Twelve Tone Triads - How To Use Tone Rows In Your Soloing 

There is no possible way to describe my gratitude for this video. Thank you so much, I wanted to start getting into 12-tone patterns and you just gave the easiest approach!!

Really cool sounds here. Great idea!!

I love these concepts. I’ve just begun to study 12 tone serialism. Truly incredible stuff. Great video.

Man, these tone rows you mastered are really awesome. I'd heard these before but never seen them put into musical context (especially that linear jazz groove, that was an excellent way to convey this lesson's applicability) with an explanation and demonstration of how to play of how to play and voice them. I can't wait to incorporate them into some dense dissonant soloing... your channel is the real deal for people interested in theory or music in general.

I remember when I was first studying 12 Tone Row and had to manually calculate and fill in the all the rows. What made it confusing was the fact that I didn't approach it with a fully open mind... but when I changed my mindset everything flowed. This is such a beautiful topic... Will take your compositions to another level.

We all must be forever grateful for this man!! Never stop rick and thanks for so much

This is a very cool concept! Would love to see more videos on the twelve tone music and your approach. Thanks!

I stumbled upon this 12-tone concept while working on Garzone's Triadic Chromatic system. I took a root major triad and moved every note a half step to create a first inversion minor triad. When I repeated the combination a half step from a different degree of the original pair and charted it all out I discovered all the notes on the grid chart were completely covered. I was calling them 12-tone pairs because on the Major and minor triad pairs the inversions were consistent on each 3 string set.(guitarist) Major Rt/Min1st - Maj1st/min2nd - Maj2nd/minRt. I'm glad I found this video to give me a broader look at it. Thank you!!

Benjamin Britten was really into incorporating superficially tonal harmonic ideas into twelve-tone serial frameworks, as was Stravinsky in his later years. It's a really clever little trick that people seem to overlook far too often when talking about "atonal" music.

Great stuff. I so like your approach, where no musical genre or school/system is off-limits. Few people have such an extensive knowledge of music and are able to use it like you do.

Man this one was really blowing my mind! I can't wait to see the application to ear training.

Great harmony,love it.Inspiring

Hi Rick, just wanted to say thanks for all the great info. Just got the Beato book, keep doing awesome work man.

Great video Rick! Beautiful haunting harmony!

This is eerily similar to the kind of sounds you would hear in the opening segment of the TV show " Columbo " w/ Peter Falk, when the murder was taking place. Very cool, and ominous sounding. Thanks Rick, great stuff as usual.

This is the most innteresting music in 12 tone concept, you are too awesome Sir 🙏🏻

Incredible lesson!!!! I'm gonna shed on this NOW!

That's wonderful video, it is so inspiring!

Useful info here. However, I think it doesn't fully address the challenge of keeping track of employing the 12 tones without repetition. I think it is important for improvisers to have thoroughly grounded knowledge of common tones among chords and how employment of particular scales can help obviate this. For example, the roots of your chords (C D E F# (or Gb) )spell the first four notes of a whole tone scale. The other whole tone scale's first four notes are Db Eb F G. The fifth and sixth note of the first type of whole tone scale are G# and A#, of the other type A and B. So one could create 4 triads just by ensuring one alternates between the two types of whole scales. As an example - C maj, E flat augmented, D flat augmented, G flat major - a progression that lends itself to a spicing up of something in or modulating to D flat or G flat major. Another important scale which lends itself to 12-tone rows is the hexatonic scale which the first two chords of the four chord progression you gave contain the notes of a C hexatonic scale. A hexatonic scale is interesting as it already possess the minor-major mode alteration- for example note the two major minor chords in a C hexatonic scale: C-Eb-Enatural- G-G#-B. Like the whole tone scale it is a six note scale and you can get all 12 tones w/o duplication by transposing - in the case of the hexatonic scale a WHOLE step, the whole tone a HALF STEP.

I composed a piece in F major mostly, but many passages have this "twelve tone triad structure": F major (F,A,C), B minor (B, D, F#), Eb major (Eb,G,Bb) and C#minor (C#,E,G#) and you got it!

please keep this coming.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is absolutely brilliant oh my god

Great lesson! I love your piano style btw.

Thanks for doing this !

Something to keep in mind for my composition toolbox. I've used this in the past to form triads and semi tonal centers by splitting the tone row into polyphonic voices, and timing things so that lines frequently converge to triads, in other words, abusing the basic idea behind dodecophonic music, and feeling free to take liberties with the tone row at times. yes i know that sounds bad. What you're doing here is similar if I understand right. One thing that's interesting here, is that by the very nature of the tone row, no two consecutive chords have any common tones, which is the opposite of what is instinctual. But yet it works. probably the pedal bass helps.

I've been listening to music by Arnold Shceonberg, but I didn't know how to make the 12 tone system fit into my playing, until I watched this video. my goodness!

Thanks for your videos, Rick :)

This idea of encompassing the whole chromatic scale within 4 triads was known back in the 19th century - for example, have a listen to Bruckner's motet Locus Iste. Which isn't to say that this isn't another great video! Vi Hart has also done a video on making 12 tone rows less atonal sounding - do you know it?

Hi Rick! Love your vids. Could you make a video about the modes of limited transpositions?

amazing lesson

still love your work!!

THANK YOU!!!!

Thank you I will get the book for my birthday present! 28 jan

I think I hear a hit single 😂. I love Schoenberg. This is really cool 😎

Thankyou. The row itself can be emotionally significant.But i rarely hear this in the Vienna school.I luv RogerSessions 1st piano sonata but the 1935vn.concerto after repeated listening over maybe 7years and 8th symphony is not provoking memory or emotion yet Boulez andWuorinen often excite me.

while I love listening to your take on stems, this is far more enlightening. Now I'm closer to figuring out Korn's harmonies ;)

Hi Mr. Beato, I just found your channel recently and I really love it. Please do a tutorial about how to write an orchestration for a rock band please? You know, the kind of Guns n Roses's November rain, Aerosmith's I don't wanna miss a thing etc. Thank you and please keep your educational videos coming.

I love you!!!

i thought of that a couple months back!

thats dope

Hi Mr. Beato, I'm aware that you already have a whole list of topics for future videos, but I was wondering if György Ligeti is already on it. I'm very interested in his techniques.

Hi Rick, thank you very much for the video! How you did the comping of the example?

Have you checked out George Garzones triadic chromatic approach?

Hi Rick, I really enjoy your videos :D I was wondering if you are going to make a video on Francis Lai's Love Story Theme anytime soon...

Wow!

Great Lesson! How can I learn the accents used? This style can also be used on the guitar. Very Prog. Would like to try that.

Sounds like something Bill Evans played at the beginning of "So What"

Is there a video about dodecaphonism? If not, that would be great Rick.

What exactly are those chords in relation to each other in each of the examples given? That is one key thing I need to know and I'm square biz. Great vids, my g.

Is the fast Cm-Dm-E-F# row (the one at 5:40) where you got your old "Everything Music" intro? It definitely sounds like it.

Can you give an example of chromatic mediants and how to use them?

Awesome! This sounds like Chick Corea (. sorceress) . Dream Theater also

Do a video on Soulja Boy's "Crank Dat", considered by many to be a modern masterpiece.

Alban Berg à déjà fait ça dans son Concerto pour violon "à la mémoire d'un ange".

Hi. I was wondering whether a system of scales that span over 2 octaves exists. Ex. C1 E1 G1 G#1 B1 C#2 D#2 E2 F#2 A2 C2. Thanks a lot for all that you keep posting. ☺

WOW

Dude you have to give credit to Arnold Schoenberg who created the twelve tone method!

sir please explain the music techniques of A.R Rahman in your coming up video

Are there any ways of including the whole chromatic scale with 3 seventh chords? Excluding reorderings and transpositions, there are only two collections of major and minor triads that work to cover the whole chromatic scale:C minor, D minor, E major, F# major (as in your video)C major, D major, E minor, F# minor

...and scientists think they work on tough stuff!

At 2:13, you play F sharp major over C minor, rather than what you subsequently demonstrate, which is F sharp major over C major... ;-)

Wow

Please help me to learn this for guitar and under stand it more theoretically

What are you using for a piano sound?

these r priceless

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What does “F Lydian” mean? I’m not familiar with mode names to explain a triad!

Hi rick. Curious when you say F Lydian. How do you spell that chord? Is it a F triad with the #11?

So.. more episodes on serial music coming?

Cereal music or serial music ?

I can't watch this without laughing.

Good morning what are the chords in the left hand at 6:22 ?

Please correct if I'm wrong but doesn't Dsus2 and Flyd both have an A?

Can you play a chord with 12 notes in it? What would this chord be called?

Alban Berg Violin concerto.

where is this book?

Isn't this basically George Garzone chromatic triadic approach?

I've never heard chords called "F Lydian" before. I assume you're just talking about a sharp 11 altered chord then?

2:25 there's no E flat used ?

must be born out of Rieman analysis?

Is there an APP or calculator to know which triads give us the 12 tone rows?

And Dlyd and Bmaj both have an F#

I thought the rule is to avoid major or minor 3rds.

Legacy Rick

My brain hurts. 😖

Please see ALL OF RON JARZOMBEK videos and put in the notes as u r playing or group em if editing is a pain to insert individual notes... We appreciate the content but for the content... And concepts.... Ron JARZOMBEK does it for us...

Smells of Scriabin

Anyone who thinks that 12-note rows can't have any "tonal" associations ever is just plain IGNORANT. Some of the earliest rows make use of triads. Yes they do... check out Berg's Violin Concerto if you don't believe me. Any one who suggests that 12-note rows are no longer relevant to teach students going through music training is just plain LAZY, and looking for a "system" (s)he can shovel by rote down their throats, collecting WAY too much money for doing NOTHING in the process.

Hey ! Your videos are interesting but your editing is disturbing ... Anyways, thanks for sharing your work :)

I thought Arnold Schoenberg invented that concept. Lmao. He actually said he invented this concept. What a jerk.

Just take melody at it’s starting point and shift it through all 12 tones then worry about counter point and harmony . This isn’t something new.