Film Scoring 101 - The Augmented Scale 

every scale is one of your favorites, Rick. Good that you like them all

You are the most gifted teacher I have seen. Amazing ability to distill concepts and teach simply.

It baffles me sometimes that i'm not paying for this. Many thanks

Rick, you're a fabulous teacher and you do fabulous work. As a part-time soundtrack writer, these kinds of videos are exactly what I need, and you're by far the best teacher for the material.

Really amazing!!

Loving this Film Scoring 101 Series! Thanks for the information, very useful :)

Great video, like checking out your older videos! Pure knowledge!

This is really some mind blowing stuff....great video. These chords are so beautiful in they're own way, I've never really heard sounds like these. Some are so ultimate-dark sounding yet with so much life and story behind them especially smething like that deep lower Ab over C where you have that C in the bass. Man, that is a fascinating sound

That's sounds fabulous RICK! Thanks for your help!

man.. you've got me hooked to your channel, thanks for sharing and teaching, and I absolutely love those chords! thanks from Dallas!

Rick just thought me more about augmented chords in 10 minutes than thousands of dollars did in years of college.

Love it. That open voiced Augmented slash chord instantly sent me into the Rite of Spring and Joe Hisaishi's score for Nausicaa (which he probably borrowed from or was inspired by the prior). Great video, thank you!

Great stuff in there, Rick! The way you break the material into triads makes it easy to comprehend, making it easy to try it out immediately. You should make a video of the diminished scale (C Db Eb E Gb G A Bb), I often use it for improvisation in my work as an organist. Adam, Sweden

First heard this scale in the third movement (Elegia) of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, and after playing around with it for a bit I realized how it works well in the context of a augmented chord. Nice to know my musical intuition was right.

Learned about this scale from Walt Weiskopf's book. Great for jazz soloing too!

another way to think about the augmented scale is like a how half whole diminished scale is to divide the octave evenly in 4 (dim7 chord) and base major or minor triads off of it. divide the octave into four and you get three groups (4x3=12). augmented can be constructed using the same concept, just divide the octave evenly in 3 (augmented triad) and build major or minor triads over those roots. You 4 groups of triads here (3x4=12). I actually came across this because I had the boneheaded idea to practice triad arpeggios going up/down in all intervals and found that the minor and major 3rd interval sounded really familiar. It's interesting that some basic idea brought me back to some scales I haven't thought about since music school. I like the ways you voice out the chord really mask the symmetry of the scale and really/also add unexpected tension.

Fantastic!Merci!

My best scale is E Augmented Heptatonic Scale. Distortion is in the melody, unlike other scales, less melody more mood, the space between mood and scale distortion is the art, I call it Art Noise.

Brilliant stuff - brilliant sounds - brilliant information - brilliant usage. Life-changing - sort of.. Thanks so much Rick!

if a scale is 2 notes too shy from being fully chromatic then you bet your ass rick beato has a video for it. amazing as always

Amazing.

I love tht tune

You also have 7th chords... I just played C+/Cmaj7 in root uninverted positions, and scared myself for some reason.

while watching this i felt like someone was standing behind me with a big knife. i find it amazing the way sound can evoke such emotion. in this case dread/tension for me. does anyone understand the relationship between sound and emotion? it seems like it would be hard to quantify.

i can hear copland expressly using such chords in 'billy the kid', i'm sure and i think 'appalachian spring'.

You can also have alot of fun with those major/minor mediant and double mediant relationships.

Suspicious music playing

Good good 👍

I'm having a hard time trying to grasp polychords here- isn't CM over Em just a Cmaj7 voiced in inversion? EGB + CEG = pretty much C E G B? Can someone tell me what makes this a polychord and not simply an inverted or slash chord? Really cool sounding scale, thanks for sharing!

I might be wrong, but it sounds like Michael Brecker used this scale quite a bit.

If you like the sound of the augmented scale listen to the song ”Stolen moments” of Oliver Nelson

Sometimes I think all those scales: diminished, augmented are actually include in Messiaen's mode of transposition.

this is hexatonic scale. the one that is often used by john williams when scoring

hi rick. if we are playing G aug scale will it be a combo of G aug and F Aug ? just like Caug and Baug in case of a C augmented scale ?

So Rick, my question is, how do modes work with polychords like these?

Ive been writing in this scale but using a chromatic passing tone, so I play a flat and major 7th, is there a name for that 7 note scale based on the augmented scale?

Does anyone know of a piece of music where this scale is used in context? These stacked chords really sound amazing but I haven't got a clue how to use them over a longer distance.

Feels like I'm watching an Alfred Hitchcock movie.

What's the augmented fifth scale compared to this one?

Is this a augmented scale or a serialism?

they used a lot of that in Friday the 13th score

One tone is missing. I mean, there is no reason not to add one tone more to it. Like C D D# E G G# B It'd be like harmonic mol, without a fourth (major third instead) right?

Super cool scale and great video. I wrote this track as an experiment to use only the augmented scale if you're curious about its sound in an electronic music context. soundcloud.com/officialdrewel/ai-exorcist

Chords are not so listenable to me compared to soloing

sounds crap