Intro to Modes in the Circle of Fifths
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- Where do borrowed chords come from? How does modal mixture work? How do songwriters like the Beatles create such great chord progressions? The answer has to do with parallel modes in the circle of fifths. Let me show you.
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I’ve got to tell you, I’m going to keep rewatching this until it all sinks in. You know everything your talking about. You don’t over-talk or side track and you don’t try to be funny. This is exactly the kind of teaching I need and appreciate. Thanks guy!
Thanks very much for your feedback-and I’m glad this is helpful! 🤘🤘
your video tutorials are the best i've ever seen .
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Mike, this is the best teaching on modes on CZcams. This is actually practical.
You are in a league of your own. I am going to have to rewatch it a few times, but I should finally be able to understand modes because of you. Thank you.
I’ll either come to understand modes or die trying. Don’t give up
Thanks so much for your feedback, Gary. I definitely appreciate it, and am glad this is helpful!
You are the BEST TEACHER IN INTERNET with a lot of difference. Thank you so much for what you do
My head is spinning. That's incredible! Thank you 🙏
Why aren't you not one of the top YT channels? Thank you for this one and bless you!
Brilliant, precise, and no crap lesson from someone who knows their stuff. I will watch this again and again. Thank you.
Thank you, Seán!
Whoa, your circle of fifths diagram is crazy intuitive, much better than the stuff I have seen from other theorists on YT😮 You got a sub and my respect!
This is some really important educational material you’ve added to CZcams. This and many others of your videos should eventually be some of the consistently top viewed music theory videos for the next decade
Mike, you have great teaching ability. Knowledge is a gift shared - but teaching that knowledge is an entire other skill set! You simplify where possible, don't add anything to confuse and no added fluff.
To the point and all the necessary information to increase our knowledge of music theory. You are a gifted teacher and we can thank you for the path to learning the art of music. You give us and share important knowledge here. Thank you.
I’ve just taken the past month to run through your excellent uploads. Stellar content, good sir. Thank you.
Thank you, Mike! I am glad you are here and that these videos help. Cheers!
Wow. I kept googling to try to understand modes, scales and chords. I have read many articles and videos, still very frustrated. So, you nailed it! I still don't understand it 100% (at 10% right now LOL), but I will keep replaying and pausing until I get it 99%! (Never 100%). Thank you Mike, your voice, animation, drawings are just right.
I’ve had guitars since I was a kid but this year I decided to actually learn some theory. I have watched literally hundreds of music theory videos but this, hands down, is the clearest explanation of modes and the best use of diagrams. An excellent teaching tool. Now subbed.
I’ve been watching lots of videos about the circle of fifths and scales and modes. I was able to join the pieces to have an overall understanding of them but it wasn’t until this video that it all makes sense. I think it’s how the information is designed and animated plus the structure of the video where one thing takes you to the other. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
Best modes explanation on CZcams, THANK YOU
This masterpiece is going into my vault 👌🏽. I have subscribed immediately after watching this video. One of the best video’s I have seen about this subject 🎶🎸🎤🥁🎹
This is gold.
Very Well Done. Probably the Best Explanation of Modes out their. Thanks.
This is INCREDIBLE! Thank you so much for explaining this and how it all connects. Seriously such a blessing. You explained it more clearly than anyone I've ever heard, and it is so helpful. I appreciate it. Keep rocking!
You are one of the special great teachers! Turn complicated things into simple ones. On the other hand, some music professors can create simple music theory to complicate rocket science. Great job!
God, I wish this how they taught it in music theory classes. This is awesome.
One of the best presentations of music knowledge to be seen anywhere. Thank you for sharing your knowledge in this very clear and colorfully graphic way. Love it.I have some additional concepts to add to what you have created here.....another way to "perceive" the Modes on the Circle of 5ths allowing you to see every key they are in.
Please explain..?
Very interesting! Will take some time to digest it and put it to use ...
Your approach is really well suited for people familiar with mathematics. As a beginner guitarist I recognized these relations exist, but this presentation is the whole package, animated color graphics and all. Sweet!
14:56 A⁷ is not the I nor I⁷ …it is V⁷/IV the V⁷ of D (secondary dominant, essentially using the C# as a chromatic approach note to D and the G for some outside tension/spice/tritone). The D is momentarily tonicised before more chromatic movement is introduced by flattening the third, F# to F, for the parallel minor. These chromatic movements are musical techniques that help tell the story of the song. These harmonic devices are a way of expressing emotion in the song and making this link is fundamental.
This is a great comment. I like the story telling aspect that a good chord progression achieves. I hope to understand it the way that you do one day.
Depending on how you look at it. You could say that it's a I7 going to IV like in a blues progression. Beatles were notorious for mixing blues and pop. But a secondary dominant V7/IV is also a valid analysis
Love the concise format!
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Love those live graphics
The other comments are spot on. A very nice video in a sea of otherwise more confusing content.
Your videos are incredible! Thank you
This video is just simply amazing. Thank you so much for putting this out there!
Yes your mode lesson is the best I've come across. It's not confusing. Thanks!
This is so, soooo interesting. Thank you so much for making these videos 🙏🏻❣️
Really hit the spot and clarified modal chords for me. I will be watching it many more times to get it embedded. Thank you.
Beautiful!
Very good man! This really deepened my appreciation of harmony
Excellent explanation!
Wow this is the best explanation of borrowed chords I've ever seen. Can't wait to try this out.
This is gold. Thank you!
Great videos. Thank you.
Wonderful video.
I'm rewatching it slowly.. 🐢
Thank you.
superb
Super helpful! The visual and auditory cues really reinforce each other and add a level of understanding. Liked, subbed, and appreciated. Would like to know more about the color coding and the shapes (was concentrating on modes and borrowed chords in my first go through).
Brilliant work!
Wow. That is VERY helpful to not only get the theory, but also some pretty examples from the Beatles.
This is blowin my mind, man! Genius. I joined your community yesterday. Cheers!
great explanations and visuals ! 🙏🏼
I understand the modes fairly well... but your explanations and graphics are by FAR the best I have seen! Great job... and I love the other videos of yours I have watched ! Very impressed, thanks!
Very good indeed Sir, thanks
Thanks a lot. You are a great teacher!
Mike, I can confidently say, without your fine tutorials, I would NEVER understand these things. Thank you...
And with them i shall never understand music
Amazing. And well done to you. These videos take time to make.
Thanks
Brilliant 💯🎸
Thank you so much for the amazing explanation ❤
Fantastic video! My mind is blown. This was insanely helpful and is going to really up the composing skills of anyone who watches. The visuals are brilliant and everything was super clear. Thank you so much!! One small thing (couldn't help myself as a neuroscientist) -- the idea that we only use a fraction of our brainpower on a regular basis is an urban legend. We use vast networks spanning virtually our entire brain to perform everyday tasks. Other than that, super in love with this vid!
Thank you!
Nice lesson, especially the explanation about how the mode patterns on the circle of 5ths are used in real songs
Fantastic !
The diagrams are fantastic.
Wow!! amazing!!!
Great video!
this is really good stuff, thanks
Excellent presentation. Thank you!
Excellent! This video and the previous one. Thank you! Greetings from Argentina
Special channel this. Great work!
Thank you very much bro. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
You are excellent, I am seeing things more expansively and clearly than ever. I really like your singing voice, so musical.
Thank you! 🙏🤘
Thanks, I learned the most about this chart from this video. 🙂
Best video on Modes and Borrowed Chords using the Circle of Fifths... you open my eyes with this approach, this was the missing piece of my puzzle. Thanks a lot for your great work.
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awesome lesson thank u 🔥🔥
Yes a lot of songs have borrowed chords. Circle of Fifths is the bread and butter of music. Good video buddy. 😎👍👌💯🎸🎸
I commented on your circle of fifths video that the graphics were not only beautiful but also actually did a job. Same for this video. Great stuff and very interesting. (ps, John Lennon was one the greats as a songwriter but his knowledge of music theory was minimal. George Martin was the genius there. I think John was more “mod” than “mode” 😀).
I feel like the ultimate circle of 5ths guide will be a 3 dimensional "Sphere of 5ths" and u might be the man to conceptualize this method for us....?!?
Great video
Excellent, like the other posters, v impressed and v useful!!!
Hooray! I made it 1K. Thank you MIke, you are the best.
I should have come to Mike first. He gave more actual information in the first fifteen seconds than the other video gave in the first five minutes.
I like this lesson. I will say, I don't know why I bristle about the colors schema so much but I recognize that's just a subjective thing. The content here is pretty solid and I think it would be good to do a recap of the applications at the end for people who need a summary of the more abstract parts you went over with Basic diagrams (not just in application). You really are nailing the application aspects of this.
I am guessing that just sharing the concepts again at the end might help people who were lost (maybe while they're trying to cull down the information a bit and figure out what's relevant to their needs).
Good job! I shared this video and hope you get more views.
Thanks, Ian! This is awesome and very constructive feedback. Cheers.🤘
Very nice 👍 😘
I thought SignalsMusicStudio and Ben Levin had the best intuitive approach for explaning essential songwriting music theory concepts, but this is on another level.
Wow you did it very well now anyone can understand
Thanks
Best Teacher goin!✌️👍
15:20 The Dm is not borrowed from Aoelian, it's from D harmonic minor. You can tell because the I chord became the I7, which resolves darkly to the i minor.
this video is the most the circle of fifths has ever fucked my mind.
In other words, information overload, but in an exciting way.
I'm going to need time to digest this one.
I was with you right up until about minute 7 when you put them in parallel. I thought the Dorian started on the minor ii (D in the case of the key of C).
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The minor ii, iii, vi, and diminished vii° are starting to make much more sense with this; as a result, I'm finally able to find all the major chords with the Ionian C scale as root notes. vii° is just extra flat.
There should be a reference text book that describes all of this because it's difficult to understand when the information in the video is presented at 100 mph
A highly useful tool for visualising the various modes of the diatonic MAJOR scale, along with harmonic relationships. I'm just wondering whether there's a separate circle of fifths for the HARMONIC MINOR scale and its modes. 🤔 From recollection, Led Zeppelin's song 'Kashmir' is constructed from one of these modes. The 3 semitone interval gives an exotic sound.
Can you make a video lesson showing a bunch of examples of rock pop songs that use modes in the melody lines and borrowed chords from modes. This will help out how to use modes more by seeing a lot of examples
Hi Mike - great stuff! Very inspiring and intuitive!
I have seen other videos on CZcams, where the colors in order are associated with the chromatic scale. Ie. C is red, C#/Db is deep orange, D is light orange aso. Somehow it seems logic to associate pitch with color, but you have chosen to organize the colors according to the circle of fifths. Can you tell about your considerations - pros and cons?
Also - are the PDFs available as a member/subcribers on Locals - I don’t see any tabs for downloads? Where do I find them?
The fact that we use only a part (10%) of our brain is a commun misconception, and is totally wrong. Thank for the both vids ;)
Hey I heard sort of the intro to the song Lean On Me :)
I like the graphics. ^_^
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“The sound of music releases frequencies and vibrations…for it is the mathematics of music itself from which all of creation is based.” Nikola Tesla. Thanks Mike for these lessons much appreciated
Cheers! 🤘🙏
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Nice. That gives me something to chew on. From experience, I intuitively know about some of the borrowed chords, but I'd never heard such a detailed, systematic explanation before.
I have questions though. Let's just say in the key of C, I've encountered chords that "don't belong in the key" such as A7, D7, E7, Fm, Bb, and Ab, some more frequently than others. Not all of these are in the "neighborhood" you talked about though. How do I interpret these chords?
The easiest way I found to understand modes is that they're major scales, but based on different root notes to whatever key the song is in. So, in the key of A for instance, the lead guitarist playing a D major scale while the rhythm guitarist plays the I chord (A major) means you're using the mixolydian mode (I think).
I used to think like this which helps for remembering the mode notes/chords. However ive been realizing its not very helpful functionally since parallel modes are more important than relative modes due to the tonic. Still on my music theory journey though so would be helpful to have other opinions with reasoning
You would be correct, but it’s important to understand the reasons why, so you can have more control over it.
A Ionian and D Ionian have 1 note difference because they’re 1 place away on the circle of fifths. The note that is different is a G/G#.
Which you could look at from The vantage point of either key. From A, the D major scale is in mixolydian because it flats the 7th.
From D to A raises the 4th, making it Lydian.
So, you could just flip the scale and the chord and get very different sounds.