omg i thought i finally made a video with out a mistake.... you found one! two technically. Hopefully no other crucial errors, especially in the charts! ALSO my title screen at the end got messed up and its somehow the text from my thumbnail!
The fact this is free tells us we’re living in an amazing time. The way you frame these lessons is flawless. I’ve learned more in a few videos then I have in years of standard lessons. People take this for granted. This information is gold. Pure gold. Thank you for doing this.
Just 10 years ago, becoming proficient at your instrument was extremely hard, slow and virtually impossible, in certain conditions. Your only chance was to have a very very good private teacher and a mentor. Nowadays everything is open, friendly and accessible. GOD BLESS ALL THESE MODERN TEACHERS. They are open, willing to share, they have big hearts and a strong positive karma. They are amazing!
Totally agree! This is one of the very few UA-cam channels that makes me drop whatever I'm doing in order to watch anytime a new video is posted. (I'm back watching this video for a second time.)
The more Jake says he doesn't like writing music in Locrian, SuperLocrian, UltraLocrian... the more I want him to produce Locrian music. He makes it sound awesome.
The awesome thing with locrian and alterations on locrian are that they are super unstable and make for a great uneasy feel for things like metal or action video game soundtracks. Or, you could make locrian like a bluesy kinda phrygian scale if you make the harmony omit the 5 but the melody use the flat 5 like King Gizzard did
To me it sounds like a weird magical ally, who's good.. but unpredictable. You have to watch your step around them because you know they can get scary real quick.
As much as it's hated, i'm a m7b5 individual. Love adding Locrian snippets into my playing. Cool shout out to Jens Larsen as well. He's quite intelligent and explains theory in jazz really well :D
To be fair he's just using two chords that are characteristic of that mode, each mode has specific intervals that are characteristic of it. When the chords are heard showing those specific intervals, it informs you which mode it is and makes it easier to solo with odd modes. Like with the Lydian mode, it's a major scale but with a sharp 4th so when you want to give the cue that you're in Lydian you'd play a major chord with an added sharp 4th to show it's lydian, and then you'd play the Lydian mode over it with added focus on the major triad arpeggio with the added #4. The chord combinations he's choosing come from that, if you've got an odd scale that you want to make sound more natural you put chords based on that mode in the progression with those "characteristic notes" and it then makes those notes a part of the "tonal center".
@Dude Man The thing is it is the specific mode only if you play it over the tonic chord so using just one chord makes perfect sense. Jake used two chords for each demonstration so he in fact played two modes.... If you play the same scale over all 7 chords you'll play all 7 modes. They change naturally. It might be quite confusing
The crazy ultra locrian won't make anything that gets played on the radio, but it is very video game final level. Diving into the lair of evil, death around every corner, if the player wants some stable chord resolutions they'll have to fight their way to the end and earn them.
This instructor stands out for 2 main reasons: 1. His communication is razor sharp. All the goodies are provided in a clear, concise way 2. He has immense phrasing. Whilst his solos are not nuclear-strength shred they are just sooo correct. I'm in awe at how each solo contains pure golden nuggets of melodic genius. I've got a list of guitar tubes but Jake definitely sits up at the top for "how-to" and "why"
In the 16 years I’ve been playing guitar, never have I progressed so much from first watching your videos only about 6 or so months ago. Really appreciate the clear and concise way that you explain music!
OMG, finally. I am so sick of a youtubers explaining major scale modes for the 1000th time. Now we get what we've been all waiting for - harmonic minor modes. Next - melodic minor modes? Please :) You're doing a great job Jake.
I find this video to be superb since not only does he clearly and articulately explain all of the modes in a concise and easy to understand manner, explores the alternative possibilities of the hidden triads within the modes, yet also gives progressions one can use to solo these modes, making the modes useful and applicable. Many teachers merely explain the modes, but don't give practical applications for them. Jake does this, making this tutorial of Harmonic Minor modes stand out above many other tutorials.
Jake: Ultralocrian is really hard to use because we don't get many of the notes that are important to making good sounding music Also Jake: *Uses it to create the best track in the entire video*
Yeah, I thought it sounded great, but I get his point about using it and some of the others only for short phrases and such. I thought his ultralocrian piece and some of the others sounded like they could have been in a James Bond scene. Lots of tension and pent-up energy implied.
It’s like Harmonic Minor is the edgy brother of the regular Minor scale, Phrygian Dominant is the even edgier neighbour of Harmonic Minor, and Double Harmonic Major is Phrygian Dominant’s mysterious cousin you only hear about in stories, but is probably in jail I’ve always loved those darker scales even before I knew anything about music theory
Phrygian Dominant might be the most metal friendly scale. You have that flat 2nd which helps when you're doing heavy chugs, but you also get a major triad in the root right from the off, which is a surprisingly bright spot in such a dark mode.
Jake, man, you made every one of those sound amazing. Really cool sounds, and I dig the pedal tone in the background. Helps to glue the whole thing together.
Aside from the Phrygian Dominant and the base mode, I’ve had a lot of trouble using the other modes of harmonic minor in writing so this is EXTREMELY helpful! Especially since I write a lot of metal stuff
6th mode is cool if you use maj.7/maj. Aug.7 on the 7th degree, and then resolve with the root. Or just use a root, using the full dim. chord for tension.
I really like your choice of demonstrating all these modes taking the same note as root instead of always using the notes of A harmonic minor to build what would be B Locrian 6, C Ionian #5 etc. I've seen lots of people struggling with modes when they´re presented using all the same notes (like C Ionian, D dorian, E phrygian etc), because their ears just keep gravitating towards that first root note. Building all these modes from A, in my opinion, highlights the differences in sound so much more precisely! Great video!
4th Mode: Dorian, Sharp 4 (Romanian Scale) 11m50s; Am, to B over A, to C something. That's Super Mario Castle music man. The famous sing everyone knows as the castle music with the turn away ghosts and climbing fences. Check it out! Anyway, thanks for this video man. It helped a lot. You really do a good job at being concise without being boring and you add the legend at the side and bottom. It really helped me connect it all together without muddy-ing the waters. It really is the best I've seen as a format and you lead so anyone can follow. Bravo.
The Phrygian Dominant is like the best spice in the world, and the superlocrian just burned my tongue! Miss your vids dude, always a pleasure to learn this stuff. Btw I love how you frequently promote other useful channels, that's the spirit!
Man your videos are so damn good I almost feel guilty for not supporting or donating....90% of the total theory stuff i know I learned from you... Love from Bangladesh
Love how you acknowledge the "foreign flavor" of the harmonic minor modes by having a sitar in the jam tracks. I'm definitely gonna use that Dorian #4; that one really gave me ideas~
Great stuff. Thanks for this. It is great to be able to see the theory behind some of the chord progressions that don't seem to make any sense. This is why theory is important. We may find a progression that sounds great but have no idea where we are so it is hard to do anything with it. Thanks again for the great lessons.
I'm glad you addressed that you won't typically hear these used in the way they were in the video, but can hear them pop up in brief moments of a song, because that really is how they will get used.
However... they don't HAVE to be used that way! I'm thinking about trying to write a whole piece in Ioninan #5 now, I really love the results of that little example.
@@SignalsMusicStudio But of course, some great ideas come from going against the grain. Someone says something isn't possible, show them the possibilities...or you know, some sentiment like that.
Hey! I just wanted to say... I've been following you around a couple of weeks..and every music theory video I'm watching is blowing my mind..(so much to learn and enjoy ❤️🔥).... whatever you're doing is super helpful for musicians starting out there... even for the ones aspiring to be a DJ/Record producer....A huge thanks to you/your team....keep spreading the knowledge... Thanks from this part of the world 🎵🎵🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Lately, I've become obsessed with playing around with different modes of this scale. You can get all kinds of "exotic" sounds that go far beyond the "Arabian" sound you get from the Phrygian dominant. I love them all, but my favorites are the Ionian #5, Dorian #4, and Lydian #2.
16:08 Just a little tip; major third/minor third chords in scales are often used as power chords in death metal and death metal-ask songs as in to make some sort of phrygian-phrygian dominant "in between" scale in a way not unlike that of the metallica scale, you can hear this in some songs like entombed wolverine blues and carcass heartwork/buried dreams but its pretty much everywhere if you look hard enough
Although I totally understand the way these scales are derived I had NO IDEA they were so evocative and the amazing way you lay them out, with the chords underpinning the amazing solos... mate. You're a legend!
Jens has taught me a LOT! So has Signals Music. I busk every day in SoCal. What Jake, Jens, Sean Daniels and Paul David present is pure gold to me. Thank you all for sharing music, real music. Peace.
Excellent video. I use phrygian dominant all the time, it's a little "exotic" but still super consonant and groovy, and it never fails to make people look up and smile. Just gotta try not to sound too much like Hava Nagila or Come Out and Play! That fourth mode though... Jake never even hit the Em but try as I might to tonicize "A" in my head I just can't help but hear it as a looping IV and V. Apologies to Romania I guess.
Great points! I don't blame your ear for hearing the actual tonic there - in an "actual composition", i'd probably to to spend way more time on the iv chord in order to fool you into hearing that as the tonic. In this case, it switches so fast to V that you are just waiting for the i lol. I do think that scale is really worth exploring though, even just as a compliment to a minor chord, it has a great spice
Content is so much better than any visuals, but it's always nice to have nice things. 😄 I've got SO much to explore thanks to what you do. Thank you for putting all these things together, you and Rick Beato are the best on UA-cam!
5:40 Demo Harmonic Minor: Wow!!! That was so beautiful! 15:12 Demo Phrygian Dominant: Very nice, thank you. Appreciate your exploration of the foreign scales.
Any of dozens of rock bands would die to have you as their lead guitarist. If your pupose is to teach those who want to learn from your truly impressive and vast knowledge of western music theury, speaking more slowly and letting the eyes scan the diagrams you are presenting for longer periods would, in my opinion, benefit the audience. Always love watching you.
Subscribed. Brilliant video. Life long musician here. Many years of very serious performance. Major symphony Fr. horn, staff accompanist, blues, rock, lots of Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Bach, etc. You are making BRILLIANT videos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dang, even by knowing 7 Major modes can open up a whole new world. This opens up a whole another world. Always appreciate your easy to understand approach to theories (and practical examples). Thank you!
I'm amazed you made the locrian-family mode chords have motion, like somewhere to point to. I've always been told that it has no harmonic value. Thank you so much for offering your lessons for free on UA-cam!
10:40 the ionian sharp 5th reminded me of a minor variation on the standard major lydian because sharping the 5th always makes it feel like we just stepped into two-octave-scale territory and the original scale doesn't sound the way it did until the one odd note gets added.
Definitely the best explanation of harmonic minor that I’ve seen. Your teaching method is fantastic. I learned a lot. Can’t wait for the melodic minor video!
As soon as you started playing each mode as a solo along with demo track, each one started to sound very similar. However I heard the difference between the modes when you were playing them just on the guitar while you were explaining the details. I think it's because the demo track had always the same bass and rhythm and mood. Anyway, thanks for your effort, great video! :-)
Whoooo! An overview of all 7 harmonic minor modes?! You are the best, Jake! Now clone yourself and do melodic minor. ;) I'd be over the moon if you did that. However, many thanks for doing what you do. You've helped my understanding of music theory deepen greatly. You rock! 🤘
That makes it seem even more interesting! :) That's also surprising, considering the b3 is the only difference from the major scale, and doesn't include a m3 interval jump, as the harmonic minor scale does. Oh well, there are plenty of video lessons to watch! :)
Bravo! A wealth of information being presented here for free. I commend you for all the energy you put into these videos and for sharing music theory and understanding of how music works with the general public. Good job sir
I use harmonic minor modes when chord progressions involve a diminished chord just because I think it sounds good. But watching this lesson has absolutely inspired me to focus on the chords themselves and create some nice sounding modal jams. A lot of what you're doing here sounds very metal/proggy and I dig it.
Anybody else hear a little David Bowie "Outside"-era feel in the backing tracks? I've not analyzed that ridiculously well-crafted record(s), but I'd be willing to bet Reeves Gabrels, Mike Garson, and the other musicians on those sessions knew their way around these modes too. Thanks for another very well-done video!
Wow. What a fantastic video. The content is so well-organized, concise, and easy to follow. Super useful and informative. Outstanding. Thanks for making these!
This is gold, thanks so much! You put words into things that I have experienced and couldnt explain when using this scale. I am naturally drawn to this scale as my ear led me to it and hears it naturally. Much love fam!
Thanks, Jake!!! I so often use these modes together Diatonically (regardless of which one I decide to start with), so the more of them I learn, the better!!!! This "slow" opening Theory Section is pure gold!!!!
One of the interesting things I noticed during this is that you don't mention the fact that in a particular orientation, the Diminished 7th chord has a diatonic note available that's one semitone below the chord root. This actually comes up in your jam track under the Phyrigian Dominant scale, where you Bbdim7/A is playing that note one semitone below as well. With that note as the root, the whole chord becomes A7b9, which is how some music theorists see the Diminished 7th chord. You can convert the dim7 to a 7b9 working from any of the 4 notes, but that root note would not be diatonic to the scale (this isn't always a bad thing!), and there may be an enharmonic spelling mistake that you need to think about (nor is this!), similar to the one with the F minor chord in A Harmonic Minor.
I like where you are going with this. That biiº chord over the tonic is one of my favorite sounds and i never really parsed it as a 7b9 chord! it's funny too cause i did a whole video on how viiº7 is just really a V7b9 without a root.... but i never put it together in the sense of just hanging out on a tonic and then playing a biiº on top.
@@SignalsMusicStudio I actually discovered that chord when writing something in Dorian #4, where I put a G# in the bass on a D#dim7 chord, and was confused as to why it sounded so good (and better than any other bass note I tried to "fix" it with)... This chord (G#7b9) is one of the ones with a spelling mistake (the C should be spelled as B#), but that not too much of a practical concern. A small note on chord voicings: notes a semitone apart can sound very rough when played together, especially in the bass. For the A7b9, Bb should probably not be the second lowest note in the chord, unless it's at least an octave away from the A, and even then it might still sound a little weird. Both C# and E are good places to start stacking notes from, here.
brother i love ya style of communicating .... ... in the eye, straight up love it. love ya work... i try to refer people to your channel as often as i can .. .. peace from new zealand!
Jake lizzio you are an amazing guitar teacher on youtube because you cut straight to the good stuff, no envy, no negativity, no pride, just chasing the music!
As someone who learned piano by messing around, I always begin SMS videos thinking Jake's approach is way too constraining. And then I hear what he can do at the end and I go "ohhhh"
i will get torn apart if I call it a sharp seventh. "natural seventh" means the seventh note of the major scale. but yes, we did take the seventh note of our aeolian scale, and sharp it. so i get what you're saying but the tradition is to call it a natural seventh and not a sharped seventh.
I love this ! when you shift triads under a drone -all the sudden the modes come alive ! Such a great lesson for learning how to craft cool melody for guitar solos ! Thanks !
Jake, I just came by to watch your new video but also to express my gratitude. Your music theory videos, among some other you tubers inspired me to pick up my guitar again after years of being lost fat drunk and depressed. 😂 I’m back in action now. Thank you brother.
I was literally thinking I need a video with all the modes of major, minor and harmonic minor. And wouldn't it be nice if there were posters too? And this appeared, and the world was good. This is AWESOME!!!
Ive watched over the past couple years or so and seen how far youve progressed especially in what seems like improvising leads. I rewound the first harmonic minor backing track lead u played like 6 times,that was insanely killer!
This is my favourite scale, so it was awesome to see someone go in depth with it and learn more about it, as well as find out examples of songs that I had written which had referenced a few of these modes (was shocked to find I had used Lydian #2) Your videos on the modes of the diatonic scale literally got me through music school. Thank you so much for these and I hope to see more to come
Poster bought at the speed of light! I can't believe nobody else has thought about something like that for a poster (at least with more exotic scales), Beato came close with coffee mugs but posters are definitely more useful to always have those modes available at a glance. Thanks for that, top notch content as usual, looking forward for the next posters (melodic minor, harmonic major, double harmonic major).
Yay! Thanks for covering this! My most recent composition uses a few of these modes (though I go kinda polymodal so they don't get as much a pure sounding at any one time) But there's so much room to explore these tonalities and I'm glad you'll part of people's journey into this/these directions.
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8:20 did you forget to put the flat symbol on the Eb notes in the chords?
omg i thought i finally made a video with out a mistake.... you found one! two technically. Hopefully no other crucial errors, especially in the charts! ALSO my title screen at the end got messed up and its somehow the text from my thumbnail!
I actually noticed it a lot earlier but didn’t bother to say anything cus there was already the scale on top of it lmao
@@SignalsMusicStudio Any plans for harmonic major, melodic minor?
Recently have been getting use to this scale, thanks for the info interesting tones.
A minor seventh
The fact this is free tells us we’re living in an amazing time. The way you frame these lessons is flawless. I’ve learned more in a few videos then I have in years of standard lessons. People take this for granted. This information is gold. Pure gold. Thank you for doing this.
Just 10 years ago, becoming proficient at your instrument was extremely hard, slow and virtually impossible, in certain conditions. Your only chance was to have a very very good private teacher and a mentor.
Nowadays everything is open, friendly and accessible.
GOD BLESS ALL THESE MODERN TEACHERS.
They are open, willing to share, they have big hearts and a strong positive karma. They are amazing!
Thank you for the shout-out, Jake! I really appreciate that 🙏
Absolutely! likewise, thanks for putting out such great resources for all of us jazz deficient guitarists :)
Didn't watch the video last night but you're in it, nice. Jens is one of my favorites because his videos actually make sense and help with motivation.
You want to learn Jazz guitar? There really is no need to go anywhere else other than the master himself, Jens Larsen!
Jens Larsen for president!
@@SignalsMusicStudio I think the correct term is "chromatically challenged".
That "Warning: Advanced Music Theory" thumbnail is like scaring ants away from a picnic by pouring sugar on the ground.
filters out the weak
it's the post-cilckbait-era's clickbait
underrated comment lmaoo
@@WeyounSix I like next one most.
@@SignalsMusicStudio Then why am I here?
This channel never fails to make me grateful and joyful. Every-single-freakin-video is amazing! God bless.
Same thoughts mate Jake is a Game changer.... !!👍👍
Agreed! So grateful Jake exists!
Totally agree! This is one of the very few UA-cam channels that makes me drop whatever I'm doing in order to watch anytime a new video is posted. (I'm back watching this video for a second time.)
The more Jake says he doesn't like writing music in Locrian, SuperLocrian, UltraLocrian... the more I want him to produce Locrian music. He makes it sound awesome.
SuperAwesome* (I’m a year late)
The awesome thing with locrian and alterations on locrian are that they are super unstable and make for a great uneasy feel for things like metal or action video game soundtracks. Or, you could make locrian like a bluesy kinda phrygian scale if you make the harmony omit the 5 but the melody use the flat 5 like King Gizzard did
I found the scales work incredibly well for power chord riffs!
I'm in love with that augmented sound from Ionan #5 , it's just blissfully weird to my ears
To me it sounds like a weird magical ally, who's good.. but unpredictable. You have to watch your step around them because you know they can get scary real quick.
It sounds like the world is ending but you're cool about it
As much as it's hated, i'm a m7b5 individual. Love adding Locrian snippets into my playing. Cool shout out to Jens Larsen as well. He's quite intelligent and explains theory in jazz really well :D
I love the progression Aaug Bm/A. Sounds really wonderful.
The Am B/A from Dorian #4 is also magical
Yes, come to dissonant side of the force! Give in to the unstable tonalities!
Jake: "I'm trying to drag out anything usable from this scale"
*writes a gorgeous progression with a beautiful solo*
To be fair he's just using two chords that are characteristic of that mode, each mode has specific intervals that are characteristic of it. When the chords are heard showing those specific intervals, it informs you which mode it is and makes it easier to solo with odd modes. Like with the Lydian mode, it's a major scale but with a sharp 4th so when you want to give the cue that you're in Lydian you'd play a major chord with an added sharp 4th to show it's lydian, and then you'd play the Lydian mode over it with added focus on the major triad arpeggio with the added #4.
The chord combinations he's choosing come from that, if you've got an odd scale that you want to make sound more natural you put chords based on that mode in the progression with those "characteristic notes" and it then makes those notes a part of the "tonal center".
@Dude Man The thing is it is the specific mode only if you play it over the tonic chord so using just one chord makes perfect sense. Jake used two chords for each demonstration so he in fact played two modes.... If you play the same scale over all 7 chords you'll play all 7 modes. They change naturally. It might be quite confusing
The crazy ultra locrian won't make anything that gets played on the radio, but it is very video game final level. Diving into the lair of evil, death around every corner, if the player wants some stable chord resolutions they'll have to fight their way to the end and earn them.
Dude I thought the same, felt really well just before you meet the boss in a game or something feels wrong, like a bad thing about to happen
Doom.
honestly love that idea actually
This instructor stands out for 2 main reasons:
1. His communication is razor sharp. All the goodies are provided in a clear, concise way
2. He has immense phrasing. Whilst his solos are not nuclear-strength shred they are just sooo correct. I'm in awe at how each solo contains pure golden nuggets of melodic genius.
I've got a list of guitar tubes but Jake definitely sits up at the top for "how-to" and "why"
Add a #3: smart, self effacing humor sprinkled all over the 1st two.
The graphics sidebar with the chord letters, the Roman numerals, and other items is also tremendously helpful.
@@danwest9900 The whole content package is outstanding, including the side panel info
#3 he doesn't understand harmonic function.
In the 16 years I’ve been playing guitar, never have I progressed so much from first watching your videos only about 6 or so months ago. Really appreciate the clear and concise way that you explain music!
OMG, finally. I am so sick of a youtubers explaining major scale modes for the 1000th time. Now we get what we've been all waiting for - harmonic minor modes. Next - melodic minor modes? Please :) You're doing a great job Jake.
This. Next i hope to see a video from him about extended chords.
As a fan of Aeolian dominant, I approve
@@ashtarbalynestjar8000 dont forget dorian b2
Seconded. Melodic minor is still a "no go zone" for me.
And Harmonic major & minor modes. And Neapolitan major & minor modes. And Double Harmonic modes. And Hungarian modes.
I find this video to be superb since not only does he clearly and articulately explain all of the modes in a concise and easy to understand manner, explores the alternative possibilities of the hidden triads within the modes, yet also gives progressions one can use to solo these modes, making the modes useful and applicable. Many teachers merely explain the modes, but don't give practical applications for them. Jake does this, making this tutorial of Harmonic Minor modes stand out above many other tutorials.
Jake: Ultralocrian is really hard to use because we don't get many of the notes that are important to making good sounding music
Also Jake: *Uses it to create the best track in the entire video*
Yeah, I thought it sounded great, but I get his point about using it and some of the others only for short phrases and such. I thought his ultralocrian piece and some of the others sounded like they could have been in a James Bond scene. Lots of tension and pent-up energy implied.
no
How are you commenting on more videos than me
@@kjl3080 I dunno i just comment on a lot of stuff i guess
Yeah, I thought it was very interesting and great sounding. Really dug it
Honestly they sound all beautiful to me. I just really like these darker scales. My favorite is phrygian dominant, but others are nice too
The Phrygian Dominant scale is/was also known as the Flamenco scale.
It’s like Harmonic Minor is the edgy brother of the regular Minor scale, Phrygian Dominant is the even edgier neighbour of Harmonic Minor, and Double Harmonic Major is Phrygian Dominant’s mysterious cousin you only hear about in stories, but is probably in jail
I’ve always loved those darker scales even before I knew anything about music theory
Same man, this is so my cup of tea...
@@ItsMeVolatility Ultra Locrian is basically like Voldemort then. No one speaks of him.
Phrygian Dominant might be the most metal friendly scale. You have that flat 2nd which helps when you're doing heavy chugs, but you also get a major triad in the root right from the off, which is a surprisingly bright spot in such a dark mode.
Please do also the modes of melodic minor and harmonic major this way! It' s such an insightful way of demonstrating modes and you' re so good at it.
Agreed ❤
Jake, man, you made every one of those sound amazing. Really cool sounds, and I dig the pedal tone in the background. Helps to glue the whole thing together.
Aside from the Phrygian Dominant and the base mode, I’ve had a lot of trouble using the other modes of harmonic minor in writing so this is EXTREMELY helpful! Especially since I write a lot of metal stuff
6th mode is cool if you use maj.7/maj. Aug.7 on the 7th degree, and then resolve with the root. Or just use a root, using the full dim. chord for tension.
That Lydian#2 is ominous and beautiful. I love it. Possibly my favorite mode of harmonic minor
I really like your choice of demonstrating all these modes taking the same note as root instead of always using the notes of A harmonic minor to build what would be B Locrian 6, C Ionian #5 etc. I've seen lots of people struggling with modes when they´re presented using all the same notes (like C Ionian, D dorian, E phrygian etc), because their ears just keep gravitating towards that first root note. Building all these modes from A, in my opinion, highlights the differences in sound so much more precisely! Great video!
3:00
I just love how you say this with this look in your eyes like you’re a theatrical character in a sitcom 😅😅😅
"Last and DEFINITELY least" had me cracking up lmao
Me too lmao. And kept cracking me up afterwards too with just how candidly he was like "yeah this scale is the worst"
Now I know it for sure. As a keyboardplayer this is the best channel for composing idea's! Jake, yank you so much for sharing your knowlegde!!!!
one of the most informative and easy to digest theory youtubers I've found, thank you Jake!
4th Mode: Dorian, Sharp 4 (Romanian Scale)
11m50s; Am, to B over A, to C something. That's Super Mario Castle music man. The famous sing everyone knows as the castle music with the turn away ghosts and climbing fences. Check it out!
Anyway, thanks for this video man. It helped a lot. You really do a good job at being concise without being boring and you add the legend at the side and bottom. It really helped me connect it all together without muddy-ing the waters. It really is the best I've seen as a format and you lead so anyone can follow. Bravo.
The Phrygian Dominant is like the best spice in the world, and the superlocrian just burned my tongue!
Miss your vids dude, always a pleasure to learn this stuff. Btw I love how you frequently promote other useful channels, that's the spirit!
Favorite line "when I write music, I don't like it to sound like that!" Awesome video, really interesting stuff for exotic feels.
Man your videos are so damn good I almost feel guilty for not supporting or donating....90% of the total theory stuff i know I learned from you... Love from Bangladesh
Love how you acknowledge the "foreign flavor" of the harmonic minor modes by having a sitar in the jam tracks. I'm definitely gonna use that Dorian #4; that one really gave me ideas~
Damn, I really love the sound of that Lydian #2 sequence. Love your channel bro! Keep up the great work
Great stuff. Thanks for this. It is great to be able to see the theory behind some of the chord progressions that don't seem to make any sense. This is why theory is important. We may find a progression that sounds great but have no idea where we are so it is hard to do anything with it.
Thanks again for the great lessons.
I'm glad you addressed that you won't typically hear these used in the way they were in the video, but can hear them pop up in brief moments of a song, because that really is how they will get used.
However... they don't HAVE to be used that way! I'm thinking about trying to write a whole piece in Ioninan #5 now, I really love the results of that little example.
@@SignalsMusicStudio But of course, some great ideas come from going against the grain. Someone says something isn't possible, show them the possibilities...or you know, some sentiment like that.
Hey! I just wanted to say... I've been following you around a couple of weeks..and every music theory video I'm watching is blowing my mind..(so much to learn and enjoy ❤️🔥).... whatever you're doing is super helpful for musicians starting out there... even for the ones aspiring to be a DJ/Record producer....A huge thanks to you/your team....keep spreading the knowledge... Thanks from this part of the world 🎵🎵🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Lately, I've become obsessed with playing around with different modes of this scale. You can get all kinds of "exotic" sounds that go far beyond the "Arabian" sound you get from the Phrygian dominant. I love them all, but my favorites are the Ionian #5, Dorian #4, and Lydian #2.
still the best music theory channel out there! thank you so much for your work!
16:08 Just a little tip; major third/minor third chords in scales are often used as power chords in death metal and death metal-ask songs as in to make some sort of phrygian-phrygian dominant "in between" scale in a way not unlike that of the metallica scale, you can hear this in some songs like entombed wolverine blues and carcass heartwork/buried dreams but its pretty much everywhere if you look hard enough
Although I totally understand the way these scales are derived I had NO IDEA they were so evocative and the amazing way you lay them out, with the chords underpinning the amazing solos... mate. You're a legend!
By the Gods, Jake has graced us with a 22 minute video.... How 😎 awesome
Jens has taught me a LOT! So has Signals Music.
I busk every day in SoCal. What Jake, Jens, Sean Daniels and Paul David present is pure gold to me. Thank you all for sharing music, real music. Peace.
Excellent video. I use phrygian dominant all the time, it's a little "exotic" but still super consonant and groovy, and it never fails to make people look up and smile. Just gotta try not to sound too much like Hava Nagila or Come Out and Play!
That fourth mode though... Jake never even hit the Em but try as I might to tonicize "A" in my head I just can't help but hear it as a looping IV and V. Apologies to Romania I guess.
Great points! I don't blame your ear for hearing the actual tonic there - in an "actual composition", i'd probably to to spend way more time on the iv chord in order to fool you into hearing that as the tonic. In this case, it switches so fast to V that you are just waiting for the i lol. I do think that scale is really worth exploring though, even just as a compliment to a minor chord, it has a great spice
Wow, Ionian #5 sounds like a breath of fresh air 🥰🥰🥰 All of these modes are really cool, but I think that one's my favorite
Woah, Jake got a new camera!
Also, thank you so much for being so generous in your teaching.
yep! Finally investing in some better equipment, it's long overdue :P
Content is so much better than any visuals, but it's always nice to have nice things. 😄
I've got SO much to explore thanks to what you do. Thank you for putting all these things together, you and Rick Beato are the best on UA-cam!
5:40 Demo Harmonic Minor: Wow!!! That was so beautiful!
15:12 Demo Phrygian Dominant: Very nice, thank you.
Appreciate your exploration of the foreign scales.
Any of dozens of rock bands would die to have you as their lead guitarist.
If your pupose is to teach those who want to learn from your truly impressive and vast knowledge of western music theury, speaking more slowly and letting the eyes scan the diagrams you are presenting for longer periods would, in my opinion, benefit the audience.
Always love watching you.
You can pause the videos yo….
You're a genius, man. I have this all down, but I still learn so much from you. Your teaching style is second to no one.
Please also do a follow up video on the modes of Melodic Minor. Excellent content!
it shall be done, but it's gonna require some outside help....
Subscribed. Brilliant video. Life long musician here. Many years of very serious performance. Major symphony Fr. horn, staff accompanist, blues, rock, lots of Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Bach, etc.
You are making BRILLIANT videos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was really scared for you not uploading a new video. The length of this video explains the delay. Anyways great lesson man. Health 🙏🏻
TBH it wasn't the video length that took so long this time, it was all the charts and tracks :P
Me too! Glad you're back Jake!
Dang, even by knowing 7 Major modes can open up a whole new world.
This opens up a whole another world.
Always appreciate your easy to understand approach to theories
(and practical examples).
Thank you!
I'm amazed you made the locrian-family mode chords have motion, like somewhere to point to. I've always been told that it has no harmonic value. Thank you so much for offering your lessons for free on UA-cam!
10:40 the ionian sharp 5th reminded me of a minor variation on the standard major lydian because sharping the 5th always makes it feel like we just stepped into two-octave-scale territory and the original scale doesn't sound the way it did until the one odd note gets added.
Nice, I'm trying to get into studying the minor modes. Just need to finish with the major modes, almost done.
Definitely the best explanation of harmonic minor that I’ve seen. Your teaching method is fantastic. I learned a lot. Can’t wait for the melodic minor video!
As soon as you started playing each mode as a solo along with demo track, each one started to sound very similar. However I heard the difference between the modes when you were playing them just on the guitar while you were explaining the details. I think it's because the demo track had always the same bass and rhythm and mood. Anyway, thanks for your effort, great video! :-)
Jake, you're probably the best guitar and music teacher I've ever seen! Don't ever stop this quality lessons please!
Whoooo! An overview of all 7 harmonic minor modes?! You are the best, Jake! Now clone yourself and do melodic minor. ;) I'd be over the moon if you did that.
However, many thanks for doing what you do. You've helped my understanding of music theory deepen greatly. You rock! 🤘
Melodic Minor, I do believe, is a more difficult topic and so I'm saving that one for later
That makes it seem even more interesting! :) That's also surprising, considering the b3 is the only difference from the major scale, and doesn't include a m3 interval jump, as the harmonic minor scale does.
Oh well, there are plenty of video lessons to watch! :)
@@SignalsMusicStudio Why would it be more difficult?
Man, you have the best music education channel in UA-cam, hands down
I'm checking different UA-camrs as I want to learn more abouts modes, scales etc. You're simply the best. Thank you for your hard work.
A lot of useful sounds here! I use Dorian #4 quite often, it’s a nice alternative to Phrygian Dominant, which I think is a little overused.
Every single one of these is pure gold to soundtrack composers. Lots of spicy-ness. Lots of greatness. And super dark. Triple thumbs up.
Ultralocrian is the sound track to unexpectedly waking up in a forest, when you went to sleep in your bed the night before.
Bravo! A wealth of information being presented here for free. I commend you for all the energy you put into these videos and for sharing music theory and understanding of how music works with the general public. Good job sir
In the Dorian #4 I just kept hearing "We are number one". My mind is spoiled by cringe memes.
why did you make me watch this
Huh?
@@SignalsMusicStudio Dammit, now you made me watch it
I use harmonic minor modes when chord progressions involve a diminished chord just because I think it sounds good. But watching this lesson has absolutely inspired me to focus on the chords themselves and create some nice sounding modal jams. A lot of what you're doing here sounds very metal/proggy and I dig it.
5:20 Sounds like the intro from Ghost of Perdition by Opeth
I think you are one of most clearer musician on UA-cam! Thank´s a lot!
Finally, a place I can use the "detective chord" in a musical context instead of everytime my wife asks who eat the cake.
Anybody else hear a little David Bowie "Outside"-era feel in the backing tracks? I've not analyzed that ridiculously well-crafted record(s), but I'd be willing to bet Reeves Gabrels, Mike Garson, and the other musicians on those sessions knew their way around these modes too. Thanks for another very well-done video!
@AtomMother Heart1970 😆🤣😂👌👍
That Ionian sharp 5 was beautiful!! Finally sat down and understood the "regular" modes and down the rabbit hole I go -- thanks for the great content!
Me: alright brain, you ready? Jakes got new knowledge for us.
Brain: please no.....
Wow. What a fantastic video. The content is so well-organized, concise, and easy to follow. Super useful and informative. Outstanding. Thanks for making these!
I feel like the progression for Lydian #2 could also work for a modal mixture type lead :D
This is gold, thanks so much! You put words into things that I have experienced and couldnt explain when using this scale. I am naturally drawn to this scale as my ear led me to it and hears it naturally. Much love fam!
dude the tone on the guitar was incredible this time
thx, it's the plini vst plugin from neural fx- literally the only guitar vst I've bought. only a few tweaks to the fx, eq, and voila!
@@SignalsMusicStudio It's seriously very smooth and rich. Very pleasant to listen to!
@@SignalsMusicStudio That plugin is like witch-craft. Sounds so good, I could have guessed it was a Neural plugin.
Nice user name
Thanks, Jake!!! I so often use these modes together Diatonically (regardless of which one I decide to start with), so the more of them I learn, the better!!!! This "slow" opening Theory Section is pure gold!!!!
One of the interesting things I noticed during this is that you don't mention the fact that in a particular orientation, the Diminished 7th chord has a diatonic note available that's one semitone below the chord root. This actually comes up in your jam track under the Phyrigian Dominant scale, where you Bbdim7/A is playing that note one semitone below as well. With that note as the root, the whole chord becomes A7b9, which is how some music theorists see the Diminished 7th chord. You can convert the dim7 to a 7b9 working from any of the 4 notes, but that root note would not be diatonic to the scale (this isn't always a bad thing!), and there may be an enharmonic spelling mistake that you need to think about (nor is this!), similar to the one with the F minor chord in A Harmonic Minor.
I like where you are going with this. That biiº chord over the tonic is one of my favorite sounds and i never really parsed it as a 7b9 chord! it's funny too cause i did a whole video on how viiº7 is just really a V7b9 without a root.... but i never put it together in the sense of just hanging out on a tonic and then playing a biiº on top.
@@SignalsMusicStudio I actually discovered that chord when writing something in Dorian #4, where I put a G# in the bass on a D#dim7 chord, and was confused as to why it sounded so good (and better than any other bass note I tried to "fix" it with)... This chord (G#7b9) is one of the ones with a spelling mistake (the C should be spelled as B#), but that not too much of a practical concern.
A small note on chord voicings: notes a semitone apart can sound very rough when played together, especially in the bass. For the A7b9, Bb should probably not be the second lowest note in the chord, unless it's at least an octave away from the A, and even then it might still sound a little weird. Both C# and E are good places to start stacking notes from, here.
brother i love ya style of communicating .... ... in the eye, straight up love it. love ya work... i try to refer people to your channel as often as i can .. .. peace from new zealand!
Late to the party, but that Amaj7 to Amin chord progression is literally the main chord progression in “The Morning Bell” by Radiohead
Rafiohead uses the Harmoinc Minor a lot in such creative ways. Everything in it's right place being one of my favorites
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS SINCE THE MAJOR MODES THANK YOUUU
Jake has the coolest shirt in his whole town guaranteed
Jake lizzio you are an amazing guitar teacher on youtube because you cut straight to the good stuff, no envy, no negativity, no pride, just chasing the music!
Pls do more lesson on Exotic Indian or japanese Scales
What a fantastic lesson! A beautiful and efficient refresher on Harmonic minor harmony! Thank you!
As someone who learned piano by messing around, I always begin SMS videos thinking Jake's approach is way too constraining. And then I hear what he can do at the end and I go "ohhhh"
Hands down one of the best music theory channels on YT!
Hey Jake, whats up, man
I am working on it - I am touching the ground a little bit. Its a wonderful world ! Thank you again Jake.
You lost me when you said harmonic minor has a natural 7 and not a sharp 7.
i will get torn apart if I call it a sharp seventh. "natural seventh" means the seventh note of the major scale. but yes, we did take the seventh note of our aeolian scale, and sharp it. so i get what you're saying but the tradition is to call it a natural seventh and not a sharped seventh.
I'd just have called it a major 7th to avoid that kind of confusion
I've watched many vids on harmonic minor and this was by far the best explanation and demonstration of it I've seen yet. subscribed!
I love this ! when you shift triads under a drone -all the sudden the modes come alive ! Such a great lesson for learning how to craft cool melody for guitar solos ! Thanks !
Jake, I just came by to watch your new video but also to express my gratitude. Your music theory videos, among some other you tubers inspired me to pick up my guitar again after years of being lost fat drunk and depressed. 😂 I’m back in action now. Thank you brother.
You are a talented and knowledgeable Ray of Enlightenment. Shine On Jake!
These videos are SO GOOD, and I am learning so much!! You're such a good teacher, Mr. Lizzio. Thank you for being here.
I was literally thinking I need a video with all the modes of major, minor and harmonic minor. And wouldn't it be nice if there were posters too? And this appeared, and the world was good. This is AWESOME!!!
Ive watched over the past couple years or so and seen how far youve progressed especially in what seems like improvising leads. I rewound the first harmonic minor backing track lead u played like 6 times,that was insanely killer!
This is my favourite scale, so it was awesome to see someone go in depth with it and learn more about it, as well as find out examples of songs that I had written which had referenced a few of these modes (was shocked to find I had used Lydian #2)
Your videos on the modes of the diatonic scale literally got me through music school. Thank you so much for these and I hope to see more to come
Your end jams on each scale sound sick! You absolutely shred!
You don't know how long I've been waiting for this, much appreciation for this!!!
Poster bought at the speed of light! I can't believe nobody else has thought about something like that for a poster (at least with more exotic scales), Beato came close with coffee mugs but posters are definitely more useful to always have those modes available at a glance.
Thanks for that, top notch content as usual, looking forward for the next posters (melodic minor, harmonic major, double harmonic major).
Best guitar instructor on youtube. So well presented and easy to understand, thank you so much for the amazing videos!!!
Yay! Thanks for covering this! My most recent composition uses a few of these modes (though I go kinda polymodal so they don't get as much a pure sounding at any one time) But there's so much room to explore these tonalities and I'm glad you'll part of people's journey into this/these directions.