Songs that use the Aeolian mode
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Aeolian is the 6th mode of the major scale. It is also a scale in its own right, often referred to as the "Natural Minor Scale". Aeolian has a particular solemn, serious, mournful sound to it and is perhaps the most common minor tonality that you will encounter in pop and rock music.
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Enjoying your tune at the end - quite epic sounding - though also like yer watch, ^oo^
Could not have said it better myself.
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That last piece being 5/4 is just chefâs kiss
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Sultan of Swing has the (in)famous "Andalucian cadence" too. You should make a video on that one. It's everywhere.
Spanish Phrygian is đ„đ„đ„
ooh sounds interesting
I usually prefer harmonic minor. I just love the amount of tension I can create in it.
Major minor scale is great too
@JessevdV I couldn't find any information on major minor scale. What do you mean? Harmonic major 1 2 3 4 5 b6 7? Mix b6 1 2 3 4 5 b6 b7?
â@@Aryckeit's aeolian with a raised 3rd in C for example:
c d e f g ab bb c
@@jessevandendoren that's just mixolydian b6 (fifth mode of melodic minor)
Actually IMO all of the songs here that are originally natural minor, sounded better on harmonic minor.
I love your composition at the end of this. It felt like rain.
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That 5/4 baseline in your song at the end is really cool.
It's funny... Many times when I think I'm using the natural minor scale, I'm actually using Dorian. I just "naturally" raise the 6th.
Duuuude the piece you composed is straight fire
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I remember using the term Ăolian cadence in high school. It'd usually be about a song which used the chord progression bVI - bVII - i, where as a "normal" cadence would be IV - V - I.
that âs most popolar progression
Thank you very much for explaining *why" things sound how they do. I particularly like your tune at the end.
Every conversation surrounding the Beatles always seems to include some reference to them not really knowing anything about music theory. Which always kind of blows my mind.
Rick Beato often uses the term "Aeolian" to describe frequent use of the minor sixth in a melody or chords, which indeed gives the sound a distinct flavor as compared to major sixth minor scales like Dorian or Melodic
Thats what gives Aeolian it's sound.
For major scale modes, the notes which have the tritone between them are the characteristic pitches. I.e. in A Aeolian,
A B C D E F G,
the 2 (9) and b6 are the characteristic tones for this scale/mode.
D Dorian
D E F G A B C
F and B, b3 and nat6
give Dorian it's vibe
E Phrygian
E F G A B C D
F and B, b2 and nat5
Give the sound
F Lydian
F G A B C D E
F and B Root and #4
G Mix
G A B C D E F
B and F, major 3rd and b7
B Locrian
B C D E F G A
B and F, root and b5, Give the sound and differentiate it from major modes
C Ionian
C D E F G A B
F and B 4th and 7th
Give the sound
With all these the third gives the major minor vibe, but just wanted to share this.
I just love those vids. For real. They're helping me big time with understanding the intentions of the songs. My composing might improve soon, I hope. Thanks!
You are doing an outstanding job illustrating the scales and modes with famous examples and intelligent own analysis. No one else has managed to do this anywhere what I have come over. Brilliant!
Great video as always.
One suggestion (and maybe this is just me, so take it with a grain of salt). I find that scale and modal examples (when youâre showing the scales on screen) are easier to process as a learner when you use C as the base. It becomes really obvious which scale degrees are altered (as compared to major).
The verse of "Sultans of swing" is actually based on a Phrygian cadence (I - VII - VI - V), which is a remain of the modal system (Renaissance music) in the tonal system (from Baroque onwards). The VII is a passage chord, not functional, with an unaltered 7th (C), while the V chord is functional and dominant, with a raised 7th (C#).
Sir, you are a gift to the online world. Your videos are fascinating and I especially enjoy these modally focused ones. Keep doing what you do. You are an incredibly talented musician and teacher. I wish CZcams had been around when I was learning the modes as videos like this are far more effective than just pattern memorization (guitarist speaking here). You explain the hows and whys in an easy to follow way.
Dude you have no idea what your channel means to me. I am a amateur musician and i have learned a lot of music theory without having any kind of formal lessons, but your channel is like my home. A resting place. I found you out from Adam Neely's video and all i do is wait for your next video. Please never change!
Your method in this channel is so good. I'm vastly more of an audiophile, a music lover of almost all music, and occastionally an engineer. I do play guitar, but not enough to remember and apply anything close to the music theory that you teach on your channel. But, the song examples in all of your videos are so excellent. I can easily hear the difference between these two scales from your examples in this video, so I can absorb exactly what you're talking about just from listening. Your design of these totorials to work for both audible learners like me (and perhaps John Lennon, based on the quote of him near the end of this video) and people who study and can apply music theory, is brilliant! Please, keep it up David! Thank you. âïž
Your own composition at the end reminded me of a great track to illustrate the Aeolian mode - Dave Brubeck's "Take Five".
You're an awesome teacher. Glad you get to do what you love
Wonderfully informative and entertaining! Thank you so much.
the gap between the 7th and 8th being longer helped so much with understanding how it wants to resolve. great editing on your part.
priceless data. loved it.
And that music towards the end
Spcly that rhythm..
beyond superbly exotic.
blew my mind
Lovely video as always :D Especially heart the song at the end that you made. I will share this vid with my amigos. One small observation. At 8:00 we have Jolene by Dolly Parton. If I am not mistaken, it doesn't _exactly_ use the Natural Minor mode but a subset of it, i.e., there is no sixth flat note in the song.
As an aside, if anyone is interested in sampling the Indian versions of the minor scales, the approximate equivalents for the natural are called Jaunpuri and Darbari while that for the harmonic goes by Keervani.
Love these videos! Thanks for all your hard work finding the modern music examples. One small point, the difference between mode and scale is that scale pitches have a harmonic function, whereas mode pitches do not. This makes the modes much more flexible and more contrapuntal. The first note of a mode is the Final and is much more fluid than the term Tonic which implies a specific harmonic chord rather than just a resting place. Love your original compositions at the end of these videos - they are magical.
I'm just starting to learn piano at 54 years old. ( trying to stave off dementia) I felt that learning a little bit about music theory would be helpful. Since I've been watching your videos no music sounds the same. It's like when I learned how to oil paint; the whole world is seen in brush strokes.
I really love the originals at the end. They really drive it home as something new to listen to--kind of knowledge sight reading. And they sound great :)
i agree everything you show us is easy to understand and makes sence
I knew as soon as I saw the title what Radiohead example was going to be used
Great explanation David. Your videos are educational even to the professional musicians. Love your channel...wait for other videos...â€
Next video: "Songs that use the Ionian Mode".
Jokes aside, nice explanation of the difference for the flat and raised 7ths.
Came here to make the same joke. You beat me to it.
That could actually be a good video topic if it were about songs that don't sound like they're in the Ionian mode but actually are.
Most Flamenco is in the natural and harmonic minor. The song form of Bulerias has this theme thru and thru. It is in the Phrygian key of A/Dm typically. Chano Dominguez CD "Hetcho a Mano" is a killer disc.
Just Ionian and now this series is complete!
Very helpful - thanks David
Another excellent video, brilliant, David, thank you.
thank you david for these videos! â€ïž
so helpful, as always! thanks David!
Very tasteful use of 5/4 on the ending piece! Bravo
Great way of using 5/8 in the last song!
Thanks, I always enjoy your explanatiions about harmony
Thank you for this wonderfully produced and informative content!đšđŠ
I thought I considered myself a reasonably well-versed man in the world of music theory, but until now, I had never heard of the term "Aeolian cadence". I really liked the piece at the end, by the way, it sounds like something you'd listen to in a game
I love these videos so much!! Keep up the great work :)
Thanks!!!
@@DavidBennettPiano No problem mate! I seriously do love them though. I've been watching for ages now ^^
I love your song at the end. Beautiful.
Love your vids! Thanks for all you do!
this is a great video, thanks so much for the info and demonstrations
those panels at the back added so much contrast to the room somehow. looks great!
I love these videos, and I use them as a tool and as inspiration for my writing.
Love your videos, David.
I'd love to see you talk about the double harmonic scale. It's my favourite for just messing around on a keyboard
Nice to see R.E.M. and Red Hot Chili Peppers getting some screentime in the thumbnail. :)
Happy to hear you not talking over your composition during the "credits". They're always a nice ending and this way it is far more enjoyable, even if some of your patreons might feel a little less appreciated this way.
This would have been a great video to talk about the Andalusian Cadence and songs that use it like âHit the Road, Jack!â, âRunawayâ, âGood Vibrationsâ and âComfortably Numbâ and many others. None the less, I love the video and hope we get songs that use the Major scale and a revamped version of songs that use the Locrian Scale (or songs that use the b5 quite a lot). Love it!
Lovely piece at the end.
That one note at the end of Ain't No Sunshine before the resolution sounds fantastic in harmonic minor. Such a hook. And Sultans of Swing would sounds so weird if it was only in either of the minors.
Thanks also for your own songs at the end of this and other great videos.
Amazing lesson â€
I was just wondering about this to myself randomly in the car the other day.
Glad this video popped up.
I like the transpositions you make to another "mode" to let us appreciate the difference. I wonder if that could become a kind of videos on their own...
this is such an insanely amazing video
I prefer the Aeolian mode to the ever-popular harmonic minor. I can definitely see the more relaxing feel; it is my observation that certain types of relaxing music tend to avoid harmonic minor and stick to Aeolian if they are in a minor key. I was thrilled to see that "Ain't No Sunshine" was included as it was literally the first song I thought of when I saw what mode you were covering in this video. "A Time for Us"/"Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" almost counts too although it sort of breaks it by including a B-flat major chord in the key of A minor.
Me too. For me it sounds a little bit cringy
Thank you David!
BTW When I write songs, I tend to mix harmonic and natural minor scales
As a guitarist, I can assure you that C Major is the third mode of A minor.
lols
I'm a self-taught pianist and learned chord relationships using A minor as my starting point.
I only started consciously learning about music theory in the last year, and I really do see Aeolian as the first mode. Makes it hard to keep up when people name chord progressions by number, as I essentially have to transpose it from the relative minor key that I'm used to.
In short - I relate to your comment!
I agree. Aeolian is the "real" scale. With no sharps or flats it starts on "A", the first letter of the alphabet. Ionian starts on "C", the third letter of the alphabet. It is thus clearly the third mode.
@@HerrGene Finally someone learned piano the right way.
Great as usual......
Luv ur channel
Thanks!
Wow..... The minor/harmonic minor resolution bit.... Mind=blown
Thanx! đ Great teaching! â€
Great stuff mentioning the infamous exotic bird, the aeolian cadence. So you think it's just another name for the deceptive? I've always figured it was referring instead to the movement from G to Em at the end of the song. I-vi. Could it also be that? Since it was de facto invented by the critic... why not? :) great work anyway, love your channel.
Good video, but I kept waiting for you to talk about the effect of the raised 7th ton the III chord (making it augmented) or the VII chord (making it diminished). You did mention songs that only use the raised 7 on the V chord, which seems common, but I would be interested in finding songs that use the full harmonic mono progression. Perhaps another video?
One of my favourite modes to compose in creates a really dark tense sound
I have to say I very much enjoy your videos. Music people used to tell me I have the type of mind that would relish all things music theory, but my brain's automatic reaction would be to turn on the huge and bright NOPE sign in my head. Why? Because I would remember hearing someone describing the melodic minor years prior and how it made my brain short-circuit. I mean, what if you're wanting to sort of loopity loop around the 6th and 7th degree area, changing direction on one of those two? Do you base it on where you're going to or where you're coming from? Add to this the fact I was very young when this was explained and probably assumed that "melodic minor" meant these were the notes I would HAVE to use for writing a melody in a minor key, and I was like, "This is a mess. No. With a capital hell." But, y'know, a younger version of that last bit.
I had one semester of music theory in college, and I am sure we never got to modes that semester, as your videos on modes have been the missing piece in a jigsaw puzzle my brain has been trying to complete for DECADES. Thank you!
Excellent
Thanx!
The first 4 or 5 notes of the Aeolian scale are those of the piano in the Stonesâ Sheâs a Rainbow.
most enlightening
Man, the harmonic minor âLosing My Religionâ sounds much more tortured to me.
Neat 5/4 solo at the end
That 'out track' is gorgeous. You should release it before I steal it!
thnx buddy
U got a subscription today bud
Hey amazing vĂdeo, loved it. Is the intro of Janis Joplin's Summertime in aeolian too??? Sounds like it
Do song that sounds in minor but are in a major key!!! Like the scientist by Coldplay, sounds sad and everything but it is in F major
Huh
There are plenty of sad songs in major and many many more energetic songs in minor.
Yay you used an REM example
11:17 - I notice that you don't actually hit the Bb in your piece at all, at least not in the part that shows you playing. So it could just as well be in D-Dorian. :-) (If there is a part of the song later in which you do hit that Bb, then never mind. :-) )
EDIT: Oooh, you hit it with your left hand toward the end of the phrase. As I said, never mind. :-D
Very interesting
He is better on this channel than that pedal show; these vids are amazing
6:10 Just for the sake of argument, I'd say dorian is the other more widely used minor scale in music. If you exclude classical music that is. Also, since they are modes based on the same scale, you could argue they are not really two different scales, I guess, but that's pedantic if you ask me.
Well, if anything, I learnt that I can't tell the difference between natural and harmonic minor by ear. They sound pretty much the same to me, even with the Losing My Religion/Ain't No Sunshine examples. I understand the slight difference theory-wise, but my ears just don't pick it up.
Have a good day
You too!
For your piece at 11:15, I would suggest adding octaves to the left hand bass to intensify the melody. Otherwise, nice job explaining the Aeolian mode.
I think David knows what he's doing!
Iâm surprised, since you used Street Spirit and talked about the difference between aeolian and the harmonic minor that you didnât use it as the example to demonstrate the difference. The very last instance of the E chord (under the second âimmerse your soul in loveâ) in the outro, they change out the G for a G# (making it a E major chord instead of E minor; it is E minor). This turns this very down minor key progression into something with a glimmer of hope- it is suggesting using musical rhetoric to suggest that if you immerse your soul in love, you can avoid the defeated depressing nihilism that the bulk of the song implies is inescapable (lyrics like ârows of houses are bearing down on meâ demonstrate this sense of being trapped).
It is a really subtle, easy to miss difference, but it is a significant part of what makes the song so brilliant, and it also so perfectly fit your videoâs concept that not mentioning it feels like a missed opportunity.
What about Caffeine by Faith No More? Unbelievable tension and resolution when they move to harmonic minor at the end of the choruses.
I've mostly seen "aeolian cadence" used to mean a âVII-I, which is kind of silly since if you've got a major tonic you're definitely not in aeolian.
It's funny that he coined the term to just mean the same thing as a V-vi deceptive cadence. Even if it was resolving to the tonic, âVII-i (a V-vi in the relative major) already has a name, courtesy of jazz: the backdoor cadence.
Good video
please do one video in: How to change keys and modes properly
Last video iâd expect xD
Is the composition at the end uploaded? Itâs sooo good
Thank you! Iâm afraid itâs not currently available beyond this video. Iâm glad you like it though!
1:54 thanks for that
@David Bennett Piano Do you have a video on how to learn the chords is a scale/mode?