Film Scoring 101 - The Phrygian Mode
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- Film Scoring 101 - The Phrygian Mode
In this episode of Everything Music we discuss one of my favorite scales the Phrygian Mode. The Phrygian mode is the 3rd mode of the and has a dark, emotional sound. It's characteristic notes are the b2 and 5th.
1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 or in the key of E Phrygian E F G A B C D
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Rick is so modest. He knows sooooooooooo much but is always humble. He explains things in a way any level musician can understand. His love of music shines through every moment.
Unlike Lady Gaga, Rick has extreme modestly and humbleness. No fanboys & no sex.
Amen to that!🤘🔥
Ummm, he reads hiscomments. It’s like you’re speaking about him while he’s in the room. 😂
I have a feeling these lessons are much deeper and give greater insight to Film Scoring than Hans Zimmer's Masterclass which seems to just blow smoke up your ass about pursuing your passion.
true. all masterclasses are like that to be fair. I think it's the producers at fault rather than the creatives they approach.
I was wasted one night. I heard the Phrygian mode and sobered up instantly.
Must be wonderful actually understanding music theory. 😕
It is, give it a chance .
2 Pines 2 Bis where can I start to learn?
@@kinguzi2228 Well, you made a good start by landing here ;-) Rick has ear training available, and just going through his videos on the different modes is a great way to get some free ear training (you probably already know a lot more than you think you do, if you just connect the dots with songs you already know).
For sure? Alright Imma check it out!! 🗣🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
@@kinguzi2228 It's a good place to start, anyway. Not knowing things like your interests, musical familiarity, ultimate goals, learning style, etc. - and knowing that you ended up on this particular video ;-) - I think that's a safe (and free) suggestion! (Plus maybe a bit of pandering to Rick since this *is* his channel, after all :-P )
Good luck with the studying and listening!
Rick, your E Phrygian Étude is lovely. It makes me feel like I'm in Autumn. I like the superimposed slow motion video of Layla too.
Thank you for that Petra! You're the only one that noticed :) I thought it would be nice to have a visual instead of just watching my. I showed to Layla and she said the music made her look lonely. i want to do more of it.
Keep it up Rick! Best channel in TH-cam by far, such a wealth of knowledge and a spirit willing to share it all!
Thanks Takis!
Couldn't agree more. Rick, you absolute legened!!
It sounds “Spanish” because flamenco is fundamentally Phrygian . Check out Triana (group) for an absolutely mind blowing style where prog rock with flamenco. All thanks to Phrygian mode! You’ll like them!
Hey!
Found this Channel yesterday and have to say: this is so awesome! I'm so thankfull, that you make these videos, it inspires me totally.
Greetings from Germany!
I learn all the modes of the major scale (and more) thanks to those videos ; Thank you Rick for keeping your channel alive, I hope you realize how much musicians you already "helped" to say the least
This mode sound so evil, love it. Blows my mind it uses the same notes as a happy C mayor just for starting the scale in E.
In arabic middleastern music its called maqam Kurd.
And the Phrygian Dominant is Maqam Hijaz.
in german hiphop artists use this mode to exhaustion at the moment. Its quite boring. Ricks music here is not. ;)
Thanks for the extra info!
Thank for nice extra informations
Channels like this one is what keeps my faith in youtube
In Indian classical music, it is called " raag bhairavi" or bhairavi mood.
The Phrygian mode is not equivalent to Raag Bhairavi because a raag is much more than the set of notes. It can rather be compared to the Bhairavi thaat of Hindustani Classical music but that's again not exactly the same.
So? What's significant about this? How is your observation relevant to everyone in general?
Great! Yeah, 2 steps closer to understanding and being able to have fun with modes, b2 and 5th. Thanks
Love this lesson and the Phrygian mode. Thank you Rick!
Thanks, Rick. I appreciate all you do!
Awesome as always! The phrygian mode has that Indian-Arabesque flavor (IMHO) to it because you have half a step above the root and the same above the perfect fifth. A friend and colleague who is a lot into Indian (and Middle Eastern) music told me that there are actually two different intonations of the half step above the root and half step above the perfect fifth: when you hold it, it is slightly sharp compared to well-tempered (edit: I meant equal-tempered of course) - (I always noticed that BTW), and when it's a passing note down to the root or 5th it is slightly flat. That is within the context of a melody line over a bass pedal tone, not polyphonic. Just my usual ramblings ;-) Anyway: great stuff as always! Thanks for sharing!
Yep. I was almost mentioning this scale which sounds great. Yes: there is that harmonic minor scale pattern with the minor third in it - shifted. The origin is clearly Indian-Arabic, since flamenco is Spainish gypsy music. I happen to like it a lot!
Thanks Truefilm!
I will be doing a video on Phrygian Major as I call it soon. Thanks Jason!
Also called Flamenco natural
Also called Flamenco natural
Thank You so much for creating this channel! Now I don't need to spend thousands on music school just to be set back years financially and you know what they say, "time is money" especially in college. I'm working on a film right now and your channel is just great!
I love that Rick focuses so much on these modes. Maybe I've been living under a rock but I've been watching youtube/reading books and talking to music people about learning and understanding music for 10 years now and haven't even *heard* of the modes *at all* until now! What the heck!?!?
Well, you probably knew at least 2, you just didn't know that's what they were! The major scale is the Ionian mode, and the minor scale is the Aeolian mode
Wow. Just starting to learn modes here, and seeing such practical applications is like opening your eyes and seeing for the first time. Thank you, Rick.
I really liked this video, I always enjoy you film scoring videos or really any of the theory based ones.
You are you so good.... Blessed with such super natural theoritcal power.... Just love each of your contents.... Need more like that .....god bless you sir
Thank you for these. They're so awesome!
Awesome lessons Rick !!! I love your channel. This is the flamenco mode, 90 % of flamenco music is played in Phrygian and Phrygian Dominant and the minor second sound great over the root (E chord)
Hi Rick. As much as I love your videos, I confess I can only watch a few minutes as I get a headache trying to understand what you're saying. I really do not know how you wrap your head round some of the theory. It's way beyond me. But I will keep watching. Even though I pick up no more than 1% of what you are saying, it's worth it! All the best.
Thanks Rick. That's the best info on phrygian I've seen. It's really super.
What a great lesson. A great understanding of one of the modes, and all modes.
wooooohoooo! I definitely loooove phrygian.... now... thank you for so much for the new approach!!!
Thanks again Rick. I will be looking forward to your explanation of the other modes as well. You have helped me a lot. Dori
Hey Rick...great info and taught very well!!.....thank you!!
thanks for sharing the knowledge...tough I am not a synth or keyboard player ...i am a guitarist by passion..black metal is one of my favorite genre...I love this scale...an ultimate scale to write songs on black metal and death metal...I like to call this 'scale of evils' rather than phrygian 🙂🙏🏻
Love this - thank you for sharing
He could easily be a mafia boss in a gangsta movie!!!
Jaaaz mafia...
He looks like that dude from casino and Sororabos
very useful approach rick. love the shirt.
Thank you for doing all lesson on key of C
Yeah, I would take just a little longer to understand this in the key of F# or Gb LOL!!!
Glad to see a fellow Nepali in Rick's comment section.
Thanks so much! Very clear. I finally understand Phrygian Mode. Dori
Awesome as always Rick!
Thank you sir! Great lesson!
Really helpful! Thanks Rick!
very useful lesson Rick Bro... Well there is a scale in north indian Classical music "Thaat Bharavi" same as we call it phrygian mode in english music, and further it derive in raga Bharagi Bharavo... Beautiful sound.. i suggest if some day you do comparative analysis on North indian Classical scales , Ragas and western scales ..anyways im really thankful every time you post your videos
The soundtrack to the movie Jacob's Ladder is memorable example of this I think. It's memorable in the way it seamlessly goes back and forth from a subdued "dark" sounding phrygian mode into a soaring ethereal "church melody" that sounds like it's in a nearby major scale to me. I don't understand music theory enough to describe it, but whatever technique that soundtrack uses, it creates a very intense emotional impact.
Love your pieces!
thanks for this Rick. keep doing what u do.
Awesome, I'm writing a song in E phrygian and this is gold!
Thanks a lot for this video! Cheers, Max
Man you're good. Thanks for this Rick...well explained.
Great scary and suspenseful ascents and descents...
Great series you are light to film composing
Wow ... That was one of my favorites of yours for sure .
Thanks man.. Lovin your vids
Hi Rick, just wanted to say that I appreciate everything you're doing here. I've been looking for ways to teach my niece and nephew about music theory as they're just joining their middle school band for the first time. Hearing about not only theory, but the way you relate music to your kids is incredibly inspiring. Although, I haven't had to do much work since they're so incredibly smart and so willing to learn. I found out they have very good relative pitch, it just needs some training. What advice would you give to an overly excited uncle who is also trying to build a music composition career in his mid-late(ish) twenties?
Love the mini music video :) very informative video!!!
First, Thanks Rick for your time doing these videos. And second, As Spanish, I know very well this mode, because our traditional music: Flamenco, is based in this mode. Maybe you should have mention our own "blue note" the major third contained in our Spanish frigian, as well as how we actually use this mode, using both thirds indistinctly, and the chords we usually use when we play with this mode. Maybe in another video you could spread this knowledge! Cheers!
Sir many thanks for video. It is very helpfull
Great camera angle ! thanks for Lydian info
love it!!! that E phrygian scale is just like set the controls of the heart the sun by Pink Floyd
Wow, 2:44 is basically the intro of Bjork’s “Pagan Poetry”... I love how a music plays with modes, unusual time signatures, progression
Amasing. Thanks Rick! :)
The video over the étude is super creepy, what's it called? The death of childhood. ....ha
That was gorgeous!
i love phrygian, beato and this channel, i also love phrygian b on 7 string because i´ts very easy to combine with pentatonic
Reminds me of the music from Resident Evil 2. Beautiful
I, too, like the Phrygian mode, though admittedly I didn't remember much about it until I started watching your videos. It's been many decades (!) since I've had any music theory, though you are certainly getting me back up to speed..
As for a John Barry analysis: "Dances with Wolves".
Excellent Max!
The melody he plays around 2:55 is a theme song from the NES game Legend of Kage
In Flamenco music we understand it as a fully developed tonal system over that tonic, in this case, E. This is some awesome analysis here.
The Phrygian mode always sounds Egyptian to me...
Especially the Phrygian dominant mode and it’s exotic sound!
Right, and also Radiohead's Pyramid song and David Bowie's Black star.
Does it not sound Spanish on classical guitar? Does it not sound Metal on an electric guitar? What is it?!
This Phrygian mode sounds very silence of the lambs soundtrack. This sounds bring that whole vibe of suspense, that something is about to happen, idk. Very cool!
Phrygian is a gorgeous mode. Prob my favorite
Wonderful work as always buddy!! Maybe a John Powell brass episode would be beneficial. just a suggestion. Thanks for all the tips and lessons Rick!!
0:22
Deja Vu
LOVED THIS! :)
A nicer primer for one of my favourite modes. Thanks Rick
The piano song was phrygianly beautiful. Apart that, i think i'm hell of lost and should start again from scratch with the very basics. Doh. And thanks!
Thanks Rick you da man!!
Nice oneee Rick
Great information in this video. The music and tonal quality of the scale reminds me of the film scoring in "The Crush". I'm not really sure which part exactly off the top of my head, maybe the scene when they're in the woods. I'll go check right now, it is partially in the woods. Another part is when she's on the swing and he tells her she is too young. It reoccurs throughout the movie, but that film score is way dope. It's actually very underrated, and enhances the mood and perfectly captures the emotions or feelings of the scenes. The best part "film score" wise is when they're at the lighthouse. You've got a great sounding piano tone. Is that coming from your daw, or is it a vst of some sort? What are ostinatos? I'm sure I should learn those. All your videos are very informative. Thank you.
reminds me of the sountrack to "Secret Window" by Phillip Glass
I love this mode.
I liked your tune. E-Phrygian. I am sure you know, but for the others this is called "Por Arriba" in the Spanish world. It is one of two commonly used Phrygian scales used in the Flamenco world and in general Spanish music. A typical chord progression (Andalusian progression) is Am-G-F-E. Start with the barre at the 5th position. The other common scale is A-Phrygian, also called "Por Medio." The typical Andalusian progression for this one is Dm-C-Bb-A (use the two-finger Spanish A to leave the ring finger free). Lots of Phrygian used in heavy metal. Dylan used an Andalusian progression in "One more cup of coffee." I have found it very easy to lay Spanish sounding melodies over these two progressions.
Great example of Phrygian Mode is Captain Beefheart's "When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy". Just to make it more creepy, he adds a Flex-A-Tone to his band instruments!
Hello,rick~ I'm a composition student from Hong Kong. Do you recommend any books about mode or mode voicing. Thanks so much. Leant a lot from your video.
very cool
its the flamenco scale. check the pasodobles in mariachi and concert band. sound really cool.
Pretty banging etude you wrote there!
Such fantastic tonality and voicing. The ostinato reminds me of a Metallica riff...
The scale vocalised by Thjis Van Leer on Hocus Pocus chorus just after the yodeling is (oh...oh...oh.....) is the sequence of phrygian scale.
I watched a video by Vitalij Kuprij and he demonstrates a phrygian mode run that uses notes C-E-F-bA-B-C and I'm interested in what key or what he's doing. Thank you Ric!
Rick that was cool Phrygian lesson now i no where Metallica got Harvester Of Sorrow from thx rick for the lesson and i hope to see more lessons on the MODES on Guitar. thx rick...
It's very beautiful while having sort of a sinister feel to it.
Hi Rick, Thank you for the video. Great work as usual. What plugin are you using for the midi piano? Thank you.
love the shirt
love it...
Thx, a lot.
Hey Rick thanks for such amazing video. I have a more general question : is it that modal chords don't function in thirds series like minor and majors chords? Like, for example we know the most important notes to distinguish any major/minor chord are the 3rd and 7th... From your video it seems to me that it's not the case for modal chords? Thanks so much and sorry for such beginners question!
Alex
Amazing, although it would be great to explain different chords that interact in the phrygian mode other than just the E pedal. Like using the 4th, 5th, and mostly the 7th.
Hi rick I have a question! Why are you leaving out the E phrygian triad? I noticed you also did that when talking about the triads of the dorian scale with the second grade. Thanks a lot I love your videos!
the first part is like the detective just realized who the killer is and its the guy noone suspected...suspenseful realization
Thank you RB for me so much better than guitar. Piano is my go to as a songwriter!
0:48 sounds like Marty's acoustic solo in holy wars
Reminds me of the Eyes Wide Shut soundtrack.