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He's not a creep now, he's not a weirdo, he knows what the hell he doing there, he belongs there

Man beatles in the minor sounds like every sad love ballad and im all for it

0:07 Bye Jude 1:04 Here Hides the Sun 3:12 Just Keep Believin' 4:38 The House of the Rising Moon 6:44 Love Me Boo

0:07 Bye Jude 1:04 There Goes the Sun 3:12 Please Stop Believin' 4:38 House of the Setting Sun 6:44 Don't Love Me 8:21 Hero

3 beatles songs, 1 radiohead song, perfection

Some 25 years ago a flute playing friend of mine and I, playing guitar, noticed that songs with a lot of #'s were a lot easier to play if he ignored three of them, thus making it minor. We took Bye Bye Love, played it in minor only instrumentally, started playing it slower and claimed we were doing a "New Hebrew Folk Song". The audience didn't recognise it until we sped up. Was a lot of fun.

For some reason I really loved "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey in the minor key. It had such an emotional impact.

David, I have to say I admire you a lot, specifically because you are so young and have so much musical education. I am 65 and just now learning basic music theory, and your videos are a major reason I took interest in music. I also like how you incorporate your sponsors into the theme of your lessons. How young were you when you started your journey in music?

Made “Creep” even sadder than it already is, great job.

Don't Stop Believing actually sounds really good in the minor key. I want the whole song like that now!

7:43 That D to Gm chord progression sounded SO CLEAN!

Congrats you made Beatles songs sound like funeral marches 🤣

You made Journey sound like Supertramp

Please do full versions of Here Comes the Sun and Hey Jude in minor keys. These are hysterical.

A Perfect Circle did something like this with their cover of Imagine. By putting it in minor (and of course with different production and vocal delivery), it ends up feeling ominous, tense, even vaguely threatening.

Take a sad song and make it sadder 😂

You must publish the full version of each song. Its absolutely gorgeous.

1. Bye Jude 2. Here comes the moon 3. Stop Believing 4. Love me don't

Great video. The final "Für Elise" in major at the end took me by surprise

I really liked the way the melody interacted with the G chord in this new version of "Don't Stop Believin'." When he sings "anywhere" he now sings a major 7th over the chord. Very pretty. By the way, maybe the title of the minor key version should be called "Stop Believin'"? Or just "Give up Hope"? And "Here Comes the Sun" should be "There Goes the Moon."

When I started learning about reharmonization, I've been keeping the notes of a melody unchanged but changed the chords to be darker and vice versa.

if you haven't heard it before, the band ghost has covered 'here comes the sun' and taken all the joy out of it so that it sounds eerie and unsettling and incredible - completely in line with the image of the band. highly recommend!

This approach is the best way to learn about modes and theory. Actually hearing and having your ear understand the effect of substitution is so much better than simply theoretical and intellectual understanding .

The band Ghost covered Here Comes the Sun in minor and it worked very well

Ground control to minor Tom

Dude. The Fur Elise at the end in major key REALLY blew my mind!! Incredibly interesting vid, thanks!!

This is the best illustration of the difference between major and minor that I’ve ever heard. Nice work David.

Minor is so, so underrated. It actually sounds really good a lot of times! **Edit** Loved Fur elise at the end! Such a pretty song, sounds great altered as well!

One of the most interesting episodes for a long time 😊😊🎉🎉

Yes! I've been wondering for years how this is done. Thanks!

My friend and I used to do this in highschool for fun. We'd name a song and try to sing the melody in a minor key

I admire your ability to make such a productive use of a software i don't even grasp the sense of it. And it was really hilarious to listen to your "particular" versions.

David, I saw this title and immediately prepared to comment with "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (CAP)...So glad to see the song, and Cole, remembered. Not surprised since it's you. Thanks

For some reason I've always favored the natural minor/Aeolian mode over the harmonic minor. Not sure why, but that cooler, more melancholic sound just appeases my ears more than harmonic resolution. That being said, while I do like the harmonic minor versions of the Beatles' songs, I feel like "Don't Stop Believin'" would work much better in the natural minor. I think it may have something to do with the fact that the song uses the Axis progression that you have mentioned in previous videos (I-V-vi-IV). Transposing that to i-V-VI-iv, I feel like it throws off that natural balance between major and minor within the progression itself. I-V-vi-IV has a nice even flow to it, so I think transposing it to its exact opposite (i-v-IV-iv) would be much smoother. Just my opinion. Up for debate though!

“But how strange the change from major to minor…”😊

Hey Jude sounds like if radiohead did it.

That was great!! You should have done "Good Day Sunshine" and see what happens

I did the A major -> A harmonic minor change on a Scottish march for an intonation exercise for a fiddle student just last night (Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside, sounded surprisingly good). Fun to see this in my feed today, with it on my mind already!

Dang, "Hey Jude" in minor is so haunting... The other ones didn't give me that much effect, but the first one makes me wanna lie in my bathtub with my clothes on, and rethink every single life choice I made.

Wow, you made Here comes the sun into a absolute tragedy fest xD And Don't stop believin' sounds really weird as well. Kinda like a 80s synth pop hit, it has that feeling to it. House of the Rising Sun is changed so much it sounds like he is proud his father was a gambler. Creep sounds like somebody who has given up on life or can't reach his loved person. Für Elise is going from Minor to Major, isn't it. It almost sounds happy now.

Here Comes The Sun in a minor key makes me physically ill.

Fun! What a great learning tool for modes. Let's hope for peace with the copyright crowd.

What I learned today - Good music is good music. Major or minor is just colour. This is quite liberating. Great video David - I'd happily listen to the entire Beatles catalogue, polarity flipped.

Really liked major Fur Elise, please upload the full version!!

This is a great ear-opening video. Thanks for posting.

Will you do a video Introduction to jazz theory, or how to make piano solo, or how to improvise anytime? I know that there are many videos about that, but your videos are so understandable and perfect always.

I used to perform Hey Jude in Minor, and used that "Take a sad song and make it sadder" line. I WANT MY ROYALTIES, DAVID

Minor Don't Stop Believin' really slaps, not gonna lie.

Major: optimistic, upbeat, bright Minor: depressing, sad, dark

3:37 Wow. It now sounds like he's ashamed of his origins, which is fitting if you know anything about "South Detroit" aka Windsor, Ontario.

Sad Here Comes the Sun was so good

Drums aren't atonal. They are maybe (arguably) unpitched, but not atonal. Atonal describes something that is in opposition to tonal music, like twelve-tone music.

It's crazy how the feel of the song is totally inverted.

I was relieved when you mentioned the D Major in "House of the Rising Sun". It's an important chord, because it's one of those non-diatonic chords (okay, it's fine for A Minor Harmonic, but there's also an F chord in there). You really do have an eye for detail and seem to miss nothing.

Not sure I like the transformed songs much, but an interesting exercise anyway, especially when you have to deal with chords that weren't in the key to start with! Thanks for making the video. Quite a disclaimer in the description!

This is a really cool video concept

One of the reasons I started watching KZfaq music theory channels a few years ago was to break out of the natural minor rut that I’d been in for decades, and try some modes and harmonic approaches that could broaden my palette. But I have to say that I prefer your minor key versions to the major originals, so I guess Aeolian still just feels like home to me!

When you realize Creep sounds creepier in minor

I would be intrigued by a major Jolene

Don't Stop me now by Queen actually sounds dope on minor key

Singing about a sad song in a happy tune makes it somehow sadder to me, Coldplay does this very well. It’s like, alright we’re sad but, it’s just life, 10 minutes later something good can happen but in the moment we are just really really sad

Hey Jude -> Bye Jude Here Comes the Sun -> There Goes the Sun Don't Stop Believin' -> Do Stop Believin' House of the Rising Sun -> House of the Setting Sun Love Me Do -> Love Me Don't Creep -> Obsessive Stalker

Hey, I really enjoyed this! Spooky to hear songs you know really well sounding so different...

Für Elise worked so well in minor that I instantly thought of using as a metal riff....

"'Cus I'm a keeper, I'm a hero, I know what am I doing here. I belong here."

saw you on Geography now today 🎉

I remember when this was all the rage. REM's "Losing My Religion" was incredible turned major. I'm sure the technology to do so is much better today.

Thanks David for giving me a glimpse that a Beatles song always sound good.❤

Hey David, great video as usual. Maybe you could expand on this idea for a future video. Using the same song you could go through all the seven modes and demonstrate how each scale has a specific feel. We would need a song with a relatively complex melody and or harmony but it would be very interesting.

You can say that the 6th degree becomes the Sick'd degree in Minor

I absolutely love how most of your videos make references to the Beatles

The moment you started playing Hey Jude in minor you had me in stitches. Amazing video, one of your best. And that is no small complement.

I’ve always been curious as to how a full cannon in d minor would sound like. After fiddling around with my friends we actually reached a very satisfactory rendition of the song, with all of its nuances and all, but also sounding really sad due to the minor scale. Our best arrangement to date in my opinion

I love this concept and the results. Great video.

That's so much work for you to do that videos. Thanks a lot!

Ghost did that to "Here Comes The Sun" but changed it to G minor rather than A minor. I recommend a listen. sounds lovely.

Even Happy Birthday sounds great in minor key

The thumbnail is the best thing I’ve seen all day

3:52 “Don’t Stop Believin’” in the parallel minor key sounds like it could be a Bon Jovi song

I listened to the theme of "Nightmare on Elm Street" in Major key once, and it was the most victorious progression I've heard in ages, worthy of being in a Final Fantasy game.

One Christmas when I was a teenager, I was feeling in a foul mood because all of my friends were busy doing family stuff, which my family wasn't exactly good at. I went to my faithful Commodore 64, loaded up some composition software, and entered that classic "Surly One Morning". It helped to get the grumpiness out of my system.

This was the greatest ad I’ve ever seen.

I was thinking about "Hooked on a feeling" in a minor key, and now it gets stuck in my head sometimes.

Wow, Here comes the sun is actually really cool! Great work!

Hey David, just saw you on Geography Now, on the UK episode, it was nice to see a familiar face there, and you did an awesome job explaining your country's music history, Thanks lml

wow they sound really really cool

Great video, it's really weird to hear these songs in a different key like this. Though, as a new viewer, for some reason your voice reminds me of MumboJumbo...

This was great, very educational, and an easy way to showcase a sponsor! Please do more of these.

Please tell me you’ve seen the Bill Bailey clip where he plays match of the day theme in a minor key

you broke my brain with "Hey Jude" intro... xD

a great reference in "Sad song and make it sadder" 🧡

Man, I do this all the time when I'm bored!

I'm an amateur chorister and this winter, when one of my choirs was rehearsing Händel's Messiah, we joked about the Halelujah chorus in the minor key. A few minutes of experiments showed that that can work well.

You never miss, David!! Great video

Another trick I've not heard mentioned is that if a major melody has a heavy emphasis on the third, or a minor melody has a heavy emphasis on the fifth, changing the piece to the relative major or minor by keeping the same key signature but changing which note serves as the tonic. A song like "The First Noel" can be changed from D major to B minor merely by reharmonizing it, so the opening F# is the fifth of B minor tather than the third of D major. "The Ballad of Gilligan's Island" can be changed from D minor to F major by changing D notes to C's and F's. And much as I'd like to honor Don Henley's wish not to have anyone talk about his mustic without giving him $$$, I think "Hotel California" is an irresistable example of how a song can be changed from B minor to D major by reharmonizing as (D Bm A D G D A D / G D A D G D A D) and keeping almost everything in the melody the same, except with the few B's changed to A's and A#'s to G naturals. I don't know if there's a term to distinguish "relative minor" melodies from "parallel minor" minors, but some melodies like "Ballad of Gilligan's Island" sound really weird if one tries to form the parallel major, but quite reasonable if one forms the relative major.

Yesss this is one of my favorite applications of music theory knowledge! Incredible what lowering that 3rd degree can do. Excellent video & would love to see more of this as a series

Such an interesting video! ❤ Thanks!

That was a really cool video. And that D on love me do really did make that Gm more satisfying lol

Great video, David. Even though, at first i thought you were going to make a video about songs that change from the parallel major scale to the parallel minor, from verse to chorus. An easy example would be "The fool on the hill" by the Beatles, or in Spanish there's a song by Spinetta called "Tema de pototo" and a classic tango song called "Por una cabeza". You should make such a video (if you haven´t). Thank you!