Dr. B Music Theory Lesson 44 (Mode Mixture)

TOPICS:
0:00 - Mode mixture and borrowed chords
5:00 - EXAMPLE: Traditional progression and mode mixture
8:15 - Frequency of various types of mode mixture - most frequent (#1) = iio, iv, viio7
9:49 - Second most frequent type of mode mixture (#2) = i, iv7, bVI
13:24 - Third most frequent type of mode mixture (#3) =bIII, bVII
17:42 - EXAMPLES: mode mixture options played at the piano
21:05 - Picardy third
22:00 - The objectively provable reason why major is more resolved than minor (we are talking acoustics, psychology, and philosophy)
27:11 - Mode mixture vs parallel minor and why isn't the parallel minor considered a modulation

[Proximo]

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[wendychoi]

Dr. B, thank you so much for giving us a detailed explanation, I learned so much from your music lessons.

[sunnymittal]

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[SAZIZMUSIC]

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[ricardoenriquez]

Thank you very much! This lesson was very enlightening!!! Thank you so much!!! You are a great teacher!!!

[AngeliqueLuceroMusic]

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[anujgogate]

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[Phaseish]

This was just an awesome lesson and artciulated beautifully .

on my music theory journey I have been going back and forth into your vids.
How I got here because one of my favorite rock covers is A Perfect circle -Imagine.

I found it pretty intense how he sings the M3, but whats being played over is a Cm and it makes it so dissonaant compared to Lennons version and It works because of the overtone series.
Something that was introduced in my audio engineering education but I didn't quite understand it. I have to look this up as you seem to be the only one that really talks about it, but it makes perfect sense.

I also feel it makes sense for the Tension and resolution for the popular I, V, vi, IV . That is everywhere in pop music from forever ago and today.

Amazing stuff <3 stay safe !

[baronvonbeandip]

That was an amazing explanation of combination tones.

[JStrange]

wonderful presentation, thank you. And thanks also, for the mention at the end of the controversy surrounding "key changes" and how to define them. I can't get behind the idea of C Major and C Minor somehow being considered the same key, when their signatures are so different. I've had arguments about this with friends, and they keep quoting texts like Piston, which I feel like a jerk for arguing with. But you confirmed that it is at least a conversation to be had.

[Shonamusic]

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[notyetskeletal]

18 years ago I spent $12, 000 on a year of music tuition. I've learned more from YouTube videos and Christopher Brellochs.

[waynegram]

Classical composers used the bIII, bVI, bVII as borrowed chords? which other borrowed chords are the most common borrowed chords used

[LiamGaughan]

Great presentation, for classical study. But saying 'v' is never used in a major key, and thus not worth studying, doesn't really apply to pop and rock music. You hear it now and again when minor v isn't just the new chord ii (unlike in loads of jazz standards, where it's just the start of a new II V I) and all the borrowed chords from the modes aren't touched on here, which are also really nice to use. Maybe they are covered by other classical ideas (Db for instance, first inversion and it's just a neapolitan chord). I really enjoy seeing the different takes from the different camps on these subjects. Thanks!

[oskarsjostedt]

Another amazing video, Dr.B! I really enjoy your approach to music shown on these videos. I had a question and maybe you could help me out a little bit.. A iii chord doesn't usually go to I, as the common classical harmony progressions, but the bIII in the exemple seemed to work just fine going to I. I'm a little lost there to why. Is it because we have a common note (degree 5 in I, which pulls to C) and both flats resolve by step so we get that smooth transition?
I'm sorry if I missed it from another lesson, but I couldn't figure it out. And thanks a lot for your videos!

[paul_meulemans]

No (other) church modes in classical music?

[anatoly]

Is it the same concept as playing in modes other than aeolian and ionian? E.g. in mixolydian, the 7th degree is lowered compared to the major scale, which gives one v, iiio, and bVII. "Bittersweet symphony" by Verge is an example using the mode and the minor v chord too, although it's not from classical music despite the name

Also, separately from the above, can I7 be interpreted as a borrowed chord, or is it more likely a secondary function?

[gichavez]

How then do you tell the difference between moral mixture, secondary functions, and tonicizations?

[weizhang]

Hello DR B, does it mean if i have a melody of 1-6-2-5 in C Major, i can harmonize it with I-bVI-ii-V ? Will the 6 and b6 fight?

[wallomaie]

Is there another lecture where you speak about borrowing from other modes besides aeolian?