Modal Theory - The 7 Church Modes Explained
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- We start up with basic stuff and get very geeky later on :)
We create the CIRCLE OF CHURCH MODES - a very useful illustration to locate, describe and arrange all seven medieval modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian.
We explore the universal interval pattern of the church modes and we develop some very nice sounding improvisation tricks we can use and reuse, no matter what church mode we are playing!
We end up playing all seven jazz modes using the minor pentatonic scale.
In the lesson I refer to this video about playing the Dorian mode using the pentatonic scale: • How to play Dorian Mod...
You may also watch this related video making a tool to look up all 7 church modes in all 12 keys: • the TOOL of CHURCH MODES
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All Music from NewJazz:
• "Do the Church Mode" -...
Song title: "Do the Church Mode"
Tempo: 80 BPM
Drums: Erik Frandsen
Keyboard: Oliver Prehn
Keynote throughout the entire Song: "D"
Score:
||: Dorian | Ionian | Locrian | Aeolian |
| Dorian | Phrygian | Lydian | Mixolydian :||
Translations of the English subtitles to Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French by Edgardo Solano from Colombia. Thank you so much Edgardo!!! You can turn on the subtitles and choose a language in the video settings.
Best Regards
Oliver Prehn
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I am going to keep watching all of the New Jazz videos until they are cemented in my brain. How can anybody thumbs down this guys videos. They are all awesome!
I honestly believe that some downvotes come from CZcams, because you won't find a video on CZcams without downvotes, even those that don't have a single negative comment, and it just doesn't make sense
@@Herfinnur I just watched a video with no dislikes. Granted there were only about 35 likes or so.
@@Herfinnur I have two suspicions.. ONE is that they don't understand what he is saying, you really have to understand the basic theory and a little jazz theory.. The SECOND is the title says "CHURCH MODES".. Maybe the person was expecting something else.. I know that happened to me, I play in church but, I am a student of Jazz so I did find this very helpful, regardless.
...'couse internet people don't like to study, they think it is sufficient to have a few thousands likes to be a musician, a doctor, a president! Expertise in these boring times of only thumbs up or down doens't count 'couse it needs time to be understood.
CZcams should find a way to allow people vote only after watching at least 80% of a video...or something similar...
Anyway, another great video from New Jazz...
how have you progressed ?
Brilliant. I can now understand how jazz masters create a "quilt" of sounds, broken up into different scale patterns. This video enabled me to hear *and* see the structures in this modal example and how each morphed from one to the next, in a way I have never experienced before.
I am blown away with this tutorial its so clear and on point I think I am going to get this thing about scales and modes now. Thanks a million this is great stuff!!!!!!!
Dude! Great lesson! Very thorough and well-explained, nicely mapped out visually, and great teaching style. One of the best videos for explaining church modes that i've seen on the web. Thank you!
this is magic,much love from Tanzania,east africa
A truly helpful introduction to church modes, thank you so much for making this video!!🙏🏻🙏🏻
As a self taught guitarist I find this video very informative and inspirational. I have recently been applying the use of modes in my playing. This video will be a great reference. Thank you for sharing.
Fantastic teaching style, methods, video layout, execution, pace. Excellent. & how u turned this into a total legit slow fusion tune is remarkable. Great job.
This was just so incredibly useful. Excellent explanation. The visualizations were extremely helpful as well. Well done, and more importantly, THANK YOU!
Your way of explaining the content in your videos is amazing. Its really helpful that you take it slow and calm. Thank you!
The best teacher on here brother...appreciate this so much!!
Just started watching your videos and I really love them I have been playing over 30yrs in the church and I wanted to improve my Skills. Your video is easy to follow and learn thank you so much.
I am a self taught Puerto Rican Cuatro player, and find these classes has helped me more than anything else I have studied. I was having difficulties understanding this modal stuff, but once I got it it revealed the power behind it. No more do I worry about scales. "Let the fingers do the talking". Thank you!
This is the best lesson on this topic I've seen. A complex subject made easy. Well done New Jazz.
It was always easy. Most people fail to give the foundational knowledge that makes it easy. Just being told "Dorian mode is the same as Minor with a rasied Sixth" doesn't give you any understanding of WHY the modes work the way they do. When you understand you're just starting the pattern of whole and half steps on a different note, the construction of the modes becomes easy. You can now build the modes for ANY pattern of whole and half tones and explore all the scales that come with them. And from there, build all the chords that fit them. It's so much easier to spell words when you have memorized the alphabet first!!!
Excellent video. The jam at the end really helped to understand this even better. Thank you sir!
I understand the modes, but I've been in the dark, needing practical instruction on how to use them and I guess it was finally time for you to show up in my path. I need to re-watch this again, because there are some points that didn't click. How exciting! That jam was inspirational for sure!
The piece at the end is incredible! Great lesson.
thats teaching! breaking down the most complex concepts to its simplest form !
Also to paraphrase Bill Evans... one minute of music in jazz is created in a single minute. you play first and then ponder about the technicalities later :)
love your videos! inspiring and highly educational
You are the best teacher on church modes application, thank you and GBU!
Oliver you can't imagine how much I have been watching this video over and over, and practicing.
Oliver, I've been around youtube looking for exactly this....and what you have put together is a well presented chunk of theory that people can understand (most of them anyway!) with a great piece of practical application. Thanks very much for posting and for the inspiration.
I'm so glad to hear :) :) Warm regards Oliver
A Fantastic way to learn the different modes. Really easy to understand and great song!!
WOW! You just demystified for me the secret to 2-5-1 improvisation! Thank you!
All of your tutorials bring the fragmental stuff together I've already "learned" befor and make it fun to practice. (And it is fun to watch it!)
It is like making lines to a big picture.
Thanks again...and again and ... in every church mode on a Sunday. ;-)
I'm so glad to hear that - keep up the fun work making the lines to the big picture - more videos will come :)
I just finished Berklee online course "Jazz improvisation", but your lessons is more usefull. Thanks
I'm about to register for Berklee Online Music Production. Is that a good program?
@@mrsmith188 I'm not sure about production, but i am not impressed about Jazz impovisation course. Pretty primitive level
@@KirillSavranskyMusic I thought so.Thank you very much. I'm learning a lot here. Best wishes to you!
So more
@@mrsmith188 I've done the Berklee online music production course with Loudoun Stearns and it was really good and very thorough.
Great thank you. My music teacher found your site and we had an enjoyable lesson getting into it. I shall be watching all. Already practicing the Dorian Pentatonic patterns.
Oliver, You are super talented and have very radio phonic voice. Your videos are a bless for anyone who wants to learn jazz from a true professional
Seriously brilliant I can’t thankyou enough for sharing your wisdom . I’m learning music for the first time at age 59 and this is what I aspire to.
Monster! Thanks for the amaaazing class. Great sound, great editing. Warm regards from Brasil
Thanks a million man. This is the best video on understanding the different modes I've seen.
Thank you sooo much for breaking down to simple form for us to understand the complicated stuff. Really a secret revealed.
Best jazz lessons on youtube to really understand !!!
THE BEST tutorial I ever seen...very easy to understand even for me that i just speak basic English!!!!!!!!
This was the best lesson for church modes. This lesson is very practical. Thank you!
That's Superb....the most amazing and helpful tutorial to understand about scales, Thank you so much Sir. :)
Wow great lesson. I like that. Nice melody. I hope to be able playing like you one day. God bless you!
Great, great lesson Oliver! Thank you!!
By far, the best channel of Jazz Piano on Tube.
i call you master ,more grace boss, this improved me in less than 24 hours .. thanks so much boss.love from nigeria
Love from India Sir.. Thanks for sharing your knowledge....now i can play solo on guitar in different modes without even thinking....effeciently and they sound great. God bless you man. Keep showering the knowledge please. Best music lessons.
This was an amazing lesson, thank you sincerely. Subscribed!
Awesome teaching! Thanks.
Your videos have shown me the great musical powers of the circle of 5ths and 4ths. The key to unlocking music improvisation is knowing how to move through the key signature. Guitar players like grips and it’s cool to see we can use them on a keyboard too!
Simple explanation and complex dévelopment Nice a lot of work behind
Wicked tools mate! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
kudos Oliver! You are a truly great educator
Thanks!!! What a great lesson, helped a lot!
As someone just starting to 'threaten' a piano, after failing miserably on guitar, I have just gone through a few of your videos and I am impressed and inspired! Thank you!
Awesome and informative vid! Thanks!
He’s a great teacher..l love New Jazz🎹
Great video. I'm a guitar player, and have learned modes from a different perspective. I never thought of using the three pentatonic Dm,Am, Em type of approach. I learned in the key of C I could use a CM scale to play over a Dm chord, a CM scale over a Em chord etc. This way I many more options to work with. Thank you, great lesson Ed
Same!
Brilliant lesson man; super helpful!
I have to admit... this hurts a little bit in my head due to the sheer amount of information fired at me. But at the same time I can't wait to put this into practice. A lot of practice.... Thnx again NewJazz!
Beautifully Explained...Its very much helpful. Thank you Sir.
Man the way you speak move your hands just like a real magician! I love it! What a soothing voice! Your wife must be really happy!
Oliver, may you be happy, may you be healthy!!!!! Blessings dear piano teacher!!!! Regards from the Republic of Panama!!!!
I can´t even start to explain how usefull this is to me. Thanks man!
Again, thank you Mr Prehn! And a great "failed experiment" which sounded like beautiful "70s fusion" to me... so that kept me very happy! :-)
F*ckin awesome. Loved the use of the B natural at the end of the tune, really made it feel hypnotic. Love what you do :)
Great Lesson, Thanks Teacher
Thanks for answering my question. God bless you.
I feel I have never seen something like this tutorial. 👍👍Thanks.
How come this channel does not 1M subscribers!? The knowledge this guy share is pure gold! I'd assume it takes quite some time to create this quality content but please don't stop creating and sharing
I will watch it many times until i can understand very well. It is amazing. Regards from
Brasil
this is seriously amazing!!! thank you so much! 'do the church mode' is hyper!!
Fantastic explanation of how to use modes in Jazz- the improv at the end really helps to demonstrate it- sounds like Herbie Hancock Headhunters!
Truly amazing very clean explanation music guru is here
This speaks to the ability of the human brain to arrange and comprehend the sounds received by the ear. It's so fascinating that the same notes in a major scale will sound entirely different simply because you start on a different root in that same major scale. When I hear you play C Locrian, I know it's "just the c major scale" but that's not what I'm hearing. I'm hearing what sounds like a completely new scale. Amazing!
The Master at play. Amazing musical flavor.
Great breakdown, thanks!
This Channel is AWESOME! !
Your lessons are amazing. I learn sooooo much every time I watch one of your videos. Even more than what you taught. My brain 🧠 is going nuts. THANK YOU!!!!
really good videos brother !
yeah!!!! this is what i searching for, thank you so much
Awesome teaching. It's not easy to make a lesson so fluid and easy to follow. Thanks.
Thanks a lot. I have also been working on this lesson on and off for nearly half a year.
Thank you very much for the lesson. Steps and whole steps confuse me a lot. I wonder if my root note is F and I want to advance a whole step, ¿Must I choose G or A? Thanks.
Hi :) I do not know if I fully understand what you mean. But if you go a up a whole step from the note F you hit the note G. If you go up a half step from the note F then you hit the note G flat. I hope that my answer was adequate :)
NewJazz
On the other say: a half steps it's a key, and a hole steps, it's two keys. Not at all.
The same in frets of guitar
Thanks ,
COOL ! Keep it up great lessons 😀
Thankyou so much i waiting this so long
Bravon très clair et de très bonne qualité avec un bon professeur. A french friend !
Amazing !!! Thanks a lot from South Korea
Chick Corea makes good use of these. In one of this albums, one of the tracks with a Spanish title makes extensive use of the Phrygian mode.
La Fiesta :)
Love it i know i have to be patient and learn pattern thanks!
Another amazing lesson. Thank you. :-)
Fantastique ! Such a refreshing way of looking at the church modes and improvisation. A crazy question .... can patterns such as this be extended in some way to other modes such as the melodic minor ? You are a sensational teacher. Never stop 😊
Thanks Arthur :) I love "crazy" questions! Actually you anticipate my future videos :) :) The answer is YES. You just have to alter a single note.
Example: Having the C-Dorian we place the 3 finger grips on C, D, G and A (as in the video). Then you alter the grip on G. The grip is normally g-bb-c but now we raise the bb note to the b note. Then you have the ascending C-melodic minor which by the way is equal to F-Lydian b7 (Lydian Dominant) and B-Altered - these 3 scale are all of the same type. I hope this gives some mening, else feel free to ask further :)
Maravilloso lección.
Gracias.
Super lesson!
Great Teaching god bless you...
Wooow ...no one told me these things before ... a new world is born in my mind and under my fingers ...thanks soooo much !!!
Same for me! what a beautiful thing! yes yes yes, thank you...
wow this is so cool and excellent information.
I'm a big fan of the onion scale, so many layers to explore, it can bring an audience to tears
Haha!! Sorry about my bad English...
@@NewJazz I'm just having fun, thank you for the excellent videos!
Merci beaucoup. I'll come back to this video often, since my brain seems to be in Mixolochrian for the moment.
I do love myself a bit of the onion mode; It's pretty tasty. In all seriousness you are such a blessing to those of us who haven't got the means to buy private lessons. Thank you!
HAHA - yes, this is an old lesson - but I still work on my English HAHA... :) :) :)
Finally i find it !!! thank you so much !!!
great lesson
Great Oliver! I am speechless! Your musical taste is outstanding, the voice talking is musical as well, and the new graphics are very useful! How did you create them? Which software do you use? But now let me go studying in the church!
Thanks a lot Francesco. And enjoy studying the church modes. This video is quite comprehensive :)
I'm using Presonus Studio One, Native Instruments and Adobe Premiere :)
NewJazz can you please explain to me how to remember all these things. I believe it's very helpful to use it when playing
That is simply fascinating....
I'm a SU-PER FAN !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH !!! I can't write all I think about your work because I'm French and my English isn't good enough !
Oliver this is fantastic, such clear and helpful information. I've been jamming along to 'Do The Church Mode' on my guitar for an hour! I wonder if there's a video in your catalogue somewhere about modulations like this used in well-known compositions? Modulation has always confused me - I ask myself if, on the whole, jazz/modern classical composers see each chord as a separate entity and therefore a whole new set of scales to consider, or do they stick to a 'home' key and dip into different ones from time to time to add spice. Thanks a million for the education, and warm greetings from Wales!
Hi and thanks a lot for your really nice comment. Well, I do not know so much about "the well-known compositions" - I'm mostly into creating new Music, new methods - but anyway - when playing a "standard" we do a a little of both I think: we have the main tonality in mind and then we add some spice altering some of the scales (as you say). But often when doing a "jazz standard" analysis, we see each chord analysed separately. Best regards from Oliver
What to say 😊, i am speechless, thx Oliver and Erik 😊
Oliver logra en estos 25 minutos de video hacer facilmente comprensible lo que a cualquier profesor le llevaría dos años.
Oliver manages in these 25 minutes of video to make easily understandable what it would take two years for any teacher.
thx very much, the material is great!