(omit 5), G7, Em. There might’ve been a Cmaj7 in there as well.
As someone trying to make their own game and study music, your video topics and teaching style make music theory feel less daunting and even fun and full of wonder and mystery. Thank you!
hey guys so the best chord is the obviously the 2 3 6 turnaround of the major dominant G sus seventh chord, which is just an inversion of the augmented thirteenth of the Phrygian scale, integrated over the Poisson distribution of the 5 2 3 of 6.
Glad to see Castle Bleck mentioned in this video after the absolute SLANDER the track received in the "6 Levels of Mixed Meter Time Signatures" video (All jokes aside, this is a really interesting video, and I really like the way you transcribe each piece yourself!)
If you make another one of these like you did for the time sigs video, PLEASE include the neopolitan minor scale if you can find an example! It’s extremely underrated in my opinion
The timing of this video is impeccable because i was actually going to look at the ice music theory video because i need to make ice-like music for a game jam lol
YES, I haven’t even watched the video yet but I’ve been waiting for this. It helps so much songwriting because I can link specific chords to feelings. Like if I know that cmaj9 in a specific voicing gives a feeling of lullaby and calmness, I can start my song from there and expand out. Thank you
I was the 1.1K like! I wanted to learn more about these modes (as I already know a but of music theory), and I love the way you explain them! Also keeping all the examples (mostly) in Cmaj/Cmin was nice to see to highlight the differences in the modes!
0:35 More than 105 modal scales, and that doesn't cover Whole Tones, the land of Atonal, 12 Tones (Dodecaphony), church modes, echoi, and other cultures tuning systems that led to their own version of modes and scales. Music Theory and Music History lore is deep.
I'm sorry, but you just sound like someone trying to sound intelligent by bringing up tangential stuff just to show you Know Something. Like I'm not even going to quibble about a lot of it (e.g. as far as modern understanding goes, she *is* talking about the church modes, unless you're referring to the Hypo-modes or the allowances chromatically altered final degrees, which have essentially no bearing on contemporary musical practice), and just go straight to the meat of it: What possible reason could you have to mention dodecaphony on a pop music theory channel video about the diatonic modes, other than because you're vaguely insecure and felt the need to talk for the approval of strangers online?
@prepcoin_nl4362 We were talking about every weird scale. And as I am preparing for my 4th semester of my Music Major, I have been learning about all the insane things relating to music, and therefore all the kinds of scales snd modes that do exist. And as for talking in a weird way about these things, you might be right, but I'm not great at talking in a way that doesn't come off as desperate for attention. I'm still going through the crazy phase of being a music student, so I maybe making messages like an absolute crazy person. But modes as a concept, really interest me, so I might have geeked out. The desperation of getting things out of my head is probably what got me, because of the topic.
I find minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor to be the 3 main scales all music uses for structure. All 3 have the same 5 starting notes with only different tail ends of the scales aka different resolutions. Diminished and whole tone are not scales but rather patterns because they have no set resolution and have no 5th, unless your doing W,hW,h diminished pattern. Chromatic is just every note so I'm not gonna count that. Pentatonic is inside minor and you alter that to make blues scale. There's other scales I suppose like I use something like the byzantine scale when I write metal riffs but it's not like I can make extensive chords on guitar using that note selection. Thinking like this has helped me learn difficult progressive songs by ear because it simplifies a lot of possible errors. Also with modes like Dorian I think about the root note D in the scale of a minor but with an emphasis on not using certain notes such as F.
@@S.B.C-Pixi I'm sorry. I was a little too harsh. I think I'm old and jaded enough about music theory that when I start to see digressions like this, I get a little overly annoyed about them. I think your understanding of music will grow when you stop thinking of scales as just collections of things to be memorized and start understanding them as a specific application of a broader principles: namely, the use of pitch cycles. Basically every commonly used scale in the Western canon is the result of some pitch cycle or another, maybe with one chromatically altered note (i.e. the diatonic parent collection results from stacking six fifths on top of each other, the pentatonic major from 4 fifths on top of each, the whole tone is just an endless sequence of whole steps, the octatonic scale is alternating half and whole steps, the melodic minor derives from the same parent fifths collection but with one note chromatically altered, etc.) The reason I make this distinction is because 1) it's undeniable that almost every scale in the tradition can be built from this procedure and 2) you see a lot of other things besides scales that pitch cycles also help explain. I'd recommend looking more into pitch cycle theory because it especially helps to explain a lot of the early 20th century in music once functional tonality stops being so useful in understanding everything. Best of luck with your education : )
Why not just make it 144 scales and cover every possibility? I think scales are typically defined by mood or region/culture which is what jazz’s blue note made such waves at the time for breaking the rules.
What your favorite musical scale says about you (based on that gurschach tiktok audio) Dorian: You're going with the safest option. Maybe a little overrated, but it's still a good one. Harmonic minor: Is this your favorite because it's good, or are you just really horny? Lydian: Alright, we get it! You like this one! Phrygian dominant: This might not be everyone's favorite, but it's yours, and you're totally chill about it. Melodic minor: You're into the classics. Aeolian: You're old. Ionian: You're really old. Minor pentatonic: Your social security number is 2. Lydian augmented: You are one pretentious hipster Hungarian minor: Officer, it's this one right here. Lydian dominant: Oh, you're cool, I like you. Aeolian dominant: No way, you actually know this one? Can we be friends? Altered scale: This one's just a phase, you'll grow out of it when you grow up. Major pentatonic: You will never grow up. Phrygian: Oh, you picked this one to be different, how clever. Locrian: If you chose this one, you are a liar. This is nobody's favorite. Mixolydian: If you chose this one, you are correct. This is the best one. And for all the people in the comments saying "Where's this one? Where's that one?" You're annoying. That's what that one says about you.
My favorite is Lydian submissive. 😏 Or if I'm feeling really saucy, I'll say "I'm a fan of Mixolydian dominant"...which is just Mixolydian with a completely redundant modifier.
unrelated, but I just bought ADOFAI and was having a blast, and nearly jumped in joy and surprised seeing that you made the level 7 tune 😭 I legit did not know this before buying
One example of a song written in phrygian that I really like is the melty molten galaxy. The phrygian mode really gives it a sense of doom that a regular minor scale wouldn't be able to do.
Favorite example of Phrygian is the Lost Woods theme in Ocarina of Time, just such a cool theme and starting on that flatted 2 makes it feel kind of ethereal.
There is a pentatonic scale called the Iwato scale, diatonic to Locrian There was some desert theme that 8 bit music theory used that he said it was locrian but it was all in the Iwato scale. Iwato is Locrian without the third and the sixth and it's surprising "stable". I searched it now and it's Samasa Desert, which can feel major at times, but i still like the Iwato scale
I like how at 5:14 you mention an "expectation of resolution" but as soon as I heard that D chord I expected to hear Unwavering Emotions from Pokemon BW instead
This song in composite minor from xenoblade is similar to some tunes from DS era Castlevania games, couldn't really tell you names, but the tempo, "chords," energy, and instrumentation are essentially the same. Symphony of the night had more awe and dread in its soundtrack than the tone of some of the later titles of similar gameplay. I couldn't tell you about any locrian songs as a complete amateur. Maybe some day! I'll have a rewatch at least once because it was all over my head.
Floating Continent from Final Fantasy VI is in G Lydian with a section that raises G to G#, keeping the rest of the notes the same, giving it a G# Locrian feel
Gliese 710 by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is a pretty neat locrian tune. It omits the b5 in some of the harmony to make it a tad more stable, but the melody makes ample use of it. The song is also in both 7/4 and then later 9/4 for extra funsies :))
The F-Zero series has a few examples of modes. The first section of Sand Ocean (SNES) is Dorian, while White Land (SNES) is entirely Mixolydian except for the intro. Fire Field (GX) sounds ambiguous at first, then sounds Locrian, and the guitar solo even plays a non-diatonic natural sixth.
Its not entirely in locrian, but "Your Best Nightmare" from Undertale has parts in locrian. The first part of the song is in locrian aswell as another part (i forgot which one). It really helps with creating the disturbing sound that Your Best Nightmare has!
As soon as the Magypsy theme from MOTHER 3 started playing during the "What are modes?" section of the video I unintentionally shouted YES at the top of my lungs
i actually know a good song thats in locrian.. for at least a good portion of it! “黒のマニキュア” by Opal Vessel. There’s no upload of the actual song, only the album that it’s on “私は何でもするだろう” (I Would do Anything), which is on Opal Vessel’s yt channel and Bandcamp. It’s one of their most popular albums so it shouldn’t be hard to find. It’s the 8th track on the album.
Not necessarily Nintendo, but I love Sandopolis Zone from S&K as a slightly more unconventional use of Harmonic Minor. Also worth mentioning is the sick Dorian riff on Golden Forest from 1080 Snowboarding
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You just made a grown man in rural Nevada read this comment in a reasonably convincing Mario voice.
You have powers beyond your wildest imagination.
Why i read this with Mario's voice
1:17 the lick goes crazy 💀💀💀💀
was about to comment this 💀
What was it a refrence to?
@ its “the lick”. its a joke for musicians, particularly jazz musicians, that this lick appears in so many jazz tunes and people incorporate it into their solos and such. look it up, it’s funny
@jaydenholt8439 and look up adam neely too if ur interested in more jazz related stuff
😂 it was worth it to watch a few (all) instruments before #42 because . . . that transition 😂 @subsandwhichstudios
0:11 don't think you could sneak megalovania past me! I'd recognize that *thing* anywhere!
35:46 my go-to example of Locrian is “Dust to Dust” by John Kirkpatrick. ua-cam.com/video/5-lJMalRMew/v-deo.htmlsi=UnYuDWNiybl9k6eH
Seemingly written to intentionally use the Locrian mode, it certainly has a lyrical theme to match!
Shostakovich also uses quite a bit of Locrian in his works.
Hey, I used to watch you!
@@SterbiusMcGurbius who? Me?
oooh that is DARK, and definitely the most locrian tune i've ever heard. I feel like tertian locrian harmony tends to break the mode for me so the tune staying mostly unison maintains the mode super well. and all diatonic to locrian!
hi david bennett my king
Fun fact: For 8-bit Music Theory's video all about the Locrian mode, he was actually able to find an example of a Nintendo tune that's fully in Locrian, being the Samasa Desert theme from the Legend of Zelda Oracle games.
Cadence is undoubtedly aware of him, and I think probably intentionally avoids using examples he's already covered to avoid being called a copycat. I think her example is better anyway since it's more sophisticated and frankly, just a better piece.
I do disagree with her though that it is impossible for there to be a Locrian tonality. This comment comes mostly from a modern "block chord" mentality imo. It's actually not difficult at all when you uphold good modal melodic standards (the b3 - b2 - 1 melodic formula is just as powerful in Locrian as it is Phrygian.) And that is where 8 Bit's example shines
@@prepcoin_nl4362 Fair point. Plus, Cadence's example and her take on the feeling Locrian gives off bring something new to the table.
I have worked in music my whole life, avid listener and musician myself, always had a hard time with theory, this single video has been unlocking so many things for me since it appeals directly to my OCD obsessions; Nintendo and music! I see things visually when I hear and the visual aides in your videos are very impactful. Thank you :) I can’t say it enough :)
Hah! Love the mnemonic! Back in my college theory days (late 2000's) I made up "I don't particularly like modes a lot".
videos like this always help me appreciate nintendo music so much more, as if it wasn’t 90% of the video game music i listen to anyways 😅 i highly doubt a video like this would work for any other studio and i think that’s so cool
Sonic is a strong contender.
your mixed meter video inspired me to make a song in 18/8 (it switches between 7/8 and 11/8 every bar (7-eleven lmao)) and your videos got me more into music theory overall
so thanks for that! we'll see if any new ideas come from this video
A better way to sort modes is from brightest to darkest
you can evaluate by number of flats
Lydian 1#
Ionian 0
Mixolydian 1b
Dorian 2b
Aeolian 3b
Phrygian 4b
Locrian 5b
… like in the circle of fifths
Definitely, and another property of this arrangement is that it puts similar scales next to each other. Each mode differs from the next by exactly one note or scale degree.
Yeah, I was gonna comment about light to dark. It's more nuanced then the usual "happy" vs. "sad" that one might intially assume, or even the major vs. minor typing. At the very least, Locrian's at the table this time! :P
Lydian chromatic concept ?
gonna force nintendo to hire me so i can make the most locrian song possible
Same my immediate reaction is like "leave locrian alone! Locrian is just a girl in the world who is trying her best!"
Phrygian has that Locrian edge but without that godawful flat 5th.
@@jackjames6849 that BEAUTIFUL flat fifth, u mean
I always love learning about music theory from you. I've been inspired to compose my own song, despite that I barely understand music as a concept.
I just finished my third semester in music school, and I always assumed aolian and ionian were synonyms for natural minor and major, so this video was actually really helpful!! Thank you!!
I think of it like the words "sure" and "certain". literal synonyms with different implications
@ that’s a good way to think about it!
"Scales normally span a single octave, therefore they start and end on the same note"
Double-mode microtonal scales: **laugh quietly in the background**
Bohlen-Pierce:
She said normally
omg i was just hoping anyone knew double modal theory, i love it so much so many chords!!!!
i kneel before 31-edo understanders
That is actually why Locrian causes all the problems it does. Nothing is normally truly left over when the scale spans a true relation, including the minor ninth.
Narshe Mines from Final Fantasy 6 (the A section) is convincingly Locrian through 2 methods: sheer repetition, and making the one other chord it uses besides the tonic sound as dissonant and gross as possible. The tonic is almost always in the form of a B half-diminished chord, and the half-diminished chord on rare occasions can be pretty, even oddly bright (see Molgera's bridge for an example), meanwhile the one other chord is an F major seventh sharp eleventh with no fifth and the major seventh moved down so it rubs right against the F.
I learned more about modes in 30mins of this video than I did having theory lessons for the past few months, where modes were the only focus. This is a crazy good video thank you!
Excellent video as usual!
Your analysis leads me to think some about the symmetries of modes.
I don't know if you are familiar with it, but the pairs in that table at 33:45 are exactly the pairs of inverses we get using negative harmony. So your instinct is spot on.
Interestingly, negative harmony also backs the claim that locrian (or any scale that lacks a perfect fifth) can not be a tonality. If you try to invert locrian, you get a scale with a sharp tonic, which makes little sense. If you treat that tonic as the regular tonic of a new scale, you get just another instance of locrian... (transposed up a half step)
35:22
You talk here about how locrian is like the opposite of lydian, since they can both be derived by stacking consecutive notes in the circle of fifths, but in different directions.
I just thought I'd add that they are also opposites in another way. If you take the pattern of steps in lydian, WWWHWWH, and you reverse it, you get locrian: HWWHWWW. This is equivalent to a reflection using the tritone as the axis (related to, but not exactly identical to, negative harmony)
Looking at the modes of major using this reflection about the tritone, the related pairs shift to:
Lydian : Locrian
Ionian : Phrygian
Mixolydian : Aeolian
Dorian : Dorian
Yes, using this analysis, dorian is its own reflection. That's because it's the only mode of major for which the pattern of steps is palindromic: WHWWWHW
I've been trying to wrap my grey matter around Modes for a few years and I don't know that I've seen something that's clicked better than this
This is not Nintendo but Blooming Villain from Persona 5 is Locrian. It does go away for the Chorus but other than that, it's pretty convincing.
How does every video you make go incredibly hard?!?
9:53 with the magypsies theme playing in time with the animation was so smooth. I love it.
17:09 Raise the third note, you get phrygian dominant, which in E phyrgian if you were to raise the third note G to a G sharp gives you egyptian vibe.
true! i'll talk about phrygian dominant in part 2 :D
yes, and also i think that this phrygian variation that is more common in middle eastern and spanish music instead of the normal phrygian, at least in my knowledge, because of the arabic sound of the 1.5 tone interval of that scale
@@CadenceHira I do hope you won't reject my "interests" in one particular. You are able to see the deleted comments, I presume?
Yayyy new cadence hira vid, love your content
Cadence you should talk about the reharmonization in the sonic cd sound track!! Every theme has three alt versions with completely different vibes, plus some of those have really interesting sounds (my favorite is the one called “special stage” it’s pretty recognizable)
CASTLE BLECK MENTIONED
we're one step closer to an actual analysis... it's like you're teasing us
besides that, i'm actually working on a "scale explorer" website, and this video is really helpful, thanks!
the legend of zelda oracle of seasons, samasa desert theme is in locrian
it outlines a E half diminished(sus4, flat9 chord) which is a very intresting sound
also it uses the flat 7 in the bassline to resolve up to the root to ground the tonic
i hope you will cover this song in part 2!
thanks Cadence Hira, i love your videos
the section on Ionian is very interesting and really contextualises the minimalist and impressionist influences on videogame music and Ambient music to me. i really didn't think there was any difference with Ionian vs major
been playing guitar for 6 years, taking music theory and guitar next semester for the first time. I will truly be happy to gain a fraction of the knowledge you display. thanks for the vids
Unfortunately I never uploaded it to the internet but I wrote an unambiguously Locrian tune as an exercise at university. I omitted the fifth from the harmony so the tonic chord only had the root and third, but it was all over the melody and I made sure it never felt like anything else. I think the chord sequence was something like Bm(omit 5), G7, Em. There might’ve been a Cmaj7 in there as well.
2:50 Major Scale
6:53 Natural Minor
7:52 Harmonic Minor
11:01 Ionian
13:33 Dorian
16:35 Phrygian
20:35 Lydian
25:21 Mixolydian
28:16 Aeolian
31:19 Locrian
36:18 Composite Minor
this is some real gang shit im ngl
Super Paper Mario has some of the coolest and wildest mysic theory I've ever heard and it is so exciting to see it finally analyzed! Love your work!
As someone trying to make their own game and study music, your video topics and teaching style make music theory feel less daunting and even fun and full of wonder and mystery. Thank you!
hey guys so the best chord is the obviously the 2 3 6 turnaround of the major dominant G sus seventh chord, which is just an inversion of the augmented thirteenth of the Phrygian scale, integrated over the Poisson distribution of the 5 2 3 of 6.
Mmm, the Fish distribution
Obviously.
But what about the add 9 diminished sus xbox 360
So we’re gonna pretend C# altered flat chilli dog doesn’t exist
finally, someone describing music theory the way i think of it in my head
Glad to see Castle Bleck mentioned in this video after the absolute SLANDER the track received in the "6 Levels of Mixed Meter Time Signatures" video (All jokes aside, this is a really interesting video, and I really like the way you transcribe each piece yourself!)
7:26 i can genuinely only hear KFC major here. Im not cooked, im deepfried.
i looked at this comment right when she said it and you ruined it for me 🥲
Thanks for this, working on a jazz fusion album for my dissertation, I’ve always been a huge fan of Nintendo music. You’re getting referenced !
I can't believe no one has mentioned Splatoon's last minute theme, it's the most in-your-face example of Lydian!
If you make another one of these like you did for the time sigs video, PLEASE include the neopolitan minor scale if you can find an example! It’s extremely underrated in my opinion
The timing of this video is impeccable because i was actually going to look at the ice music theory video because i need to make ice-like music for a game jam lol
YES, I haven’t even watched the video yet but I’ve been waiting for this. It helps so much songwriting because I can link specific chords to feelings. Like if I know that cmaj9 in a specific voicing gives a feeling of lullaby and calmness, I can start my song from there and expand out. Thank you
I realize now this is more about scales than chords, but you get the idea 😅
I was the 1.1K like! I wanted to learn more about these modes (as I already know a but of music theory), and I love the way you explain them! Also keeping all the examples (mostly) in Cmaj/Cmin was nice to see to highlight the differences in the modes!
This is so cool, thanks! I've been dabbling in writing video game music for a solo indie project, and it turns out everything I write uses Dorian lol
Sometimes I watch these videos and pretend to understand music.
27:28 LMAO, IT'S LORD OF THE RINGS 😂😂😂
0:35 More than 105 modal scales, and that doesn't cover Whole Tones, the land of Atonal, 12 Tones (Dodecaphony), church modes, echoi, and other cultures tuning systems that led to their own version of modes and scales. Music Theory and Music History lore is deep.
I'm sorry, but you just sound like someone trying to sound intelligent by bringing up tangential stuff just to show you Know Something.
Like I'm not even going to quibble about a lot of it (e.g. as far as modern understanding goes, she *is* talking about the church modes, unless you're referring to the Hypo-modes or the allowances chromatically altered final degrees, which have essentially no bearing on contemporary musical practice), and just go straight to the meat of it: What possible reason could you have to mention dodecaphony on a pop music theory channel video about the diatonic modes, other than because you're vaguely insecure and felt the need to talk for the approval of strangers online?
@prepcoin_nl4362 We were talking about every weird scale. And as I am preparing for my 4th semester of my Music Major, I have been learning about all the insane things relating to music, and therefore all the kinds of scales snd modes that do exist. And as for talking in a weird way about these things, you might be right, but I'm not great at talking in a way that doesn't come off as desperate for attention. I'm still going through the crazy phase of being a music student, so I maybe making messages like an absolute crazy person. But modes as a concept, really interest me, so I might have geeked out. The desperation of getting things out of my head is probably what got me, because of the topic.
I find minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor to be the 3 main scales all music uses for structure. All 3 have the same 5 starting notes with only different tail ends of the scales aka different resolutions. Diminished and whole tone are not scales but rather patterns because they have no set resolution and have no 5th, unless your doing W,hW,h diminished pattern. Chromatic is just every note so I'm not gonna count that. Pentatonic is inside minor and you alter that to make blues scale. There's other scales I suppose like I use something like the byzantine scale when I write metal riffs but it's not like I can make extensive chords on guitar using that note selection. Thinking like this has helped me learn difficult progressive songs by ear because it simplifies a lot of possible errors. Also with modes like Dorian I think about the root note D in the scale of a minor but with an emphasis on not using certain notes such as F.
@@S.B.C-Pixi I'm sorry. I was a little too harsh. I think I'm old and jaded enough about music theory that when I start to see digressions like this, I get a little overly annoyed about them.
I think your understanding of music will grow when you stop thinking of scales as just collections of things to be memorized and start understanding them as a specific application of a broader principles: namely, the use of pitch cycles. Basically every commonly used scale in the Western canon is the result of some pitch cycle or another, maybe with one chromatically altered note (i.e. the diatonic parent collection results from stacking six fifths on top of each other, the pentatonic major from 4 fifths on top of each, the whole tone is just an endless sequence of whole steps, the octatonic scale is alternating half and whole steps, the melodic minor derives from the same parent fifths collection but with one note chromatically altered, etc.)
The reason I make this distinction is because 1) it's undeniable that almost every scale in the tradition can be built from this procedure and 2) you see a lot of other things besides scales that pitch cycles also help explain.
I'd recommend looking more into pitch cycle theory because it especially helps to explain a lot of the early 20th century in music once functional tonality stops being so useful in understanding everything.
Best of luck with your education : )
Why not just make it 144 scales and cover every possibility?
I think scales are typically defined by mood or region/culture which is what jazz’s blue note made such waves at the time for breaking the rules.
Been watching for literal years and barely understood what you were on about until now lol
thanks for the music theory
AHHH Love the mother 3 music while you reintroduce modes
Love to see it, Hira! Thank you for the phenomenal Music Theory video again! 😅
What your favorite musical scale says about you (based on that gurschach tiktok audio)
Dorian: You're going with the safest option. Maybe a little overrated, but it's still a good one.
Harmonic minor: Is this your favorite because it's good, or are you just really horny?
Lydian: Alright, we get it! You like this one!
Phrygian dominant: This might not be everyone's favorite, but it's yours, and you're totally chill about it.
Melodic minor: You're into the classics.
Aeolian: You're old.
Ionian: You're really old.
Minor pentatonic: Your social security number is 2.
Lydian augmented: You are one pretentious hipster
Hungarian minor: Officer, it's this one right here.
Lydian dominant: Oh, you're cool, I like you.
Aeolian dominant: No way, you actually know this one? Can we be friends?
Altered scale: This one's just a phase, you'll grow out of it when you grow up.
Major pentatonic: You will never grow up.
Phrygian: Oh, you picked this one to be different, how clever.
Locrian: If you chose this one, you are a liar. This is nobody's favorite.
Mixolydian: If you chose this one, you are correct. This is the best one.
And for all the people in the comments saying "Where's this one? Where's that one?" You're annoying. That's what that one says about you.
My favorite is Lydian submissive. 😏
Or if I'm feeling really saucy, I'll say "I'm a fan of Mixolydian dominant"...which is just Mixolydian with a completely redundant modifier.
what about double lydian?
RAGHHH I LOVE MIXOLYDIAN
Phrygian dominant best scale
@ mixolydian is for people who like major but wanted to be edgy
thats such a great idea for a video. and im so glad SPM was the first game u talked about.
unrelated, but I just bought ADOFAI and was having a blast, and nearly jumped in joy and surprised seeing that you made the level 7 tune 😭
I legit did not know this before buying
Thank you for the good content! Another banger upload
One example of a song written in phrygian that I really like is the melty molten galaxy. The phrygian mode really gives it a sense of doom that a regular minor scale wouldn't be able to do.
The humor in these videos is it so straightforward and funny
Favorite example of Phrygian is the Lost Woods theme in Ocarina of Time, just such a cool theme and starting on that flatted 2 makes it feel kind of ethereal.
lmao for locrian the theme is "the great sea is cursed" and the fight behind it is ganondorf and Link fighting on a ship. nice attention to details
Wait, is nobody gonna talk about these spongebob meme stages?
Awesome video! Could you continue this series onto harmonic & melodic minor modes?
Currently making a sub plan worksheet for this. Thanks for an awesome video.
dorians funky uncle murdered me, that is so funny
Same
There is a pentatonic scale called the Iwato scale, diatonic to Locrian
There was some desert theme that 8 bit music theory used that he said it was locrian but it was all in the Iwato scale.
Iwato is Locrian without the third and the sixth and it's surprising "stable".
I searched it now and it's Samasa Desert, which can feel major at times, but i still like the Iwato scale
I like how at 5:14 you mention an "expectation of resolution" but as soon as I heard that D chord I expected to hear Unwavering Emotions from Pokemon BW instead
8 bit already covered it but one other Zelda theme commonly cited as being in Locrian is the Samasa Desert theme from Oracle of Seasons
I love how consistent this channel's thumbnails are
thank you it's because i have a lack of imagination
Makes my day seeing your videos, truly great inspirations come for my own works!
finally!!! someone who makes the distinction between Ionian and major
Yep, this girl is gonna blow up if she keeps up this awesomeness
I have no idea what any of these words mean but they sound really cool keep spitting facts 🔥🔥
Great video. Keep em coming!
1:45 Those last 2 measures are a melodic minor sequence.
This song in composite minor from xenoblade is similar to some tunes from DS era Castlevania games, couldn't really tell you names, but the tempo, "chords," energy, and instrumentation are essentially the same. Symphony of the night had more awe and dread in its soundtrack than the tone of some of the later titles of similar gameplay. I couldn't tell you about any locrian songs as a complete amateur. Maybe some day! I'll have a rewatch at least once because it was all over my head.
This video pulling up in my homepage ONE WEEK before my music theory exam is like getting a million dollars while searching for a penny
Floating Continent from Final Fantasy VI is in G Lydian with a section that raises G to G#, keeping the rest of the notes the same, giving it a G# Locrian feel
Gliese 710 by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is a pretty neat locrian tune. It omits the b5 in some of the harmony to make it a tad more stable, but the melody makes ample use of it. The song is also in both 7/4 and then later 9/4 for extra funsies :))
What a nice, helpful video!
Gliese-710 by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard is a pretty good example of a song fully in Locrian, that whole album is all about modes
looked for this recommendation and was not disappointed.
Ugh the best. Can you teach my last semester of music theory plz
28:06 am I crazy or does the music sound like Chocolate Rain?
👀
Holy crap it does
25:30 "At The Doom's Gate" from the Doom OST is almost in Locrian
Love the 'Zelda-themed' music ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ and thumbnail.❤❤❤❤❤❤
The F-Zero series has a few examples of modes. The first section of Sand Ocean (SNES) is Dorian, while White Land (SNES) is entirely Mixolydian except for the intro. Fire Field (GX) sounds ambiguous at first, then sounds Locrian, and the guitar solo even plays a non-diatonic natural sixth.
you need to talk about the octatonic scale its such a stable of the contemporary world and I would love to see some examples in videogame music
I have songs already for both WH diminished and HW diminished :) will be in part 2!
If you were going to do another video like this, I'd love a focus on pentatonic modes and the minor mode relations to the blues scale :)
Good timing! I was wanting to learn more about scales.
25:00 i regret to inform you about math rock and midwest emo 😭 they use the lydian scale ALL THE TIME for a bittersweet and emotional feel
3:35 i got so excited because i got the reference
Thank you for breaking down the difference between Major and Ionian! I get it now :3
great video (as usual :3), would love something about metroid dread.
DOOM 1993!!!! The song E1M1 is in locrian. It's great. I love it so much
Its not entirely in locrian, but "Your Best Nightmare" from Undertale has parts in locrian. The first part of the song is in locrian aswell as another part (i forgot which one). It really helps with creating the disturbing sound that Your Best Nightmare has!
As soon as the Magypsy theme from MOTHER 3 started playing during the "What are modes?" section of the video I unintentionally shouted YES at the top of my lungs
10:06 that will be in my head always thank you for this tool
Very good video, thanks for sharing.
i actually know a good song thats in locrian.. for at least a good portion of it!
“黒のマニキュア” by Opal Vessel.
There’s no upload of the actual song, only the album that it’s on “私は何でもするだろう” (I Would do Anything), which is on Opal Vessel’s yt channel and Bandcamp. It’s one of their most popular albums so it shouldn’t be hard to find. It’s the 8th track on the album.
Significantly more Mr. Krabs than expected from a Nintendo music theory video
As a guitarist was so excited to see this, a fun way to explain scales but then i saw the music sheet 💔
I like these music theory explained videos. Literarly only people who fully understand what ur talking about are the ones who already know that sh.t😊
Not necessarily Nintendo, but I love Sandopolis Zone from S&K as a slightly more unconventional use of Harmonic Minor.
Also worth mentioning is the sick Dorian riff on Golden Forest from 1080 Snowboarding