Agreed. So many people describe modes like “you play all the white keys, but start on a different key and that’s a mode”, and that makes it so much more confusing. Like, okay? How do I apply that to other keys, though? What makes the modes different from a major/minor key other than starting on a different white key?

​@drakonisasmrtist9471 the worst is when people disregard modes because thats all they believe it to be. If that was the case, why bother with these weird forgein sounding terms rather than simply numbered positions of a scale?

I can say it made it to the primary school computer labs of Australia about 2 decades ago, alongside kid pix.

American here. They made it here as well.

I freaking loved Zoombinis!

I'm Canadian, and I remember playing this game on my grade 5 classroom computer whenever I could. Too bad it took a long time for the computer and the game to boot up, so I actually barely got any time at all to play. I'm so glad I know it's name now though!

The first game is currently on Steam, but the two sequels seem to have fallen by the wayside as abandonware.

was thinking the same thing!

He already made two videos about Pokemon Gen 1 and 2 music, including one about the battle themes. Not sure if those are what you're looking for.

from what I can tell, the elite for theme for scarlet/violet is written in E phrygian, with a brief stint in Bb major. so add one more pokemon battle phyrgian theme to the tally

Reminds me of how almost all the Mario Kart Rainbow Roads across the series are defined by opening with the Lydian I and II chords

that´d be awesome

I agree, always loved gerudo valley in Zelda oot, I’m aware it’s “spaghetti western” but it think it has that passionate, mysterious flavour you speak of.

Absolutely. The Phrygian mode is best!

Yeah flamenco uses it too right! But with sharpened 3

It's crazy to see how cultures influence our way of interpreting music

@@10freekie2 the most popular term for it is "Phrygian dominant", but meh, this term is piece of shit in terms of music theory (Phrygian with raised 3rd? Excuse me, if 3rd is sharp - forget about word "Phrygian". And what does "dominant" means in this context? Literally nothing lol) Flamenco musicians call it "Dorico Flamenco mode" Jews call it "Freygish" or "Ahava rabbah" In Russian music theory we call it just "Jewish scale" or "dominant mode", because in some cases 1rd degree of this mode can sound like 5th ("dominant") degree of relative harmonic minor (yes, relative, because this mode is the 5th mode of harmonic minor), or "dominant mode type 1" (because type 2 is the 5th mode of double harmonic minor - so called "Gypsy scale") This shit is genius, it basically combines tonality (dominant is a function, and it can really sound and feel like the dominant of harmonic minor) and modality (like I said before, it's the 5th mode of harmonic minor)

Seriously, the game would not have crossed my mind for the rest of life without that prompt.

I have seen some review channels talk about it an am always happy for more respact for it Brutalmoose wearing Zoombini makeup an nose while having ZOOMBINI yelled at me is my life

Same here. I forgot the name of the game and think about it all the time.

Sexual tension for zoombinis? Get a grip, dude.

Same. That's so strange how memory works

such a masterpiece.

Phrygian mode + 5/4= Hollow Bastion.

Yes I loved the Hollow Bastion theme so much. The imminent encounter with Malefocent in the majestic backdrop of the bastion. Imposing beauty sonically looming as we scale the tower to rescue our friends. Such a rich series of moments for me in my gaming history.

I could be wrong, but I see some similarities between Hollow Bastion and Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart". It could be the use of relative major and minor.

They were really weird looking too.

Zoombinis gave me nightmares as a kid and the music was the cause.

Now that i think of it, I remember being scared of the phygian scale as a kid. There were other songs i vaguely remember. Lol

The Prime 2 version is peaceful, but I never got that from Super Metroid's Lower Brinstar. For me, it's the point where the game actually starts to get hard, and the chords underneath sound incredibly ominous to me.

I was actually thinking the same, it never really felt threatening to me either. Maybe kinda isolating, like you sort of realize that you're starting to descend further from your ship on the surface, but i wouldn't say there's necessarily an accompanying sense of danger. In fact i'd say that when it plays in Dread, it kinda does the opposite and sorta lulls you into a sense of letting your guard down and sets you up beautifully for the okie doke.

No real disagreement, though it's still dark, and the 7/8 time makes it feel off.

Meanwhile, Prime 1 has the deepest part of its world having an awesome electronica beat.

Same as for me I have been using this mode to come up with resonating sounds on depressive moody music in piano But I had no idea that I was playing with Phrygian mode

I would like to see an analysis video on Prodigy riffs, lot of phrygian there

Lots of pop and folk music from Southern Europe/North Africa is in Phrygian. Definitely nothing threatening in such songs. I can even remember a children song, called ïn my language "My dear mother" that is Phrygian

Yeah it may be my synaesthete brain but especially when I hear the Rameses portion of the Overture in The Ten Commandments, it just has the brainfeel of an impossibly large army marching toward you, or the erecting of an absurdly large monument to a king or a God/dess, or even arguably some of the more "panicky" chords that you see in math rock/mathcore or even jazz, and such that just feel more "stabby" and manic in a musical context. I'm not sure if science will ever be able to explain exactly why music makes us invoke these kind of physical and emotional reactions that should be incongruent to what we are merely hearing, but that's why brains are fascinating.

The Phrygian Dominant scale (or very similar, or scales with the same notes but different motivation) also gets used all over the Middle East, in klezmer music (because you can absolutely shred on violin, clarinet, etc.), and all over jazz.

@@M_M_ODonnell Yeah, and Phrygian Dominant is also the flamenco scale because of the I-bII sound.

why stop at phrygian :D chromatic power chord chugs in, like, the 1st octave are so metal

The fact that I'm over halfway through this video and haven't heard E1M1 from Doom as an example makes me kinda sad, ngl. It's possibly the most iconic example. Even people who have never played doom recognize that song

@@VeritabIlIti it's locrian though, he mentions it in his locrian video

I believe when I was learning Cyrus’ theme during a guitar lesson it was explained to me as mixolydian, and it’s one of, if not my favorite Pokémon themes. I remember being a kid and being in absolute terror while I was just figuring out type matchups and getting my ass whooped to this theme. That rising scale was really something else that I haven’t quite heard before or since. I’d love to hear an in depth video on the music theory behind all of gen IV’s themes.

I'd love to watch a video about them too. They're formulaic, but have a great formula, and never get old.

Pretty sure _Final Boss Theme Of XC1_ uses Phrygian too

@@not_an_humin3710 You're right. The first phase theme is in E Phrygian.

Do it! I'd love to hear it.

Hey man where can i learn more about indian classical music theory more? Im v interested would you have sources? Thanks! :D

Interesting. If the 4th degree of phrygian is the strongest melodic resolution, you're actually resolving to aeolian in terms of Western framing. Think of playing E phrygian and resolving to A.

@@MadassAlex it has that pull for the same reason that the a minor scale likes to end on a half cadence in e major Phrygian: I - iv - I minor: V - i- V Basically the modes aren't real. E phrygian and a minor are the same thing. The reason it wants to pull to the fourth is because the fourth is the tonic and you're starting a melody on the dominant and pretending that is the tonic. They're all the same cadences and voiceleadings, they're just different perspectives. E Phrygian is just a half cadence in a minor.

@@sameash3153 "modes aren't real, they can't hurt you" lmao meanwhile, Creeping Death be like

@@MadassAlex it's not the strongest note of resolution, but it's a strong melodic note that helps bring out the mood of the mode. The tonic is still the strongest note to which to resolve.

Both the field and battle themes of The World That Never Was also use Phrygian, I always really liked the dark sound they have.

It sounds more like 90s EDM. The first three notes of the melody are D Eb G, the last note is F. Play a G minor chord for most of the melody, and then when the melody gets to F, play an F minor chord.

Magus Battle is a badass boss theme in a game of nothing but badass boss themes

you hear the “zanza motif” in aeolian in prison island! i am so disappointed that he didn’t cover zanza the divine

I think the part at the end about desert themes is hinting that there will soon be a video on Phrygian Dominant.

I was gonna comment this! Talk about threatening

Just think of them as alternate scales that are starting from different notes of the major (Ionian) scale. Think of C Major, but start from the third note of that scale E, and then end the scale when you get to the next octave above an E (also an E.) There you have your E Phrygian scale. You can scale it up or down with every other key from there.

Another, related way to think about modes is to think in terms of the tonic chord. So if you resolved to the E minor chord in a C major scale, then you would be using the Phrygian mode. If you resolved to the A minor chord you would be using Aeolian, etc.