Changing songs from MAJOR to MINOR

[@DavidBennettPiano]

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[@vi0letcr1me]

I'd love to get one on one music lessons from you

[@jackyboy2593]

Not Journey! I Hate Journey!

[@jackyboy2593]

Why not come sail away instead…

[@LcdDrmr]

Unfortunately, RipX doesn't work with AMD graphics cards, only NVIDIA.

[@tompw3141]

Would it be crazy to put a song in a range of modes, from Lydian to Phrygian?

[@dugl]

He's not a creep now, he's not a weirdo, he knows what the hell he doing there, he belongs there

[@miguelsuarez8010]

Sounds like good lyrics for a song.

[@kylebecker5083]

That’s pretty clever. 😂. Well done.

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

When you were here before. I could look you in the eye. You’re just like an angel. Your skin makes me smile. You float like a feather, in a beautiful world. You make me feel special. We’re so very special. I’m not a creep. I’m not a weirdo. I know exactly what I’m doing here. I do belong here. You’ve healed all my wounds. You’ve helped me take control. We’re together in our bodies. Together in our souls. I know you would notice, if weren’t around. You make me feel special. We’ve got something special. I’m not a creep. I’m not a weirdo . I know exactly what I’m doing here. I do belong here. We’re flying up so high! Flying up so high! We fly, fly, fly, fly FLY!! Whatever makes you happy. Whatever you want. You’re so very special. You make me feel special. I’m not a creep. I’m not a weirdo. I know exactly what we’re doing here. I do belong here. We do belong here.

[@gourmetscat]

@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 Its literally a Coldplay song now lmaoooo

[@miguelsuarez8010]

Too many times the word "special". You are soooo unique, Monique. You bring me joy, Joy. You inspire me peace, Eunice. You smell like a field of cherries, Sherry. You pay my bills, Jill.

[@MattGOG666]

Man beatles in the minor sounds like every sad love ballad and im all for it

[@Rafael-pi4md]

Check out Ghost's cover of Here Comes the Sun

[@mattm7798]

Right...not really a Beatles fan but switching them to minor sounds great!

[@thechadvoltaires8930]

Minor chords are used for sad songs

[@mattm7798]

Not always. There are sad major key songs. And happy minor key.@@thechadvoltaires8930

[@byronrobbins8834]

​@@thechadvoltaires8930we had already had this D chord in the house of the rising Sun, which has the Dorianness defined in the song.

[@Shadow-hw3kn]

0:07 Bye Jude 1:04 Here Hides the Sun 3:12 Just Keep Believin' 4:38 The House of the Rising Moon 6:44 Love Me Boo

[@aebhosor4835]

4:38 The House Of The Setting Sun

[@kingkongballs1574]

3:12 Stop Believin'

[@miyouminna3862]

Fur elise at the end

[@santiagocostales6530]

Here Dies the Sun*

[@jpquizzes]

​​@@miyouminna3862 It Was Good Elise

[@stormx2827]

3 beatles songs, 1 radiohead song, perfection

[@DavidBennettPiano]

😊😊😊😊

[@HieronymousCheese]

And a Beethoven song!!! 🤩

[@illegal_space_alien]

8:20, take a drink!😁

[@ChanceKearns]

And a journey song

[@SillyRobot]

No? The animals, beetles, and journey, no?

[@mastermind-2011]

0:07 Bye Jude 1:04 There Goes the Sun 3:12 Please Stop Believin' 4:38 House of the Setting Sun 6:44 Don't Love Me 8:21 Hero

[@saftheartist6137]

Thank you

[@kd2mill]

David, I have to say I admire you a lot, specifically because you are so young and have so much musical education. I am 65 and just now learning basic music theory, and your videos are a major reason I took interest in music. I also like how you incorporate your sponsors into the theme of your lessons. How young were you when you started your journey in music?

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks 😊 I first started piano lessons at the age of 11. By the age of 20 I was working full time as a professional musician 🙂🙂🙂

[@JalenJaguar]

@@DavidBennettPianotruly inspiring! I’m 22 pursuing my live musicians career now

[@BrunoUnna]

@@JalenJaguar I'm 54, and only started my musical career two years ago. During that time, David has been a strong source of knowledge and inspiration. So thank you for that, David!

[@nugboy420]

That’s awesome dude

[@riffdex]

Are you sure his videos aren’t a… *minor* reason you took interest in music?

[@TaraTara-ld2xb]

For some reason I really loved "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey in the minor key. It had such an emotional impact.

[@meseone920]

Could see that version used in a cinematic release eluding to an emotional moment

[@tonycowin]

Yeah it would make a great minor ballad. I wonder if anybody has ever covered it like that?

[@davidpo5517]

Agree, and honestly slow it down further and it would be perfectly moody

[@raulvidal2343]

"Don't Stop Believing", says the cult pastor organizing a mass suicide.

[@Vovanov18]

It literally turned into a Foreigner song

[@pastorandreaswendt]

Some 25 years ago a flute playing friend of mine and I, playing guitar, noticed that songs with a lot of #'s were a lot easier to play if he ignored three of them, thus making it minor. We took Bye Bye Love, played it in minor only instrumentally, started playing it slower and claimed we were doing a "New Hebrew Folk Song". The audience didn't recognise it until we sped up. Was a lot of fun.

[@DMSProduktions]

Oy verkakte!

[@tonycowin]

That's a great trick that's sounds like it would be fun at a gig for the band and the audience. Well done mate.

[@dhpbear2]

I converted a whole bunch of Christmas songs using the 'Diatonic' feature of Cakewalk. 'Linus and Lucy' sounded like a hora!

[@DMSProduktions]

@@dhpbear2 LMAO!

[@computernaut]

Don't Stop Believing actually sounds really good in the minor key. I want the whole song like that now!

[@Vazzini42]

Don't stop believing sounds like it got ripped from a mysterious vampire musical.

[@SillyRobot]

I agree, I like it better than major even.

[@wickedmirage]

Perry would have nailed it

[@geochonker9052]

It exists! kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3LUeYxuareVjJo

[@LoveHandle4890]

Made “Creep” even sadder than it already is, great job.

[@RockinAllDay]

7:43 That D to Gm chord progression sounded SO CLEAN!

[@sylvanwroe1213]

Congrats you made Beatles songs sound like funeral marches 🤣

[@spindriftdrinker]

The only song that sounded good with the major/minor change was the Fur Elise.

[@sylvanwroe1213]

@@spindriftdrinker makes fur Elise sound like a Bach counterpoint… certainly strange to listen to but I found them quite refreshing Ngl

[@Mariazellerbahn]

... and made the Animals sound like John Otway.

[@chrishb7074]

Minored Beatles sound like second-rate Bond movie songs.

[@thomasrinschler6783]

So what happens when we switch "Eleanor Rigby" then?

[@reginaldperiwinkle]

Please do full versions of Here Comes the Sun and Hey Jude in minor keys. These are hysterical.

[@aleynamehmetoglu4212]

Yes I absolutely agree

[@Rafael-pi4md]

The band Ghost did exactly that on their cover of Here Comes the Sun. Changed to minor key without changing the lyrics and it was enough to turn it into a song that talks about the Antichrist (Here Comes the Son)

[@killercore007]

0:18 Jude: But I don't want to make the sad song "better".

[@yairfridman4453]

You must publish the full version of each song. Its absolutely gorgeous.

[@humanbeing5300]

This approach is the best way to learn about modes and theory. Actually hearing and having your ear understand the effect of substitution is so much better than simply theoretical and intellectual understanding .

[@lokilaufeyson8683]

1. Bye Jude 2. Here comes the moon 3. Stop Believing 4. Love me don't

[@TheDavidLK]

Dont forget about House of the Setting Sun :D

[@ghrooo]

“Here comes the moon” is actually a song by George Harrison

[@Theistocrat]

Or, "There goes the sun"

[@mastermind-2011]

House of the Setting Sun

[@BarEscm]

Great video. The final "Für Elise" in major at the end took me by surprise

[@gwalla]

A Perfect Circle did something like this with their cover of Imagine. By putting it in minor (and of course with different production and vocal delivery), it ends up feeling ominous, tense, even vaguely threatening.

[@Benjy52]

Good song choice. I haven’t heard this in a while.

[@macrocosm4442]

Indeed

[@macrocosm4442]

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[@cakemartyr5794]

You made Journey sound like Supertramp

[@MKPiatkowski]

I didn't catch this at first but went back and wow, now I can't unhear it.

[@fleecefoxes6471]

yeah sounds exactly like Supertramp wtf

[@otto_jk]

Every Finnish pop song from 70s-90s sounds like that

[@eefore]

Take a sad song and make it sadder 😂

[@Sintaxx]

Dude. The Fur Elise at the end in major key REALLY blew my mind!! Incredibly interesting vid, thanks!!

[@francescodeleonardis7621]

Ground control to minor Tom

[@ratsalad178]

if you haven't heard it before, the band ghost has covered 'here comes the sun' and taken all the joy out of it so that it sounds eerie and unsettling and incredible - completely in line with the image of the band. highly recommend!

[@Rafael-pi4md]

It can also be a wordplay with Sun and Son, with Son being the Antichrist - little darling, here comes the son, and it's all right

[@ratsalad178]

@@Rafael-pi4md it most definitely is! especially considering on the tracklist, it's placed after 'genesis' (birth of the antichrist) and chronologically right before infestissumam (whose concept is the antichrist walking the earth). i honestly love ghost lore

[@LotoTheHero]

Minor is so, so underrated. It actually sounds really good a lot of times! **Edit** Loved Fur elise at the end! Such a pretty song, sounds great altered as well!

[@ZayaMillis]

When I started learning about reharmonization, I've been keeping the notes of a melody unchanged but changed the chords to be darker and vice versa.

[@markvanhorne3276]

This is the best illustration of the difference between major and minor that I’ve ever heard. Nice work David.

[@nonamegiven7594]

Yes! I've been wondering for years how this is done. Thanks!

[@rome8180]

I really liked the way the melody interacted with the G chord in this new version of "Don't Stop Believin'." When he sings "anywhere" he now sings a major 7th over the chord. Very pretty. By the way, maybe the title of the minor key version should be called "Stop Believin'"? Or just "Give up Hope"? And "Here Comes the Sun" should be "There Goes the Moon."

[@rome8180]

I loved the choice to end with a major "Fur Elise," btw.

[@klevens5496]

How can a human vocal sing a 7th chord?

[@Rafael-pi4md]

The band Ghost covered Here Comes the Sun in minor and it worked very well

[@joelchurchill6297]

I was looking for this comment 😂

[@Tatiana_Palii]

@@joelchurchill6297 me too

[@Robobagpiper]

I did the A major -> A harmonic minor change on a Scottish march for an intonation exercise for a fiddle student just last night (Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside, sounded surprisingly good). Fun to see this in my feed today, with it on my mind already!

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

My friend and I used to do this in highschool for fun. We'd name a song and try to sing the melody in a minor key

[@hendricstattmann3638]

I admire your ability to make such a productive use of a software i don't even grasp the sense of it. And it was really hilarious to listen to your "particular" versions.

[@kevinmalloy514]

3:52 “Don’t Stop Believin’” in the parallel minor key sounds like it could be a Bon Jovi song

[@danamaderas3382]

You don’t think… 😮

[@rosesonmygrave9290]

Dang, "Hey Jude" in minor is so haunting... The other ones didn't give me that much effect, but the first one makes me wanna lie in my bathtub with my clothes on, and rethink every single life choice I made.

[@LexusLFA554]

Wow, you made Here comes the sun into a absolute tragedy fest xD And Don't stop believin' sounds really weird as well. Kinda like a 80s synth pop hit, it has that feeling to it. House of the Rising Sun is changed so much it sounds like he is proud his father was a gambler. Creep sounds like somebody who has given up on life or can't reach his loved person. Für Elise is going from Minor to Major, isn't it. It almost sounds happy now.

[@anyemarouthna1033]

What I learned today - Good music is good music. Major or minor is just colour. This is quite liberating. Great video David - I'd happily listen to the entire Beatles catalogue, polarity flipped.

[@George.Coleman]

"'Cus I'm a keeper, I'm a hero, I know what am I doing here. I belong here."

[@bareakon]

I used to perform Hey Jude in Minor, and used that "Take a sad song and make it sadder" line. I WANT MY ROYALTIES, DAVID

[@wilberplays]

Singing about a sad song in a happy tune makes it somehow sadder to me, Coldplay does this very well. It’s like, alright we’re sad but, it’s just life, 10 minutes later something good can happen but in the moment we are just really really sad

[@frankjuggaloheathen1035]

For some reason I've always favored the natural minor/Aeolian mode over the harmonic minor. Not sure why, but that cooler, more melancholic sound just appeases my ears more than harmonic resolution. That being said, while I do like the harmonic minor versions of the Beatles' songs, I feel like "Don't Stop Believin'" would work much better in the natural minor. I think it may have something to do with the fact that the song uses the Axis progression that you have mentioned in previous videos (I-V-vi-IV). Transposing that to i-V-VI-iv, I feel like it throws off that natural balance between major and minor within the progression itself. I-V-vi-IV has a nice even flow to it, so I think transposing it to its exact opposite (i-v-IV-iv) would be much smoother. Just my opinion. Up for debate though!

[@Pablo.Fanque]

That was great!! You should have done "Good Day Sunshine" and see what happens

[@williamwallace2325]

David, I saw this title and immediately prepared to comment with "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (CAP)...So glad to see the song, and Cole, remembered. Not surprised since it's you. Thanks

[@avijatsinharoy8944]

Don't Stop me now by Queen actually sounds dope on minor key

[@axlhyvonen461]

One of the most interesting episodes for a long time 😊😊🎉🎉

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks 😊

[@axlhyvonen461]

@@DavidBennettPiano My pleasure, because I found it really interesting and fascinating,a shift between scales and one of my all time favourite songs meaning House Of The Rising Sun was a great example😊😊Greetings from a Finn from Poland 🙃

[@magorzatazapert9955]

The Animals song sounds like any song of Moby...

[@zzzaphod8507]

Not sure I like the transformed songs much, but an interesting exercise anyway, especially when you have to deal with chords that weren't in the key to start with! Thanks for making the video. Quite a disclaimer in the description!

[@granddwizard8689]

Even Happy Birthday sounds great in minor key

[@MikeGranby]

“But how strange the change from major to minor…”😊

[@gumbycat5226]

The moment you started playing Hey Jude in minor you had me in stitches. Amazing video, one of your best. And that is no small complement.

[@wellurban]

One of the reasons I started watching KZbin music theory channels a few years ago was to break out of the natural minor rut that I’d been in for decades, and try some modes and harmonic approaches that could broaden my palette. But I have to say that I prefer your minor key versions to the major originals, so I guess Aeolian still just feels like home to me!

[@davebops2478]

Hey, I really enjoyed this! Spooky to hear songs you know really well sounding so different...

[@TheSarkyGamer]

I was relieved when you mentioned the D Major in "House of the Rising Sun". It's an important chord, because it's one of those non-diatonic chords (okay, it's fine for A Minor Harmonic, but there's also an F chord in there). You really do have an eye for detail and seem to miss nothing.

[@andyg1245]

This is a great ear-opening video. Thanks for posting.

[@midcam]

That's so much work for you to do that videos. Thanks a lot!

[@13donstalos]

It's crazy how the feel of the song is totally inverted.

[@Andres33AU]

Creep original: Bittersweet Creep Major: Chirpy Creep Minor: Tragic

[@Lefty7788tinkatolli]

Hey Jude -> Bye Jude Here Comes the Sun -> There Goes the Sun Don't Stop Believin' -> Do Stop Believin' House of the Rising Sun -> House of the Setting Sun Love Me Do -> Love Me Don't Creep -> Obsessive Stalker

[@Lefty7788tinkatolli]

Minor Don't Stop Believin' really slaps, not gonna lie.

[@givelavistasya1903]

11:08 when Beethoven is a Mozart

[@CH4NNELZERO]

I love this concept and the results. Great video.

[@owenstunes5804]

Hey Jude sounds like if radiohead did it.

[@comingupforeire7050]

Exit music if you slowed it a bit ?

[@Chadner]

Hey David, great video as usual. Maybe you could expand on this idea for a future video. Using the same song you could go through all the seven modes and demonstrate how each scale has a specific feel. We would need a song with a relatively complex melody and or harmony but it would be very interesting.

[@carsonford9601]

Here Comes The Sun in a minor key makes me physically ill.

[@benjaminprietop]

Hey David, just saw you on Geography Now, on the UK episode, it was nice to see a familiar face there, and you did an awesome job explaining your country's music history, Thanks lml

[@positivegradient]

Really liked major Fur Elise, please upload the full version!!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

It’s not actually my version. The full version of it is linked in the description 😊😊

[@andersjjensen]

Für Elise worked so well in minor that I instantly thought of using as a metal riff....

[@Benjy52]

It’s already in minor.

[@recdisease]

Für Elise at the end of this video, it's changed from minor to major key.

[@louispacetime1576]

You never miss, David!! Great video

[@Tyler108x]

Whats interesting about this is that most of these major key chords still work in minor, but House of the Rising Sun almost sounded too cheesy transposed.

[@vojtak9235]

Will you do a video Introduction to jazz theory, or how to make piano solo, or how to improvise anytime? I know that there are many videos about that, but your videos are so understandable and perfect always.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thank you! Perhaps I will at one point! I particularly like improvising so perhaps I need to do a video on that 😊😊

[@azaraelhyzer3874]

Thanks David for giving me a glimpse that a Beatles song always sound good.❤

[@bookandtheories2711]

Wow, Here comes the sun is actually really cool! Great work!

[@JalenJaguar]

Yesss this is one of my favorite applications of music theory knowledge! Incredible what lowering that 3rd degree can do. Excellent video & would love to see more of this as a series

[@Tomiculous_Budd]

If the beatles and radiohead had a child you'd have this

[@shawncharles6077]

You did ya thing bruh. Salute. I've had RipX since last year, got my first major placement from it that wasn't an ad lol. Great program.

[@imbykji]

I remember when this was all the rage. REM's "Losing My Religion" was incredible turned major. I'm sure the technology to do so is much better today.

[@Хелинген]

When you realize Creep sounds creepier in minor

[@jpolowin0]

One Christmas when I was a teenager, I was feeling in a foul mood because all of my friends were busy doing family stuff, which my family wasn't exactly good at. I went to my faithful Commodore 64, loaded up some composition software, and entered that classic "Surly One Morning". It helped to get the grumpiness out of my system.

[@jorgeflores6306]

Ghost did that to "Here Comes The Sun" but changed it to G minor rather than A minor. I recommend a listen. sounds lovely.

[@garage662]

Looks like the sun didn't get there in the end...

[@andrewwolfe2071]

Nice touch on the end credits. It made me feel a bit uneasy even though it was in a major structure. Fascinating!

[@MrZakXero]

That was a really cool video. And that D on love me do really did make that Gm more satisfying lol

[@SuperAmazingPower]

You can say that the 6th degree becomes the Sick'd degree in Minor

[@MattGOG666]

There's the door 🚪

[@joegr7162]

This is a really cool video concept

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks 😊

[@apreviousseagle836]

I listened to the theme of "Nightmare on Elm Street" in Major key once, and it was the most victorious progression I've heard in ages, worthy of being in a Final Fantasy game.

[@Benjy52]

5:07 you should change the finals here to Dm/F - A/E - A and gives it more closure. Flows so much better than F#m - A - E - A.

[@aifan6148]

Please do more of these videos 👍👍👍👏👏👏 Very beautiful and creative 🎉

[@edryba4867]

This video was just brilliant, David! I just now caught my breath after laughing so hard!

[@jamesdeininger3759]

This was great, very educational, and an easy way to showcase a sponsor! Please do more of these.

[@FctHvn]

I absolutely love how most of your videos make references to the Beatles

[@Avendesoraleaf]

I’ve always been curious as to how a full cannon in d minor would sound like. After fiddling around with my friends we actually reached a very satisfactory rendition of the song, with all of its nuances and all, but also sounding really sad due to the minor scale. Our best arrangement to date in my opinion

[@jfrorn]

Fur Elise in A major at the end!! Love your videos!

[@fshepinc]

Fantastic video! I've made a game out of changing major/minor chords for years. Also fun to simply imagine a different key signature and then play what's on the page. Amazing how often it results in something interesting or beautiful.

[@flatfingertuning727]

Another trick I've not heard mentioned is that if a major melody has a heavy emphasis on the third, or a minor melody has a heavy emphasis on the fifth, changing the piece to the relative major or minor by keeping the same key signature but changing which note serves as the tonic. A song like "The First Noel" can be changed from D major to B minor merely by reharmonizing it, so the opening F# is the fifth of B minor tather than the third of D major. "The Ballad of Gilligan's Island" can be changed from D minor to F major by changing D notes to C's and F's. And much as I'd like to honor Don Henley's wish not to have anyone talk about his mustic without giving him $$$, I think "Hotel California" is an irresistable example of how a song can be changed from B minor to D major by reharmonizing as (D Bm A D G D A D / G D A D G D A D) and keeping almost everything in the melody the same, except with the few B's changed to A's and A#'s to G naturals. I don't know if there's a term to distinguish "relative minor" melodies from "parallel minor" minors, but some melodies like "Ballad of Gilligan's Island" sound really weird if one tries to form the parallel major, but quite reasonable if one forms the relative major.

[@JaydonCarlson]

This was the greatest ad I’ve ever seen.

[@revursed3780]

I need a full cover of Don't Stop Believin' but in the minor key progression, it's just perfect

[@esthern1486]

I was thinking about "Hooked on a feeling" in a minor key, and now it gets stuck in my head sometimes.

[@PWMoze]

Fascinating content David. Thanks mate.

[@jhonbus]

Really enjoyed this! I have no musical training at all, but like watching music theory videos because even though I probably miss a lot of the detail, I always enjoy feeling like I have some theoretical understanding of something I usually experience on an instinctual level. Anyway I thought it was interesting that despite to my eyes, explaining how changing a song from major to minor or vice-versa involves changing such-and-such a chord to this-or-that, depending on these few factors etc etc... Makes it look like something you'd have to be a trained musician with an understanding of music theory to do. But despite that my brain just knows automatically how to do it! In fact it's something I do all the time just for fun because it's really interesting to hear a familiar song get completely changed while still somehow sounding the same.

[@sunnie734]

I love doing this. I used to do it all the time at school. Ghost already have a minor version of Here Comes The Sun, and it's beautiful.