IMPORTANT: Please Read the description first for tips! Ear Training Lesson 4 - Exotic World Scales Piano Sheet Music Theory Ear Master
I could use your help! If you use a different song or idea to remember something I'd like to know about it. Also, if you have a different name for these scales I'd like to know about it.
In this video I use pictures and relate them to sound. It's synthesia! The mixing of senses! Remember, you can slow down or stop the video by clicking on the gear by the playback bar.
It also reminds me a bit of the PAO (Person, Action, Object) memory trick a little bit.http://mnemotechnics.org/wiki/Person-Action-Object_(PAO)_System
NAME: PICTURE - VISUAL REPRESENTATION
(TIPS)
SCALE DEGREE #'s
SOLFEGGIO
EXAME OF SCALE STARTING FROM THE NOTE "C"
Major (ionian mode): Smiley Face
(A bland happy, sounds like a singing exercise)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
C D E F G A B C
Minor(aeolian mode): Sad Face
(A Bland sad, can sound like a pirate music at times)
1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 8
Do Re Mey Fa So ley tey Do
C D Eb F G Ab Bb C
Phrygian: Mexican Village
(A sad scale with an Iberian Peninsula Vibe (b2), flamenco type guitar music.)
1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 8
Do Ra Mey Fa Sol Ley Tey Do
C Db Eb F G Ab Bb C
Lydian: Link from Zelda
(Extra Happy, Wood-elf scale, Major but with #4)
1 2 3 #4 5 6 7 8
Do Re Mi Fi Sol La Ti Do
C D E F# G A B C
Whole-Tone: La-La Land
(Time warp scale, A scale without direction or meaning)
1 2 3 #4 #5 #6 8
Do Re Mi Fi Si Li Do
C D E F# G# A# C
Harmonic Minor: Arabian Knights
(A sad scale with a lot of edge, used to build stereotypical chord progressions)
1 2 b3 4 5 b6 7 8
Do Re Mey Fa Sol ley Ti Do
C D Eb F G Ab B C
Chromatic: Cat walking on piano
(Nothing but half steps, one note after another, twelve notes, ugly or wrong sounding)
1 b2 2 b3 3 4 b5 5 b6 6 b7 7 8
Do Ra Re Mey Mi Fa Fi Sol Ley La Tey Ti Do
C Db D Eb E F Gb G Ab A Bb B C
Blues: Robert Johnson Blues
(Self Explanatory, minor pentatonic but with a b5 that adds a lot of edge)
1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 8
Do Mey Fa Fi Sol Tey Do
C Eb F Gb G Bb C
Major Pentatonic: Asian girl with pink Cherry Blossoms
(Happy female oriental sounding, five different notes, hence "penta", big leaps, wind-chime scale)
1 3 4 5 6 8
Do Mi Fa So La Do
C E F G A C
Minor Pentatonic: Eric Clapton
(Sad Oriental scale. Used in guitar riffs A LOT! Five different notes, hence "penta", big leaps)
1 b3 4 5 b7 8
Do Mey Fa So Tey Do
C Eb F G Bb C
Jewish: Star of David Flag
1 b2 3 4 5 b6 b7 8
Do Ra Mi Fa So Ley Tey Do
C Db E F G Ab Bb C
Non-Retrogradable Indian Raga - Raga Zilaf (Asavari Thaat): Indian God Saraswati
(Five notes, very meditative, can't be retrograded)
1 3 4 5 b6 8
Do Mi Fa So Ley Do
C E F G Ab C
Mongolian/Persian Minor - Mongol
(Lot's of edge, double A2+ between b2-3 and b6-7)
1 b2 3 4 5 b6 7 8
Do Ra Mi Fa So Ley Ti Do
C Db E F G Ab B C
Ancient Japanse - Japanese monk drawing
(A. K. A. The "In Scale" or the "Sakura pentatonic scale", sounds oriental, five notes, much darker than the other oriental scales, Male Dragon Scale)
1 b2 4 5 b6 8
Do Ra Fa Sol Ley Do
C Db F G Ab C
Diminished Scale (1-1/2) - Lucifer with metal guitar
(A. K. A. the Stravinsky scale used in the "Rite of Spring". A symmetrical scale, used for improvising over diminished chords, Used in metal a lot, invert the half and whole steps and you wind up with the other diminished scale.)
1 2 b3 4 b5 b6 6 7 8
Do Re Mey Fa Sey Ley La Ti Do
C Db Eb F Gb Ab A B C
Melodic Minor - Lute Guy
(A less sad minor scale, sounds like early music, listen to Greensleeves if your having trouble with this one, it has: So Do... Re Mey...........but then La Ti Do for the final cadence.)
1 2 b3 4 5 6 7 8
Do Re Mey Fa So La Ti Do
C D Eb F G A B C
Dorian - No Picture, Couldn't think of one really, Help?? Maybe I could of done a Greek Picture
(A Greek Mode, A jazzy jam scale, A less sad minor, a minor scale with just a regular 6)
1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7 8
Do Re Mey Fa So La Tey Do
C D Eb F G A Bb C
Mixolydian: Honkey Tonk Piano
(Honkey Tonk Piano because a dominant 7th chord is embedded inside this scale and so you use this scale to improvise over dominant 7th chords, major but with a b7)
1 2 3 4 5 6 b7 8
Do Re Mi Fa So La Tey Do
C D E F G A Bb C
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