How To Make Music With The HUNGARIAN MINOR Scale (aka Double Harmonic Minor)

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You may have noticed how most lessons on exotic scales for guitar just show you a couple of scale patterns and call it a day. While it's cool to know scale patterns, those are not enough for you to actually make music with the new scale you have learned.
Today we will take one of the most interesting exotic scales - the Hungarian Minor, also known as the Double Harmonic minor - and together we will see how to actually make music with it.
We will look at its chords and how to put them together and even how to use some of the most dissonant options to good effect.
In just a little more than 5 minutes from now you will be able to make music with the Hungarian Minor scale and create sounds that you have not used before.
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@WeepingWillow1 4 жыл бұрын

I've never seen a white board so clean. Teachers could learn something from him.

@elouiseliew7411 4 жыл бұрын

Haha... i believe that's not the focus of the video. But now that you mentioned it, yeah i think so too! :D

@Peat030 3 жыл бұрын

Or it's post production XD

@TANMAN47TANMAN 2 жыл бұрын

Its an edit for contrast

@dekzXT Жыл бұрын

Use alcohol spray. 100% ethanol

@zoltanrudolf 4 ай бұрын

I think he cleans it with Hungarian apricot brandy!

@orangetoes223 4 жыл бұрын

This scale is awesome for all styles of Metal.

@frenchiesfrankieandhenry 4 жыл бұрын

Because it's like lydian and harmonic minor in one scale. So much dissonance=metal as fuck. Lol

@joebermuda6452 4 жыл бұрын

It’s incredible

@HaharuRecords 3 жыл бұрын

Why some bunch of people like you love metal so much, don't you ever be funky or groovy.. I mean this scale is beautiful.

@adam.recording 3 жыл бұрын

@@HaharuRecords exactly. This scale can be used for much more than metal/film music. And it doesn’t always sound creepy. Ok most of the times it does thi

@HaharuRecords 3 жыл бұрын

@@adam.recording✌️👹

@fabiobadano-bad-composer5075 5 жыл бұрын

My favorite progression in A Hungarian minor is: A-... G#-... A-... G#. G#-. A-... F... B7 (b5)... E... in loop

@MusicTheoryForGuitar 5 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@JereToikka 5 жыл бұрын

Nice! You could also hold the F from B7b5 to add a b9 to the E :)

@fabiobadano-bad-composer5075 5 жыл бұрын

Jere Toikka yes, b9 (dark tense sound) is a great option!

@gettyfeet9119 4 жыл бұрын

I just sat and watched this with my undivided attention like I actually understood every word.

@jamesmaxwell5415 5 жыл бұрын

More half steps + spicer scale. That has never occurred to me! Keep them coming :)

@LordStompyHarpLoonyTunes 4 жыл бұрын

Famous Serbian folk punk band "No Smoking Orchestra" use this scale a lot, it's naturally part of traditional Eastern European music culture

@sRichterMusic 3 ай бұрын

4:44, now that's beautiful, that Bb5/A just sounds so great. Thank you for this video !

@Ksrwilhelm 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting! This scale contains a “diatonic” neapolitan chord based on the 2nd degree, B in your example. By using that you could go through Bb7 and modulate suddenly to Eb major or minor (a tritone away with just one chord in between!!)

@gggfx4144 4 жыл бұрын

Was just learning music theory today and found your channel; so happy I did! A clear, info-rich video about an uncommon scale I've always wanted to learn about - thankyou!

@vfrancomaia 5 жыл бұрын

This is one of the best music theory channels I've ever seen. Thank you very much for the lessons!

@barefootarts737 3 жыл бұрын

one of my favorite scales. it just goes on forever.

@michaelinglis8516 5 жыл бұрын

This one was really helpful. I've got decent working theory knowledge but didn't understand slash chords even though they are featured predominantly in my playing. These videos have really helped me see how slash chords fit in with the use of inversions. Really enjoyed this. I also use Hungarian minor but didn't fully understand it's chord scale until now. Thanks!

@remco2777 5 жыл бұрын

Super interesting! I had never heard of the Hungarian Minor. Thank you for the video!

@zross8471 4 жыл бұрын

This guys is SO AWESOME! Just discovered his stuff. Very likeable as well. Perfecto.

@eddiedrake1989 5 жыл бұрын

Those chords are so dark and beautiful. Fantastic video!!!!

@kakalakiakka4545 5 жыл бұрын

I’m Hungarian but never heard about it, thx!!

@supertonicguitar 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent demonstration and super easy to understand. Hungarian minor FTW!

@OldSilkRoad 5 жыл бұрын

This is the first video by you that I came across. I just loved your style of teaching. Liked and subscribed!

@chrisbrown6532 5 жыл бұрын

Yusef Lateef also has this scale in his Repository as "Persian" or "Egyptian" scales, just different modes with a huge wealth of exercises to look into. It's also the Bhainav raga in Indian music so really expresses that Eastern sound, I love it!

@Jacksonrox13 3 жыл бұрын

Just figured out that it's the Mixolydian Mode of this scale that gets you the Double Harmonic Minor Scale - aka, the Byzantine Scale.

@larslevinberget9558 Ай бұрын

Wow!

@SAZIZMUSIC 5 жыл бұрын

Your explanation is super!! Great channel. Thanks a lot for these videos.

@RichardFreeman 5 жыл бұрын

Great video Tommaso! One of my favorite sounds!

@brycegorman2383 5 жыл бұрын

Very cool, I love the chord progressions!

@GogiRegion 5 жыл бұрын

Oh my god. Thank you so much. This has to be the scale used in clean the intro of Blasphemian by Infant Annihilator. I love that clean guitar intro, and have been trying to figure out how to get that feel somehow, and this is it. Thank you!

@keithcourneyea1609 5 жыл бұрын

Fabulous lesson Tomasso. Love the content quality.

@ivanlevrone247 5 жыл бұрын

Your channel is amazing, thanks for your lessons

@SorenAraujo 5 жыл бұрын

Love it love it love it! Thank you 😊🙏

@ATothFTW18 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic video! Such a cool sounding scale!

@AlessandroZir 3 жыл бұрын

thank you, very enlightening explanation; ❤️❤️

@garykuzminski7969 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Thank you!

@markpilon6959 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice for acoustic too!

@shadowsblack3896 5 жыл бұрын

Excelente. Gracias por la información.

@axeslinger94 5 жыл бұрын

I wish the Bb5 was used more in this video. Seems like the tritone was being avoided when he played back that one in particular for some reason. All of these chords in a chord scale sound really beautiful together so not sure why that is. Would've also liked to see the C+ get some love too. I like this video and have only recently started watching your content, but please if you see this, don't be afraid to use those more dissonant chords! Also! Probably not proper chord construction technique but the G# augmented sounds slightly better with the other chords than the G# minor to me.

@bashshasheet8519 4 жыл бұрын

i was studying opeth's style and this scale sounds so close and if u add some sus chords, this will sound amazing. try to play a minor and then a sus 2 and then g sharp minor and then g sharp sus2 u will have a great voice

@pedro_a_martins 4 жыл бұрын

Now that you mention it this really reminds me of Opeth!

@noobplays5219 4 жыл бұрын

Thanksssssssssssss

@noobplays5219 4 жыл бұрын

And can you help me with music theory a bit insta can be helpful Thanks for considering 😊

@97yawnac 5 жыл бұрын

Great lesson!

@dhaneshs131 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tommaso... Great stuff... Another scary thing made simple 👍👌

@kentkacs3140 5 жыл бұрын

Helpful! Thank you!

@AristizabalixGrimm 2 ай бұрын

This feels like some vintage Silent Hill. I love it. I wonder if Akira Yamaoka used the Hungarian Minor in his compositions.

@reneraymond7807 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you,Bravooo!

@FuerstMykisch Жыл бұрын

thank you very much!

@Segagens 4 жыл бұрын

New name: The Opethian Scale

@WishForTheNight 4 жыл бұрын

when he gave the chords round 4:20 minutes i was like instantly Opeth! and yes the name would fit perfectly

@Oi-mj6dv 3 жыл бұрын

Sprinkle diminished scale and boom you got some spicey opeth going on

@toddwilliamson8557 3 жыл бұрын

Actually it's the Ritchie Blackmore scale and both Opeth guys cite Ritchie Blackmore as one of their biggest influences.

@cuteasxtreme 2 жыл бұрын

@@toddwilliamson8557 name some songs that use it… I only know “smoke on the water” from them

@eh4hk6 3 ай бұрын

beautiful

@tempusfugit4545 4 жыл бұрын

Love your Chanel!! Thank u

@zeynelkilinc 4 жыл бұрын

thank you very much

@ferudunatakan Жыл бұрын

On D# note we can build a D#dim (bb3) chord. Very exotic.

@JereToikka 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, Tommaso! :)

@TedBoyRomarino 4 жыл бұрын

Pedal Bass is very good for these types of scales that don't form typical funcional chords. Pure modal delight.

@billybilly1111 5 жыл бұрын

As soon as I saw that B b5 I jumped to a Lydian sound. I was hoping you would bring up Bb5/A cause that really offers that Lydian feel

@joelstephenson8017 3 жыл бұрын

Very subdued and emotional.

@noctropolis27 3 жыл бұрын

I just used the "scale finder" tool, pick up the 7 notes (per octave) I like, and the tool finds for me just the "hungarian gypsy minor". Then I went to YT to check it out (how it sounds). I like it very much, and it's nothing weird in my case because I'm a depressive/dissonant black metal lover.

@thomasfoster4091 3 жыл бұрын

I think this is my favorite KZfaq channel.

@thomasschilling6692 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@bularecordz 4 жыл бұрын

Now I'm trying to do a triphop song within that scale, wish me luck! It's such a dark sounding scale.

@ardeliaemanda3179 5 жыл бұрын

What a lesson 😉

@mikepollackguitar Жыл бұрын

What a great teacher. This sounds like it could be a black metal intro.

@atharvasapkota4139 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir for this tutorial.....please make a tutorial about classical prelude and other related stuffs too...that would be more helpful....

@daviddelaney363 7 ай бұрын

Nice!

@gerardocorrea9559 5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. I'm going to create something nice with it.

@elcatrinc1996 3 жыл бұрын

Thank to Will Wood i searched for Hungarian Harmonic, and now im here

@petfama4211 5 жыл бұрын

Stravinsky actually used polychords made up of all the notes in this scale in The Rite of Spring

@Theunknownshredder Жыл бұрын

Very nice 👍

@bestboy897 5 жыл бұрын

Great video

@GuitarosaurusRex 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting... subscribed!

@KunalOak 5 жыл бұрын

Tomasso reads comments ❤️ just the video I was waiting for 😄

@MusicTheoryForGuitar 5 жыл бұрын

I have more coming :)

@DarkWorldQ8 2 жыл бұрын

When I improvise using this scale in the key of A#m, I would go with the following chord progression A#m, Am, F#, F. Sometimes I use A# diminished as a switching point between A#m and Am.

@arnabdas7754 4 жыл бұрын

Spooky scale ... Love 💗 it

@julioangeloLAWOD 4 жыл бұрын

The chords sounded like something opeth does but the solos sounds very much like how Marty friedman makes his solos.

@tysonmike6464 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what i think:)

@MrJPavez 5 жыл бұрын

Nice !!!!

@DarrylPowis 5 жыл бұрын

Cool!

@tw11tube 3 жыл бұрын

If I didn't miss anything, the most common other scaled named "double harmonic minor" can be obtained if you start the scale at "E" instead of "A", so these two scales might be considered different modes over the same scale.

@bastienp7334 5 жыл бұрын

Wow you just learned me that the mode (found it by ear) I use the most in my minor impros is actually called hungarian minor

@Basu117 5 жыл бұрын

That's how I found Phryigian Dominant lmao

@autismhighway 2 жыл бұрын

2 cluster chord ABC or d sharp ef ARe plauseable option They make a interesting sound

@AnthonyWabo 5 жыл бұрын

That was amazing! I've been fascinated with the Hungarian Minor Scale for quite some time. It's a really nice, exotic/dark sounding scale when used right, but it does require some understanding first. Thank you for that great video! INSTA SUB! P.S. An interesting song that uses it is the solo of Kind Diamonds's "Black Horsemen" Andy LaRocque did an impressive job as always!

@anthonybrank2429 2 жыл бұрын

who asked kid

@pinedjem6841 2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonybrank2429 Dick...Great song Anthony!

@enriqueiruretagoyena1077 5 жыл бұрын

I think that we can enharmonize "D#" (Eb) to form a chord of "Ab" with the next notes: "G#" (Ab), C and "D#" (Eb). And we can also use it as a Ab/F and there we have a "Fmin7". The function of this chord could be something like this: "Am" "Ab/F" "E6 9" "E" "Am". And it sound more like Bossa or even Jazz. Or "Am" "Ab/F" "G#m7" Am".

@MusicTheoryForGuitar 4 жыл бұрын

You have a point! Here's my retraction: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qKuhpM9hrKnWm5s.html

@fraproxy 5 жыл бұрын

A little bit of "When the sun burns red" by Kreator from Coma of Souls or Diablo-ish...

@luiscarlosdasilva1446 5 жыл бұрын

Maravilha! Potemos ter mais?

@felipeacevedoromero5707 5 жыл бұрын

nice!

@jatodd3746 5 жыл бұрын

Reminded me of Rush's "Cygnus X-1"

@trevorjensen2706 4 жыл бұрын

So you get the Lydian with the raised fourth, plus the raised seventh of the harmonic minor. Interesting!

@connieLo87365 Жыл бұрын

Wow!!!

@hannahehmusic 3 жыл бұрын

Hello! I loved your explanation of the Hungarian Minor. I am trying to write a piano piece based off of this scale, so it really helped. Would you say that your book explains all the modes and scales like this? I am trying to see if it would be applicable to all instrumentalists other than only guitar. Thanks for this video!

@MusicTheoryForGuitar 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks :) Master of the Modes is designed for guitar, so I don't see it working for other instruments. The explanations are slightly different in there, as I do more "fretboard" work than here.

@ostnote1 5 жыл бұрын

The best example to get into this scale is the folk music of Romania, Transylvania and Hungary. mostly used for violin, accordion and clarinet, look for taraf of haidouks, they are virtuous and impressive

@geartweaker8518 2 жыл бұрын

Romanian, Transylvanian and Hungarian folk music? Would love to hear some, do you have any artist suggestions?

@mensalaorachadinha3830 2 жыл бұрын

On D#, I would build a D#sus2(b5) chord, made out of the notes D#, F and A.

@squwooshk 3 жыл бұрын

Makes me think of Will Wood and the Tapeworms.

@dorzsboss 6 ай бұрын

Somehow bluesy but more mysterious sounding scale.

@pafpro34 5 жыл бұрын

This is also called "neveser" in Turkish Makam music

@MrDizzyvonclutch 4 жыл бұрын

You need one of this staff racks and five now markers!

@khorumas 5 жыл бұрын

Nice video! :) I personally use the 5th mode of the Hungarian Minor Scale when I want to get dramatic and exotic sounds :)

@JereToikka 5 жыл бұрын

To get even more tension, you could modify the 5th mode so that it has a #4 :) For example: C, Db, E, F#, G, Ab, B

@qtube9234 5 жыл бұрын

Mixolydian b2 b6 #7?

@khorumas 5 жыл бұрын

@@qtube9234 Yes (if I undersand your #7 in the same way). Since some musicians notate the 7th degree differently, first I'll start with The Major Scale (Ionian) as a reference: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Then the 5th mode of The Hungarian Minor is 1 b2 3 4 5 b6 7. Another name of this scale is The Byzantine Scale :)

@khorumas 5 жыл бұрын

@@JereToikka Hmm. This scale is probably near the edge of too much tension for me :)

@laiyemoboys9255 6 ай бұрын

@@qtube9234 *natural 7

@Will3PK 5 жыл бұрын

Spooky! Really spooky.

@mimosa-music Жыл бұрын

You can also get Fm and G#maj

@RandyBakkelund 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe one of those triads can be inverted with D# in the bass, to use for the 4th mode.

@MusicTheoryForGuitar 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, indeed it is possible. Here's how: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qKuhpM9hrKnWm5s.html

@yakzivz1104 3 жыл бұрын

This is a really cool scale!!! Does this scale have modes that descend from it or is that just the double harmonic major scale???

@dhruvalance1323 5 жыл бұрын

The D "Chord" would be a very usable harmonic Shape consisting on D# (Eb) F A as 3 voices or F/Eb which is also a great sounding possibility.

@MusicTheoryForGuitar 4 жыл бұрын

Indeed. I changed my mind on this point, here's my retraction: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qKuhpM9hrKnWm5s.html

@katanaut 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for a great video. Opeth uses it quite a lot in their music. P. S. Backtrack was bit distracting :)

@bilingualkaraoke8665 3 жыл бұрын

Very enlightening, thank you! What about the enharmonic G# major chord: G# "C" (actually B#) D#?

@mensalaorachadinha3830 2 жыл бұрын

I think it's because the C note is already "taken" by the Am triad (A, C, E), but you can also use G# chord without leaving the mode.

@abletonproducer0014 Жыл бұрын

I love you mannnnnn

@govind666sharma9 3 жыл бұрын

i use this note most time

@dougarnold7955 5 жыл бұрын

Really helpful chords. I love the Hungarian minor. (it's the fourth of the double harmonic major, right?). Years ago I used to experiment with it in leads and it sounds really dark and heavy. Since I was more of a lead player than rhythm I never understood how to set up really good chord progressions with it. This helps a lot. Thanks.

@HishamKhalaf1 4 жыл бұрын

for D# note we can use the Augmented 6th Chord (Italian or French or German): D# - A - F (with repeated A or added either B or C) F at the bass & D# at the soprano. So it can be like that(F - A - {B or C or repeated A} - D#) Its resolution: F=> E - A=> G# - (repeated A or B or C) => B - D# => E So resolved to the Dominant Chord E

@MusicTheoryForGuitar 4 жыл бұрын

You are perfectly correct. I since made a video on the missing chord: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qKuhpM9hrKnWm5s.html