Modes Of The Harmonic Minor Scale

Hey everyone! Here's the next episode of Scales & Tales with Modes Of The Harmonic Minor Scale. As promised, here's the introductory look at the modes derived from the harmonic minor scale. This interesting/inspiring area of building modal scales is very eye-opening and leads toward discovering new areas of music, music theory, and composition overall - so let's dive in!
This lesson takes the raw elements discussed in the previous two harmonic minor-related lessons, and combines that material to locate and arrange the modal tonalities hiding within this popular and exotic-sounding scale.
As you begin uncovering and listening to these modal flavors, you may recognize a few, while others might have you grabbing a few Q-Tips to clean your ears out afterward. Harmonic minor is considered an exotic scale, so the modal sounds and scales it creates are equally as exotic. Needless to say, there's plenty of dissonance and oddball tonalities floating around in this lesson, so be ready for a number of these unusual things that will pop up in this modal overview lesson.
If you've been following this series of lessons surrounding the harmonic minor scale, or are a player searching for some new areas of music to explore, or maybe you're just curious what all the fuss is about - this lesson is totally for you! about Give this episode a view, leave some comments/feedback, and please subscribe to Late Night Lessons - THANK YOU!
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[@dougstubbs4351]

It must be Christmas morning I've been waiting a long time for this one. 🙏. 🙏. 🙏. Watch out yngwie I'm coming for you 😅😅😅 yeah right 😅

[@mikeivey8471]

Love these lesson videos !!! Keep bringing em !!! You teach this stuff in a manor that makes it a lot easier to take in and understand and try to apply !! Thank you , Dave !!

[@MorgothSr]

I love your lessons. You are very easy to follow, and you don't over teach. You are right that knowing the major scale and its modes is definitely a preliminary step for understanding this lesson. I'll be messing with this stuff tonight.

[@evalex71]

Fantastic lesson man. Haunting, beautiful scales

[@greg77hot]

Thanks Dave...great follow up , to the previous lesson. how about some john Frusciante chords and licks ?

[@ChrisMarts]

Excellent lesson! Dont forget the hidden chords. 3 more dim7 (Bdim7, Ddim7, Fdim7) 2 more augmented (E7aug, G#aug6) 1 Fminor/major7 at Lydian #9 Alot of sus and4 and sus2 chords also.

[@simondou6882]

The explanation is simple and easy to comprehend. Awesome video.

[@NoLegalPlunder]

Cool. I notice the Electric Sun album in the background. I love that album. These sounds are definitely present on that album.

[@voronOsphere]

Excellent, David!!! Thanks!!!

[@RF944]

The best explanation that I have seen explaining the modes of the harmonic minor scale.👍

[@suzannecoholic1467]

Thanks Dave! Love the Phrygian Dom!

[@joshuasydnee]

Another gem David 👍👍👍

[@russbeard3665]

Nice strat guitar tone, very interesting and useful tonalities in these modes

[@buchanansleeve7427]

Kick butt lesson thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@tompeterson1329]

Wow I finally understand what a mode can do!thank you!

[@trevorseghers5415]

Great shirt!

[@davidsummerville351]

Lesson well done.

[@ddaneh3090]

Great topic, i would love to hear your favourite under rated modes for soloing

[@jasonbidwell]

Thanks for another great lesson. Saved another LNL in my guitar lessons reference library. \m/

[@sunnys5150]

I need that shirt!

[@Uglybuttfiend]

Love the Shabby Road sign. My dad used to say that.

[@gonzalooliveraalves]

A little tip for everyone getting into this: After looking at the different shapes here, I'd recommend taking the chart and transposing every mode to start in A, so: • A Harmonic Minor • A Locrian Nat. 6th • A Ionian #5 • And so on... That will definitely help in understanding how different and unique are the flavors of every mode. It definitely helped me a lot when learning the regular modes.

[@ltgray2780]

Great lesson. Thanks.

[@SifuAlanMencke]

Always good stuff on your channel. Love it.

[@AndersMPettersson]

Remember that Fm is in there also. Playing the the harmonic minor and shifting from F maj to minor is nice.

[@LateNightLessons]

Actually, to be clear - the VI chord is F major within a harmonized A harmonic minor scale.

[@markpell8979]

I've always stopped before getting very deep into modes. Definitely not the low-hanging fruit of music theory. Some of these things a lot of us do already though, having learned trial and error by ear what works or sounds right for some reason and just not knowing the theory. I bet a lot of players watch these videos and think, "Oh, so that's what that is." So, David, what would you say are the two most useful modes of major and minor harmonic to work on first? Say as a foundation, or the two to know if you only know two. I guess phrygian and lydian but I can't tell you why. Ha! (Edit) You may have answered this in a way and I missed it so I'll watch again. 🤔🎶

[@bradleywhitaker6936]

I love Locrian Natural 6. I find it much easier to use than regular Locrian. I wrote an entire song using Locrian Natural 6. It was still very difficult to write, so I view it as an accomplishment. Lol

[@frankjuggaloheathen1035]

Hmmm.... I remember being taught that Superlocrian (aka the altered scale) is actually the seventh mode of the melodic minor scale. I always thought the seventh mode of harmonic minor was actually called Superlocrian bb7, also known as "Ultralocrian"

[@gregorytoddsmith9744]

We're going to Bach through a harmonic minor study.😂 Thanks David. 👍

[@myguitarmags]

Great vid and really great shirt! Where did you get that? I really miss that magazine.

[@josephblomeister3040]

👍👍👍

[@HarryVerey]

What I find confusing is relating the names of the altered modes back to the key of C. Why not for example call E Phrygian dominant (which is the 5th mode of the A harmonic minor scale) E mixolydian harmonic or something?. basically slightly differentiating but using the same mode names for both the diatonic major and harmonic minor scales.

[@dollamillz]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I think the phrygian dom is the same as a mixolydian b6, but I don't know what context you would call it that. Is it just a preference? Or do you call it phrygian to show how it relates to the Aeolian?

[@Draber2b]

Mixolydian b6 has: 1 *2* 3 4 5 b6 b7 Phrygian Dom has: 1 *b2* 3 4 5 b6 b7 (it may as well be called phrygian nat3) Mixolydian b6 is a mode of the Melodic Minor. The names aren't set in stone. Mixolydian b6 has been referred to as melodic major. But the titles used here are fairly popular. 1b2345b6b7 is usually indeed called phrygian dominant.

[@allanpecchioli4142]

what amp and cab are u using

[@TheDogPa]

There are plenty of GOOD scales...just say no to Harmonic Minor...LMAO. What is next, Locrian? :O) lol

[@MarkEdward-bl6cr]

Awesome lesson David some of these modes sound really cool and some sound really strange nonetheless great info on a side note John Wesley Porcupine Trees lead guitarist has a new channel called The journeyman guitarist if you are a fan check his channel out show him some love and subscribe 👏👍👍