Phrygian Major | The Sound Of Spain and Neoclassical 

Haha!!!

"Let's check 'em out." was understandable...😄

Maybe subtitles would help 🤣

I burst our laughing when I read this comment...because that was precisely my thought.

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Rick beato, eh?? You're hired! Nice

That’s because they use these modes all the times to you with your emotions.

Don't say it too loud, he might get copy written.

Lol

Indeed! It may just be my personal favorite mode! Definitely one of the easiest ways to have me be really invested in a song near instantly across styles! A couple others I love with it extensively would be Tool's "46 & 2" and Symphony X's "Domination."

A lot of the Jeff Loomis Nevermore stuff is written in Phrygian Dominant. I think ABBA's 'Voulez Vous' is writen in it as well and could easily be mashed up with 'Gates of Babylon'.

Rich Saculus ... interesting that you bring up ABBA... I used to this the song “Money, Money, Money” had that same feel to it... not sure of the Phrygian Harmonic Minor Mode relationship, as I never tried to sit down and do my homework on it... but I just thought it was a trip you’d bring up ABBA as well.🤘🏻

Also Metallica-wherever I may roam.

Almost every early Dream Theater song uses Phrygian mode.

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As a 1980s TV repairman...I'm unemployed.

@@johnnyd63 As a 1980s computer programmer, I'm fixing the Hubble Space Telescope.

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thanks. as my dad always said; you learn something new every day.

Not the Phrygian, the Phrygian Major is also called Hijaz.

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From memory (i.e. I could be very wrong) In Greek music hijaz is Phrygian dominant

Also colloquially known as the Hava Nagila scale. And Vakulabharanam in Carnatic music.

Flashbacks to music theory class lol

funkhouzr ikr this gave me some whiplash 😭

A nightmare I used to have -- being in a class and knowing absolutely nothing and the work is due NOW.

They don't traditionally use the western 12-tone scale, I thought?

@@EnterJustice we do use 12 tone, their is some maqam in arabic music that are similar to the western ones like nahawand : minor scale, kurd: phrygian, ajam : major scale..... etc

@@ironlarbi Theres some pretty wild scales over the road with the persian dudes. I did some music a bunch of years ago with an Iranian scale, and that stuff had scales I never imagined. When he told me "This scale isn't used in my village but from one down the valley from me" my mind was blown. So much variation

@@shayneoneill1506 yes that's the point of not using equal temperament, because every region has a distinctive sound, a 1/4 tone in Irak is a little bit diffrent from a 1/4 tone in Egypt or another country or region.

Yeah, a lot of Jewish cantorial music is in the phrygian ("Freygish") mode.

But for what matters, Paco de Lucia was a 'Payo" (a white European, a Spaniard ) and not a Gitano , not a Gypsy though. Gypsies came all the way from India and many passed by the Middle East in their way to The Iberian Peninsula. Also Jews and Arabs had their input into what became Flamenco music, which is in no way the only music from Spain though, like Andres Segovia was fond of reminding the unlearned.

​@@alexstewart8097 I'm not sure how any of that "matters" in the context of his comment. You seem to be attempting to "correct" claims that were never made by stirring up some sort of racial pissing-contest/purity test. What Paco's ethnic background has to do with the song and the inspiration for it is beyond me. By his time, Gypsies had been in Spain for over 4 centuries already. And by the time they arrived, the inquisition was in full swing after 8 centuries of reconquista to take back the peninsula from Arab/Berber invaders. The Arabs had brought with them maqam Hijaz, which is the same mode used in the video, and even that was likely originally inspired by ancient Jewish prayer. Ultimately, the full array of local influences had their hand in making flamenco what it would become. Even the "white" medieval proto-Spanish "payos", through the "gama de Castilla y León", which is why much of the rest of Spanish composition retains some of the same flavor, not to mention the use of European theory rather than Arabic. And even the "white" Spanish were a mix of various Mediterranean and eastern/northern Gothic cultures before the Muslim invasion. The Andalusian Gypsies were simply the final hands in a long line of the development of proper flamenco, although after it became popular, it again returned to the broader population, who progressed it to nuevo flamenco. Paco was a key part of that further refinement and development, from street music to high art.

@@SepticFuddy I never thought a Rick Beato comment section would give me such a wicked history lesson

@@joestanley2743 RU-vid is such a strange animal, lol. Spanish history is pretty fascinating. If you're interested, there's a channel called Flash Point History that gives a pretty good basic overview of it in a watchable narrative style, starting with the rise of Islam. He's been going for a couple years and is still getting to the end of the reconquista

@@SepticFuddy It is you who seems to be attempting to "correct" claims you said were made by me( like your inferred racial-pissing contest/purity test) that revealed more about you than anything else. It is clearly that only somebody pre- thinking along those lines could have taken my words so out of context; but I guess next you'll go and try cancelling me out. Besides , you could also have saved your elementary synopsis of the history of Spain (with La Reconquista and The Inquisition and so on) because in writing to me you indeed only preached to the choir , to the already converted and validated pretty much all I did have in mind when writing my comment. And yes, Spanish music is so much more than Flamenco, like Andres Segovia liked to remind the unlearned, and much more that you could learn from RU-vid, or Hollyweird for that matter. Vaya con Dios , senor Steinhauer.

A more mainstream example would be "Keep 'Em Separated" by the Offspring (just in that one instrumental part though).

Rainbow's "Gates of Babylon" is more like it...

Oooooh, Tool....

@@rome8180 love that song, offspring were great actually

I think 46&2 uses a Phrygian but w/ a minor third.

Only it was nothing about Spanish music except that the scale is used. Beautiful compositions but not really about Spanish music. Now if Rick did a video purely on flamenco sometime..

yeah! and I'll bet after all these years he's as eager to learn new things as ever!

you’re fucking right it does

They love Phrygian mode. I heard a lot of their songs using either Phrygian or Phrygian Dominant mode. Their name BLACKpink fits their music. DARK and Exotic. 🤘

DavidMCasas Double harmonic major and phrygian dominant are by far my favorite modes to write with. You should check out klezmer if you like the sound, it uses a lot of phrygian dominant and has many harmonic similarities to Spanish music.

Hmm, sounds like you're describing Hungarian minor, specifically. Which gives that nice chromaticism around the root and a dark, "exotic " sound. Which as you stated is a mode of double harmonic major

@@doransponsel4813 He's talking about the so-called "Arabic" mode, which you get if you start from the fifth note of the Hungarian minor. They're both based on what's called the "double harmonic" scale like he said--just different modes.

@DavidMCasas You should definitely check out some Ozric Tentacles, if you like the use of such exotic scales.

how do you handle the major seventh, octave and flat ninth? that's kind of weird to my ears, not bad, but weird

So true.

Agree! I was 16 1980 and never forget Elegant Gypsy and getting pulled into Master Di Meola's world. Took my brain to another level.

Yeah, Al was the first one I thought of as well...

Romantic Warrior was a studio album.

@@gedofgont1006 It was recorded live in the studio.

Have in mind that it's not Phrygian. It has a major 3rd.

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Yes, please be aware that this is not the regular Phrygian mode.

thats some beautiful string work and orchestration.

uh huh

What? it's not that complex of a thing? :/ He's basically just running through stuff in the mode in all kinds of ways, without any real red thread in it... no offence meant... I just don't hear, as another composer, how it's much different from almost pure improv. It sure doesn't sound like a composition that has a plan, direction, arch etc... Yeah he has serious chops on a keyboard... but yeah... I'm going to get lynched for this comment i'm sure.

couldn't agree more ... :(

@@Mtaalas real red thread?...... not sure what your point is.....what did you add to the episode?....Rick just used it as a demonstration

It does kind of feel like he could be a big name post modern classical composer if he wanted.