A single video like this is seriously more valuable than many of the music classes in undergrad.

This is actually one of the most common interval sets in middle Eastern maqam. It's called Hijazkar/Hicazkar. You can find lots of great instrumental compositions, improvisations (taksim), and songs in this maqam in Turkish and Arabic traditions. Nice work. The derived modes sound amazing in your compositions.

I miss these, Rick. Brings me back to the beginning of my time watching.

Dick Dale's cover of "Misirlou" (Surfer's Choice, 1975) is probably the most recognized song of the Double Harmonic Major. Misirlou is an old-time Greek Rebetiko style song popularized in the early 20th century, it origins are debated about in the reaches of the Eastern Mediterranean. It is actually a slow and sultry lover's lament. Modern day Greek Vocalist "Glykeria" performs a wonderful example of "Misirlou", You Tube videos with the Greek lyrics and English transliteration are worth your time if you would care to listen..

I've really missed these types of videos. Loving this!

And this is why Rick's one of the best music channel ever....

Fantastic lesson. For those interested in the mystical aspect of music it could be added that the double harmonic is a palindromic scale with same pattern of intervals ascending and descending. Rick had covered this in another wonderful lesson.

I wish you went over the chords each scale could make. The flat 2 mode having access to both the major and minor third is trippy to me and I would love for you to revisit the topic and point out other details like that

Ricky, baby… please keep teaching. Music needs you, we need you!

Why am I hearing Keith Emerson all over this? This is unbelievably beautiful. Otherworldly. Never heard of Nahre Sol before, but I will be doing a deep dive into her music after hearing this.

You should really consider doing soundtrack music for film! If I can win three Emmys, you can certainly win three Oscars!

In Hindustani music this structure is called Raag Bhairav.

THIS is the rick beato I’ve missed!

It's all fun and games with the flats until you're on your tricycle with triple flats and no spare phyrygian inner tubes.

Never thought I’d see the Locrian double flat 3 double flat 7….anywhere. One of my favorite ultra-obscure scales.

Really like the G Ultraphrygian starting at 5:00, love those runs. The interchange of the dynamics, playing off each other, that was cool.

A piece co-written by Beato and Nahre Sol! Wonderful!

I love using the double harmonic major starting on D. Makes this really easy-to-visualise pattern on the keyboard.

Could you please post the composition alone in a video? It's beautiful!

Videos with this type of information are among my favorite of what you do

Really good stuff here! Missed this kind of "early-Rick" videos but is nice to have a new one. Beautiful composition with Nahre Sol.

I love Rick's interviews but this is the stuff I started following him for.

Bravo, beautifully rendered and exquisitely played! These kinds of fully fleshed examples are wonderful because they're much more illustrative of the 'world' of a particular scale than, say, simply noodling over a tonic drone. The melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic variety gives a great sense of the breadth of possibilities. Cheers!

This is a beautiful piece that acts as an inspiration and a great resource with the transparency of the accompanying information. Next level stuff. You are at the cutting edge Rick Beato! What a legend.

In college we called the first scale with the two augmented 2nd intervals a "gypsy minor".

To be a great composer, you need to know music theory and scales and modes. This wonderfully demonstrates how modes are impactful in composing. Rick, why don’t you compose for films and get an Oscar?

I am about to learn something new despite playing guitar for 30+ years! 🎸😃👍

Glad to see or hear a collaboration between two of my favorite music channels on YT since many years.

Thanks for the video Rick, the Double harmonic major scale is identical to an Indian raga called Bhairav if I am not mistaken. Love it!

These sounds have haunted me for years, viz Ralph Towner "Oregon Crossing" not to mention countless film sound tracks. I could obviously play them but now I know whats going on !! Thank you very much - months of enjoyment ahead.

This video and the Satriani /Vai interview are my absolute favorites that you've done. Love this video! And love the composition...WOW 🤯

Wow. This is inspiring. So many colours to play with here. Congratulations to Rick and Nahre for putting together such a beautiful illustration.

I feel bad for skipping my solfeggio classes back in my formative years, I remember this vaguely but now perhaps is the time to learn it.

Great video! Thank you for covering these! They seldom get taught, but SHOULD be. These are beautful!

Brilliant my man. I was searching the Internet for references to this scale a few weeks ago and I struggled to find anything... Such a beautiful scale with so much potential and mystery. I've been trying to incorporate it into Jams with my band using Indian instruments and percussion

Not just informative, but absolutely beautiful music. Thank you!

Thank you, So Nahre was involved too, didn't realize it before getting to the second half

I haven't clicked on a Rick Video in a very long time, but I saw the title and was happy to see some theory application and exploring sounds.

Dear Mr. Rick Beato, this is one of my favourite lessons you've ever did. Thank you for discovering me this amazing new sonic palet and congratulations to Nahre Sol and to you for this great modal compositions you've done based on this scale combined with the beauty of the images.

This was excellent. Please more like this. I know it was fun as hell to compose that too

I always really enjoyed what I believe is called the Byzantine scale- I really like how it's kind of a mirror image of itself going up to the octave and how a lot of the shapes look because of that symmetry. I use it all the time- my favorite "exotic" scale

I think this is interesting, inspiring and unique. Nahre Sol’s name a quality guarantee.

Incredible composition, stunning performance, and gorgeous video! Nahre Sol is an amazing virtuoso. The many faces of these modes are well illustrated too. This should be on your main channel also, real art. Thank you.

This piece was great. And doing it to demo all these semi-uncommon modes is a fantastic concept.

Love this video!! Love how you mentioned to modulate keys so you here the modes for the intervals they don't share. I was just trying to explain that to my brother in law as a student of guitar when teaching him the standard modes.

One of my favourite scales! So rich in dissonances❤

My ears really appreciate these tonal areas - thank you Rick!!!

Love the unsolved mysteries thumbnail!! Great lesson as always, Rick

I'm so glad I found this video. I love unique and odd scales, and as a guitar player I want to incorporate more of the unusual to try and come up with new stuff.... buuuuut knowing of these odd things is the problem. Thank you for doing these types of videos!!! I'm not sure how I would've found out about these and learned they were all connected to the one scale/mode.

Rick did a great video on this about six years ago. Good to have another!

I remember an older RB video on the DHM scale and it blew the doors open to my creativity. Wrote a song based on it. Hungarian minor is basically on my "must use" list when writing solos. From then, I've basically started to look into all the other parent scales (and their modes) and, man, what an complete shift in how I approach song writing. I will always be grateful to Rick for this.

Stunningly beautiful!! WHO is playing piano on these? What a beast of a player! ...... ALSO!! As a Nashvillian, I love the "Nashville cameo"! Downtown at Broadway and 4th Street. I lived on 5th Ave for 7 years, on 5th Ave down from the Ryman Auditorium. Thank you, Rick!

That's what I'm talking about. Well done.

I really like this Locrian scale and I usually don't. Great educational video for us theory nerds.

Rick, I like when you demonstrate the triads and the 7 chords tied in each note of the scale. Also, as has already been said, Miserlou.

Very nicely played by Nahre Sol.

I thought this was awsome Rick... I don't think I can explain how intricate the notes, and especially the piano playing was... Well done.

Man. I mean this is amazing. And like no big deal… it would take me a month to compose… thank you Rick!

I have always loved the Hungarian minor. I have never thought of it as a mode of another scale so this was a treat! Such beautiful sounds. Mystery is deff the right description. Keep em' coming Rick. Love the channel!

definitively I prefer this type of compositions to the top spotify BS. Would be nice to hear more collabs with Sol and others.

Darn, Rick this is cool and very informal. One can understand how a composer makes this sort of music when you also understand the modal structures

Wow! I love these compositions, and this is a smash! The very beginning of this sounds very evocative of a famous Rachmaninoff theme, which may be due to the similar tonalities, so I need to check that out. I find these scale explorations endlessly fascinating.

So outside of my wheelhouse, but damn... Sounds amazing!

Be really cool to see a score for the composition. Awesome video, Rick.

More of this Rick

Geeez, Rick..... that music is beautiful!!! Are notes words an ankle "I'll be bawk...." widda gittaw!

Sounds very middle eastern. I like it. Some parts of the epic sax solo from Breaking Glass (Hazel O'Conner single from 1980) has a similar feel. The best sax solo ever IMHO.

Such a magnificent composition & demonstration of applying the scale, wow 🙏✨ I'm inspired to explore!

the examples are crazy good

I love that you had @NahreSol as a collaborator on this! Super cool 👍😁

I have called this the "arabic scale" for decades. It's great for a few Hawkwind songs, for a start LOL

I firmly believe that the best way to think about scales and modes is that they are simply different musical "colors". Once you identify what those colors are you can utilize them as needed.

The variety that you can get out of these scales are amazing.

Interesting - also known as the "psychological thriller" scale. 😉

I've been using this scale for about 15 years and where I figured it out from was -- of all places -- Miles Davis's late 1950's composition 'Nardis,' which uses it to bookend its A sections. As others point out, this isn't an uncommon scale at all in Middle Eastern and even Eastern European contexts.

This takes me back to my childhood of 70s-era made for TV Movie of the Week suspense/horror/mystery/psychological thrillers. I hope that I can see/hear more new theory and application videos, though I can understand and respect that the reaction and commentary videos pay the bills.

That sequence of modes is that perfect representation of why equal temperment is a tricky subject to get around to. It took me literally years to figure it out. Originating from Greece and having two ways of listening music the western way (equal temperment) and the influence coming from the 72 equal temperament used in byzantine music

That composition was really remarkable. I'm really quite blown away by it. Knowing music like that is out there reminds me why I hardly ever listen to rock music these days.

I would love and pay full price for about two hours of this kind of music. Please, compose, use it for instruction and make it available! Movie sound tracks are all chopped up into bits for individual scenes. Symphonies always have to have their sis boom ba parts and modernism/post modernism is like a bunch of nervous squirrels and surprised chickens. Why can't somebody write a couple of albums worth of almost-symphony-like-yet-song-like soothing, mysterious music like this to help some of us relax and get into a music induced head space?!? No showing off for the critics post modernist crap, no cheesy cliches. Just nice music that is challenging enough to not be boring but accessible enough for us non-symphonic composers. If you know of anybody, please list them as a reply to this comment! I've already bought a number of CDs after videos of yours that introduced me to something I didn't know, before!

That Locrian double flat is unsettling… in a cool way!🤘😈

This is SO cool; I like the fact that you've transposed up a half tone for each, so you get the flavour of each independently; I mean, you've got to do this even with the common natural modes, really, as people DO get stuck on the difference, say, between c Ionian and b Locrian. I am interested in the 'Idiomatic Sonic Territories' afforded by the modes on particular notes with certain instruments; given standard tuning, does The Lydian Upon E, f'rinstance, with guitar speak 'wide open spaces', or am I the only fool who thinks this? Great content Rick. It's so refreshing to have serious stuff about creative music. Oh, and the piece is gorgeous, the visuals also! Do I detect the touch of E. W. Quantum in the kbd writing? Impressive and nice too! 🎶🌟👍

Great compositions Rik. 👍Ritchie Blackmore was fond of the Hungarian Minor.

This definitely invokes some specific feelings and thoughts. Kind of melancholy and mysterious, but not too much. I can imagine soloing over that composition with a minor scale and really driving home that feeling of sadness tinged with hope. Hard to put it into words. And this is the first time I have ever heard of the scale.

I really, REALLY miss this kind of music theory content on the main channel, that's what made me subscribe to Rick's channel in the first place many years ago. At least we can find it here now. Anyways, the Double Harmonic Major has been my favorite scale for a long time, even before I knew its "academic" name. Back then I used to hear people referring to it as the "Arabic" scale.

Thank you, RIck and Nahre!

Im just glad that you are probabely doing things that you love instead of chasing the algorithm.

Nahre Sol on the piano, what a delight.

Loved the arrangements and changes in tempo to highlight the scales and its many modes.

That was AWESOME! I love the tonalities of the different modes and can't wait to write with them.

Yes! Nahre Sol and Rick together!! Modern Giants.This is fantastic! What a beautiful way to learn about music- so good

trombonist, learning modes made my career, my ear always lead me👍🏾🏁🎶

Very nice! I loved that piece at the end!

I was playing with such scales with augmented 2nds and more than one tritone in the last days, and then I see this video's thumbnail. Of course I clicked on it.

This is where you really get your geek on. Fantastic.

Awesome Rick - thank you- I will use this!

This has been my favorite scale since I accidentally discovered it. I'm currently working on a song in this scale. I might argue it's in Hungarian minor but it's hard to say.

This brings a whole new dimension to my musical journey. Want to learn more.

5:01 This absolutely should be implemented in some Dream Theater song

This is definitely thought provoking.

Mr. Hitchcock has left the building.