Modes and How to Hear Them - The Ultimate Musician's Guide
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- How to tell apart all seven modes of the major scale by ear, taught in under 40 minutes. This lesson can also be done using only the audio so you can train your ears on the go.
Modes were used as far back as Gregorian Chant, but are used in many different scenarios today, from jazz to video game soundtracks. Knowing how to tell them apart by ear will significantly improve your ability to work out music by ear, especially when it strays outside what we consider "normal" harmony.
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Here's the video about "Sweet Home Alabama" I mentioned:
• What key is Sweet Home...
00:00 - Introduction
01:30 - Ionian vs Aeolian Modes
02:44 - Level 1 Exercises
05:06 - Ionian vs Aeolian Melodies
05:50 - Level 2 Exercises
08:07 - Mixolydian vs Lydian Modes
09:25 - Level 3 Exercises
11:46 - Mixolydian vs Lydian Melodies
12:32 - Level 4 Exercises
14:47 - Dorian vs Aeolian Modes
15:13 - Level 5 Exercises
17:34 - Dorian vs Aeolian Melodies
18:15 - Level 6 Exercises
20:29 - Phrygian vs Locrian Modes
21:24 - Level 7 Exercises
23:56 - Phrygian vs Locrian Melodies
24:14 - Level 8 Exercises
26:29 - All Modes
27:24 - Level 9 Exercises
32:07 - Pedal Tones
33:17 - Level 10 Exercises
37:31 - Four More Tips
38:33 - Modes: The Video Game
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I can appreciate what goes into producing such videos and the desire to make them entertaining. However, I am impatient and more interested in getting the information in a shorter period of time. The comedy and graphics defeat that purpose.
I’ll make sure to be less comedic in the future.
You might be more interested in this series, which is info dense and straight to the exercises. I add to it every other week. czcams.com/play/PL40pFkWbVtdlAY_g71Pf9RBy97mqXpQHK.html&si=B06bUEpzeoglEltg
Maybe others appreciate the comedy. My take is if we are viewing this video, likely we view many others and the time adds up. Given multiple videos on the same topic, I'm likely to first see if the shorter one is worthwhile. I will say your content is clearly presented and valuable. My issue with modes is that while I understand them architecturally, it seems impossible to identify a particular mode if a solo is not starting on the root of the mode. It doesn't seem likely that that is a requirement for soloing in a mode though. @@joeluegersmusicacademy
@@kenzeo I have mixed opinions! :D I actually appreciate the humorous bits; the problem is that I tend to watch these videos a few times regularly, so the second and third times through I appreciate them less :)
Either way, great video. Thanks!
@@joeluegersmusicacademy I appreciate the comedy
@@raliksthanks so much! You’re more likely to remember something when it attached to a weird or funny memory, so there’s a method to the madness.
just to contrast to the other comment i wanna say i like ur jokes
I mean, who could resist making jokes about the modes of the major scale. They are a comedic goldmine.
I love your ear-emotion linked training on modes, AND your amazing sense of humor makes it fun and playful! Thank you so much!
love your sense of humor 😂
Thanks, and (remember to insert clever joke here as soon as I think of one.)
Love your channel. And humor
So I am cooking and listening to this in one ear bud. I have the over head fan on blasting. Your video made me notice the fan is tuned perfectly to C! (I even got out the tuner and bang on C2) I thought i was being stupid but nope... just weird.
Thank you! This and interval training are exactly what I needed. Can't find anything this high quality anywhere else.
Hey Joe! Really enjoyed this video. I'm learning about some modes like Lydian #2, 8 Note Dominant/half-whole, Lydian Dominant, 8 note diminished/Whole-Half. I'd love a similar video on these types of modes. Thanks for all of your hard work
The melodies were epic; each with so much potential. Lol Great lesson!
This video contains every melody I've ever composed for the Locrian mode.
Excellent lesson! I could identify all modes in the last exercise! Now, real world is another matter, but we'll get there eventually. Thank you so much, this was huge!
Glad it was helpful!
So empowering! I really get it now, and am starting to appreciate a few more than ever
Great! I’ve always thought that Lydian sounds more major than the major scale.
1:56 Ionian and major are technically the same, but they are also technically different. Here’s how: For example, a score in C Ionian will ONLY use the notes CDEFGAB. However, a score in C major will use the notes CDEFGAB, but you might have some accidentals, even if it’s only in the chords. A A major chord would be fine in C major, but not in C Ionian.
when do you find pieces that say they're in a mode not a key like c or f major?
Excellent ! Thanks a lot !
Thanks for watching!
Great video thanks!! Subscribed 👍🏽
Thanks for the sub!
what an amazing video. Loving it. Thanks for making this such useful and helpful video
Glad it was helpful! Thanks so much!
Felt as if I were listening to 'The Moody Blues' on that outro mode mixture. LOVE it ❤ !
There’s a lot of modal mixture going on in “Nights in White Satin”. Sometimes it sounds a bit Phrygian, other times it borrows from Dorian. I’ve seen them in concert twice; they’re great!
so Good thank You
Most welcome
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So good kind of crazy, almost mad
Mental illness only had, like, 43% to do in the creation of this video.
Ok it's been literal years since I studied modes in a commercial music theory class but willing to take a crack at explaining why Ionian and Major aren't the same thing. Forgive me if some of this is incorrect or poorly explained. There's this concept known as a modal cadence which is essentially a progression that resolves to the I of a given mode and strengthens it as the home key. A modal cadence highlights one or both of the color tones of the respective mode, which happen to always be the two notes that make up the tritone(B and F in C Ionian for example) but in a non-functional manner, meaning no V-I or V7-I as those are functional resolutions. Instead a modal cadence involves chords that contain those tones but aren't a dominant of the key center. For example, IV-I, also known as a plagal cadence, would be an example of a modal cadence, because it's emphasizing the 4th scale degree without resolving down in fifths. However, you can make it even stronger modally by including the diatonic 7ths in the chords. IVmaj7-Imaj7. Now both the 4th scale degree and 7th are represented in the progression in a way that is unique to the ionian mode. No other mode has IVmaj7-Imaj7 in it natively. The progression has a sense of tension and release due to the modal cadence, which helps to define it as Ionian instead of just any music in a major key. For an example of how this sounds, check out "Gymnopedie No. 1" by Erik Satie. The entire first section of that song is just IVmaj7-Imaj7 in D.
I think it can be extra confusing because C major is a broader term than C Ionian. The former is just a set of notes with a home point whereas the latter is that too but also defined by lack of functional harmony and emphasizing of character tones that bring out the color of the mode. It's more ephemeral in nature. So to boil it down, all C Ionian music is in C major, but not all C major music is Ionian.
Yes to all of that. To make matters more confusing, modes pre-date ideas of traditional tonality but were “rediscovered” and used frequently in jazz, although jazz musicians are using them differently than originally intended. Using older terms to explain how modern music is made can be tricky because very few popular musicians are thinking about the “rules” of how chords and notes are supposed to function.
First 8 minutes... 😔 but now it gets interesting 😉
0.59 Cool explanation, but there are not just 7 modes of the major scale... there are 7 basic modes and then many more under modes... 🤓
7 diatonic modes then.
@@joeluegersmusicacademy ok ok, but there are 3 diatonic scales right? (Major, Melodic Minor, and Neapolitan Major) so there are 21 diatonic modes
And according to tradition you must discard the 9 without a perfect fifth giving us 12 authentic modes. Then double that bc there are plagal (prefixed with hypo) forms of each of them. So depending on how you look at it there may be 21 or 24 diatonic modes 😅
Lol- 7 diatonic modes of the Major scale. Perhaps one day I will atone for my grave injustice to the Lydian augmented mode. I can only hope, but I fear the damage is done.
Locrian mode might as well sound as if a piano student started (and ended) with a wrong note a minor scale since it sits snugly between parallel major and minor key. Like, A minor, B locrian, C major. I only learned to discern this scale by memorizing its first 5 steps, nothing else worked.
The thing that I do is as soon as I hear the final note, I sing a note up a half step. If it sounds totally resolved, it’s Locrian. If it sounds a bit off, it’s Phrygian (singing up a half step here resolves to the Lydian mode.)
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Might be a working method, but right now recognizing a short pattern is easier than trying to add something to overlapping notes and make out what I get.
master of cheese. cool.
Thanx so much for this video! It's a perfect supplement to your video on learning the 22 scales! ❤ 😂 🎉
Thanks for watching! I should probably make another video similar to this where you identify scales in action.
If it sounds like it should have never existed is locrian "
Excellence 👌
Truth hurts, Locrian Mode
Had at least 10 ads, good video tho
That’s weird. Maybe I need to put in less timestamps, because that’s where CZcams tends to auto place them.
Get brave browser my friend
@@joeluegersmusicacademythat’s really unfortunate because the time stamps are so useful!