Rick, You are easily the clearest and most logical music theory teacher I have experienced. You are highly knowledgeable and a master at expressing your knowledge. Please kept releasing these videos. My family and I are learning a great deal from you.

< Oh RickB, I wish I had seen your videos 40+ years ago !¡ >

I think my head just exploded.

You’re such a great teacher, Rick. I love the way you explain things. Thank you!

I remember watching this video a while back and wondering if you were speaking Latin or Portugese. Thanks to your videos (and of course, let's not forget, diligent practice!) I actually understand this stuff now. It's incredible! Many thanks Rick!

I think I understand why your delivery of this stuff is so fantastic, Rick. The "level 1" aspects of all can be written down in one video - and IS by literally hundreds/thousands of folks out there in KZfaq land. But, as you often point out, there's no substitute for "deep learning" this stuff, and in contrast to all those other people, you GO THERE. You hammer down into the details, over and over again, and following you drives some of that deep learning. It's just such excellent stuff.

This is my new favorite channel! Excellent videos, even going over rudimentary stuff I already know I find they are good refreshers because you're very good at explaining things.

Fantastic, pieceing together years of puzzles, connecting so many dots or neural pathways! Can't wait for part 2!

You have seriously helped me to understand music theory and how it apllies to my playing. Ive been watching your videos for weeks now. Its like all the pieces are fitting together with each lesson u teach. Thank u so much Rick!!

Great video - explains exactly what gives each scale its character and why. I've seen other videos on this topic but none provide the practical knowledge and key insights into how/when these are used in such a comprehensive manner. I've been studying scales for a couple years now, and I'm only now appreciating how much these very slight changes intervals in each scale make a huge difference in sound character, and that the greats use them to get their signature sound.

Great comprehensive video! Loved seeing all the scale families payed out like this.

Your entire channel is awesome, all this years i have never seen a better channel than this. You are the man, thanks for all the videos

Thank you so much for all you do Rick! As a young musician studying Jazz at university your videos are the most excellent supplement to my learning "diet". Amazing videos to watch while drilling in scale shapes in all positions!

Best music theory channel on KZfaq!

Thank you so much, Rick, for putting all the modes in an order that makes sense! This is a great addition to my own theoretical studies.

Thanks for great lesson Mr. Beato! Always very helpful!

Rick, I want you to know that these lessons are ideas are exactly what was missing in my college education. I had great professors and players, but the modal/fusion side of things was just not part of curriculum. Your ideas about quartal chords and modal chords, diminshed maj 7 chords, man all that stuff totally opened new sounds and chord shapes to me and I wanted to thank you for that.

Very nice Very helpful thanks rick.

What a lucid explanation of information which I thought I knew inside out. This gives a new perspective which has already got me sparking. Mighty:)

Great video. One of the best in a channel already full of amazing things

Thank you so much for making these videos and sharing your knowledge! I feel I've discovered treasure...

Rick. I never went to music school. But watching your videos feels like I am. Amazing content. I’ve learnt so much from you. Just wanted to say thank you 😊👍👏

Awesome content Rick! I 'm buying your book and getting stuck in. This is such an amazing education, we 're so lucky to have all this information presented in such a cool way👍

Just wanted to say thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge. I just enrolled in The Beato Academy, and look forward to exploring and utilizing your lessons and resources!

Rick your video’s are AWESOME thank you so much!!

The way u teach each theory lesson just blow my mind away even I learn so much theory the way you organize each scale to another and how it's similar to another scale it's so amazing how to explain it you a really genius man and also with your past experience you can compose play many instrument and also very very good in theory as well and of course Dylan will learn most thing from you and he will be a very successful professional musician in the future !!!! God Bless YOu!!! you give us a Super Good Lesson and example to easy to adjust our scale in your own concept Bravo!!!!

Rick is up there with ted Greene, who is my hero at theory, but Rick is a master at piano producing, mixing, etc-pure genius !!! Not trying to compare, just have great respect for both and their wealth of knowledge RIP Ted, thank god we have Rick

Amazingly helpful!!! Thanks for the great work!

Great presentation. Clearly presented because the topic is clearly understood by the teacher.

very informative video Rick. So far you're two steps ahead in teaching theory online for free. Thank you

I love your vids so much I had to buy the book. Thanks Rick!

Simple lesson, but probably one of your most important ones (broadly speaking).

You the man!! Great job. Thank you!

Thanks for this excellent and very crucial music lesson, Rick!!! You are the best music teacher ever! :)

Thanks for this Christmas gift...MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and family \m/

Thank you Rick... always great content. Have your Book.. and i study along with your videos... have an awesome day :))

I like your "try to keep up" style...its you tube and the onus is on me to review. Thanks

V Million Subscribers for Rick in V days! What is the opposite of Congress? Progress! It's Time. Rick , Please Continue To Be My Friend And Guide.

Excellent Video!

Great info again ...all the best man 54

awesome knowledge

will buy your book. did not know there was 300 pages. what a time to be alive!!!! happy holiday !

We're doing good if this video only went over 25 people's heads LOL. this is seriously one of the best music lecture videos on KZfaq and has pretty much everything you need to learn to take yourself from a beginner to an advanced player it's just super thick going to have to rewatch it probably take some notes.

Dude thanks for this!

Thank you rick

You are the ultimate champion.

Your channel is a musical library!!! If I have a question I search “Beato (and whatever I want to know)”.

Great job!!! thanks Mr Beato

Excellent video

Great lesson!

This is a highly powerful theory video and I am totally greatful for its specificity! This one is packed with what I call extended theory. Will you please do a series of extended videos using all the theory in this awesome video musically at the piano and give us the opportunity to play along with you and apply the theory that you are teaching us? Do you know if Debussy and Satie utilized whole Tone Scales? I will listen to your Whole Tone Scale video. Thank you with extreme appreciation:)

more morr moar! hah thanks Rick cannot say enough to how amazing each and every video contains invaluable content mostly unfound anywhere else I would be a humbler servant just to learn from someone such as yourself, music is my passion and I am a street lurker at heart and have lived outside since I was 15. I managed to acquire a home for the last 6 months now and have ben goin deep into theory after playing guitar on the street for over four years, I have never has instruction minus a few good folk out there willing to share a lick or small piece of lucrative information. thus I have learned more this last 6 months than the last 12 years easily, I do not have money often but when I do I will buy your book and set others onto it as well thank you from the furthest cosmos, we look on to inputting this knowledge as many ways possible cheers from a not so far away appreciater / onlooker :)

great teacher. thank ytou man.

Rick, I know you like suggestions, or requests on what to do in your videos, so here is one. I want to work on writing music for commercials. How about some lessons on which types of chords or keys evoke a certain emotion. For example, maybe major chords are happy, but what if you are writing a suspensful piece, well then maybe you want to use diminished chords, or if you are writing a piece with an arabic flair, you may use this type of scale or chord progression. Etc etc

You are amazing.

Hey Rick please provide us the link for the videos you suggest during different lessons... that would be really helpful.! nd thanks for these lessons.!

Rick ..playing around one day. I did the Lester flat bluegrass G run on my guitar.. G A Bb B D E .I realized it was a rearranged E blues scale. Been doing it for 40+ year's Duh.

Head melted. My Eko Ranger 6 is now retired until April. It'll be 59 and I'll be 70. No more theory! Freight train type stuff from now on. Well, maybe pick up on Leadbelly, although really need a 12 for that ....

THANK YOU!

Mixolydian b6 is a beautiful scale.. I learned it from a lesson online by Brandon Ellis from the black dahlia murder. That dude is an absolute monster of a modern metal shredder and I know Rick it may not be ricks genre but he should definitely have Brandon on..he would melt ricks face off. IMHO he's the best modern metal guitar player and he's a true master of his craft

Hi Rick, I've watched both part 1 and part 2 of chord families and modes multiple times now. Unlike the second part there wasn't any demonstration of the major and dom modes you mentioned in this video and how to achieve their respective sounds. In the second part you delved quite deep into modes such as dorian, locrian,dom dim etc, i hoped there would've been a demo of some of the scales mentioned here. Can we expect a part 3? Thank you :)

Obrigado Rick

This man is a wizard

this guy Is the god of scales/modes

King! 🤴🤴

thanks alot!!! ur a genius!

Rick..as I went along and pieced it together in my mind. So learning some of this new and some refreshed. The Dorian mode uses the notes of Bb ..so I visualized the piano in C. C D Eb F G A G A Bb C.. and just changed where it has a sharp..like sharp 2. Enjoying video.

You remind me on my professor in primary music school, she taught us these modes, I thought there are useless, so I learned them without much understanding.

Where were you 35 years ago ? lol! You are amazing .

wow, yesterday was telling my wife about this amazing teacher of piano who seems just as accomplished on the guitar and his amazing kids he showed off-only to see in today's Atlanta paper -Feb 21 an article on Dylan and to find out you are practically a neighbor- in Stone Mountain. Love to meet you some time. share Atlanta music scene stuff.

thank you

brilliant

Hi rick , great lesson, :@29:00 you are saying C aug and Db aug to play,,instead of Caug and D aug, sincere greetings from Belgium.

Hello Rick! Great videos! I started watching you when you had about 40k subs. Your theory videos are about the only theory videos I watch; they are very helpful. I have a question: Do you still sell your Beato Book? All I can find is your PDF version. It seemed like you used to sell the your book in a spiral style. One more question! Do you know of any scale books that teach all 12 major key mode fingerings for piano? Or do you know of someone I could ask that has a youtube channel or something? Thank you! I'm a big fan!

Nice video Rick^^. I think someone missed out on the chance to call Dorian #4 the Lydorian scale.

Nice video. Do you have a list with all the videos on modes and scales? Can't find it. Found one but has a lot more and I'd just like to go through all the ones on modes and scales... thx!!

In your video about Howard Shore's music, the first example with the transitions from the A major chord to the F major, there is a melody played over it which gives it the otherworld kinda vibe. It's basically an A major triad + it's flat 6, then over F major it is an F major triad + it's flat 6. Would that melody then come from the Mixolydian b6 scale?

This guy knows his shit backwards

thnx a looot !

Wow. I made it to the end without brain melt.

I try to classify these modes with reference to the difference between 2 half step intervals. So, major family modes have 2 or 3 whole steps between the half step intervals. Melodic minor or similar altered scales have 1 or 4 whole steps between them. This makes it easier to put my hands with the correct shape on the fretboard. Then all I have to focus is to identify target notes such as the 7th or 3rd or the 1st note of the underlying chord. Am I shortcutting and missing something important?

Phrygian major is also just called phrygian dominant.. phrygian because the flat 2 and dominant because it has a major 3 and flat7

I don't use harmonica minor mode family because of its augmented second. I don't use a lot of scale because they're just too many of them.

i came up with a tune recently not sure what key it should be in can you help , the chord progression starts on g major, then you play the g major chord with a sharpened d note , then e minor chord followed by d minor chord to c major chord , later on it goes g major chord then g major chord but with a flatenned g note then f chord to c chord there is an am chord in there

Do you have a chart which relates to the chord which matches the scale. Like for sus chord, which scale relates to this

Your lectures are highly appreciated! Question that bothers me: You say a flat 7 gives the 7th chord a dominant function, but I thought what gives the resolution a pull toward the tonic is a leading tone, half step away from that tonic. A B flat is a whole step from C.. So how does that work? Is it because C7 with a flat B is a dominant chord to F, and the B flat resolves to A, which if the third in F maj? Thank you!

Rick what all does your book cover and how much?

I can't find part two in Rick's playlists/comments - can anyone please post a link?

Gold

Great class - you were a classical guitar major and must have done the Segovia scales - Melodic Minor went up b3, #6, #7 but went down pure Aeolian (remember Bach's Bourrée in E minor?) - is that not how Melodic Minor is thought of now?

I found your comment that a tonic note could a blue note very interesting. Could you talk more about Blue Note theory?

Quick way to recall extension numbers is simply add 7 ...2 + 7 = 9....4 + 7 = 11

Holyshit there is part 2 as well

contemporary music could be a bit more confusing. For example altered scale is often played over major dom.7 chord. Which means we use 1st, *4th*, *6th* and 7th degrees.

I need help. In one rick beato video there was a composer´s quote something like: "I don´t care for melody, i am interested in harmonies, the way they flow into one another." What video was that, what is the composer´s name?

Hi Rick! I love your videos - however, I'd like to talk to you about the idea of a mode as a 'subset' of a scale. I mean, the subset of the scale C major that consists of ONLY the note C is a subset of the set {C,D,E,F,G,A,B}. The note C by itself is definitely NOT a scale or mode. Do singleton subsets (subsets with only one element) count as modes? If so, are the pentatonic scales 'modes' in some respect?

Need some addy for this lecture. BRB

Great video, Rick Beato I have a question: In scales like the Dominant Diminished, why is the b2, #3 and 6 really b9, #9 and 13?

Your brain probably worth around 100k. (including experience). you ROCK !

Is the mixolydian sharp 11 also called the half diminished scale?