❗ CORRECTION: at 4:13 I listed "Phrygian Dominant" as a minor scale however this is incorrect; Phrygian Dominant is a major scale! A silly mistake on my part - sorry! Thanks to Metalfan 458 for pointing it out 😀

Beautiful piece at the end. Sounds like it should be in a movie.

Björk - the gift that keeps on giving, any scale you like, she's got it covered

Does anybody else love when he uses the “ding!” sound effect when changing something from the song?

I'm so glad that you wrote correctly the three inicial notes "F-F-F" ("Yes-ter-day"...) 'cos Paul sings that way, while everybody writes wrongly "G-F-F", that is the way that he sings the next times, but not the opening verse. Congratulations for it!

Beatles: have little knowledge of music theory Also beatles: *Megalocrian diminished dominant scale in the key of H#*

“Melodic minor is arguably more melodic” Wow

the strictly melodic minor piece at the end is extremely beautiful!

That melodic minor piece at the end was gorgeous! How could you say that harmony sticking to the scale sounds limited; it sounded simultaneously familiar but new. Like we’re seeing a new side to a familiar sound for the first time. I want more fully melodic minor music!

Something in music. The Beatles: been there, done that.

David Bennet:This scale/mode is quite rare in pop or rock music The Beatles: Hold my yellow submarine

This is the music theory I wanted in Uni. I never got this kind of theory crafting & usage examples. Thanks a bunch!

OF COURSE HE'S USING A BEATLES EXAMPLE

David Bennett Piano is actually playing the piano! This has been a good day.

David - that piece you wrote that plays at end of the video in melodic minor is wonderful!

I love when he talks about the beatles

Being not so knowledgeable about music, I find this kind of lesson fascinating. It now seems so obvious. Heck, it's right there in "Yesterday" and Bach's Bouree! Thanks for this!

If you are Sir Paul McCartney then you are indeed that lucky to have dreamed up the melody to Yesterday.

Dude, you just cleared up years of confusion about Greensleeves for me.

TV Producer: Paul, we'd like you to talk about Yesterday for a few minutes. McCartney: sure. what time should I meet you at the boat.

The piece at the end has a beautiful, haunting quality.

*Sees the Björk/McCartney/Bach trifecta on the thumbnail* Oh, David Bennett released a video! Also where's Thom Yorke?

Very helpful explanation about why there isn't just one minor scale.

I see Paul McCartney, i click

Wow that piece at the end was wonderful, didn’t realize melodic minor could sound so dreamy

Just a quick side note. Although the song is indeed in F, McCartney tuned his guitar down two semitones and played it in a G formation which makes the chords much easier to play.

An observation: The ascending Melodic minor scale could be said to be a “double dorian” scale because it has two instances of the iconic i - IV vamp. In melodic minor, this relationship exists between i and IV, and ii and V

Note to self: gorgeous piece of music at 14:50

I love that you actually pronounced it like "björk" and not "bjork"

That piece at the end was absolutely gorgeous!! It unlocked a sound I've been mystified by in movies and new age music.

1 thing to note: in Jazz, it is often played the same way up and down(both with a raised 6th and 7th) Edit: oh ok he mentioned it

the best part about all this is the bit with the slow zoom-in on sir Paul's face as he's captaining his river boat.

Fantastic educator. I am just a terminally beginning bossa by tabs guitarist-vocalist, but this is as good a prying angle into jazz as any I've seen. Bravo David, and cheers from Japan. Take care in these topsy-turvy times.

I always see melodic minor as Major with a flat third. It also has that long section of whole steps so it has that searching whole tone scale sound too. That’s how I always hear it anyway.

David, I absolutely loved that piece you played at the end. The rest of the video wasn't bad either! Thanks for doing these.

I can see why your channel has "piano" in the name now, that performance at the end is wonderful!

I’ve always struggled with the harmonic and melodic minor scales, since some of the things I like most about the natural minor are the funky flat 7 and the haunting flat 6, and I’ve never felt the lack of the leading tone since I tend to prefer looping vamps to strongly functional progressions. But that piece at the end is gorgeous, and it’s reinforced something that I’ve gradually started to learn: these scales allow you to gently “drift” between minor and major feels without definitively modulating, thus allowing for tonal and emotional ambiguity.

I don't know why, but Yesterday has always been spooky to me... not terrifying, but spooky in a weird way.

This channel is so classy, i love it

I like how when there is an arrow pointing at a note, the "ding" sound matches the note's pitch.

I’m simple, I see Paul McCartney and I click.

7:33 This happens to be the Bach piece that George and Paul used to play as a guitar duo before the Beatles days. It later inspired Paul to write Blackbird and many years later also Jenny Wren. Paul mentions this in the video for 'Chaos and creation in the back yard.'

Vivaldi's "Storm" is also an excellent example of a descending melodic minor scale with a raised 6th and 7th.

The way you can mix the major and minor with this scale is literally so iconic and it makes the ending song sound so full. I love it

Your composition is lovely. Thank you for this.

Another great video. The production value is fantastic and the information is explained enough to get a feel for it without being overwhelming.

Excellent video again! A few comments: First. Every time l listen to Yesterday l can taste the Lydian flavor of the natural B on the F Major key just before the song modulates to Dm and the melodic minor scale. This is probably because of how surprising that Em sounds on every listen. McCartney called this the "woaahh!" chord because of the impact it made. Second. For years at elementary school our music teachers had us learn Greensleeves on a recorder. Invariably, they always used the natural minor scale on the higher notes. (The song was in Am and the melody played a high F). Until one day my mum bought a christmas tree that played Greensleeves with a Dorian F# on top, and initially l hated this unfamiliar note lol.. but it grew on me, MASSIVELY, to the point where this is one of the modes I enjoy the most. This way, I have always enjoyed modal music, especially when it affects the melody too, and not only the chords, as is usually the case. These two modes (Lydian and Dorian) have become my favorites, which makes sense, because a Lydian scale is the same as the Dorian scale of the relative minor, so they basically have a similar effect. Third. (Off topic). I hope one day you make a video on the Beatles' use of slow-triplets. Lennon was particularly fond of them and always used them to great effect. For example, (and this is really cool), the phrase Strawberry Fields Forever has a naturally triplet feel, because of the stressed syllables: STRAW-be-rry-FI-elds-fo-RE-ver (1-2-3-1-2-3-1). However this song is in 4/4. So what does Lennon do? The first time he sings "strawberry fields, nothing is real" he uses slow triplets.. i.e. triplets in a 4/4 context.. and the second time he sings "strawberry fields forever" he changes the meter altogether. So there, he sings this line twice with a totally different triplet feel in the course of 5 seconds! Absolute genius.

I love seeing Bjork in your videos. Great work man, love your channel

I'm gonna induce a lucid dream, and in the dream I'll ask Paul McCartney to write me an amazing melody, then I'll wake up and I'll have the next yesterday on my hands.

That piece at the end wow 😳

From Bach to Bjork - I love your analysis videos and I also love how both of these great artists remain a staple of inspiration - can't get enough! Have to say I've been a fan of Bjork's longer than Bach, but I feel like I'm finding a treasure map to the pot of gold every time I learn more about him and his insane voice leading and harmonies. Bjork, of course, is just pure mad genius.

Nice composition at the end of the video

You piece at the end is great! You're so talented! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and creativity with us

Based on your piece in this video and your submission in the “one note melodies” david bruce video, you seem to have a real knack for humbling pieces with somber melodies and harmonically interesting arpeggios

The piece at the end is amazing

Thanks, as always, David! I love these videos that have song examples of music theory... and if it mentions The Beatles, all the better

I absolutely love your piece at the end!

I always think of melodic minor as Dorian with a leading tone, since the major IV chord can be such a big part of the sound

Very lovingly haunting composition, D! 👍👍👍

Superb video. And very instructive to hear that we are dealing with guidelines rather than absolute rules.

That was a very nice piano piece, David. I say it works. Very wistful.

My ears will definitely be on the lookout for more examples! Melodic minor is so cool!

This is a brillant video and I love the haunting closing piece you that you wrote. Congratulations.

A friend of mine taught me the altered scale that is used in altered chords, and that builds on knowledge of the minor scales. I was confused about melodic and harmonic scales and this beautifully explained it all and it makes complete sense. Everything has clicked now for me once I watched this. You've got an amazing knack for explaining, thanks for sharing!

Do you have sheet music for your piece at the end? I would love to learn to play it. It's absolutely stunning!

loved that piece man. really gorgeous. simple and light but heady.

Thankyou David...beautiful melodic minor sounds you wrote at the end.🌹💐💕

Love the original music at the end!! Using arpeggios with the left hand - & letting the right hand wander around creating a melody. Beautiful David!!

Thank you for these really interesting videos!! So much effort going into this, especially composing a whole piece, which sounds so pretty yet easy, that’s when you know it’s really good! 💪🏽

hey I've seen your bohemian rhapsody video because of it I started looking for multitrack masters now I got a whole library. So great!

Lovely composition at the end, really enjoyed it!

Thank you David beautiful melodic minor sounds you wrote at the end too 🌷💕🍒

Excellent, as always.

Some other Beatles examples: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite (the intro) I'll Be Back Michelle (the bass in the chorus) Your Mother Should Know (the instrumental bridge) Old Brown Shoe (bass in the chorus) Carry That Weight (bass just before "I never give you my pillow") Fixing A Hole No Reply

Such a pleasure to hear your piece at the end demonstrating you can walk your talk. There are too many clever gimmicky theory people on KZfaq who are neither serious nor creative composers in the real world. Interesting some have so many followers...... Thank you David.

Lovely composition as always, David. Thank you for the lesson.

13:05 I don't know why, but that jump scared me even though I was expecting it. Great vid btw, you are one of the few youtubers that I don't mind to watch doing sponsorship.

Lovely composition!! 😍 And very well explained talk. Thank you!

Thank you for a clear and easy-to-understand explanation of the different minor scales. Well done!

Your piece at the end is hauntingly brilliant!

After listening to your piece of music, I wonder why we don't hear that more often ! It's like life, we cannot decide if it's happy or sad, good or wrong, sweet or bitter, easy or complexe.... ...but it's beautiful

I thought the melody at the end was wonderful. Very informative video, as ever. Many thanks.

Wow, Brilliantly laid out David, Cheers.

Thanks for sharing, loving the composition at the end. Good job!

Thanks! Really appreciate these videos. Without having an formal music education myself, I always wonder how these bits of music theory fit in real songs. There's no-one else on KZfaq giving this kind of info.

Dude I have been watching so long and just noticed the wedding ring. I legit thought you were like 17 years old this whole time!!!!!!

That is so insightful, thank you for pointing this out!

What led me to your excellent lesson here is having stumbled upon the chords for HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN and trying to figure out what key the song actually was in. Really glad you've uploaded this explanatory video here.

Despite the melodic minor being my favourite scale, when I was taught to play Greensleeves (the first way shown), I had to stop because I couldn’t stop playing it the second way! I guess that shows how much your mental image of a song impacts your playing

I would love to see videos about all the other minor and also non-minor scales aswell

When your notation was stating the song started in F, I'm thinking in my head that I've been playing it wrong until Paul said G to f sharp minor 7. Then I knew I'm doing it right!

I love the piece you wrote at the end. It's unusual in that Melodic Minor. Thanks for a great show!

Melodic Minor is a thing in vintage calypso where it is called Me-Minor. Check it out

Is it possible to buy that song at the end? Loved it.

I love the piece you just wrote. thank you!

Great video again, David. Loved the piece at the end. Very melodic.

Another great video, I always wondered if you could do one on counter melody (specifically Paul McCartneys bass work on songs such as Lucy in the sky with diamonds, something and many other Beatles songs) I think it would make an interesting video

Bro release that song that you wrote at the end!

Great video and the piece you wrote is haunting and beautiful!

Absolutely brilliant video. I don’t think Ive seen another video that so clearly explains the purpose of these scales. also the piece at the end is so beautiful 👏