Thank you Rick!! This was SUCH a cool project !! Hope to make music with you again someday 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Double Harmonic Major - 1:58 Lydian ♯2 ♯6 - 2:43 Ultraphrygian - 3:18 Hungarian Minor - 3:52 Oriental - 4:06 Ionian Augmented ♯2 - 4:39 Locrian 𝄫3 𝄫7 - 5:04

Beautiful composition. It's dark without being sad, which seems to make it more disturbing. The visuals going alongside it are stunnding and, and really fitting too.

I would seriously buy an album with your musical compositions. You should really share more of your own work. Truly inspiring.

Hello Rick Beto, this scale is actually a fairly common one in Indian Carnatic music, in fact it is the first ever thing they teach for a newbie singer/player in India, because of the symmetry of the scale. There are not a lot of songs written on this scale, but it is great to learn first time. It was mildly surprising to see western musicians like you use this scale in your music. Anyone interested in googling it, it is called “Mayamalavagowla” in Indian classic music.

Nahre Sol and Rick Beato composed together ! A dream come true... :)

WOW. That IS dark. But it's also incredibly beautiful. I feel like I've heard it a lot, for some reason. Thank you, Rick, for increasing my knowledge base once again.💜🌟

Seriously, how do you not have directors pounding yer door down to do their scores? I don't get it. One minute you sound like Holst, then John Adams, then Jaws, then Cabin in the Woods. Seriously, so good!

Berklee metal professor Joe Stump uses this scale a lot, although he usually teaches it from Hungarian Minor and considers Double Harmonic Major a mode of that.

Dark ambient is one of my favorite genres. Very intriguing composition demonstrating those scales and how they work. Great musicianship Enjoyed!

This is one of the most harmonically informative pieces I've heard from you. The notes, the atmosphere the modes create.. insanely touching. Love these!

I love it when you share your own work. I wish you'd do more creation style content and bring us along for the ride instead of only dissecting other peoples work in the 'What makes this song great'. I also love the video's where you get other musicians in and record stuff, would love to a combination of those two style videos : ). You could call it 'Let's make this sound great' : )

This guy! I mean, come on! Where were you 40 years ago when I started my dive into playing music? I may have kept playing the piano more instead of ditching it for the drums if I would have had a teacher like Rick. You are a National Treasure!

So beautiful. It's remarkable how even in the darkness, the tension always manages to resolve. I'm not far enough into my Beato Book to really grok this yet, but it's only a matter of time. Absolutely beautiful, and it was lovely to hear Nahre's playing again. She's brilliant.

Now, everyone should post recommendations since these modes are not often used in many pieces or songs. It's golden stuff for those of us who hunted these gems.

More mysterious than dark to my sensibility.

Such Debussy vibes with Nahre’s piano playing. You and Nahre knocked it out the park with your collaboration,Rick. Great stuff!

Haunting, daunting, and just in time for autumn... Kinda digging it, especially the Ultraphrygian 😉

absolutely awesome Rick and Nahre!

I love Hungarian minor! It’s amazing for metal music. I found it in a scale book several years ago. I never knew what the relative major or the other modes were called. Thank you. Awesome composition. Cheers!

Very expositive, thanks. This really brings home why understanding the structure of the scales and chords is important in order to say what one wants to say.

Holy cow! That’s great. More modes. Modes of darkness for sure. One or two of those have a real sci-fi thing goin’ on too.

Beautiful....opens some doors to explore.

Wow, I had a flashback to my music theory classes during junior college in 1983-85. This has rekindled an interest in immersing myself into relearning these scales & modes and applying it to the guitar. Thanks Rick! I gotta say I like your KZfaq channels. BTW we’re a year apart in age, and we like a lot of the same music. God bless!

Modern classical music at its finest. Love the visuals too. Thanks Rick for sharing.

While I had this playing, I was cooking dinner as though I was solving a double murder mystery involving a mysterious shadowy cult… “And they added 2 tea spoons salt to the pan… but Why? Why would they then sauté until brown only to place the pan into the oven set to 450 degrees. Are they insane? Damnit Lindsey! Why?!“ To which my girlfriend responded “This is your last glass of wine”

I've been studying n breaking down all the modes to this. I learned it from this video video Rick!!! I would have never known any of this if it weren't for you!!! Thank you!!!.. this video I saw years ago still breaking it down and how it layers over traditional western modes..such a great composition and explanation.. changed my life!! Can't thank you enough!!

Love this, it's quite beautiful and I just learned something

Really enjoyed that, thanks.

Simply outstanding! Great video on Double harmonic Major. This will add a wonderful twist to your arrangements!

Beats the heck out of major pentatonic scales 😂. Very interesting and smooth sounding to my rock ears. Almost classical but more melodic

Beato + Nahre = instant awesomeness.

Well done. Another video on how this was composed would be interesting.

What a tremendous example of the power of music and how scales effect us - beautiful.

It's strange and interesting how as an Indian from southern India I started learning vocals on this scale. We opt for this scale because learning it trains one to jump half ful and one and a half steps. We call it Mayamalawa Gowla ragam

Thanks so much for teaching and sharing!

Kid A / Amnesia had a lot of this vibe your exploring. I find new melody’s and hear the songs in new light so often. I really liked it Rick. Evocative. Loved the video you pieced it together with.

Nahre Sol plays this so flawlessly it almost sounds like MIDI. Great performance!

Shred is going to LOVE this video! Nice job Rick and Nahre, beautiful piece of music.

This was so incredible, Thank you for the composition and letting us know about Nahre! I followed the link to Nahre Sol and was blown away by her talent, I am now a subscriber on her channel!

What a beautiful piece of music! The emotion of the double harmonic major is unbelievable. Glad you shared this.

Very Cool! Great compositions and great playing by Nahre!! Thanks for sharing!!

Discovering (thanks to Rick) the other parent scales (and their modes) was, for me, one of the best things I did in terms of opening up a whole new world of creativity and ideas.

Just in time for Halloween! Thanks Rick!

The first time I listened to this it took my breath away. What a great lesson for anyone who wants to make their music sound "different." Growing up we've all heard major and minor scales and a few modes here and there quite extensively, but most of these were new to my ears. Beautiful work, and thank you Rick and Nahre.

Can't get enough of your original music, man. Wouldn't mind a video about your writing process and how you came to certain decisions along the way.

Awesome piece!! Love to see two of my favourite KZfaqrs working together. Hope you will do more with Nahre in the future!

OMG, Ric!! So beautiful! Who knew such things existed. Hints of the magnificent and mysterious in the cosmos!

This is an absolute beauty! It’s so somber and hopeful and terrifying and just amazing…. Please do more pieces

Exotic scales like this are very expressive! Love this Rick, great music and vibe!

Hey rick, in indian classical music double harmonic major is called raag bhairav, you should check out raag bhairav’s compositions. One of them named “jaago mohan pyaare”

I LOVE these sounds. How can something so tense be so calming?

So cool Rick. I got my notebook out for this one. I will be lost in the rabbit hole of creativity for the rest of the day now. Thank you for that👍👍

Love it! A wonderful composition. Your original compositions are the most interesting of all of your content...so keep them coming!

This is amazing! Such beautiful dissonance like I've never heard. Thank you for sharing!

Ahh this again. Loved it once love it twice! Would really appreciate seeing Nahre play it though 👀

Nice how changing a few notes of a scale opens a new sonic language that maintains its harmonic integrity like a Bach could. A tip for me is I think of altered scales as a major scale in disguise. Helps the logic part until my ear begins to hear the new sounds until they become familiar. Great writing of your pieces. Enjoyable. Thanks for posting.

Holy shit!! Pardon my French but wow! There just so much emotional content in those harmonies!!! Awesome! The exact opposite of modern top 40 chart music haha. Great video!

Beautiful job on this piece of music I love it and it really highlights the beauty of the scale.

Great composition! I'm glad to see another video on the double harmonic major scale again too.

This is a crazy scale, so cool!

MAN MY HEAD JUST EXPLODED..THIS IS WILD

Bravissimo to both of you! Very compelling!

Wow! Sounds like what a deep psychedelic experience feels like. Love! much love!

This is huge in many ways, the composition, the performance and the knowledge gained from this excellent breakdown. I have been subscribed to Nahre's channel and she does very cool things on the piano.

What a coincidence!! I posted a guitar lesson on September 23 covering the Hungarian Minor Scale!! So kewl... what a small world!!!

Been playing out of double harmonic major for years, so stoked to see something like this, thanks!

Thank you Rick for always giving us something new to chew on.

That was awesome bro. Gave me the feels. So dark!

Nice collaboration and creative composition. I've enjoyed both of your channels, and was nice to see/hear you together.

Wow, that's a beautiful soundtrack... beautiful Double Harmonic Major modes !!

I love the stretching. Such beautiful sounds.

I think my brain just melted from seeing a major scale set be so dark and emotional. I never would have thought.

That was beautiful. I could listen to these pieces for hours.

¡Me encanta esta música! No le hallo nada tenebroso, sino tonos que comunican emoción y sentido, pero nada de tenebrosidad… botón de muestra de que no todos interpretamos las mismas sensaciones con determinada música. Aunque algunas de las ilustraciones gráficas exhiben un fondo “oscuro”, se pudo haber puesto un nacimiento del sol e ilustraciones de un día “alegre” y la música tomaría su lugar. I love this music! I do not find anything dark, but rather tones that communicate emotion and meaning, but no darkness ... evidence that we do not all interpret the same sensations with certain music. Although some of the visual art exhibits a "dark" background, a sunrise and artwork of a "joyful" day could have been put on and the music would take its place.

Double harmonic major is the scale that was intuitive when I was high school age. I didn't know what it was called. It evokes the mystery of the energy of that age, for me. The ultraphrygian section sounded better than I thought it would after hearing the scale. The slower part especially. A mode can kind of hide in a slurry of fast notes, but it was really good in that part too, even though I listened carefully - when you played the bare mode during the intro exposition, I just thought, "good luck" but you really made it work with the music. And the last "so many flats" mode was totally evoking Alice falling down the rabbit hole, and then you had the sped-up train tunnel video, which was just perfect. Wooo-ha

This is some serious, high end, top shelf sh**! OMG! O_O Rick! I love you! 🙏🔥❤ Be Blessed Young Stud! And what amazing, blazing fingers on the piano!!

The Halloween scales, perfect timing. Nice job guys.

That was amazing! I love Nahre. I’m really liking these old fashion Beato videos

The two of you should be scoring films. Something I certainly aspire to, but wow- this is SOMETHING ELSE.

Some years back I bought a new acoustic 6-string guitar and was so inspired by its sound that a number of tunes just poured out with it during those first few months. One was something I've since named Volo Flamenco. I just played. Wasn't thinking modes or keys or anything really. Just letting the guitar sing. Some time later while doing an online Berklee orchestration course with Ben Newhouse I used this to try to create a fully orchestrated version. I immediately ran into a roadblock because I really had no clue what key/mode I was working with. I can 'hear' lines and harmonies in it that I've never been able to get "on paper" (as it were). That first segment in E Double Harmonic Major has the same harmonic feel. Clearly I need to learn more about this scale / mode, because it sounds like the key to bringing that composition to life. THANK YOU for posting this!

Lydian #6 #2 is great! It has alot of hidden chords so it can be played over almost any chord. Maj7, dom7, min7, min/maj7, min7b5, min/maj7b5, dom7b5, Maj7b5.

These last two videos you've done on exotic modes have been insane, Rick. These sounds are mind blowing.

More of this kind of crazy stuff Rick please :) I can see this getting used in a thousand wildlife documentaries.

My mom loved symphonic classical music and I went to Many classical performances. Your lovely composition would’ve well worth the time to go and hear and be fascinated with your ear candy! I can’t say that many of those so called modern compositions were actually painful to the ears and a waste of time uncomfortably spent. Thank you for your lovely educational videos and allowing me a 73 year old to better understand my life long hobby of listening and hearing something wonderful like your composition ❤❤❤❤

Literally earlier today I was looking for stuff about this scale and other similar ones to understand and learn to play them on guitar! Then Beato uploads a video about it with a beautiful composition, on a second channel I didn't even know exists and found by googling "double harmonic major scale" again! I already knew Hungarian minor (and maqam Hijaz) before, and honestly I still don't understand what modes even are so the actual relationship between this and Hungarian minor goes over my head, but... this definitely convinced me I need to learn to play this scale by muscle memory haha.

What a beautiful sound you both made. Complex composition made pleasing and fitting to listen to. Reminded me a little in parts of the late great Keith Emerson, and in parts awesome background music for a suspense or horror film. Well done both of you.

This is super cool. I love the sound of those scales. And great playing as always, Nahre.

Now you got me thinking enchanted forests, castles, shadowy figures, mists about the landscape, roving eyes, disturbed soil, distant smoke, dreary weather, Mulder & Scully!

You just took my song writing to a whole new level!

Those were really pleasing to the ear!!!

Beautiful work! Thank you.

Very nice piece Rick!

in german school one is taught that 'Hungarian Minor' is the 1st mode (here we still called it 'Gypsy Minor') just basicly by taking the 'harmonic minor' scale with one extra leading-note to the fifth. Easy to memorize that!

wow....awesome stuff, thanks Rick and Nahre, very inspirational!

I did not know there was a second channel until the other day. BTW, these modes sound more misterious than dark to me. Suspense all over (y).

Such a great approach to hearing/understanding & feeling the nuances!!

So cool. Thank you for your work.

Very cool and appropriate for spooky season!

Awesome piano playing!