"The universe is extremely simple on small scales and then on large scales utterly simple too, but in between, it's this horrible complicated mess."
"The major scale is what most Western music is built off of."
"So now what we do with this is we move that pattern through the scale."
"Chords and scales are basically the same thing. You have to know the function of the chord to know what scale to play over it."
"When we look out at the universe, we recognize that there are a huge range of scales that constitute reality."
"I'm going to start my scales and these are just going to be kind of polka dotted marks throughout the body."
"Scales are the best place to start when improvising because they sort of give you a framework in which you know it will sound reasonably good regardless of what happens as long as you stay in the scale."
"Daily, monthly, and seasonal scales of news consumption are essential for deeper understanding."
"A scale gives you a kit, a group of notes that are guaranteed to work together so you can play cool stuff without any notes that sound wrong."
"If you really want to understand the guitar and master it as an instrument, then you need to understand scales."
"...the likelihood is that the song that you are listening to is probably going to be using one of 12 scales."
"The position of the root inside each shape depends on whether you're playing the major or minor pentatonic scale."
"It's really important to understand where the root notes of any scale pattern are."
"You know, it's still like pentatonic scales and knowing when to do the major and throw the blue note."
"A major scale is one of the most important things you'll ever learn."
"...D major, if you know your D major, even the pentatonic scale, which turns out is always even a little bit safer than the major scale because there are specific notes in the major scale that can clash with itself, essentially."
"Every major scale will follow the major minor minor major major minor diminished pattern."
"Remember a lot of times it's just one note that can color it you could even be playing your minor pentatonic scale but if you hit that one note from the harmonic minor scale it sounds like the harmonic minor scale."
"Just as all keys overlap, all major scales overlap in the circle of fifths."
"The circle of fifths basically shows how all keys, how all major scales are connected."
"The melodic minor scale has its own set of diatonic chords, offering different chord options compared to the natural and harmonic minor scales."
"Raising the sixth and seventh degrees in the melodic minor scale can eliminate large interval gaps and create smoother melodic lines."
"If you remember scales are just melodies that people use to practice and they teach us about harmonies and ways that melodies can act in certain keys or harmonic conditions."
"Really the main thing to remember is that we only have the raised 6th and 7th degrees when the scale is ascending because that's when we would want the leading tone."
"Scales are useful to us because sure they help us with technique but they also help us understand how to write and play beautiful melodies chords and harmonies."
"The modes all they are, take a major scale, start that major scale on every interval."
"You can make up any pentatonic scale with five unique notes."
"Now we have the cord we've got the arpeggio we've got the pentatonic and now the next and final level of information that we have to outline that chord is the scale"
"Here's the pentatonic scale and add these notes here... it starts to show you how to get the sound of the mode by just modifying your pentatonic scale."
"The interval pattern of a scale will give it a certain sound."
"As long as you know these major scales: E flat, B flat, F, C, G, D, and A, you also know all these scales on the bottom half of the circle."
"So our scales are Bluetooth, which means that the wireless between the scales pads down there and this is the reader here."
"Ok, so the poignance of the major scale is often underrated."
"...it's not all about just that number on the scales in fact that can be a massive problem which is why you've got to you know if your goal is to improve the way your body looks you've got to use other metrics."
"Looking at all those scales and all those forms, yes, we sign a time card for every on-the-card session, that's what that means."
"...the exact same thing goes with the modal scale. So, to play a D Dorian scale, I could play this exact same shape and just start on a D note."
"The beauty of learning the scales is that while your primary goal is to build a dexterity, you will automatically be learning how to read the notes on the treble clef one note at a time."
"The diatonic chords of a key are only made up of notes in the corresponding scale, which in this case is a G major scale. Makes sense?"
"Every scale and mode in and of itself has a feeling state. So much so that when you're hearing music you can say 'Ah, this is Mixolydian, oh that's a Phrygian sound, oh that's a whatever.'"
"...chromatic scales bailed me out more times than a designated driver exactly it's a really important part of the bailout."
"Some quantum effects don't wash out. We see some quantum phenomena at small scales that we don't see on big scales."
"It's the phrygian dominant scale, a scale that's used in many cultures and has a worldly recognizable appeal."
"Different emotional valences are associated with different scale types."
"Each of those scales is spaced out the same way with that major scale formula and each of those scales has eight notes eight scale degrees."
"When you know your scales, all these Triads come from a scale."
"The natural minor scale is sort of like the default minor scale."
"Scales don't exist to confuse and torture us, they're actually supposed to help us."
"...so get the really cool thing about adding this new shape into your repertoire here is if you know this shape plus your minor pentatonic and major pentatonic scales you can play over basically any chord progression."
"Remember all of your modes all seven modes are just the major scale they're just played in different spots here they have different starting notes different starting and stopping notes different tonal centers I guess that's a better way to say it."
"...the point of learning more than one scale pattern is to combine them..."
"It's the diminished whole tone scale."
"Any major and minor scale will either have all sharps, all flats, or none."
"Look at that iridescence on the scales, that is just amazing."
"Complex structures or organisms or systems have things going on at all scales."
"Learn all 12 of your major scales, they're the most important, the most useful kind of scales to learn first."
"Mixing and blending the major and minor pentatonic scales is a huge part of the Blues sound."
"An interval is just the spacing between two notes on a musical scale."
"Diatonic generally means notes that fall in a musical scale."
"It's much lighter, almost like a white compared to the other green, and we're just gonna add the scales just in the center."
"The Aeolian scale and natural minor scale are the same scale; they just have different names."
"A scale is just a series of notes that our brain likes to hear in a certain sequence."
"The beauty of the Axion is that there's a reason for two different scales in the problem."
"Scales are the language of music, that's the backbone of so much music."
"You're not only learning the notes of the scale and building your technique, but you're also learning all of the chords that come from the scale."
"Whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half - this is the formula for your major scale."
"Scales are so detrimental to your mental health because you can be working so hard and be focusing on the number instead of what your clothes are fitting like or what you see in the mirror."
"The formula for the major scale is whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step."
"Learn your scales; they help you really understand the layout of these scales and what they look like on keys and what they look like on the keyboard."
"There's three different styles of scales that I like to draw depending on the style of design that I'm doing."
"It's funny how I don't really think of the scales so much as I think of the chords."
"Learning how to improvise with scales will make you a better improviser."
"The thing that makes Jazz a bit more interesting, and a bit more dare I say Jazzy, is that you're allowed to play scales from a different key."
"Instead of just playing the scales over and over, you can practice them as part of an Etude that achieves the same goal in a particular musical context."
"You need to be able to go through all 12 scales so that you're very much able to play in different keys."
"Chords just don't come from outer space; they're not created by a deity nor are they conjured by magic. Chords come from scales."
"Melodic devices are a way of using scales and chromatic notes around the notes of a chord."
"Melodic devices allow us to make use of scales and scalar movement while always taking notice of the actual harmony."
"Minor scales tend to sound sad, and major scales tend to sound more happy."
"The melodic minor scale has a natural six and a natural seven."
"The melodic minor is the most uplifting minor scale, if there is such a thing."
"The harmonic minor gives it a kind of Spanish, almost Arabic type sound."
"The natural minor scale is the scale that you get if you just went to the relative minor of your major key."
"Every major scale has the same sequence of chord qualities."
"Every pentatonic scale that you play is derived from the major scale."
"You only need major, harmonic minor, and melodic minor scales. There's plenty of other scales that are nice to know, but those are the only ones that you need."
"Mixing major and minor pentatonic and blues scales when we're playing Blues based music."
"The blues scale is just the minor pentatonic scale with this extra note."
"Scales are man-made, it's a preference of notes."
"A scale is basically a group of notes that we've decided sound good together."
"Minor scales tend to sound sad, major scales tend to sound happy."
"I think it's really important that we always apply phrasing to scales so you always try to make it sound as if it was a piece of music."
"If you're practicing with a student, you can play scales in the same octave together on the piano."
"We have four General Scales: the micro scale, the meso scale, the synoptic scale, and the global scale."
"The A major scale shares the same notes as the F sharp minor scale."
"Skills are the tonal basis of all music. It is a group of ordered notes or pitches in which melodies and harmonies are built around."
"The major or the minor scale is kind of the safest bet."
"The harmonic minor scale is just the natural minor scale with the seventh note raised by one half step."
"Given that our tuning system has 12 distinct pitches, major's as evenly spaced out as a seven-note scale can be."
"That's why I make you practice scales, because scales aren't just random exercises that we do in isolation from our music."
"The pentatonic scale is the most versatile scale in all of music."
"Knowing all your major scales fluently is really going to help your sight reading."
"Pentatonic scales can be a really important foundation to your improvisational language."
"The fundamentals of a Jazz standard and the chord changes that you're playing through are always going to come back to the scales that match with every chord."
"I wish all the scales were as simple as B major."
"Those things in combination get us to cross in a scale in a way that takes care of a lot of fundamental problems that people express."
"A natural minor scale has the same notes as that relative major scale."
"We've sharpened the seventh degree to turn that E minor into an E major chord, which is why it's called the harmonic minor scale."
"The scale shapes that we choose to use greatly influence our phrasing."
"From my experience, the more ways you can figure out to play any scale, the more you're going to be able to do with it."
"You can use the major scale to create runs, licks, and fills, and to create movement in your chords."
"Every major scale has seven notes, with those seven notes each note has an associated chord or a chord that goes along with it."
"Every single major scale on the piano has seven notes, and each of the seven notes of the scale has a corresponding chord."
"Chord progressions are derived from scales."
"If it's in the major scale, it's a major interval; and if it's in the minor scale, it's a minor interval."
"They're built from layers and layers of scales made from chitin, which is a protein."
"It's the pentatonic scale and the diatonic scale; those are the two scales they apply to all genres, they apply to all levels."
"It's the scales that reflect the light to give the color."
"The major scale also has a leading tone, the next-to-last note, and it leads you back to the starting note, also known as the tonic."
"Unlocking Ionian can help you unlock Lydian and Mixolydian and some of the other major tonality scales and modes that exist in music."
"The major pentatonic scale gives you a more happy feel, as opposed to the minor pentatonic scale which is more sad, more bluesy."