Brilliant. Always good to be challenged. The music theory is where I am seriously challenged!! When you said 'we are in the key of Em..but which one?', I thought, there's more than one?? :-)
A question please about how you worked out the mode. I understand how you got the notes in the scale. Does the root note of the first chord determine the mode - in this case and E and the VI note in the scale? It can't be as simple as that, can it?
I've never thought about it that way... but I don't think it quite works. To be a minor scale, you'll always have the minor 3rd (III), so C needs an Eb in the scale. If you look at all 7 different modes in C (link below) there are 4 scales with an Eb. Of those 4 scales, 1 has the major VI, and 3 have the minor VI. So the way you described would only tell you: - major VI means you're definitely in Dorian mode - minor VI could be Phrygian, Aeolian or Locrian. In most of the music we mandolin players come across, we normally only find tunes in Dorian or Aeolian, so your method of thinking would probably serve you well 99% of the time. www.uberchord.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/modes-starting-with-C.png
It's clear to me that I've found something else I lnow nothing about, but will want to learn. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Thank you Mike!
Thank you for these excellent lessons. I really enjoy the way you present the material. Merry Christmas!
Thanks! Happy Christmas to you too!
ooo... this is the most learning'est (is that evn a word?) song ever! thank u kind sir
Glad it was helpful! Cheers, Mike
Brilliant. Always good to be challenged. The music theory is where I am seriously challenged!! When you said 'we are in the key of Em..but which one?', I thought, there's more than one?? :-)
There's a lot of minor keys :) Every culture has their own version of minor
Thank you for thee lessons but I can't see the link below. 😢
Here you go: drive.google.com/file/d/1ekEJ_DWktw9q56rqLcDUaUQSVJUE9ULj/view?usp=sharing
@@MandoMikeLessons thank you so much for your time
A question please about how you worked out the mode. I understand how you got the notes in the scale. Does the root note of the first chord determine the mode - in this case and E and the VI note in the scale? It can't be as simple as that, can it?
I've never thought about it that way... but I don't think it quite works. To be a minor scale, you'll always have the minor 3rd (III), so C needs an Eb in the scale. If you look at all 7 different modes in C (link below) there are 4 scales with an Eb. Of those 4 scales, 1 has the major VI, and 3 have the minor VI. So the way you described would only tell you:
- major VI means you're definitely in Dorian mode
- minor VI could be Phrygian, Aeolian or Locrian.
In most of the music we mandolin players come across, we normally only find tunes in Dorian or Aeolian, so your method of thinking would probably serve you well 99% of the time.
www.uberchord.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/modes-starting-with-C.png
I think it sounds much sweeter in its 3/4 version