Easy way to get your head round modes. Each mode can be played solely on white notes, you just adjust which note you start on and then you can use the transpose to adjust the key to the one you desire. - Ionian: White notes starting on C. (Major) Dorian: White notes starting on D. Phrygian: White notes starting on E. Lydian: White notes starting on F. Mixolydian: White notes starting on G. Aeolian: White notes starting on A. (Natural minor) Locrian: White notes starting on B e.g. you want C Phrygian - play the keyboard starting on E and transpose down 4 semi-tones.
I dont listen or produce psytrance. I used to listen too it for a little while and went too a few psytrance raves. However this channel is still very informative for production in general and is very well presented.
Wow man... great tutorial... I was actually having a creativity block and watching your method opened the melody possibilities a lot. Thank you so much 🙏
@@DashGlitch Yeah! I used to do the octaves thing but intuitively, so I forgot it while diving into other stuff. Then I watched your vid and everything just fell in place. I must say how much I admire how you do your videos, the passion you put on them as well, the accuraccy just being you, spontaneus and genuine. It's clear you love perfection, exploring methods, optimizing, creating new forms, as it's clear you're aware of your potential and limitations, then you don't fear and go beyond. Should be more people with that attitude!
nice video Dash! Instead of memorizing scales in 12 tonalities it's easier to just memorize the sequence of Tone and Semitones...then you can apply the structure to any key...! I mean ...major scale sequence of tone and semitones is T-T-ST-T-T-T-ST .... in minor natural T-ST-T-T-ST-T-T ....in minor harmonic T-ST-T-T-ST-T+ST (1Te1/2)-ST and so on....the structure is always the same in any key and works with all scales...pentatonics included and modes also.
ive been listening to a lot of bach lately and boy does he love a wiggle. especially sort of wiggling into the tonic before the resolution, then hitting the tonic on the offbeat before the resolution and then the tonic again over the tonic chord. he does it so much in his cantatas its kind of funny. think in sheet music it's usually called a mordent, other people call it a trill. the thing you call phyrgian dominant is just phrygian, think it'd be phrygian dominant if you had a natural third (E), bc then it'd be a C phrygian sounding scale (because it has the characteristic b2 and b6) that includes a C dominant chord. thing you call melodic minor is a harmonic minor, (jazz) melodic minor would also have an natural 6 (A) bc classical composers didnt like the minor third between b6 and natural 7. harmonic minor is probably my fav scale tbh its nice and spicy. melodic minor is a weird ass scale, its this weird mix of minor and major that has a lot of whole steps in sequence from b3 all the way to 7. i don't trust it. slimy scale. good trick with the note transpose, might start recommending that to anyone asking for scale highlights.
Yea true Bach did it a lot but western music got tamed after Bach. I always get confused between the 2 names of modes, in fact I said both but edited out harmonic after I googled it but I think it was late at night because the same search yielded dif results lol
@@DashGlitch lol fair, harmonic and melodic minor get pretty weird in classical, there melodic minor is like a mix of the two depending on if you go up or down the scale
For some reason im not gettin those semi tone wiggles which u are getting they dnt sound the same as yours do u have any glide portomento on ?? Before even u get into vital synthesis??? Im on ableton and when i do this the note dnt play like this
But seriously? 👊 it did sound pretty sick! Havent been able to spend too much time in the accent n flourish arena yet. Def a weakness on my part. As for Eastern Mediteranian flair? Have only gone their with guitar, not yet in the synths! Thanks for the insights! 🙏
if you're used to bending on guitar it might be easier to do the bend with a pitch wheel, just set it to +-1, but yea it's great for making simple stuff sound like a solo
Maybe I’m confused here, but my understanding of the modes is that for C major, you’d need E Phrygian, not C Phrygian. Either way great vid as always, this is helpful stuff
@@DashGlitch no doubt. I've been subscribed for years. Love your advice - such a deep catalog of really solid and sometimes very intricate techniques. (Mod remaps in vital still bend my brain, but I guess in a way they're just wavetables themselves...)
One or two larger intervals (3 semitones) will get you even more Exotic sounds. Very un-Western, moreso than tones or semitones … but not so large a jump that it becomes too ‘un-melodic’ …
Why would Phrygian = Eastern, and Pentatonic = Harmonic … ? I’m genuinely curious what you mean by this? Harmonic generally refers to Diads/Chords, so scales and modes themselves can’t really sound Harmonic (whatever that could mean vis-a-viz just a scale or a mode)? And yes, there’s a Harmonic Minor Scale etc, but they don’t ‘sound Harmonic’, whatever that means. 🤔
just harmonic in the sense of less dissonant ig. the western pentatonics don't have any half steps or tritones , so they sound a lot more consonant and sort of friendly. why phrygian sounds eastern(as in arabic, more or less) to western ears is probably sth many a phd has been written about, dash is definetely not alone in hearing it as such. it's a bit of a complicated history lol
@@TildeSounds I wouldn’t say Phrygian sounds any more Arabic than any other mode of the Major Scale … which is to say, it doesn’t sound Arabic at all … You must be thinking of scales with one or more [3-semitone] intervals (ie none of the modes of the Major Scale), like “Phrygian Dominant” (a different scale to Phrygian … only one note different, but that change makes a HUGE difference to the sound, and is where all that exotic feel comes from), “Double Harmonic Major”, etc …
@@kierenmoore3236 its subjective, but phrygian definetely sounds more arabic to me and many others. That much is just factual. Not as much as harmonic minor or sth, but still.
@@DashGlitch I even dream music melodies. Everybody's not the same. No need for music theory when you have absolute pitch and a keyboard + DAW. All those "How to make melody" "how to sound like" are destroying originality and homogenize the music industry, which is already oversaturrated with copycats. When you have a melody in your mind, no need to know about music theory, just find the notes on the keyboard and that's it. When you don't have any ideas, well, just do something else.
I think maybe you missed what I said in the video - I agree on certain aspect, but also you can't get absolute pitch without years of training, what you're saying has elements of truth but it seems a little bit stretched that you popped out the womb with universal musical wisdom :D
@@DashGlitch Yes i understand your point, for absolute pitch, i got it naturally since i first touched a keyboard at 9 years old, i guess for others it's a longer process ; i don't say i have universal musical wisdom but, without music theory, i always get people to say to me "your music is something different", because, when instead of "learning" the theory, you "explore" music, you end up building kind of your own personnal muical universe (of course with influences) rather than like, you know, making a song based on "the axis of awesome - 4 chords songs". And, because of all those "tutorials" on "how to make this or that" "how to sound like x or y" wich now exist for many years on youtube, because of other things like samples packs, people do not even explorer their own musical universe and just copy. This is one cause of the homogenic music industry now. Nowadays, if you don't "sound like" the famous artists of your genre, you're not getting attention online, back in the 90's - early 2000's, if you were replicating an other artist or artist "kind of melodies or sounds", you were the one nobody wanted to listen to. The paradigm has shifted, i'm really upset about it. That's why i really go hard on tutorials like this. People should just explore their own musical universe rather than learn "how to", it's more fun, more "happy mistakes", etc. But nowadays the goal is to make money via streaming, not really making music and being noticed if you got Talent (and luck), so people go the easy way, and then complain because nobody listen to their music. "Well, boy, that's normal, you're not a composer, you're a good student." And there's so much other stuff i could give as exmple. My 3 cents that nobody cares about. We need a reset. AI music will hopefully help 🤡🤡🤡
Easy way to get your head round modes. Each mode can be played solely on white notes, you just adjust which note you start on and then you can use the transpose to adjust the key to the one you desire. -
Ionian: White notes starting on C. (Major)
Dorian: White notes starting on D.
Phrygian: White notes starting on E.
Lydian: White notes starting on F.
Mixolydian: White notes starting on G.
Aeolian: White notes starting on A. (Natural minor)
Locrian: White notes starting on B
e.g. you want C Phrygian - play the keyboard starting on E and transpose down 4 semi-tones.
What about starting on B?
@@gershommaes902 that mode is Locrian
@@2bitvideogames259 sorry I missed that one, doh!
@@gershommaes902 I forgot to state that one, added it in now.
Thanks for making it easy :)
I dont listen or produce psytrance. I used to listen too it for a little while and went too a few psytrance raves. However this channel is still very informative for production in general and is very well presented.
Really enjoyed that dude, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your glitch hoodie is too sick
Thank you! My gf got it custom made for me :D
amazing stuff bro thanks
Awesome ! Always nice to see how you are able to share and keep things going !
natural minor, dorian and phrygian are my favs
also like the diminished scale for weird stuff
Barock wiggeling!!! Excelent journey from basic music theory to hands on melody creation. Thank you so much
You're very welcome!
great workflow, tysm!
Wow man... great tutorial... I was actually having a creativity block and watching your method opened the melody possibilities a lot. Thank you so much 🙏
That’s great news! Glad to help
@@DashGlitch Yeah! I used to do the octaves thing but intuitively, so I forgot it while diving into other stuff. Then I watched your vid and everything just fell in place. I must say how much I admire how you do your videos, the passion you put on them as well, the accuraccy just being you, spontaneus and genuine. It's clear you love perfection, exploring methods, optimizing, creating new forms, as it's clear you're aware of your potential and limitations, then you don't fear and go beyond. Should be more people with that attitude!
Always a pleasure watching your videos ❤
Thank you so much!
Thank you very helpful ❤️❤️
nice video Dash! Instead of memorizing scales in 12 tonalities it's easier to just memorize the sequence of Tone and Semitones...then you can apply the structure to any key...!
I mean ...major scale sequence of tone and semitones is T-T-ST-T-T-T-ST .... in minor natural T-ST-T-T-ST-T-T ....in minor harmonic T-ST-T-T-ST-T+ST (1Te1/2)-ST and so on....the structure is always the same in any key and works with all scales...pentatonics included and modes also.
Good point! Although I would find playing while transposed easier than working it out every time, but yea many roads lead to Rome 🤙
ive been listening to a lot of bach lately and boy does he love a wiggle. especially sort of wiggling into the tonic before the resolution, then hitting the tonic on the offbeat before the resolution and then the tonic again over the tonic chord. he does it so much in his cantatas its kind of funny.
think in sheet music it's usually called a mordent, other people call it a trill.
the thing you call phyrgian dominant is just phrygian, think it'd be phrygian dominant if you had a natural third (E), bc then it'd be a C phrygian sounding scale (because it has the characteristic b2 and b6) that includes a C dominant chord.
thing you call melodic minor is a harmonic minor, (jazz) melodic minor would also have an natural 6 (A) bc classical composers didnt like the minor third between b6 and natural 7.
harmonic minor is probably my fav scale tbh its nice and spicy.
melodic minor is a weird ass scale, its this weird mix of minor and major that has a lot of whole steps in sequence from b3 all the way to 7. i don't trust it. slimy scale.
good trick with the note transpose, might start recommending that to anyone asking for scale highlights.
Yea true Bach did it a lot but western music got tamed after Bach. I always get confused between the 2 names of modes, in fact I said both but edited out harmonic after I googled it but I think it was late at night because the same search yielded dif results lol
@@DashGlitch lol fair, harmonic and melodic minor get pretty weird in classical, there melodic minor is like a mix of the two depending on if you go up or down the scale
super helpful. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
loved this video ! so inspiring !! thank you !!! more like this one pls 😎💯💯💯
You got it!
thumbs up 272 , nice shpongle part - thx master
Crazy lagato lead 😮
For some reason im not gettin those semi tone wiggles which u are getting they dnt sound the same as yours do u have any glide portomento on ?? Before even u get into vital synthesis??? Im on ableton and when i do this the note dnt play like this
Yes I did mention glide 👍
Can you do a step-by-step walkthrough for that "Amethyst Deceiver" patch, please?
I'd be down for more music theory, too, though :)
Sure, i'll do that for a future video
@@DashGlitch Thanks .. I'm looking forward to it :)
But seriously? 👊 it did sound pretty sick! Havent been able to spend too much time in the accent n flourish arena yet. Def a weakness on my part. As for Eastern Mediteranian flair? Have only gone their with guitar, not yet in the synths! Thanks for the insights! 🙏
if you're used to bending on guitar it might be easier to do the bend with a pitch wheel, just set it to +-1, but yea it's great for making simple stuff sound like a solo
"Stop doing this"
Arrow pointing at nothing.
Exactly ;) “Stop doing nothing” hehe
that was fuuuun
Maybe I’m confused here, but my understanding of the modes is that for C major, you’d need E Phrygian, not C Phrygian. Either way great vid as always, this is helpful stuff
You're thinking of relative scales, which is a bit confusing for what we're doing.
That thumbnail image, is that, like, NZ style dry humor?
I don’t know, I have never been to NZ XD I just get inspired by all the other TH-cam thumbnails but try to actually make the content good
@@DashGlitch no doubt. I've been subscribed for years. Love your advice - such a deep catalog of really solid and sometimes very intricate techniques. (Mod remaps in vital still bend my brain, but I guess in a way they're just wavetables themselves...)
Lastly; i think you're the ONLY person ive yet to hear mention Sphongle😏☺️
It's a damn shame, they're the best
is this piano roll the ableton piano roll/midi editor?
the DAW hes using is BitWig.. not sure exactly what you were asking :D
I think he's referring to the thumbnail, but the techniques apply to any DAW in this video :)
@@DashGlitch ahhh yes could well be xD
haha!
& yes a piano roll is a piano roll.. :D
One or two larger intervals (3 semitones) will get you even more Exotic sounds. Very un-Western, moreso than tones or semitones … but not so large a jump that it becomes too ‘un-melodic’ …
Thanks! I’ll definitely try that!
@@DashGlitch 👍🏼 But don’t thank me - thank Music Theory, hahaha
What the daw you work ?
Bitwig studio
I thought this was going to be another AI video for a second then you mentioned playing!...
Why would Phrygian = Eastern, and Pentatonic = Harmonic … ? I’m genuinely curious what you mean by this? Harmonic generally refers to Diads/Chords, so scales and modes themselves can’t really sound Harmonic (whatever that could mean vis-a-viz just a scale or a mode)? And yes, there’s a Harmonic Minor Scale etc, but they don’t ‘sound Harmonic’, whatever that means. 🤔
I guess I missworded it, I just couldn’t think of another descriptor for pentatonic in the moment
just harmonic in the sense of less dissonant ig. the western pentatonics don't have any half steps or tritones , so they sound a lot more consonant and sort of friendly.
why phrygian sounds eastern(as in arabic, more or less) to western ears is probably sth many a phd has been written about, dash is definetely not alone in hearing it as such. it's a bit of a complicated history lol
Precisely, I should have used the word consonant, thanks
@@TildeSounds I wouldn’t say Phrygian sounds any more Arabic than any other mode of the Major Scale … which is to say, it doesn’t sound Arabic at all … You must be thinking of scales with one or more [3-semitone] intervals (ie none of the modes of the Major Scale), like “Phrygian Dominant” (a different scale to Phrygian … only one note different, but that change makes a HUGE difference to the sound, and is where all that exotic feel comes from), “Double Harmonic Major”, etc …
@@kierenmoore3236 its subjective, but phrygian definetely sounds more arabic to me and many others. That much is just factual. Not as much as harmonic minor or sth, but still.
Goa is 3 notes at the most. The rest is extra.
The other genres are only 1 without any extra.......
People get very hung up about theory, but ultimately, it's about what sounds good.
100% 💯🙌
Personnaly i just get my leads in my mind.... There's no reciepe, if you follow a reciepe, you'll sound like all the others...
Sure, no music theory knowledge or anything right? it all just magically appeared in your mind? hehe
@@DashGlitch I even dream music melodies. Everybody's not the same. No need for music theory when you have absolute pitch and a keyboard + DAW. All those "How to make melody" "how to sound like" are destroying originality and homogenize the music industry, which is already oversaturrated with copycats. When you have a melody in your mind, no need to know about music theory, just find the notes on the keyboard and that's it. When you don't have any ideas, well, just do something else.
I think maybe you missed what I said in the video - I agree on certain aspect, but also you can't get absolute pitch without years of training, what you're saying has elements of truth but it seems a little bit stretched that you popped out the womb with universal musical wisdom :D
@@DashGlitch Yes i understand your point, for absolute pitch, i got it naturally since i first touched a keyboard at 9 years old, i guess for others it's a longer process ; i don't say i have universal musical wisdom but, without music theory, i always get people to say to me "your music is something different", because, when instead of "learning" the theory, you "explore" music, you end up building kind of your own personnal muical universe (of course with influences) rather than like, you know, making a song based on "the axis of awesome - 4 chords songs". And, because of all those "tutorials" on "how to make this or that" "how to sound like x or y" wich now exist for many years on youtube, because of other things like samples packs, people do not even explorer their own musical universe and just copy.
This is one cause of the homogenic music industry now. Nowadays, if you don't "sound like" the famous artists of your genre, you're not getting attention online, back in the 90's - early 2000's, if you were replicating an other artist or artist "kind of melodies or sounds", you were the one nobody wanted to listen to. The paradigm has shifted, i'm really upset about it. That's why i really go hard on tutorials like this. People should just explore their own musical universe rather than learn "how to", it's more fun, more "happy mistakes", etc. But nowadays the goal is to make money via streaming, not really making music and being noticed if you got Talent (and luck), so people go the easy way, and then complain because nobody listen to their music. "Well, boy, that's normal, you're not a composer, you're a good student."
And there's so much other stuff i could give as exmple.
My 3 cents that nobody cares about. We need a reset. AI music will hopefully help 🤡🤡🤡
If you're not playin in Locrian are you Really playing tho?😂😂😂 im kidding even if it IS everyone's favorite😅😅😅😂
No ways, Locrian just sounds like advert music when I try play it haha xD
locrian is a fake mode dont let them tell you its real. locrian is a lie
@@TildeSounds lol, awe cmon! Just cuz its superiority eludes you is no reason to call it a lie 😂 All the cool kids are playing it! 👊👍😉
@@danlopez2012 its just phrygian on the 4th degree, dont buy into their lies. Locrian has no tonic its a fake mode the government is lying to you
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️Good title for video: "Ignorance helps creativity")))
It's a famous quote, although it goes "limitations breed creativity". However I prefer "Ignorance breeds idiotic TH-cam Comments"
@@DashGlitch My momma used to tell me "don't feed the trolls!" 👾
@@DeanPachano Trolls are good for the algorithm :D