The Scale You Can't Break

[@drumming_cat]

I love the bean pie scale. It's really useful when composing.

[@Henri.d.Olivoir]

As a classical musician, I find it reasonable to utilise this scale in the beggining in your improvisations and compositions, although I still recommend not doing so in order to avoid getting too accostumed to it. But, for your own sake, break away from it as soon as possible. I see many musician friends of mine, all of whom are modern-styled musicians, getting absolutely fixated with this scale, because it is so infallible and easy to use. This would not be a problem, however, if it was not so utterly dull and boring. The most vital tonal relations in any scale are to ones of a semitone, they are extremely emotional and can help you change the course of a piece in beautiful way; for instance, many classical composers even added chromatic intervals to their music just to have more semitonal relations between notes. As the pentatonic scale gets rid of both semitonal intervals which would naturally appear in a scale, it just does not have the same expressive and emotional quality that would appear in the latter. As it is easier to be used, it also serves as a disencouragement for you to explore further harmonic possibilites. And lastly, the pentatonic scale will probably sound extremely chinese unless you use it in a very very specific way, so that is something to take into consideration depending on how you want your music to sound like.

[@SewolHoONCE]

¿Are you acquainted with Owen Jorgensen’s 5-7 tuning? 5 equal intervals for the 5 black keys and 7 equal intervals for the 7 white keys in a 2:1 octave.

[@Henri.d.Olivoir]

@@SewolHoONCE Not really, never heard of this before, seems rather, unorthodox lol

[@SewolHoONCE]

@@Henri.d.Olivoir Owen Jorgensen was one of my piano tuning teachers. As composers saturated the musical possibilities of the 12-tone equal temperament, tuners got requests for the historical temperaments. Mr. Jorgensen wrote the book for tuning the historical temperaments by ear. Seeing the need for a new temperament with a greater variety of intervals, he calculated the 7-5 temperament and wrote compositions showing the emotional possibilities of the nearly pure intervals adjacent to highly tempered intervals.

[@Henri.d.Olivoir]

@@SewolHoONCE Very criative and innovating indeed! I will take a deeper dive into this subject

[@abdoun8214]

as someone who've been trying hard to Craft a Melodic Piece Using The Maj/Min Pentatonic Scale , I strongly agree , it is Mostly used in Japanese music.

[@chunlibby7911]

even for a non-expert and a music NOOB, his delivery is so good.. it makes it entertaining to watch!

[@moradhassan8173]

While I play music and love singing , I certainly don't know much about music theory, but this was such a fun and interesting video that it didn't matter! I loved your video. I hope you keep making more entertaining and informative content like this.

[@EthanLaird]

Great video, you are such an articulate and engaging teacher!

[@DallasCrane]

Just discovered this channel. Incredibly high quality!!

[@GregHarradineComposer]

Very informative and great presentation - thanks!

[@JSB2500]

Best music lesson ever! 😃

[@andreaswolffmusic]

The Seven Eleven really caught me off-guard… :D Great video, Alex :)

[@EthanLaird]

Like fr, so well made and funny, you ought to have blown up by now!

[@alebaldus9229]

Daamn, you're great !!!

[@wroughes]

i trid to break the scale as much as i could and simply could not, he wasn't lying

[@kalynnscompositions]

When I teach improv, this is a go to scale for beginners to learn. Very well made video! (:

[@chipcurry]

Very interesting and thanks for taking the time to put this together. Absolutely brilliant.

[@teogrunhut8764]

Why don't you have more subscribers?? Keep it up man

[@SewolHoONCE]

Advice to some who hears the command: Here is a piano; play something for us! Play any sequence you want for a melody; play any 2 or 3 note combination for harmony, BUT play only on the black keys. ¿Why? you ask. The black keys are a major pentatonic scale in F#: F# G# A# C# D#. Suddenly, you are an entertaining genius!

[@Musix4me-Clarinet]

This is great. I do hope there is a possible Sibelius video thrown in once in a while.

[@tygrtales6319]

Sibelius❤

[@irradix213]

Subbed for the translations

[@jaumerossellomusic]

Vanilla pentatonic, I'm gonna use this term!

[@fivenightsofben6096]

He was too scared to throw in a graphic for the 6/9 chord

[@P134-i3p]

I'm the 234th subscriber

[@hsiznbr402]

Nice video, what is the music of 00:16?

[@ScoreCircuit]

It's just something I quickly generated using an algorithm.

[@hsiznbr402]

@@ScoreCircuit but is so good, its sad not have a full version of this

[@scarryscarred9257]

My favorite part was when you said deez notes

[@ДмитрийБаженов-ш6т]

I suspect that for modern music listener even common diatonic scale is pretty unbreakable

[@ethanprice3644]

Aw yes, Tony Stark is my favorite composer

[@justsomeguywithbluepfp4269]

4:30 it's pelog nem