Wonderwall in all 7 modes

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Wonderwall by Oasis is usual in the minor key, but today we will run it through each of the 7 different modes of the major scale to get a gauge of how each of these scales can offer us a different mood and degree of tonal brightness.
The outro music to this video is my track "Kneel" which you can hear in full on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/0wKKJ... 🎶
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0:00 Introduction
0:42 original version
1:10 Major scale
2:35 Lydian
3:50 Mixolydian
4:32 Minor
6:43 Dorian
7:34 RipX DAW
8:22 Phrygian
9:20 Locrian
12:23 Patreon

[@joermnyc]

“So anyway here’s Wonderwall... in Locrian.” Crowd flees for the hills.

[@daydays12]

Not at all. Not me , at least.

[@captyonah1378]

You win the internet.

[@MoolsDogTwoOfficial]

Nah man I love Locrian mode.. well only if the bass is a half diminished chord.

[@Genviro]

@@MoolsDogTwoOfficial Same. It just portrays emotions/states of mind like insanity so well, while still actually sounding like music. Locrian and Dorian are, by far, my favorites. They have such unique qualities.

[@nyaKona]

only david could get me to listen to wonderwall 7 times

[@DavidBennettPiano]

😂😂

[@luislopeztejeda5558]

nailed!!!

[@justinatest9456]

That Major version sounded surprisingly good for a first listen. And for only changing a single note, that Lydian version was literally a whole new song. Crazy.

[@thesingingaccountant1]

Agree it's crazy. I guess it's because not many songs use sharp four and most have normal four... But still

[@Jaykay1029384756]

To be fair, he didn't just change the original chords to lydian, but completely altered the chord structure

[@artrogers3985]

Yup. Music is crazy. That’s why we love it.🎸

[@rdspam]

That one changed note is played just about every other note in the song, plus a pedal tone was added on every chord - that’s a quite significant change. Mixolydian, in contrast, changed…hmmm..I see one changed note, near the end.

[@WhitbyStuff]

I concur. The major version (bar that one note) is better imo.

[@davidmccormack99]

Locrian sounds like what Noel might have come up with if asked to write the theme tune for a Scandinavian crime drama.

[@that44rdv4rk]

accurate.

[@johnchastain7890]

I, too, thought of a scary movie: Hitchcock, horror, serial killer, monsters.... I loved it!

[@geetbehera3593]

That’s the early opeth sound

[@xitheris1758]

Lydian: "This feels too good to be true." Ionian: "Things are actually great, and I'm genuinely happy!" Mixolydian: "The scars haven't faded yet, but I'm happy again." Dorian: "Times are hard right now, but I have hope." Aeolian: "Things haven't been okay, for a while, and... I'm not okay anymore." Phrygian: "Nope! That's it! Screw this! I'm done!" Locrian: "I'll never taste sweetness again until I drink antifreeze from your skull."

[@ayyymacaroni]

This is how I remember the modes now, thank you

[@mebamme]

So Paul McCartney and Liam Gallagher both sang popular songs where a word describing a 24-hour period is sung with its first syllable a semitone lower than what's usually notated in sheet music. That has to be one of the most niche things for two people to have in common.

[@zak3744]

This sounds like it should be a question in a really hard-core pub quiz. 😄

[@oravlaful]

what's the song paul sings?

[@Erlewyn]

@@oravlaful "Yesterday"

[@Rene-uz3eb]

To my ear neither Paul nor Liam sing a semitone lower

[@oravlaful]

@@Rene-uz3eb so youre saying david lied

[@adretter]

Original Aeolian (Minor) (Pentatonic): 0:45 Ionian (Major): 1:24 Lydian: 2:54 Mixolydian: 4:02 Aeolian (Minor): 5:54 Dorian: 7:00 Phrygian: 8:50 Locrian: 11:26

[@mindanielj.9479]

Thanks

[@adamev]

I always wait in anticipation for the Locrian mode in these vid. I imagine a movie where someone is about to meet an untimely end.

[@thesovietunion9542]

fr it’s like if Andy was hit by a car in toy story

[@rubberface1424]

And now let's rewrite Oscar Wilde's classic into an even darker version: Phrygian Gray.

[@campospt2414]

Locrian Gray

[@rubberface1424]

Yes, but I daren't even think it.@@campospt2414

[@psychonaut689]

💀

[@rainbowrotcod]

HA!!!!!

[@JonWilsonPhysics]

Yeah but have you met his sister, Lydia Gray?

[@bakerzermatt]

The mixolydian and dorian versions still sound like something Oasis would do. Lydian and phrygian sound more like a Pink Floyd song.

[@odarkeq]

Dorian really fit the lyrics, but I felt the most groovy with the mixolydian. Fully agree with you.

[@Fire_Axus]

your feelings were irrational

[@panriso]

I found the melodies very similar to Little James, from their SOTSOG album.

[@psychonaut689]

Pink Floyd often use Dorian

[@robertmariano]

I love these types of modes videos, the analysis makes me appreciate both the song and music theory even more. Great Video!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Glad you like them!

[@Fire_Axus]

your feelings are irrational

[@ChezburgerLeaf]

? You posted the same reply on other comments@@Fire_Axus

[@frankvaleron]

Great video. Dorian is clearly the mode that fits the melody most naturally

[@TundieRice]

I would 100% argue that the original verse of the song that he’s using *is at least partially in Dorian.* Even though the IV chord he’s listing is a sus4 and therefore has neither a minor nor a major third, try to imagine either one as a major or a minor chord, and B7 sounds much *much* more fitting than B minor 7… I’m not able to do a full on musical analysis of the recording, but I can at least *totally* hear a B major tonality with some of those B7sus4 chords, especially since sus chords kind of want to resolve back to the non-suspended version of the chord most of the time. Obviously, the song isn’t 100% in Dorian at all, considering there’s a D chord in the song that would come from the Aeolian mode, but I definitely hear a Dorian feel to that first verse, even if David isn’t transcribing it by default. So I feel like that’s the reason that Dorian sounds the most natural. Just replace the B7sus4 chords with B7s and you don’t even have to change anything else, lol.

[@jamielamb4624]

​@@TundieRice I agree, it's much more Dorian than minor. When I think of the progression, I think of it as being the same as the Boulevard of Broken Dreams progression, just more interesting chords lol.

[@steevmsteevm]

It's in Dorian in the verse, but it switches for the pre-chorus (And all the roads) and in the chorus (because maybe). I actually thought the video would go into this, but it kinda skips over it and none of the versions are actually the original one. Not only does a B7 work better than Bm7 as the final chord, it sounds really good if you play a B11 IMO (at least, when playing it as a loungey piano tune). That gives you the fourth and seventh from the original 7sus4 chord, with the major third thrown in there as well.

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Merci, another awesome video. I practice my modes scales in that order that David lists since it makes more sense that playing them as they occur in major keys.

[@TheRealJayguar]

What a great way to learn more about modes. This was very cool. Thanks for sharing this!

[@ADCmusicProducing]

The fact that you explain and show how you actually change the notes to change modes just makes my Life better

[@Jimmyjames738]

This is a great video David. Wonderwall is such a great and identifiable placeholder song to show the tonal qualities of each mode. 👍

[@thomasfioriglio]

This was really interesting. I had learned about all those scales but to hear them put into practice over one song and back to back, really helps to hear the differences. Thanks for sharing.

[@StephenJohnWhiting]

Great idea for a video - really enjoyed it!

[@syukoshiomy]

love this video. i really appreciate the use of a song that doesnt perfectly fit the modes. when i write i tend to limit myself to the rules of whatever scale i find myself in and it hurts for making some things stick and sound unique when they could be. this song gets played so often it's also nice to be reminded of how good it is on a detailed level.

[@remco2777]

Brilliant video again David, yours are the best in actually hearing what the modes sound like

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thank you 😊

[@oravlaful]

absolutely love these videos you shove songs into all of the modes

[@joerghaas08]

Bravo! Great Video and Explantation, David. And wisely chosen song.

[@davide2.07]

Lovely video, David- I absolutely adore Lydian, especially in this video.

[@adrianguntherkeedle6860]

So brilliant when you use a concrete melody like this, so you can fully appreciate the tonal differences the modes create. I've know about modes and have learnt the scales but seeing them in use like this is something else.

[@pianomanenproceso]

Wow, this is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen that clearly explains this topic, and with a fantastic sort of examples too. Thank you, David!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thank you!

[@Piktor201]

Chapeau! This is surely one of the best explanations of the modes I've seen so far. 👍

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thank you 😊

[@dayradebaugh]

This is an excellent video for one who is trying to understand music. I've always wondered what the differences in modes are, and this is an excellent illustration. Good job!

[@justinmiller9169]

Great explanation of the modes. Please do more videos like this.

[@DanielGBenesScienceShows]

I love these multi-mode breakdowns!

[@Clarity-808]

What a cool video! Thanks David

[@TigerRogers0660]

David, what an amazing excersise!! This sure helps to understand the modes better.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Glad you found it helpful 😊

[@ShaynAlmeida]

This is oddly amazing 🙌🏽🔥👍🏽 Thanks for putting this together, it really helped 🙏🏽

[@user-vz6vz4rt3u]

Excellent lesson/lecture and exceptional choice of music to accentuate points.

[@jukelong3494]

Awesome video on modes. Thankyou for showing this with context to enhance my understanding.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Glad it was helpful!

[@adriancadena2887]

This is the video that finally got me to understand modes lol. Amazing job!

[@morphin4200]

Piece of music at the end is just beautiful and amazing

[@condolcezza5850]

Locrian surprisingly sounded really good

[@kittycatpilot]

it was fucking sick yeah

[@TheStickCollector]

Perfect to find out how each mode operate

[@UandMisterG]

Excellent! big thx!

[@NomeDeArte]

Love the concept of the video. Really useful.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks!

[@edpp3687]

This video is brilliant. What an excellent way to teach modes

[@jeremiahlyleseditor437]

Wonderful Video. A big help as far as instruction.

[@Jeremyak]

I really enjoy these modal comparison videos.

[@trevordavies2829]

Thank you Certainly a repeat listen. Well done.

[@captyonah1378]

This was so enjoyable to watch!

[@luigiscazzari4724]

Thank you for the video, experimenting with modes is a fun way to put music theory in practice.

[@ssaamil]

Love these videos!! :D

[@martonlistar]

Awesome video, thank you very much!

[@MizuRino]

It's a brilliant content! It explained so much to me (the modes are not that hard). Thank you!

[@tsopanaras]

Amazing work!

[@Reebus.LCU.]

Really enjoyed that mate. Great video ✌

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks 😊

[@jessicajeckman]

Great video!

[@jacekmaraj1774]

Major scale is brighter , but feels more menacing and sounds like a threat 😂

[@aghastlyghost]

Bloody better be the day.l

[@eyesofchild]

I felt the same. I guess the confidence of the scale with the descent of the melody line are at odds with each other.

[@composer7325]

Very interesting, thank you, David.

[@autumnsphere7581]

Im learning so much, thanks

[@lljf]

3 things you should know about David Bennett Piano: He doesn’t like the Beatles His middle name is Bennett and his last name is Piano He hates modes, but Locrian is his favorite

[@vermillion2023]

thats true

[@Pip_Bear]

As Mr D B Piano, I can confirm all of those

[@lljf]

I forgot one: His sponsorships have no relation to his content

[@elrincondelocutre9884]

You forgot that he dislikes Radiohead

[@captainalex8003]

@@vermillion2023 It really isn't.

[@mr.nobody2244]

Very interesting. Keep them coming.

[@santiagomaldonado1153]

Today I discovered your channel, you're the best 🙌

[@matcoffidis1135]

Amazing how changing a few notes changes the feel and mood of the song so much...

[@raularenaza3230]

I don't know if this is easy for all those with armony studies... BUT for the ones that we don't, this is just an open windown to knowledge and understanding. BRILLIANT VIDEO! well done David!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thank you!!

[@b00ts4ndc4ts]

The Phrygian scale gets used all the time with dance music like techno or hard house.

[@thomasgorniak7192]

also in heavy metal, specially thrash metal. the flat9 is the signature interval used for the 'anger' mood, so to speak.

[@b00ts4ndc4ts]

@@thomasgorniak7192 nothing like a bit of aggressive thrash metal on the headphones when I am running late for work, gets me there every time.

[@statueofliberty1132]

Do you have any examples of EDM songs in phrygian? I think I'd enjoy those

[@ramsesgomez3652]

Mixolidio 😮😮❤ suena increíble

[@samuelhornmusik]

Fantastic, thank you! A very entertaining kind of education!! Cheers :)

[@luismarquez5038]

6:09 That DMaj7 sounded brutal.

[@eyesofchild]

“Damn unnerving” hahahaha. So well put!!!!

[@Andysmusicaljourney]

Finally somebody explaining the use of modes in a way that I can really hear and grasp it properly.

[@Stoneador]

Interesting how changing that C natural to C# changed the beginning just enough that even the minor scale version sounded a little off

[@kaitlyn__L]

Dorian to me always sounds like travelling. Or perhaps a montage of industry doing its thing, workers pouring out of a revolving door. Like… it’s bright but also restless. Definitely one of my favourite modes (and dorian flat-2 gives me that “in a hurry, making stuff happen” feeling even more!)

[@Fire_Axus]

your feelings are irrational

[@barsliw]

It’s funny but no matter which scale is used melody stills owesome. Hell of a masterpiece. But still analysis…have no words 👌

[@NicoSmets]

Wonderful video.

[@mindmeld12345]

This was great! Please do it for other songs

[@Petch85]

This is such a good video. There is so much to learn from this. I would like to see this with songs of different genres. Everything from Metal, hip-hop, anime themes, Jazz etc. I think this would help us understand what makes a genre sound like it does. Cause it seems to me that there are some genres that needs to use some scales, otherwise it sounds wrong. Like a metal song using a clean sounding guitar, it dos not sound like metal anymore, now it sounds like surfe rock. But I think the same thing is the case for scales. Can you make a pop-punk song using Lydian, or would it sound like something else?

[@gabewolfmusic]

The chords in the Dorian version are just like the ones in the chorus of Mad World. Who knew that a modal change could relate two wildly different songs... really cool!

[@josephclarke6770]

Mixolydian sounded genuinely fantastic

[@Inequities]

Best thing I’ve ever seen on KZbin

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Fantastic!

[@Inequities]

@@DavidBennettPiano David, while I have you here, have you ever heard the band Guster? I think they are probably the most catchy “music theory” American bands ever. Beautiful melodies, Counter melodies galore, harmonically perfect. Just curious! ❤️

[@rome8180]

I personally always thought of "Wonderwall" as in Dorian. I get that it's indeterminate. But when you play that IV chord (the Bsus) as a major, it sounds much more natural than Bm. In my opinion, the major chord is implied even if the third is never played or sung. I was actually surprised that for your Dorian version you didn't just keep the original chord progression but lower the sus4 to a 3rd. Am I missing something? Wouldn't that have worked and been less of a radical change?

[@icannotchoose]

Could you try a version with the modes of melodic and harmonic minor? I'd love to hear what a pop song sounds like in mixolydian flat 6 or lydian dominant!

[@Fire_Axus]

your feelings would be irrational

[@jussiniemi9560]

love this

[@rdspam]

Very educational!

[@Elfaz95]

I was wondering why the minor modes still sounded off at the beginning. Good to know I’m not losing my mind

[@kaitlyn__L]

same lol

[@diegofernandez2061]

That was amazing

[@WillhiteStephen]

OMG I love it in the Locrian scale! Now I want to check out other music in the Locrian scale.

[@barbelarmbroster6524]

Yeah, I asked for more fun with a song in different modes. Thanks! I will surely enjoy the video!

[@ChandLiu]

That Lydian sounds wonderful

[@BishopJimmy]

I’m a bassist who kinda knows music theory but also doesn’t. This has probably been the best video I have ever seen explaining the modes as something musical rather than just a set of notes, hopefully if I consider this I’ll be able to make something I actually like the sound of, rather than making something I know should be theoretically possible.

[@jonnuanez7183]

Locrian Wonderwall is fit for an 18th century Romanian castle

[@jacekt8161]

The aeolian version has such a satisfying resolution that it almost makes me cry 🥹

[@pilp]

Love your videos David, you have to talk about Franz Ferdinand

[@tiefklang]

Wow!!! Your song Kneel at the outro is fckn amazing!!

[@tiefklang]

Wich scale is it?

[@TheCuratorIsHere]

Lydian is awesome 🤩

[@MLFranklin]

This is super cool.

[@DingusMcBride]

I really like this series

[@lambda1863]

I love these videos it would be cool if you did this with the chorus for let's dance by David Bowie

[@pedromattos4877]

Thank you só mucho

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks for watching 😊

[@HeyBulldog-Beatles-Tribute]

Thanks David. To have made the choice of this very very popular melody (that everybody in occidental world has in ear, even non-musicians) is a good idea, I will share this and hope that some friends of mine and family will understand the link between modes and emotion. :)

[@GizzyDillespee]

That was cool, and I've always thought those were some whiny sounding vocals, and i still do... but that was cool to hear them switched around like that, and with different chords. I could tell something was wrong with those 2 notes that you switched, but I didn't know exactly what, until you explained the twist.

[@thesingingaccountant1]

Whiny for me is thom Yorke - this is like a throaty voice... But everyone has their own ears and hears stuff differently so fair play

[@thesingingaccountant1]

@luke5100 True mate - I have just never been able to really feel his singing like I have Liam's. Still a great band though

[@matthieugeorges34]

Just got into learning what modes are, so grateful I landed on your video ! Awesome illustration 🙏 I just wonder at 10:53 aren't Dorian's 7th and Phrygian's 6th and 7th all flattened ? Or I understand it wrong and still need practice 😄

[@psychonaut689]

That Dmaj7 chord in the aeolian version sounds gorgeous

[@jared_s2]

this is very cool. all students learning theory should watch this to see why theory teaches understanding of music's moods.

[@deliusmyth5063]

That disputed first note reminds me of another video, by someone called David Bennett, discussing a similar issue with Yesterday.