I wish RU-vid was available when I was a youth. A lot of what Noah thought in this lesson took me years of personal research as well as listening to other musicians to figure out. This platform is clearly one of the greatest creations of this century.
I agree 100%. It also took me years to figure it out and then only after a master guitarist was willing to share his knowledge with me. He was 40 and had great teachers. I was 60 and had no help until he assisted . Now it’s all here on Ttoob. Now if we just had placed to play with other players ….
@@rockettroll1507 Ya, I know what you mean about Practice Space: my parent's garage is currently used as Storage Space for my Ex- wife's -boyfriend's- Crap. 🔪😡🔪😡🔪
@@johntrojan9653 I hear you on this, and lord knows I've met my share of less-than-candid older musicians in my years of playing and touring. After awhile, though, I learned to be careful about being too quick to put players in this category. I started to understand that in many cases, not all, it was more of a difficulty in communication, or of some guys being unable to express themselves in the manner they'd like... You know, they know the melodies, changes, all the rhythmic permutations, they're good at it or else they wouldn't be there, of course. Maybe they learned it all by ear, or they were the 'let my playing do the talking' types. For myself, as I aged, I found that I rather enjoyed sharing any knowledge I had, any little tricks of the trade, secrets, hacks as they're now known. I found it exhilarating to give a younger player something new to chew on, especially when they were really into it. I found that passing it on helped me too, by stretching to recall things that I otherwise may have forgotten, sometimes, when trying to illustrate a certain idea. Nothing too profound, just my two cents after almost 40 years with a bass hanging off by neck :-p
One way thinking of C melodic minor is as a B-flat major scale with the B-flat raised a half step to B natural. This way the chords line up. That is the second mode of B-flat major is C Dorian, the third mode is D Phrygian, the fourth E Lydian, and so on. This corresponds to C minor major, D Phrygian (natural 13), E Lydian (Augmented 5th), and so on. So if you know the modes in a major key, you know them for the melodic minor scale one note higher, except you have to adjust one note (the seventh note of the melodic minor scale is a half step higher).
Honestly guys, there are others that teach nothing like Noah and I scratch my head because they have way more subscribers but the content is nothing like what you learn from Noah. Give a thumbs up man I can't believe he only has 105k after so many years of uploading valuable content. It doe's my head in how some of the dumbest stuff on youtube has millions of views or subscribers
Noah, I’ve been waiting for such a demystification of melodic minor chords for over five years. None of the content I’ve searched (books, videos, articles) have explained it this well. Giving thanks.
Another splendid video, Noah. It’s funny, if I think in terms of scale degrees, all of this is pretty easy to follow. I just have to remember the fancy names🙂
@@NoahKellman I finally had the chance to study with an in-person teacher, and some of the things that have made a huge difference for me are weight transfer into keys; centering with arm behind fingers 4-5, grouping of notes, avoiding gripping with fingers. My suggestion for your video would be on 1) what types of exercises to practice technique on, (of course tunes can work as well) and 2) specifically what to think about when you practice. I was practicing things like 7th arpeggios and running into terrible tension because of bad form. Was probably getting negative value out of valuable practice time. Cheers, and thanks for the videos!
Highly recommend the JPS course,I’ve taken the course,and in my humble opinion,this is the best course on the Net. Noah is a great teacher,and his concepts are amazing,a systematic approach,that yields results,if you seriously want to improve your playing,take this course!
You’re helping me a lot with my playing, it’s hard to find nice intermediate lessons like these. It seems like you put a lot of time into these, thank you so much man🙏🏼
OMG! Absolutely WONDERFUL session. As a gospel musician, I do a lot of this stuff intuitively.... I will absolutely hang out with scales... I have never done that before... I see where that will absolutely take my playing to another level.. thank you...
Pleasure! Immediately I get to the piano I'll jump right into it. This completely changed the way I used to see things and opened my mind a little wider. That said, thank you man.
You're really summed it up properly at the very end. All of these whiz-bang modes are gobbledygook. I don't even think it matters whether you know their names so much as you can play a chord and know how to improvise around it using mostly chord tones. The key is what you did after you showed us each scale and how you improvised using it. And is high and mighty as I sound, I'm not anywhere near your level in being able to jam around within a scale. So you are spot on that that's where the work needs to be done.
I'm basically an old rock guitar player who in an effort to make my solo's sound a little more sophisticated stumbled into your video and got a lot out of it. I'll definitely be tuning in more.
You are the best Pianist I saw in You Tube. You are also one of the best Pianist I have heard. You have the best choice of notes and chords. I love watching your useful videos.
I Love your lessons ! They give me hope that one day I won’t just be a square with a horn ! Even just listening to you play through your ideas is a joy !
Most melodic minor modes have two names. This stems from the fact that melodic minor can either be thought of as a major scale with a flat 3rd, or a dorian scale with a raised 7th: I. Ionian b3 = Dorian #7 II. Dorian b2 = Phrygian #6 III. Phrygian b1 = Lydian #5 ("augmented") IV. Lydian b7 ("dominant") = Mixolydian #4 V. Mixolydian b6 = Aeolian #3 (Aeolian dominant) VI. Aeolian b5 = Locrian #2 VII. Locrian b4 = Ionian #1 (Altered)
Great video as always Noah! It was funny to hear you put a name to "hanging out on a scale". I've found, as a relative beginner, something I've come to enjoy is sitting with a new voicing or scale without worrying about where I'm coming from or where I'm going. Beyond just getting the shape underneath my hands, it also gives me more space to improvise comfortably and get familiar with the tonality and colors of each scale tone. Loved the Locrian #2/Altered for minor 2-5s at the end!
Thanks, Jack! Glad you got some good info from it. Yeah, that’s a really fun exercise. I’ve always found it really critical for solidifying a concept, not even just scales, as you say!
I just very luckily stumbled upon this video! You are an excellent pianist and piano teacher! I thoroughly enjoyed watching you explain the Melodic Minor scale and the modes. You turned a light bulb on in my head that will help me in my further exploration of jazz piano. I had usualy faked my way around attempting to play jazzy sounding stuff on the piano. Now, I have a tool to at least start to try to play some real jazz changes on piano. Thanks for this video, Noah, and I will be definitely watching more of your great videos here on RU-vid! :)
Oh wao!!!! This is the video that has the best visual view to see how modes work. When people tried to explain to me what a mode was I got so confunsed, it's so easy to understand thoug.
Guitar student, came here for the modes, but the format and how everything is explained is awesome 🤤 The only tip would be maybe you can tune the microphone to not pick up the keys being pressed? I gets a bit distracting when trying to hear the "sound" Everything else is top notch. Awesome channel.
Thanks a lot for the videos! I've been working on your hand independence exercises over the past few weeks and I'm really starting to see the improvement-- keep up the great work!
You know this is very useful!!! helps alottt I have searched far and wide for the actual CHORDS. they say all the scales and they dont share the chords its very useful... or just sharing a 251 combo its just bullshit. I can play piano but i cant read music so i could never figure out chords, If you ever get the chance to show more chords of each or any of the scales please it would help so many musicians. thank you heaps!!
Thanks, you are a great teacher. I wonder why you care about all scales derived from melodic minor. It is the scale I already know. What I need for the improvisation is the ability to play all chords belonging to that scale, then if I play strong enough the first note of the chord I don't have to think of any other scales, but the original melodic minor, don't I?
genial ,en el piano se ve claramente la cantidad de notas agregadas de tension que se son caracteristicas de cada modo de la escala , excelente material ! toco guitarra ,pero esto ayuda mucho visiualmente a reconocer los sonidos dentro de la escala y como pueden funcionar de forma diferente .exitos!
