I love watching this guy deep-nerding into music theory. You can see in his eyes how satisfying it is to him when everything matches perfectly within the model he explains, and because of his methodic style, my brain effortlessly sympathizes with his satisfaction. And that's exactly when your brain is in the best mood for learning.

Thank you for existing, Mr. Beato!

I gotta say it Rick, your channel is so important to me. As an office creature and family man, it's so damn difficult to work all these topics by books alone (..it actually makes u wanna cry out in desperation if you havent learned all the basic vocabulary as a kid)... You make it possible to integrate music theory into complicated adult lifes and I love you for it! Thanks, Max

Saving me 30,000 dollars instead of music school thank you!

This is a great explanation for people who already know everything else about music theory. I am not one of those people.

I'm going to watch that first two and a half minutes several times to get all of this fire hose of info into my brain. I'm just digging into the minor scales now, so this is good stuff. Thank you for explaining these relationships.

Thank you so much Mr. Beato! As someone who is self taught and grinding for a living in Nash.... your video has augmented my knowledge of music theory! I'm immensely grateful to God for this teaching and His Gift of Music! God Bless you!! p.s. I think Harmonic minor might be my favorite minor key. Can't ever go wrong colorfully when you have a half dim and a fully dim in the same scale progression hehe!!

The BEST CONTENT. I can't wait to go back over this. Thanks Rick B.

This was a "Master Class" for me, thank U so much Mr. Beato. God bless U and your family. To me, U are the best teacher there is.

Sometimes I think we should notate scales by their semitones. Semitone 1 through 13. Would be less confusing in the long run .

The Beato Book is amazing!!! Can´t thank you enough , Mr. Beato!

Thanks Rick! Tis clear to "C" there is nothing "minor" or diminished in your muiscal knowledge; and you certainly have a major gifting and ability to teach.

Omission around 12:58 - The ii chord is also diminished, but it is left out of the summary of harmonic minor chord qualities.

Thank you Rick for this extensive explanation for the Minor scales, I think this is one of the best elaborations of the Theory in a KZfaq video. And thank you for the efforts in all your videos.

Thank you . . . what I find most illuminating is what can be known. Start, be consistent, do the work, step by step, work on what you don't know. Go.

Hey Rick just bought the book. Checked out the first 20 or so pages I can pretty much fallow your guide but watching this video in relation to the materiel was very helpful in addressing most of my questions about the chapter. I'm not formally trained totally self taught. But always looking for perspective on how to go about learning the information in a meaningful way. But I see in some of your other videos you talk about this to some extent as well and I will be searching for that information next. I've been through the basics before but not really with this sort of approach from beginning to end.

Mr. Beato, is there a video where you include the Biharmonic Minor Scale (1-2-b3-#4-5-b6-7), as well as the other Major Keys which differ from the Natural Major Scale (like Harmonic Major: 1-2-3-4-5-b6-7, Melodic Major: 1-2-3-4-5-b6-b7 and Biharmonic /or 'double harmonic'/ Major: 1-b2-3-4-5-b6-7)? It would be also interesting to compare the scales from the different degrees of the Melodic Minor with their equivalents from the degrees of the Melodic Major (for example: F-G-bA-bB-C-D-E-F is F Melodic Minor but it could be the scale build on the 4th degree of C Melodic Major which concists the same notes: C-D-E-F-G-bA-bB-C). The same can be found when we compare scales from the different degrees of the Biharmonic Minor with their equivalents from the degrees of the Biharmonic Major (for example: F-G-bA-B-C-bD-E-F is F Biharmonic Minor but it could be the scale build on the 4th degree of C Biharmonic Major which concists the same notes: C-bD-E-F-G-bA-B-C).

After discovering this theory repeatedly I was typing with my right to say this "I am doing the left hand legatos, as we speaks! Rick you have opened a portal to a musical dimension in my ears!"

Where's the pythagoras theorem??

Great to be able to go back to this after watching the recent video on Modes of the Melodic Minor. Thanks Rick!

:an eay way to remember the mode names Melodic minor is a Dorian bekar 7, so the IV is MixLyd # 4 , and so on. Harmonic minor is Aeolian with bekar 7, so the iv is Dorian #4, and so on.

Academic and Artistic! - This guy is ''The Man!'' - See for Yourself.

Excellent. BTW Rick's Beato book - well worth having - bought it earlier this year.

Ditto, wish I had more...thanks Mr beato

Intro: 00:00 Natural Minor Scale: Triads: 00:08 Natural Minor Scale: 7th Chords: 02:41 Melodic Minor Scale: Triads: 04:32 Melodic Minor Scale: 7th Chords: 08:28 Harmonic Minor Scale: Triads: 10:30 Harmonic Minor Scale: 7th Chords: 13:13 Minor Scale Formulas: 16:10 The Beato Book: 17:58

Would be cool to hear familiar musical examples in the background along the way for the main highlights - awesome videos thank!

Thank you so very, very much Rick!!!!

Fantastic work Rick :) Your have an amazing grasp of music and how to teach it :)

my brain

I need to go back a few lessons. You're WAY beyond my understanding of the material. I KINDA get it but not enough yet. Thank you for putting these lessons together.

please talk about the Neapolitan scales! theyre so interesting thanks rick

Thanks for posting this Rick, it is helping to understand.

Thanks for all the knowledge Rick!

Hey Rick, something I've always been wondering. Does it make a difference, when playing or figuring out a song, to 'think' in major or to 'think' in aolian minor? Both have the exact same material and are parallel to each other. Why bother knowing the modes in Aolian minor when one can 'think' in it's parallel major scale. People refer to a song being in major or minor depending on an overal feel, starting or end-chord am I right? Why not say that the song is starting and ending on the 6th mode of a major scale instead of it being a song written in the (Aolian) minor scale? I understand that the modes are different with melodic and harmonic minor etc. but since major and Aolian minor are practically the same, I always tent to stick to the major scale and its modes. Love your content by the way!

Rick this is awesome I wish I could recall this as fast as you ......great lesson .....is this what they mean by a little theory can go a long way ....

Finally the penny drops YAY (50 years on LOL) - I get it now. Thanks Ric. Love your shows.

Thank you, such a good lecture! also the moment when half dim changed to dim off camera in Natural Minor Triads was funny, because I was writing it down from a screenshot, thought I was going theory mental!

I never knew in the natural minor key that the 7th note was called the subtonic. I always assumed it was the leading tone. Thank you for the brushing up, Rick!

Dorian #4 is also known as Ukrainian Dorian Mode. (4th Mode Harmonic Minor)

i dont understand any of the terms what am i doing here 😂

on 12:56 , speaking of the harmonic minor you said there's only 1 diminished chord when in fact there are two " the second and the seventh " othere than that , its all good thank you for the lesson

Hey Rick I really love these kinds ofvideos, I was a music Major for a few years but dropped out when I realized college wasn't for me. These really help me stay brushed up on my theory and answer questions that I have since forgotten the answers to. Question, when reading number charts, they are all written in major keys. It's it always safe to assume that any tune that starts on a 6 chord is minor?

Thanks Rick!

Extraordinario de cuantas dudas salimos, con esta teoría que bien explicado gracias 🙂 👍

I usually gloss over all the details like he did when I get home after sun-up

Thank you Rick as always !! Thank you !

Very near explanation you give.. Really good

Thanks. You are great Mr B 👍👍👍💪🏻

Thank you for the lesson Rick!

Excellente Leçon et explications , Merci Rick avec tous mes compliments . Musicamicalement Christian GARCIA

Anybody?? Is the two chord always diminished regardless of key in the minor progression? Also, is the seventh chord in the major scale always diminished?

Learning piano, superb lessons.

Brother Ricky chiki!! So, chord fuctions are the same everywhere? It’s just structures of chords in different scales that differs??? Ur the best, Rick. Keep on rocking!

I have been waiting for this one! C:

Man, these are the videos I like...Thanks for giving me my fix.

You are a gift Rick ❤

Thank you so much sir ...this is what I. Looking for.👍😊

Excellent lesson. Thanks a lot.

You are great. Thank you so much. New information

12:56.... no there are two diminished triads, ii and vii. Also the entire video is only showing chord scale break downs, nothing on the function of the MINOR KEY which is a single concept that uses all these scales plus other scales and functions.

The V7 chord in C harmonic minor is not a G7b9. It is a G7. Chords of the key or either triads or four note chords. Claiming the V7 chord as a b9 implies five notes.

Thanks really helpful!

Hei thank you for the video. Really helpful.. Can u make a video where u show this on a Piano? Maybe this (for me) difficult stuff is more understandable. Thank you really much for your great and helpful videos ;)

Hi Rick, Could maybe do one on writing modal and then what other modes could work with a progression in phrygian ect. Please and Thank You.

Clear as mud. Discordant mud. Yes I think I'll try music for dummies lol

So what are the functions? How each chord relates to the tonic? It's the same as major?

I live in denton tx. Music is everywhere but i learn so mush noe

Thank you Rick, what tunes/compostions can I seek out with Harmonic Minor Harmony , Jazz, World music, etc.?

amazing video. thank you.

Thank you Rick, this is so useful. What would you say are the most common/useful modes out of both melodic and harmonic minor?

Thank you so much, Rick! Your videos are always great! I've learned keys and chords a slightly different way when it comes to pop songs. If a song is in C Major/A Minor(natural), we can think about it being in both the keys at the same time. This way, we only have to know a single set of chords I,ii,iii,IV,V,vi,vii (CMaj always being chord I, Amin always being chord vi) instead of CMaj as chord I in some part, and when it switches to a more 'A minor' part of the song, Amin as chord i. Would there be any disadvantages knowing it this way?

Thank you so very much.

At the 14:00 mark. The harmonic minor 7th chords. When he’s talking about The dominant. Where is he getting the flat 9 from? That “A flat?” If the 7th chord on the 5th degree is G,b,d,f why is it called a g7b9 when that flat 9 isn’t in the chord itself?

I'm getting a bit long in the tooth (old), and I'm wondering how much music theory I need. Question: Would my two music heroes, Miles Davis and Neil Young, know all this?

If Very Basic Major Key Chords Progression is 1-4-5, what is the Basic Minor Key Chords Progression?

How do you categorize the "tonic", "predominant" and "dominant" chords in minor scales? Also, we often write in natural minor and then borrow the dominant chord from the harmonic minor scale. Can you touch on these topics and elaborate more about minor harmony?

good work, thank you

Any video where I can learn use of modes

I was wondering why you break it into the function they have without the 7ths and then with the 7ths? For example in natural minor if we are using triads like at the start of the video then the ii is treated like it's diminished since it's got the flat 3 and flat5. But then once you move on and add the 7ths to the chord functions the ii becomes half diminished because the 7th isn't flattened again like it would be if it actually was diminished. Why treat the ii chord like it's diminished and then also treat it like its half diminished when you add the 7th? Why not make the 7th part of this from the start?

In another video you did a I - V in A minor, but the chords were A minor and E7. I don't understand that. The relative major key is C, in which the E is minor.

In notation, what is the key signature for Cm? it's Eb...there technically aren't minor keys

Thanks you so much

phrygian dominant instead of phrygian major would be correct, or not ?

This is all amazing an extremely helpful, but I'm curious if anyone can explain the why/how behind the harmonic minor scale's construction. How did we arrive at those chords? I can completely use all of this but I'm insanely curious as to the origin point.

Thank you.

Thanks man. Yyou are the best.

thank you!

Minor, my favourite, add harmonic and melodic.

You are the best

Amazing!

Is there a video where they play all these scales over and over? To understand well the differences

Why do they call the 2nd note the supertonic? What's so super about it?

Great video rock thank you is this coveted in the besto book ?

For the entire video I've been trying to figure out what the hell is that "chichi" thing he's talking about. Before I've figured out that it's just "cheat sheet" the google gave me the spanish translation...

13:56 Why is the V chord in Harmonic Minor a Dominant 7 flat 9? Diatonically, shouldn't it be a dominant chord? That's what's in the Beato Book. Not sure where the flat 9 comes in since he's discussing 7th chords.

Can someone direct me to the vid before this? Where he goes over same thing but in major key? Can't find it.

Is a simpler way of describing this to say that all the chords are the same as in major, except we're starting on the sixth degree? And if that's the case for minor/aeolian, is it also true for each of the modes? So in major it's I ii iii IV V vi VIIdim, but in aeolian we're just starting at the vi, and moving upward from there?

I'll go back and play my keyboard and review my notes. But, at 6:40 . I must ask - if it is Phrygian Augmented and not actually Lydian Augmented.

most excellent

Why do they call the leading tone the subtonic?