Darkening Major Keys - Shapes & Scales

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  • čas přidán 14. 05. 2019
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    Although major keys are associated with happiness, brightness and warmth, we can use certain movements of harmony and melody to give them more darkness and give them a more changeable emotional response.
    In this lesson I take you through some common ways of darkening major keys, including colour shapes and scales to complement the mood.
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    • @fretjamdotcom
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      Hi. There are charts and tabs on the related lesson page to accompany the video.

  • @heiah
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    You did open my eyes, thank you. But even though I understand every concept, I would wish for more precise visualization paired with animation.
    What I need is to see the changing and moving fretboard positions are and from what interval thy change into the new one. Especially when it comes to inversions I want to see what that moving sound means in terms of intervals sliding up or down, or exchange top and bottom positions in the frequency spectrum
    In other words:
    On that inversion, I have the 5 as my lowest note, 9 on top
    This flat 3 becomes the major 6, if you raise it it becomes the 2 of the next chord (Voice leading?)
    Am I asking too much?

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    Just great !

  • @maxholliday5097
    @maxholliday5097 Před 5 lety

    Sounds great! It reminds me of Brian Setzer, which I have always wondered what he was doing. He uses this a lot in Sleepwalk.

  • @Excellentness
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    Awesome 👍

  • @JohnnyOlsson
    @JohnnyOlsson Před 5 lety +53

    "Here's an example of darkness in major." *steps out of the major scale*

    • @MrUrech
      @MrUrech Před 5 lety +10

      Lol exactly, buy the key remains major. Its a temporary divergence that quickly resumes the original major tonality

    • @JohnnyOlsson
      @JohnnyOlsson Před 5 lety +7

      @@MrUrech Yes, and some very good examples too. Very useful tricks.

    • @Illumignostic
      @Illumignostic Před 4 lety +1

      not exaclty. There are minor chords in major keys. Every key center in this vid was major,.

  • @EC2727
    @EC2727 Před 5 lety +1

    There’s something so mystical about a iv-I chord change.

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    Bravo!

  • @jacksonchan6822
    @jacksonchan6822 Před 5 lety

    you can hear these progressions on chronic sunshine by cosmo pyke.. good video brother

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    Thanks you

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    Thanks

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    Thank u.. man.

  • @grizzle7935
    @grizzle7935 Před 5 lety

    That DmM7 is a great chord. Genesis uses it in EmM7 as the hang chord in the middle of Fly on a Windshield.

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  • @firmanrasyidi
    @firmanrasyidi Před 5 lety

    Dewa / Dewa 19 has been using this chord transition in most of their songs to darkening major keys. I think it is one of the best ingredients to make a song sounds more magical.

  • @furryz666
    @furryz666 Před 5 lety

    Marvelous! There are an infinite number of songs lying in your examples and I might have accidentally learned some theory, thanks

  • @760Piper
    @760Piper Před 5 lety

    OK..lightbulb moment!!!! WOW.....

  • @minor9439
    @minor9439 Před 4 lety

    this is so hard to grasp but I hope I'll get there some day

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    Awesome

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    @EulerAlvarenga1 Před 4 lety

    GOLD

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    @terdcutter3193 Před 5 lety +1

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  • @sebastionhawk5565
    @sebastionhawk5565 Před 5 lety

    Is it not like injecting the harmonic minor phrasing into the major or ionian, when you go from Major to minor in the Lydian tonic?

  • @SketchEtcher
    @SketchEtcher Před 3 lety

    Holy crap that was a lot to process!!!

  • @kukumuniu5658
    @kukumuniu5658 Před 5 lety

    I found this searching for information about characteristic notes
    Characteristic notes for modes:
    c ionian - 4&7 degree (f,b)
    d dorian- 3&6 degree(f,b)
    e phrygian - 2&5 (f,b)
    f lydian - 4&7 (b,e)
    g mixo. - 3&7 (b,f)
    a aeolian - 2&6 (b,f)
    b locrian - 2&5 (c,f)
    Position of the tritone does not work in lydian and locrian
    because in root note there is nothing characteristic .
    in f lydian ,f is root note
    in b locrian,b is root
    all scales have root on the first degree
    and this is why tonic is not a characteristic note.
    lydian - 4&7(b,e)
    locrian - 2&5(c,f)
    but I still do not know how it looks in the case of
    harmonic major (and minor) modes,
    melodic major and minor modes
    and neapolitan major and minor modes.

  • @FlyOnTheMoon.
    @FlyOnTheMoon. Před 5 lety

    Mike, do you do your own work on your Les Paul to get it to sound perfectly in tune, or do you have a technician?

    • @fretjamdotcom
      @fretjamdotcom  Před 5 lety

      I adjust the basics like intonation and truss rod. I took it to a tech last year to file the nut (didn't trust myself doing that!) which helped with tuning down at those first few frets. The 2nd and 3rd strings tend to be the main culprits for tuning issues. Lowering them at the nut can help with that. But also using heavier gauge strings (e.g. 10s or 11s) can help to stabilise the tuning. And of course, how hard or cleanly you fret the strings has an effect. Some shapes or movements can create slight bends in the string, or pull them in either direction, raising or lowering their natural pitch. So that's something to work on and a lower string height will help with this.

  • @joshuabruner9676
    @joshuabruner9676 Před 2 lety

    Am I correct to assume the 9 is the 2? If so, do you personally see any advantages in using the terms 9ths 11ths or 13ths instead of 2nds, 4ths and 6ths respectively, for instance?

    • @fretjamdotcom
      @fretjamdotcom  Před 2 lety +1

      I tend to use 9, 11, 13 when referencing chords or arpeggios and 2, 4, 6 when referencing scales. The difference is that 9, for example, comes after 7 in the chord tone stack, so it makes sense to use the higher number in most cases. But with scales the ordering is in scale degrees, i.e. 1234567.

  • @harrisfrankou2368
    @harrisfrankou2368 Před 5 lety

    Adding 6 works

  • @supermanwhereareyounow3081

    love this section..it is what i like...and lydian..do you have in lydian..

    • @fretjamdotcom
      @fretjamdotcom  Před 4 lety

      Lydian covered here - czcams.com/video/mp8s7lW5my4/video.html

  • @doublek321
    @doublek321 Před 5 lety

    Anyone know what the chord at 1:30 is called? I’m assuming it starts with “G#” because that’s what is shown along the top.
    It’s like a G#m7 with a minor 6 (E note). I think in order for it to be a 13th, though, it would have to have a major 6th (E#)

  • @justmart4455
    @justmart4455 Před 5 lety

    Damn bro!

  • @fancypelusa2863
    @fancypelusa2863 Před 5 lety

    I like your accent.

  • @doublek321
    @doublek321 Před 5 lety

    Not sure I understand the "chromatic movements" that show up in the piece at 6:00 as opposed to the ones from the prior pieces (which all seem to use chromatic notes as well). I think the chords in this piece are C -> Cm7 -> FmM7 -> Fm6 -> C/G -> D/F# -> FmM7 (add6) -> C/G. Can someone explain?

    • @fretjamdotcom
      @fretjamdotcom  Před 5 lety +1

      Sorry, I meant chromatic movement in the bass. So the bass was C / A / Ab / G / F# / F / C

    • @doublek321
      @doublek321 Před 5 lety

      @@fretjamdotcom ​ Thanks for the response and the terrific lesson! (that I'm still working my way through)

  • @krudler406
    @krudler406 Před 5 lety

    i love you

  • @ericoftheotherworld1525

    Here’s what’s confusing though (awesome vid btw) isn’t the 4th degree chord supposed to be major? I was under the impression that only the 3rd is neither major or minor.

    • @fretjamdotcom
      @fretjamdotcom  Před 3 lety +1

      In most cases the IV will be major and conform to the harmonised major scale. But that's not a rule as such, rather a choice we make based on the sound we want. Ultimately, any chord can be major or minor. Go with what sounds good first and then you can see what has changed from the "natural" scale of the key, if you're going to accompany it in some way.

  • @misterxtreme9575
    @misterxtreme9575 Před 4 lety +1

    When you tell a girl you like her 2:54 but she said she likes you too... As a friend 2:59

  • @hascheidl
    @hascheidl Před 5 lety

    The audio examples are great, but you don't mention anywhere that the chords you're playing have 9ths and others added notes... Was it intentional?

    • @fretjamdotcom
      @fretjamdotcom  Před 5 lety

      Kind of. I like to think of progressions as base triads to which we can add the colours we wish.

  • @Jesse-mh6hv
    @Jesse-mh6hv Před 5 lety

    What about the iii chord

  • @ajsmith4181
    @ajsmith4181 Před 4 lety

    Dude......how long did this take you to learn??? This is like rocket science to my brain haha.

    • @fretjamdotcom
      @fretjamdotcom  Před 4 lety

      I don't know how long it took me but when I listen to music and feel something I tend to ask "what's going on there?" and examine it/break it down. Years of doing that basically lol

  • @maxwellholmes594
    @maxwellholmes594 Před 3 lety

    damn i feel like this guy would write really well w/ btbam hahah

  • @Zacharydderrick
    @Zacharydderrick Před 5 lety +1

    What 4 people put thumbs down?

  • @samuelcaron5865
    @samuelcaron5865 Před 5 lety

    Those extended chords sounded even better than the leads😅

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