Beato is so knowledgeable and presents with such enthusiasm he could run a segment on the Banana Splits or Milli Vanilli and I would think they were the greatest artists of all time.
Rick B: There are only a handful of people in the world that are accomplished in the entire spectrum of music (player, producer, equipment knowledge, etc.), and you're one of them. Thank you for sharing your amazing gift.
no I just disagree most music in western society only uses major, melodic minor, harmonic maj/minor and double harmonic maj/minor and neopolotin scales, yes the messian are there too but we in the West have barley scratched the surface there is so much more out there that needs to be explored if we wanna say how many diatonic 7 notemodes there are there's be about 431 we are stuck in the first 50 or so ,not to take away at all his knowlage is very profound
It's videos like this that first attracted me to this channel when I first discovered it, probably about five years ago. Tons of information, zero waffle. I love this - just clear, concise information, perfectly demonstrated and explained. There's not another youtuber I can think of who would cover this much information in just 7 minutes. Brilliant stuff.
...for advanced graduate students. Kidding, but his theory goes over my head so often on these, I realize just how much I don't know. And his playing...
The speed that Rick applies what's in his mind to the fretboard is totally amazing. Especially with such complex chords and patterns. I've been playing guitar for about 40 years and when I see Rick effortlessly soloing & using scales like the ones in this video, it lets me know just how much I don't know about guitar and how much there still is to learn. Rick, you inspire me to always keep learning and never settle for 'good enough'. Thank you.
@@electricwhiterabbit wow, contradicting an expert in music theory in his own channel is certainly bold. Looking forward to his answer, if he sees your comment!
Damn so much mood in that piece was totally caught off guard. The feeling. Delightful. Uncertain. Defined. Humble. Underestimated. Gripping. Absolute control. Possession. I’d buy the album.
The Phrygian dominant = The fifth mode of the harmonic minor scale. D Phrygian is third mode of Bb major in comparison D Phrygian dominant has a raised third (F#) thus giving the same scale notes as within G harmonic minor . I think of the Phrygian dominant as the mixolydian mode of the harmonic minor scale. The Chords built on each degree of the harmonic minor scale are: (I) Minor (ii)diminished (iii) augmented (iv) minor (V) major( Dominant) (vi)major (vii)diminished. For my own clarity of mind! .Great vid.
There are those with data (the tech). There are those with knowledge (the theory). There are those with skills (the chops). There are those who feel (the push). And there are those who listen (the heart). And then there is Rick Beato who wraps all these things together, masterfully at peace in purpose; powerfully humble and wise, lucidly being Music. Thank you Rick.
Reminds me of Andalucía where I was born. Never learned to read music, made sure that my kids did, so I brought a music teacher into the world. All kids need music first, in their lives.
I discovered this channel a few days ago. Isn't it amazing to be able to watch years of the very best and most unique videos about music for the first time? Wow! I just can't get enough of it!
Hearing the scale/mode combined with video helps convey the mood they embody. Nice to see this kind of video again from Rick. I enjoyed them in the early days of the Channel.
I absolutely LOVE this scale. I only use it occasionally when I want to play something striking over a dominant chord. It’s a mode of harmonic minor, but I never even learned harmonic minor! Lol! I just learned this mode because it appealed so much to me.
yeah my guitar teacher (a cool dude who sold all his stuff to travel to the USA to study at GIT) around nearly 30 yrs ago told me, when I was around 14 "thats the scale the metal kids like most" (E Harmonic Minor 5 (HM5 Scale)). Being such a kid myself he had me listening maybe thats why I seem to remember that day so vividly, I know exactly where I was sitting when I got to know that scale :) He showed me the Harmonic Minor Scale first and once you now it, you only need to start at the 5th.. I didnt know it under the name phrygian dominant (which I also find a bit misleading because in none of the modes you have that of a large intervall like in the harmonic minor scale). I've always liked the harmonic minor scale ever since but I dont think it's much of a secret to metal players :)
@@Cosmefulanito2812 Harmonic Minor, like you said has the 7th raised a semitone. Natural Minor is the same as the Aeolian Mode ... lowered 6th and 7th note. Melodic Minor has a raised 6th an 7th note while ascending up the scale and lowers the 6th and 7th note in a descending pattern.
@@Cosmefulanito2812 and you take harmonic minor and use the 5. As your root note, than you've got that scale. For example start with E on your A harmonic minor. It's the same principle from which you can create all modes out of the major, ionian, scale..
I miss your content like this with your compositions to demonstrate things. Also, this scale comes into Western music from the Arabic and Ottoman modal traditional (through Maghreb/Spain and Anatolia) where it's known as Maqam Hijaz/Hicaz You can raise the 6th degree sometimes which is nice giving a Rast flavor
Yes I think he should have mentioned that. My own guitar piece (in DADGAD) with this scale is rhythmically a blend of northern Morocco (where I live) and Spain (which I can see from my window). It sounds almost traditional to these parts, but play the riff with distortion on and it's instant heavy-metal...
What i found fantastic about your channel Rick, is that i get to learn the name, use and lots more about things i've been doing for years without knowing, thank you!
And now I must write the short story based on the two vignettes you shared to demonstrate the scale. There was something Cyberpunk/The Traveler-ish about the final segment, getting out of the city and off of the grid, hopefully before the prescient dream came to pass - but only sunrise would illuminate the truth.
Thank you for everything, from teaching me things others overcomplicated to simply exposing me to a variety of things to keep me inspired, you really have made my life more pleasurable and more convenient I hope you get the recognition you deserve some day, I think many of us already know future stars will be speaking about how you inspired them to start playing/not give up
"Hold my beer Beato" rippin through a couple dominant 7th arpeggios without a second thought ! I only recently discovered this channel but I've been immersing myself in as much free information as I can! It's awesome that someone so prominent in the business is taking the time to educate and inspire young and old musicians alike! Hopefully this sparks a resurgence in rock music!
Love what you do Rick!!! My goodness that film score chordal section is soo powerful!! I love that you brought us here with TOOL but left us with amazing insight into this scale instead;) your compositions are fantastic!
Phrygian major/dominant = 5th mode of G harmonic minor. Rick, would be great to review "what are modes?" and emphasize that each of the 3 foundational scales (major, harmonic minor, melodic minor) generate their own set of 7 modes, and the harmonizations of each scale as triads and 7th chords go with each mode.
My biggest current obsession / woodshed activity is working on the altered scale, i.e. 7th mode of melodic minor, but I really like some of the other modes of that scale too, e.g. "lydian dominant" etc
2:13 to 2:23 reminds me of the 2001: A Space Odyssey “star gate sequence” with the ominous chords and that feeling of slowly moving when you see the different colored canyons
"The Night Window" is awesome. Christian Williams used it on his video diary of solo sailing the Pacific as he arrived in Hawaii. The music and majestic rolling sea as land came into sight choked me up.
I love listening to you, it makes me realize how much I don't know. Thank you so much for trying to educate me (us) so we can appreciate music even more. 🙂
I don't know if any one here is familiar with Drum Corp International (basically athletic competitive marching band) but The Bluecoats 2016 show "Downside Up" was dominantly written in this key. No pun intended 😉 they won the gold medal that year and is one of the best shows in modern Drum Corp history. Definitely worth a watch
Probably my all-time favourite scale. It'll never not sound cool, no matter style of the music it can sound dark and evil like in metal or majestic as in Rick's film score-esque example. Incredibly versatile and just cool
Yeah, we also use it in Middle Eastern Music, it's Maqam Hijaz, but it's used in a rather different way, not with polyphony, but with monophony and rhythms that are not common to Western Europe. Also, different melismatic colorings of compositions. You can actually have a totally different mode if you use it with radically different musical vocabulary, just like Spanish and Greek, which have nearly identical phonemes, but very different vocabulary.
Beato’s SG sounds killer! I love SG’s like no other! He said the guitar actually has a design flaw and the bridge was actually installed closer then it should be and that’s why he loves the sound so much! I would love to know the spec/measurement on it! Maybe he should do another Collab with Gibson !
A slightly shorter string length would add a few cents sharpness to the octave pitches. Wonder if that ties in with the sneaky tuning Adam Neely talked about in his latest video.
This is absolutely the best video I've seen you produce, so well done my friend, thank you for the great music for me to explore! I am in love with this chord!
This is one of the most common modes in middle eastern music. It's called hijaz / humayun (with various spellings) in Arabic, Turkish, and Greek music. It also has many options for microtuning, most commonly lowering the 3rd by a comma (~20cents), raising the 2nd by a comma, and the sixth moving between a slightly high minor 6th and slightly low major 6th. super expressive...
Super helpful. Great opener with Tool. I never realized just how much venturing away from the basic scales could allow for so much more range of emotion.
I love how this scale is sprinkled into parts of "Little Light of Love" from The Fifth Element movie soundtrack. While that song is primarily in Mixolydian mode, every once in a while the song sprinkles in a minor 2nd. Those sprinkles act as a teaser for the chorus melody, which we don't hear in full until the end of the song (which I believe is sung by Milla Jovovich?). Structurally, I think it's a pretty clever way to play with the Phrygian Major/Phrygian Dominant sound without using that as the primary mode of the song. It makes the chorus stand out, I think. Take a listen (or listen to it again) after watching Rick's video. 😉
Your knowledge of music leaves me flabbergasted, wow! I never heard of the Phrygian Major/Phrygian Dominant Scale before. And I am impressed by your openness to all kind of styles. Your videos are really instructive. Thank you sir!
Hey Rick. Followed your amazing channel for years. We’d love to see more videos like this; complete use of chords and notes in a diatonic scale without borrowing. Thank you 🙏
That was amazing! I feel like you just showed me something that was in front of my face! The Beato Book versions have been the best resource in my adult learning - the interactive is what I needed in college!!!!
@@matthewkennedy7283 not true, they play what they wanna play, that's all. They played the Grudge, the pot and Hooker with a penis the same night, im pretty sure everyone wanted to hear this (maybe less true for HWAP but still). They just play what they want to (outside of the song of the last album when they tour to support it)
@anthony - have u seen pneuma on vic firth?😅 i guess u have… he might be getting older but dude‘s a beast🙌🏻 would shock me if that was the reason for them not to play it
Really cool piece. Kind of reminds me of the Hanz Zimmer soundtrack in Dune. "Leaving Caladan" is a track in Dune that I think also uses this exact scale (D phrygian dominant). Edit: I went back to listen to it and not all of it uses phrygian dominant, there's a lot of double harmonic major in there (which is the same scale but with major 7th instead of a b7).
I love that track. I however don't think it's Phrygian mode. It is in an Hindustani classical scale called Ahir Bhairav which is Major b2 b6 (flat 2nd and 6th) or Phrygian mode with sharp 3rd and 7th?
@@SohamJambhekar You're right I went back to listen to it and most of the track seems to be in D double harmonic major, which is basically phrygian dominant but with a major 7th instead of a b7 (it does eventually go to a C minor chord which uses the flat 7 though so it's kind of a mix).
Started playing guitar because of Adam Jones. I've been listening to Tool since 1993 and started playing guitar myself in 1997. Since then I've been replaying at least 1 Tool song every day. I can definitely say that I have mastered all Tool songs perfectly. :) Recently had my 25 year anniversary. Saw them live for the first time in Cologne in May 2022. In general, I've never been to any concert by any band before. A mental disorder had previously prevented me from doing so. :(
I learned the Phrygian Dominant mode with the song Egyptian Danza when Tour De Force Live came out. To this day , that version of that song is my favorite Phrygian Dominant song of all time, but Mr Beato’s riffage in this video comes a close 2nd. Holy crap that was sweet! To be honest I didn’t know what mode it was back then. I only took 2 guitar lessons, and learned the Chords to Josie , and and the first few bars of Egyptian Danza, but years later learned my modes, including the harmonic minor modes like this one… Some of them are hard to use in a way that is enjoyable. This one and the Locrian Harmonic Minor mode (forget what it’s called) are the only two that I really got into and enjoyed. Thank you for posting this! I will slow down your solo playing on this. That was a gift to my ears!
I've seen Dream Theater's "Home" mentioned by some; there's another riff that preceded both Tool and DT by decades: Let There Be More Light by Pink Floyd. The intro is quite similar.
My saxophone teacher used to call this scale HM5 because you get it when you play a harmonic minor scale up from the 5 (A harmonic minor played from the E, for example). This makes a lot of sense when looking at the Andalusian cadenza. What you play over the 4th chord of this cadenza is either harmonic minor of the tonic or Phrygian major (or HM5) of the dominant. :)
Only Rick can make a video about a metal band, turn it educational, write multiple pieces for it, and then somehow turn it all into a resumé sample work for his capabilities in film scoring. AND THEN it ties in to the commercial for his books! all in 7 minutes. Rick, you are on a roll. A... Rickroll so to speak.
As someone who's ethnically from the 'East', it's interesting to me how often this scale (frequently featured in Indian, Arab, Jewish, Persian music) is used to create a sense of foreboding, horror, etc in Western cinema. So I really appreciated your film score and visuals, associating the scale with how it sounds to my 'oriental' ears - awe-inspiring, ruminative and not 'evil' at all.
Majestic piece Rick Beato.. you inspire me, soothe and some of it actually sinks in. You’re a great teacher. Thankyou so much for making these videos, this channel. Ok I take it back.. you just unsoothed me w that guitar. Lol:) mwah.
INNUENDO by THE QUEEN is, to me, the epitome of Phrygian dominant scale in Rock music...actually the scale is the fifth mode of the harmonic minor...thank you Rick👏
I do not currently play an instrument. Wannabe drummer living in a condo. I learn so many interesting things about music theory from Rick. And he seems to like all the types of rock that I do. Like AIC and TOOL. This episode just blew my mind. At what education level would a musician learn about this scale? Or is it something that musicians learn something like this in non-formal environments like through playing with other musicians? Fascinating! I cannot express my appreciation for this channel.
Many people here are telling that this is an arabic scale and I believe it is rather an ancient Mediterranean scale. You can hear it in folk songs from Mahgrib and Spain but also in Turkey, Greece, Lebanon and so... Personally it brings me back to those old traditional songs that my grandma sang to me. She came from the border between Castilla y León (Spain) and Portugal, and in that remote, harsh and poor place there have never been arabs from Arabia but only Berbers from Northern Africa. Anyway, it's a curious this link between my grandma and Tool!
46 and 2 is probably my single most favorite song of all time. Killer guitar lick, powerful driving rhythm and existentially complex and philosophical lyrics. Plus it's a great song to do the horizontal mambo too with a constant pulsing beat.
Beato is so knowledgeable and presents with such enthusiasm he could run a segment on the Banana Splits or Milli Vanilli and I would think they were the greatest artists of all time.
Mmmm I'm in the mood for a Nanner-Splitter drizzled down with Vanilli-Milli Sauce.
. Wow Banana Splits.Fleegle was about the music. Snorky got suoer into heroin and twisted off. Rock and Roll True Stories has a great video on them.
Bravo
@@geraldfriend256 Absolutely, some in the know consider the Splits the original & baddest of rock's bad boys.
@@3ld919 So much more insidious than a band like Sabbath.
Rick B: There are only a handful of people in the world that are accomplished in the entire spectrum of music (player, producer, equipment knowledge, etc.), and you're one of them. Thank you for sharing your amazing gift.
no I just disagree most music in western society only uses major, melodic minor, harmonic maj/minor and double harmonic maj/minor and neopolotin scales, yes the messian are there too but we in the West have barley scratched the surface there is so much more out there that needs to be explored if we wanna say how many diatonic 7 notemodes there are there's be about 431 we are stuck in the first 50 or so ,not to take away at all his knowlage is very profound
@bathrobeman66 you should check out Ian Ring and his work on all possible scales. I've been exposed to some fascinating ones from him.
It's videos like this that first attracted me to this channel when I first discovered it, probably about five years ago. Tons of information, zero waffle. I love this - just clear, concise information, perfectly demonstrated and explained. There's not another youtuber I can think of who would cover this much information in just 7 minutes. Brilliant stuff.
Thanks!
I would actually not object to Rick Beato giving me waffles.
Same here these types of videos sucked me into this channel and I love that he put another one out!
Rick is the ultimate music appreciation teacher.
...for advanced graduate students. Kidding, but his theory goes over my head so often on these, I realize just how much I don't know. And his playing...
@@sundaynightdrunk Exactly the same emotions were gurgling around in my head. Thank you for speaking for both of us.
@@mrmockatoo6786 3 of us
Yes
The speed that Rick applies what's in his mind to the fretboard is totally amazing. Especially with such complex chords and patterns. I've been playing guitar for about 40 years and when I see Rick effortlessly soloing & using scales like the ones in this video, it lets me know just how much I don't know about guitar and how much there still is to learn. Rick, you inspire me to always keep learning and never settle for 'good enough'. Thank you.
Jerry Cantrell uses the same scale sometimes. Love Hate Love is a good example.
Tool Phrygian Rules! Glad to see you go over so many genres and bands.
That is definitely real and not a scam at all.
@@tshddx ?
@@electricwhiterabbit wow, contradicting an expert in music theory in his own channel is certainly bold. Looking forward to his answer, if he sees your comment!
We need more of Ricks playing. I love watching how smooth his fingers work the fret board on guitar.
Yes! An old-school Rick music theory vid 👍👍👍 THESE are what I originally subscribed for back in the day
I play a lot of Opeth and this is one of the most common scales that Akerfeldt uses as well.
Was thinking the same. Also Riverside, I believe.
Heads-up. sounds much like a scam
@@ianperry5522 It is. Please report it.
@@ianperry5522 what does
@@oscarriley9265 That comment probably got removed because they reported it.
Who else would LUV if Rick scored an entire movie?!
Some would love if he stared in an adult movie and composed the entire score of the film 🙌
@@kane6529 wtf?
@@kane6529 exactly my thoughts too. Well said sir.
@@kane6529 lol 😅
@@kane6529 🤣 🤣 🤣
I remember when this came out it was the same year August is Falling was touring through Ottawa. That was a hell of a show!!!
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Damn so much mood in that piece was totally caught off guard. The feeling. Delightful. Uncertain. Defined. Humble. Underestimated. Gripping. Absolute control. Possession. I’d buy the album.
The Phrygian dominant = The fifth mode of the harmonic minor scale. D Phrygian is third mode of Bb major in comparison D Phrygian dominant has a raised third (F#) thus giving the same scale notes as within G harmonic minor . I think of the Phrygian dominant as the mixolydian mode of the harmonic minor scale. The Chords built on each degree of the harmonic minor scale are: (I) Minor (ii)diminished (iii) augmented (iv) minor (V) major( Dominant) (vi)major (vii)diminished. For my own clarity of mind! .Great vid.
More of these kind of videos please...mostly for your compositions and examples and usages of every scale/mode etc.
There are those with data (the tech). There are those with knowledge (the theory). There are those with skills (the chops). There are those who feel (the push). And there are those who listen (the heart).
And then there is Rick Beato who wraps all these things together, masterfully at peace in purpose; powerfully humble and wise, lucidly being Music.
Thank you Rick.
Nice!👍
Reminds me of Andalucía where I was born. Never learned to read music, made sure that my kids did, so I brought a music teacher into the world. All kids need music first, in their lives.
I discovered this channel a few days ago. Isn't it amazing to be able to watch years of the very best and most unique videos about music for the first time?
Wow! I just can't get enough of it!
Only Rick Beato could go from Tool to a film score and show us the links. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Every Composer understands that Tool's song composition is cinematic.
@@gregoryl.levitre9759 Very much so.
The link is the mode. And I could have told you that
Jeez, Rick you even crush the piano like a boss. That last piece was freaking amazing!
Johann Sebastian Bach meets Keit Jarrett ... simply AMAZING !!!
Beautiful Phrygian dominant composition . I really enjoyed the juxtaposition of light and dark tones coming in and out of each other.
I love the way Rick takes my love of music to places I never thought it would go. Thank you for all the notes!
Love these kinds of harmony focused videos from Rick. More please!
Hearing the scale/mode combined with video helps convey the mood they embody. Nice to see this kind of video again from Rick. I enjoyed them in the early days of the Channel.
I absolutely LOVE this scale. I only use it occasionally when I want to play something striking over a dominant chord. It’s a mode of harmonic minor, but I never even learned harmonic minor! Lol! I just learned this mode because it appealed so much to me.
yeah my guitar teacher (a cool dude who sold all his stuff to travel to the USA to study at GIT) around nearly 30 yrs ago told me, when I was around 14 "thats the scale the metal kids like most" (E Harmonic Minor 5 (HM5 Scale)). Being such a kid myself he had me listening maybe thats why I seem to remember that day so vividly, I know exactly where I was sitting when I got to know that scale :) He showed me the Harmonic Minor Scale first and once you now it, you only need to start at the 5th.. I didnt know it under the name phrygian dominant (which I also find a bit misleading because in none of the modes you have that of a large intervall like in the harmonic minor scale). I've always liked the harmonic minor scale ever since but I dont think it's much of a secret to metal players :)
Harmonic minor is Natural Minor with a sharp 7th I think
@@Cosmefulanito2812 yes
@@Cosmefulanito2812 Harmonic Minor, like you said has the 7th raised a semitone. Natural Minor is the same as the Aeolian Mode ... lowered 6th and 7th note. Melodic Minor has a raised 6th an 7th note while ascending up the scale and lowers the 6th and 7th note in a descending pattern.
@@Cosmefulanito2812 and you take harmonic minor and use the 5. As your root note, than you've got that scale. For example start with E on your A harmonic minor. It's the same principle from which you can create all modes out of the major, ionian, scale..
You had me at Tool 🇺🇸
'nuff said
I'm pretty sure the secrets of universes are in the mathematics of Tool songs.
Ah yes the All American band Tool! Haha
@@treyhudson73 yes that was what the song "prison sex" was all about
Same
That piece at the end deserves it’s own film! 👏🏻🖤🎼
I miss your content like this with your compositions to demonstrate things. Also, this scale comes into Western music from the Arabic and Ottoman modal traditional (through Maghreb/Spain and Anatolia) where it's known as Maqam Hijaz/Hicaz You can raise the 6th degree sometimes which is nice giving a Rast flavor
If you listen to Maynards vocals in many Tool songs, they have an almost "call to prayer" quality to them.
Yes I think he should have mentioned that. My own guitar piece (in DADGAD) with this scale is rhythmically a blend of northern Morocco (where I live) and Spain (which I can see from my window). It sounds almost traditional to these parts, but play the riff with distortion on and it's instant heavy-metal...
That was some great piano and guitar playing. You should record a solo album.
What i found fantastic about your channel Rick, is that i get to learn the name, use and lots more about things i've been doing for years without knowing, thank you!
This channel makes me love music more and in-depth
Rick, your compositions demonstrating different scales and modes are out of this world!!!
And now I must write the short story based on the two vignettes you shared to demonstrate the scale. There was something Cyberpunk/The Traveler-ish about the final segment, getting out of the city and off of the grid, hopefully before the prescient dream came to pass - but only sunrise would illuminate the truth.
Thank you for everything, from teaching me things others overcomplicated to simply exposing me to a variety of things to keep me inspired, you really have made my life more pleasurable and more convenient
I hope you get the recognition you deserve some day, I think many of us already know future stars will be speaking about how you inspired them to start playing/not give up
A beautiful film score you wrote. And Tool is my favorite band. Their music is phenomenal.
"Hold my beer Beato" rippin through a couple dominant 7th arpeggios without a second thought ! I only recently discovered this channel but I've been immersing myself in as much free information as I can! It's awesome that someone so prominent in the business is taking the time to educate and inspire young and old musicians alike! Hopefully this sparks a resurgence in rock music!
Love what you do Rick!!! My goodness that film score chordal section is soo powerful!! I love that you brought us here with TOOL but left us with amazing insight into this scale instead;) your compositions are fantastic!
This is why this is the best music channel on youtube. Composing 2 world class pieces perfectly demonstrating and explaining the concept
Phrygian major/dominant = 5th mode of G harmonic minor. Rick, would be great to review "what are modes?" and emphasize that each of the 3 foundational scales (major, harmonic minor, melodic minor) generate their own set of 7 modes, and the harmonizations of each scale as triads and 7th chords go with each mode.
My biggest current obsession / woodshed activity is working on the altered scale, i.e. 7th mode of melodic minor, but I really like some of the other modes of that scale too, e.g. "lydian dominant" etc
You just put that so succinctly it started to make sense to me
I’m vibing on that last piece. Seriously awesome composition Rick. Thank you for the inspiration and hunger for everything music.
2:13 to 2:23 reminds me of the 2001: A Space Odyssey “star gate sequence” with the ominous chords and that feeling of slowly moving when you see the different colored canyons
Fav movie ever! Such a good scene
Thats funny you say that. Those aerial shots reminded me of the beginning scenes of The Shining, another film besides 2001 directed by Kubrick
That film is so slow-paced and hard to take in but 100% worth it, at least for me (reading the novel helps a lot too).
Ligeti for the win.
What a great music lesson, Rick. I've been at the piano for two years now, and I GET this, much to my satisfaction.
The instrumental at 4:40 reminds me of a piano motif used in the movie “1917” in the pieces labeled “Gehenna” & “The Night Window.”
That movie has a great soundtrack. Come back to us is my favorite
"The Night Window" is awesome. Christian Williams used it on his video diary of solo sailing the Pacific as he arrived in Hawaii. The music and majestic rolling sea as land came into sight choked me up.
The Night Window is goosebumps inducing especially coupled with Roger Deakins visuals. It's like the music becomes symbiotic with the light movements.
One of my jazz teachers taught me this in relation to Cuban music and I now use it a lot too. Great video as always.
I love listening to you, it makes me realize how much I don't know. Thank you so much for trying to educate me (us) so we can appreciate music even more. 🙂
I don't know if any one here is familiar with Drum Corp International (basically athletic competitive marching band) but The Bluecoats 2016 show "Downside Up" was dominantly written in this key. No pun intended 😉 they won the gold medal that year and is one of the best shows in modern Drum Corp history. Definitely worth a watch
I ❤️ the visual audio you incorporated, well done
It’s so epic and when you put it on a backdrop it makes even better sense
Probably my all-time favourite scale. It'll never not sound cool, no matter style of the music it can sound dark and evil like in metal or majestic as in Rick's film score-esque example. Incredibly versatile and just cool
Yeah, we also use it in Middle Eastern Music, it's Maqam Hijaz, but it's used in a rather different way, not with polyphony, but with monophony and rhythms that are not common to Western Europe.
Also, different melismatic colorings of compositions.
You can actually have a totally different mode if you use it with radically different musical vocabulary, just like Spanish and Greek, which have nearly identical phonemes, but very different vocabulary.
Thank you Rick for providing the best Music Tutorial Channel I have ever seen. Bless you man ......you are sensational. JIMBO
Beato’s SG sounds killer! I love SG’s like no other! He said the guitar actually has a design flaw and the bridge was actually installed closer then it should be and that’s why he loves the sound so much! I would love to know the spec/measurement on it! Maybe he should do another Collab with Gibson !
That would be awesome
A slightly shorter string length would add a few cents sharpness to the octave pitches. Wonder if that ties in with the sneaky tuning Adam Neely talked about in his latest video.
This is absolutely the best video I've seen you produce, so well done my friend, thank you for the great music for me to explore! I am in love with this chord!
This is one of the most common modes in middle eastern music. It's called hijaz / humayun (with various spellings) in Arabic, Turkish, and Greek music. It also has many options for microtuning, most commonly lowering the 3rd by a comma (~20cents), raising the 2nd by a comma, and the sixth moving between a slightly high minor 6th and slightly low major 6th. super expressive...
Beautiful! Loved the track!! Immediately took me places in my mind, which all great orchestration should do. Love it.
Amazing lesson
Super helpful. Great opener with Tool. I never realized just how much venturing away from the basic scales could allow for so much more range of emotion.
I love how this scale is sprinkled into parts of "Little Light of Love" from The Fifth Element movie soundtrack. While that song is primarily in Mixolydian mode, every once in a while the song sprinkles in a minor 2nd. Those sprinkles act as a teaser for the chorus melody, which we don't hear in full until the end of the song (which I believe is sung by Milla Jovovich?). Structurally, I think it's a pretty clever way to play with the Phrygian Major/Phrygian Dominant sound without using that as the primary mode of the song. It makes the chorus stand out, I think. Take a listen (or listen to it again) after watching Rick's video. 😉
Super knowledgeable comment. Thank you. And I agree, sprinkling in exotic elements is superior to a whole plate of… cloves!!
4:16 Oh Lord, you're so great Sir Beato. It's so beautiful.
I discovered this scale by accident awhile ago, and wrote a Tango piece to it
Your knowledge of music leaves me flabbergasted, wow! I never heard of the Phrygian Major/Phrygian Dominant Scale before. And I am impressed by your openness to all kind of styles. Your videos are really instructive. Thank you sir!
Hey Rick. Followed your amazing channel for years. We’d love to see more videos like this; complete use of chords and notes in a diatonic scale without borrowing. Thank you 🙏
That was amazing! I feel like you just showed me something that was in front of my face! The Beato Book versions have been the best resource in my adult learning - the interactive is what I needed in college!!!!
Other names for this scale: Harmonic Minor starting on the fifth, Dominant 7 b9.
You're right about the b6! Maybe I was thinking backwards, it's a scale often used playing over a a Dom7b9 chord.
I just feel so good when I hear that scale being played!
have seen Tool live 3 times... never played 46&2.
still mad
They didn’t play it cause people wanna hear it…
@@matthewkennedy7283 not true, they play what they wanna play, that's all. They played the Grudge, the pot and Hooker with a penis the same night, im pretty sure everyone wanted to hear this (maybe less true for HWAP but still). They just play what they want to (outside of the song of the last album when they tour to support it)
@anthony - have u seen pneuma on vic firth?😅 i guess u have… he might be getting older but dude‘s a beast🙌🏻
would shock me if that was the reason for them not to play it
They played it when I saw them in 2020.
I'm waiting on the 7empest.
"The Steppes" of Steve Hackett. Great example of the use of phrygian mode, and exploring around other modes. Such a great work!
This is fascinating, Rick. I have so much to learn.....need to practice more.
The lighting of your videos looks damn good Rick. In essence your videos are a treat to the eyes and the ears.
Mr.B is correct! That scale does sound good!🎸
Rick, pls do another video with this approach, super interesting
Also reminds me of King Gizzard's microtonal albums, love it.
I was studying Phrygian Dominant today! But practicing in G. Must have searched something related but I’m glad I’m here
Really cool piece. Kind of reminds me of the Hanz Zimmer soundtrack in Dune. "Leaving Caladan" is a track in Dune that I think also uses this exact scale (D phrygian dominant).
Edit: I went back to listen to it and not all of it uses phrygian dominant, there's a lot of double harmonic major in there (which is the same scale but with major 7th instead of a b7).
There were parts of it that made me think of Stargate...
Paul D'Amour of Tool worked with Hans on the Dune score.
I love that track. I however don't think it's Phrygian mode. It is in an Hindustani classical scale called Ahir Bhairav which is Major b2 b6 (flat 2nd and 6th) or Phrygian mode with sharp 3rd and 7th?
@@SohamJambhekar You're right I went back to listen to it and most of the track seems to be in D double harmonic major, which is basically phrygian dominant but with a major 7th instead of a b7 (it does eventually go to a C minor chord which uses the flat 7 though so it's kind of a mix).
@@SubtleHawk Yep, like a modal mixture of phrygian dominant and double harmonic major.
Easily my favorite scale. So beautiful. Supposedly traces back as far as the Kingdom of Judah, making it even more classic than the Classical Era
Started playing guitar because of Adam Jones. I've been listening to Tool since 1993 and started playing guitar myself in 1997. Since then I've been replaying at least 1 Tool song every day. I can definitely say that I have mastered all Tool songs perfectly. :) Recently had my 25 year anniversary.
Saw them live for the first time in Cologne in May 2022. In general, I've never been to any concert by any band before.
A mental disorder had previously prevented me from doing so. :(
I learned the Phrygian Dominant mode with the song Egyptian Danza when Tour De Force Live came out.
To this day , that version of that song is my favorite Phrygian Dominant song of all time, but Mr Beato’s riffage in this video comes a close 2nd. Holy crap that was sweet!
To be honest I didn’t know what mode it was back then. I only took 2 guitar lessons, and learned the Chords to Josie , and and the first few bars of Egyptian Danza, but years later learned my modes, including the harmonic minor modes like this one… Some of them are hard to use in a way that is enjoyable. This one and the Locrian Harmonic Minor mode (forget what it’s called) are the only two that I really got into and enjoyed.
Thank you for posting this! I will slow down your solo playing on this. That was a gift to my ears!
I've seen Dream Theater's "Home" mentioned by some; there's another riff that preceded both Tool and DT by decades: Let There Be More Light by Pink Floyd. The intro is quite similar.
and flamenco wins by 200 years
Great pick. Let There Be More Light is one of my favourite all-time songs, and from one of my favourite all-time albums.
Rick! Once again you’ve proven that you are one of the world’s greatest living musicians!
Love this Beato! Radiohead are also a great example of Phrygian major scale use without having that metal sound. It's got that haunting quality
That's what I was reminded of but couldn't think of!
Tool and Radiohead. Two of my favorites. This chord usage in music must sublimely strike me.
Reminds me of Los Mariachis
Pyramid Song In Particular
everything in its right place as well
My saxophone teacher used to call this scale HM5 because you get it when you play a harmonic minor scale up from the 5 (A harmonic minor played from the E, for example). This makes a lot of sense when looking at the Andalusian cadenza. What you play over the 4th chord of this cadenza is either harmonic minor of the tonic or Phrygian major (or HM5) of the dominant. :)
Exactly!
Brilliant and passionate!
Hey, Rick - was the piano section all sequenced or was there also some realtime playing in there?
Only Rick can make a video about a metal band, turn it educational, write multiple pieces for it, and then somehow turn it all into a resumé sample work for his capabilities in film scoring. AND THEN it ties in to the commercial for his books! all in 7 minutes. Rick, you are on a roll. A... Rickroll so to speak.
It makes me think that it would be amazing to have Tori Amos playing with Tool.
Maynard is a friend of hers and he sings her lullabies when she feels lonely. There is a video about that, where they sing together. Amazing stuff!
Maynard sang a duet with Tori on Muhammad My Friend.
I always fantasized about a tool/enya collab
This is an old school Beato composition / scale video, love it.
As someone who's ethnically from the 'East', it's interesting to me how often this scale (frequently featured in Indian, Arab, Jewish, Persian music) is used to create a sense of foreboding, horror, etc in Western cinema.
So I really appreciated your film score and visuals, associating the scale with how it sounds to my 'oriental' ears - awe-inspiring, ruminative and not 'evil' at all.
I never found it to be evil sounding. I get a sense of awe or adventure vibe from it.
Majestic piece Rick Beato.. you inspire me, soothe and some of it actually sinks in. You’re a great teacher. Thankyou so much for making these videos, this channel.
Ok I take it back.. you just unsoothed me w that guitar. Lol:) mwah.
INNUENDO by THE QUEEN is, to me, the epitome of Phrygian dominant scale in Rock music...actually the scale is the fifth mode of the harmonic minor...thank you Rick👏
I loved that you played this during your Los Angeles show.
Tool evolved out of what was done on discipline by king crimson
I do not currently play an instrument. Wannabe drummer living in a condo. I learn so many interesting things about music theory from Rick. And he seems to like all the types of rock that I do. Like AIC and TOOL. This episode just blew my mind. At what education level would a musician learn about this scale? Or is it something that musicians learn something like this in non-formal environments like through playing with other musicians? Fascinating! I cannot express my appreciation for this channel.
I've been hoping for another Tool related video since the MJK interview lol
Many people here are telling that this is an arabic scale and I believe it is rather an ancient Mediterranean scale. You can hear it in folk songs from Mahgrib and Spain but also in Turkey, Greece, Lebanon and so... Personally it brings me back to those old traditional songs that my grandma sang to me. She came from the border between Castilla y León (Spain) and Portugal, and in that remote, harsh and poor place there have never been arabs from Arabia but only Berbers from Northern Africa. Anyway, it's a curious this link between my grandma and Tool!
Dream Theater uses the scale often as well.
The beautiful intro to "Home" immediately comes to mind.
I'm in love with the right hand craziness from 6:19 on!
46 and 2 is probably my single most favorite song of all time. Killer guitar lick, powerful driving rhythm and existentially complex and philosophical lyrics. Plus it's a great song to do the horizontal mambo too with a constant pulsing beat.
I could listen to that piece of music all day. Haunting and beautiful
thank you. I've been telling people I'm in the key of Tool for far too long.
Great sound! Elegant and vibrant at the same time. That scale really unleashes nostalgia and a relentless flow of consciusness.
Great job!
5th mode of the harmonic minor! Love it!