JIMMIE DOES ROAD RANT INCLUDING A MUSIC THEORY LESSON 👽🤘🤘💯

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]I wanted to do some road rant and I want to talk about something I just realized about music theory that might be cool.

[00:00:05]Um I have I didn't do much YouTube in the last day because uh my yearly eye appointment um I have an optic nerve that's a little too big. So they check me every every year and I'm okay. Uh as of yesterday I'm fine. Um but um they have to dilate my eyes to see them and it kind of throws me for a loop because it's kind of makes me feel weird and different. My eyes dilated and I kind of got to shake it off. But in my live today when I did um my uh when I did uh what I call it again um 3D Halloweens got some fun on 2D Halloweens. is a fun on 2D holograms, which we all might be according to modern physics, but um uh I was a little loopy in that video. I wasn't really mindful. I wasn't 100% there. Um um but I came up with some cool stuff because of that cuz I had no choice. I had to play something and I made some original new stuff that I probably wouldn't played otherwise.

[00:01:07]Um one thing I made a little melody, classical style melody that's original.

[00:01:12]That's hard to do with all the classical composers that have already done everything. So, I I did that, which is cool. I figured out um how to do an inverted whammy bar scoop with the whammy bar 180° away from where it's supposed to be. In other words, backwards and do a scoop with like that.

[00:01:28]And I just figured that out today on my live. That's not That's something that's really cool. I can do it forward like this or backward 180 degrees, you know, opposite position. So, that's cool. I don't I don't see people doing that. not even vi but anyway that's a cool thing I got of that live and then I was messing up a certain part so I thought about it and I re I learned something more about music by analyzing what I was messing up and now I got a little more handle on some lits I do and about the theoretic the theory behind them so that happened because of that um kind of being loopy idea which is which you know sometimes you you get new things when you when you're just in a state of being and or you don't have a choice. You just have to play something and you play something new and it's a cool thing, you know, happens. By the way, I have wind in my hair. My hair isn't I haven't got a haircut, lol. But wind is blowing my hair. But anyway, so I I got a new idea in theory. It's not It's not revolutionarily new. It's just a new way of looking at an old theory. I just realized you can simplify a little bit.

[00:02:34]the four scales the that that are the four possible permutations of seven notes in dietonic scales as 12 tone music without augmented thirds or diminished thirds. In other words, no no two steps in no two half steps in a row and no no um step larger than a whole step between any of the No, that's not true. I don't that's not that's not true. Just no augmented third. Yeah, no augmented thirds which would be an interval of an augmented second plus a major second. That interval is too large for these scales and two half steps in a row is a diminished third and that's too small.

[00:03:12]But of all the four possibilities, which are major scale, harmonic major scale, harmonic minor scale, and melodic minor scale, those are the four. And I realize how simple you can think of this. I've always thought of ways that are harder than you really need to do perhaps, but here's a really simple way of looking at those four permutations.

[00:03:30]First of all, just start with the major scale. then you already have the major scale right there. Fair enough. So if you're in C, that's if you're in white keys, that's all the white keys and and it would be in C C major.

[00:03:43]Um so um start there and then and then then if you want to do a melodic minor C melodic minor scale, you just alter the flat the third of the major of the C major scale. You have an E flat now. And now you have C, D, E flat, F, G, A, B, C, which is automatically a C melodic minor scale. And all you did was flat the third of the major scale. Easy. Now put the third back where it was. Start with the major scale again. And this time flat the sixth of the major scale.

[00:04:12]Now you would have an an A flat. And that would give you uh C, D, E, F, G, A flat, B, C. And just with that one alteration, you have a C harmonic major scale. So that's really cool. This is a really easy way of looking at this. It kind of escaped me for 44 years. So then put the third put the six back and have a major scale again. And then just then just do both at the same time. Flat the third and the six. So now you have an E flat and you have an A flat. What do you have now? Well, you have C, D, E flat, F, G, uh, uh, A flat, BC. Voila. That's a C harmonic minor scale.

[00:04:53]So um so so a major scale with a flatted six and a flatted third is a is a is a harmonic minor scale. So that's all four possibilities even starting on the root of the actual scale not on some mode of it all just by taking two of the notes in a major scale flatting one each at once at a time and then flattening them both. And then you have all possible four permutations right there of the four possible scales in in in um dietonic western harmony. Um that's really cool. I mean you can't get much simpler than that. So you know take a major scale flat the third. Now you got a melodic minor. Take a major scale flat to six you got a harmonic major. Take a major scale flat the third and the six you have a harmonic minor scale.

[00:05:38]Really simple. And remember that you can't um you can't you can't get from a major scale to a harmonic minor scale in one step. You have to flatten two notes um to get from major to harmonic minor.

[00:05:51]And you have to sharpen those two notes to get to go from harmonic minor to a major. So you can't go from harmonic minor to major or or vice versa in just one alteration. It takes two. And the next thing is you can't go from melodic minor to harmonic major scale in one alteration. That also takes too because if you if you have a if you have let's say you have a C harmonic no a C melodonic minor scale would have would have would be C D E flat F G A B C it has a major scale with a flat third and then um a C harmonic major scale is has an A flat which would be C D E F G A flat B C that's a harmonic major scale you can't you to to get from harmonic to get from minor scale to a harmonic major scale takes two alter alterations, you have to raise a third and flat the sixth. And to get from a harmonic major scale to a melodic minor scale, that also takes two alterations. You have to sharp the sixth, back to normal, and flat the third. So, it's like it's like a cross north, south, east, and west. If you have major scale at the top and north, harmonic minor at west, and uh let's say uh um uh harmonic major at east, and then melodic minor. No, let's not do it that way. Yeah, let's do it like this. Major scale is at Sorry about this. Major scale is at north. Harmonic major scale is at at west. Melonic minor scale is at east. And then harmonic minor is at south. You can go anywhere along the along from one to the other. What um on the uh if you go from continuously north, souththeast, west or vice versa um with one alteration. But to go across all the way that is from north to south or west to east it takes two alterations in that in that paradigm. So that's a good graphical way of looking at it.

[00:07:44]North is major south is uh south is um harmonic minor and it takes two alterations to get from one of those to the other. And then west you have harmonic major and east you have melodic minor. And that also takes two steps to get from one of those or to the other or you know either one of those to the other. But along consecutive directions that is north, south, no north, north, east, south, west. No, north, west, south, east. You could say, um, or norththeast, southwest. One of those directions at a time. Then it only takes one alteration. So, let the guys be rock and roll.