The Scale You Can't Break 

even for a non-expert and a music NOOB, his delivery is so good.. it makes it entertaining to watch!

I love the bean pie scale. It's really useful when composing.

While I play music and love singing , I certainly don't know much about music theory, but this was such a fun and interesting video that it didn't matter! I loved your video. I hope you keep making more entertaining and informative content like this.

As a classical musician, I find it reasonable to utilise this scale in the beggining in your improvisations and compositions, although I still recommend not doing so in order to avoid getting too accostumed to it. But, for your own sake, break away from it as soon as possible. I see many musician friends of mine, all of whom are modern-styled musicians, getting absolutely fixated with this scale, because it is so infallible and easy to use. This would not be a problem, however, if it was not so utterly dull and boring. The most vital tonal relations in any scale are to ones of a semitone, they are extremely emotional and can help you change the course of a piece in beautiful way; for instance, many classical composers even added chromatic intervals to their music just to have more semitonal relations between notes. As the pentatonic scale gets rid of both semitonal intervals which would naturally appear in a scale, it just does not have the same expressive and emotional quality that would appear in the latter. As it is easier to be used, it also serves as a disencouragement for you to explore further harmonic possibilites. And lastly, the pentatonic scale will probably sound extremely chinese unless you use it in a very very specific way, so that is something to take into consideration depending on how you want your music to sound like.

short term gratification. THere is also the whole-tone scale and the octatonic, they will never brake. With all these scales your piece brakes first, unless you know some things

The Seven Eleven really caught me off-guard… :D Great video, Alex :)

Great video, you are such an articulate and engaging teacher!

Just discovered this channel. Incredibly high quality!!

When I teach improv, this is a go to scale for beginners to learn. Very well made video! (:

Like fr, so well made and funny, you ought to have blown up by now!

Best music lesson ever! 😃

Very interesting and thanks for taking the time to put this together. Absolutely brilliant.

Why don't you have more subscribers?? Keep it up man

Daamn, you're great !!!

Very informative and great presentation - thanks!

This is great. I do hope there is a possible Sibelius video thrown in once in a while.

Vanilla pentatonic, I'm gonna use this term!

Advice to some who hears the command: Here is a piano; play something for us! Play any sequence you want for a melody; play any 2 or 3 note combination for harmony, BUT play only on the black keys. ¿Why? you ask. The black keys are a major pentatonic scale in F#: F# G# A# C# D#. Suddenly, you are an entertaining genius!

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i trid to break the scale as much as i could and simply could not, he wasn't lying

I'm the 234th subscriber

He was too scared to throw in a graphic for the 6/9 chord

Nice video, what is the music of 00:16?

I suspect that for modern music listener even common diatonic scale is pretty unbreakable

4:30 it's pelog nem

My favorite part was when you said deez notes

Aw yes, Tony Stark is my favorite composer