Understanding Modes Part 1: Introduction
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- Learn how to play modes on guitar can be a confusing experience. Understanding the difference between modes and what they even are is a chore in and of itself.
In part 1 of the modes series, we see how all 7 different modes are located and derived on a guitar, and get an intro into easy way to remember them relative to shapes you probably already know, before diving further into the individual scales.
If you want to see how the notes in a scale are found, watch this video first:
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The part where you show the chart full of dots and colors, and you say I have no idea what to do with that, had me laughing my ass off! Seriously though thanks for posting this series.
Happy to help!
I have watched several DIFFERANT mode videos all I got was an eyeball headache///your videos are much better Thank you
Thanks Jim!
Said it already but you are a natural teacher. It would take a lot of people far longer to explain it no where near as proficiently as you. Loved the dots overlay too.
+Alfred Potter Guitar Thanks a lot, I appreciate the support, I think I might start adding more of the dot overlay into some of the future stuff.
Man im 18 ive been watching this guy's stuff since i was 16 i learned a lot from this smart teacher thank you man your helping me out with my solo career
I have watched an endless number of videos trying to explain how they work, why we need them, and how to use them.
All i can say is they......failed.
This has got to be the most well explained video of the modes and I've definitely got the concept.
Could even say i get IT.
Thank you for this helpful video.
So glad it helped! Thanks for checking it out!
I think you're video's on modes and the CLEANEST most EASIEST to understand and mentally process. Your visual references really help. I will be stalking your other Vids for sure! Thanks for helping boss, and I look forward to supporting you best I can by watching and sharing your great Vids, new and old. Cheers!
Man thanks so much! I appreciate you sharing the vids!
Its gonna take me watching this 10 times a day to really understand. I’m also the type that can read a page of a book and not tell you what it said.
You'll get there :)
I've seen a few of your videos and let me tell you
I don't think anyone can explain things easier than you. clear and precise. thanks a lot
+Sergio Monfort Thanks for the kind words Sergio, happy to help!
Your channel is providing the major cogs which have been missing in my playing having never been "taught" the fragments I had learnt were lacking some glue.Your channel is bringing that glue to the mix and more importantly, it seems to be sticking.In a couple of days you have opened up my playing so much.Thankyou.
Sincerely.
+David Brown Awesome to hear, David. Thanks for watching and let me know if you have any questions or video ideas!
THANK YOU! I found your channel due to the love that is Elliott Smith (side note, my favorite record of his is Either/Or and when you described what type of person would pick that one truly as their favorite, it made me feel great) then I stumbled upon your other videos and I love Steve Vai, he's a great guitarist, but when he talks theory I get so lost. 8 years of playing and all I knew was the minor pentotonic scale. These videos really help me out a lot, I just want to thank you for breaking it down way more easily than others have.
So glad it was helpful!
this is by far the best explanation of modes on the net and I've seen hundreds of videos about this topic
Learning the guitar?
Discover a great clear and concise teacher, with a brilliant sense of humour, that makes learning such a pleasure ..... perfect!!!
+Phil James Thanks for the kind words! Very flattering :)
Still lost, but I’m miles beyond where I was even last week thanks to your video. I really appreciate it.
You speak to me.
Thank you for all the time, and effort you put into teaching us. You're A K00L KAT with great vision. Thank you. thank you. thank you.
Thanks so much for reaching out and saying so! I'll keep em coming!
Thank you, Sean. I was avoiding theory, but now with you, it makes learning easy and fun!
+Kriss Great to hear, let me know if you ever have any questions!
sean i just want you to know you're one of my fave teachers on yt, your explanantion style is so well thought out and clear thank you
Man thank you so much for reaching out Fazeel. I'll keep em coming!
Finally you've cleared my doubts...thank you very much
Thanks a lot, this is the first time I finally understand anything about the modes, which were driving me absolutely crazy, so thumbs up :D
+Rik Roskamp Awesome to hear! Let me know if you have any questions!
Sean The Legend when it comes to music theory!
The minute I think I finally have a hold of Modes, comes another youtube video that completely messes up everything !
+Saad Sadiq Sorry!!!!
Finally getting to the good stuff! Thanks for sharing Sean!
No prob!
This is just amazing.
So well explained, it helps me a lot for further work in my compositions.
Thanks a lot Sean !
+Ayme Ric Happy to help! Keep on rocking!
i have been watcing your vids for a while and just now seen that i have not subbed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i take much joy in watching and listening to your lessons. much luck from your new/old subscriber.
Well welcome to the party finally!
I've memorised the patterns for the modes and the patterns stay the same but now I have to understand the formula to understand hopefully these 6 lessons you have here will get me there rock on.
What I meant to say is I don't know what to flat or major to make up the different mode I understand C because it has no flats or sharps other modes I'm not sure yet.
Explanation level: Expert
I can see this series being really helpful. I can also see your channel growing soon!
+mikskywalker Thanks for the support! Yeah I think it's starting to catch on!
Finally I understand this!
Allways great videos!👍
Glad it was helpful!
Good start!
I actually love that chart. I know this post is almost three years old but where did you get that? Love your lessons too.
helped me a lot to figure out modes.. thanks a ton!!
So cool to hear!
Thank you. Reviewing these videos again.
Thanks for watching again!
Phrygian = boldness, exuberance, passion, courage, leadership, but in excess pride, rashness, irascibility, violent anger.
Lydian = good cheer, optimism, subimity, friendliness, laughter, love and song.
Dorian = sleepiness, lethargy, laziness, slowness, mental dullness, forgetfulness, calmness, internal equanimity, well being.
Mixolydian = solidity, firmness, steadfastness, rhythm, but with a certain indolent tenaciity.
Thanks for the analogy
Bro i can alway rely on you when these old F.... on UA-cam try to make thing difficult👍👍
Happy to be of service my man!
Bow down to the savior.
Nicely done, thanks
+Kevin Olson happy to help!
Awesome...day made!
Glad it was helpful!
Perfect intro video
Thanks so much!
তোমার শেখানোর পদ্ধতি খুব ভালো লাগে।(I really like your teaching techniques and styles..)
+Ronik Mukherjee Thanks so much! I'll keep em coming!
For Dorian mode u were starting on D note but the notes in these mode are still same as that of the parent C major scale,so would u call the dorian mode as D Dorian or C Dorian??Same question implies for the other modes as well.Hope u clear it.
Modes are ways you can "paint" emotions into your composition. Learning the scales on the board help guide your ear in locating notes to create a melody, or improvise a riff.
thank you
This doesn’t seem like the easiest way to learn modes. This is the way that introduces the most confusion for me. In fact I’m so confused now that I can’t put what I already knew into words.
But what when i want to do same but in key of G minor for example, Does type of scales and order stay the same? Or its like with chords building, when your key is minor all the order is changed.
+Mateusz Andraka Well the order never changes BUT if you're in a minor key (aeolian) you just start with the 6. For example, if you're in the key of G minor, just slip G into the 6th note's spot and everything lines up where Bb is the 1 (major) C is 2 (Dorian) etc...
Best teacher out there, no doubt about it. Only thing left for me to say is Thank you, since your lessons helped me a lot in getting into music theory. Wish you best, and hope your channel will grow big.
Sean Daniel! You are a damn amazing big mean badass and cool professor man! Wow! Thankyou!
+Sam I appreciate the compliments my man! Thanks for watching!
1:03 🤩🎸 I know what that is!!!! It's the guitar's chakra system!!! 😂
LOLLLLOLOLOLOL
3:14 definitely thought you were gonna say D's nutz. missed opportunity my man
i like your way of explaning...constantly... sir please help me with scales ..i get confuse with alll scales....
Definitely have more scales videos planned :)
Sean! I need your help man! I've got a really dumb question That probably won't make any sense but here it goes...
Years ago I bought a Guitar Grimoire book when I first started playing but was instantly turned off by it because there were so many f'n scale shapes.
I just started studying modes the last week and it just hit me... Is this why there were so many scale shapes in that book?
Because for example... If I play Ionian in C all over the fretboard that's 5 different scale shapes I've just played right? If I played the Ionian scale in all 12 keys then that means I just played 60 different scale shapes.... right?
If that's true... does that mean if I were to play every scale shape in every key in all 7 modes... Does that mean I just played over 400 scale shapes? 😮
I realize this is probably a very unnecessarily dumb question but I've always wondered why there were so many different scale shapes in that book! Please advise!
+Albert A Yup! You're 100 percent correct. Now I can't vouch for the exact scale shapes in the book (there are additional scales out there, especially those inspired by Eastern music) but a lot of them are probably just different positions of the major scale in different keys. So really learning the patterns and moving those shapes is much more valuable than memorizing the charts. Great job!
Thanks for the videos. What's your take on Jon Finn warp model to learn scales? Do you think is better that way or with memorising the traditional approach?
I have to admit I'm not familiar with Jon Finn, I'll look into it and talk about it sometime soon :)
Yeah I heard about it the same day I wrote you. What do you think is the best approach to learn scales? I see you explain a little when talking about modes but seems difficult to follow without diagrams and like do this 1st, then when done 2nd and so on.
The notes in the modes, do they always fit in the scale of the root note? Or do they sometimes deviate from it?
Say we're in X major. The note B sharp is not part of its scale. But might it be part of X major mixolydian?
I've seen tabs/scales of modes where you'll have a mode with say a sharp A, but where that note isn't part of the regular key. Do modes have to "fit" into the key or are they sort of subkeys, if that makes sense?
If I understand your question correctly, modes will always fit into their 'parent' key. Like since mixolydian is the 5th mode of the major scale, the 5th note of ANY major scale will give you the notes of it's mixolydian scale. I hope that made sense.
You’re a fucking genius. Of all the things I’ve tried to learn regarding modes this is by far the best and easiest way of understanding ....ty so much!
So cool to hear that it's clicking! Thanks for watching :)
OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.....! Man, that makes much more sense.
Happy to help!
Hey, Sean! Just got done with the entire mode series, and I cannot thank you enough! Honestly, however, I have a question, I know we learned all of the modes here in a major scale, so can I apply the same logic to a minor scale? Like in an E Minor Scale, are the notes in that scale gonna be the same modes we see here? Like is the A note gonna be the lydian mode in E minor?
Thanks for watching! So you're close! The minor scale is technically just the 'aeolian mode'. So if you're in minor, just look at it like the 6th mode of a major scale. So E minor is mode #6 of G major (ionian). Which means the notes you could use are the same as like A dorian, B phrygian etc. Hope that makes sense!
Thank you for clearing it up! This whole series took my theory and playing to a whole new level, hah. It makes sense now, thanks!
+Sean Daniel so on chord changes could you switch to each mode? like in a C F G progression could you use the corresponding modes for each?
+Oliver Fernie yup! 100% you've got it.
Sean Daniel cheers
SEAN DANIEL , ,,,
,,, 1.) When does JAZZ songs use parallel modes from different keys? any examples that you can think of
,, 2.) Whats the rules of using parallel modes in jazz music?
,, 3.) How can you tell if a chord progression is Modal or Tonal? and how can you convert a Tonal Chord Progression into a Modal Chord Progression?
first time i ever actually had a grasp on what the fuck was going in with modes!
So playing this shapes seams, if you think of them as your chords put with more notes find your melody using consept of modes and arprsheos.
Hi Sean, something probably simple but that fries my brain - naming of all this, if I’m playing in key C and Dorian, is that ‘d dorian’ or ‘c dorian’? ? Sorry if so basic but confusing the hell out of me this silly point
If you're in the key of C, it would be D Dorian :)
Mr. Jens Larsen tell me to go here as recommendations for a beginner like me.
Great video. And these "wierd" mode names come from the geographical or ethnic regions of ancient Greece :)
2*3=6
2nd 3rd and 6th notes in a scale are minor
I memorised it using that 😅
Backing track is giving G and D notes ( not major and minor color yet) ... Fine!!! Am I right to say the following? ( Self analysed)
1.G Ionian - G major scale. ( because G is first note in G major scale)
2. G Dorian - F major scale. ( because G is second note in F major scale)
3. G Phrygian - D# major scale ( E flat major) ( because G is third(3rd) note in D# major scale)
4.G Lydian - D major scale ( because G is 4th note in D major scale)
5. G Mixolydian- C major scale (because G is 5th note in C major scale)
6. G Aeolian - A# major scale ( because G is 6th note in A# major scale)
7. G Locrian - I don't know.
Major scale means ( WWHWWWH pattern starting from the mentioned scales)
what taylor acoustic is that?
Ga3
My God Sean, I could kiss you.
I won't but I could 😂😂 thanks for explaining this in simplistic terms.
Happy to help Mike!
It's too difficult to go that way, if I ask someone in which key he plays, and he's going to say Am ..i'm think of it as it 6th which is C major, so i can play easily just C major scale all around the neck, because C-major have all these tones right? lik C,D,E,F,G,Am and dimi B which i dont think of really never. So always focusing on First or if someone telling me some minor, i know that he's talking about 6th .. so then i just cound another 3rd .. it's way easier to think that way, than learn all this shapes and shit :D .. I dont want to trow something negative here, just I found out that i don't really need to know modes as long as i know in which key someone playing.
Not negative at all my man, in fact that's a great way to look at it. I think the value of modes is more for people that want to start creating more 'exotic' sounding stuff, like playing B locrian riff or something over a B minor progression.
I'm just a Bluesman but isn't a "B Locrian riff" just a overly fancy way of sayin' a C Major riff? or better yet, "Hey this is in Bmin I'm gonna play notes pulled from a regular C major scale. " Am I missin' some thang?
Figure them out. play A: Ionian, dorian, phrgian, lydian, mixolydian, locrian. Forget the notes, just play the proper major scale, using A as the starting place. Notice the patterns from A (5th fret). Start slow, play each day...line upon line... After knowing each from the 5th fret, start expanding them from there using your ear.
I don't understand what they....Here little bit help understanding modes...Thanks
Thanks for watching!
As I understand it, a mode is a scale for the different chords of a key.
That's a great way of looking at it!
Do not forget the fundamental pedal note: ua-cam.com/video/JjoSerW4Hys/v-deo.html
0:01 HA the first 100 times!!! Ya I am on the 20th time or so.
I'm not sure even the people who are trying to explain the modes even understand them. Take the chart you didn't know what to do with and overlap the pentatonic scale lining up the scale degrees and then you can see what's going on much easier
wow i knew this
Awesome to hear!
😉
At around 1:50 when you said “key” I want to believe you meant scale...
I used to be really hung up on how the modes fit together. But now that I have put the different modes to memory independently, it seems more of a theoretical necessity than a practical one. You don't actually play different modes in this fashion. Switching from Ionian to Dorian and then to Phrygian. I recently came across a way of describing the CAGED patterns that helped me to memorize all the modes in all the positions in less than two days. I find it quite remarkable. He isn't a competing instructor but rather a mathematician who follows Ian. I used to work with Crypto guys with mathematics backgrounds and they see the patterns in really unique ways. If you are at all interested, I would love you to take a look at his video description of how to learn the major scale and let me know your thoughts.
Oh god you remind me on someone... I don't know who... It's driving me crazy...
+zan colja It better be someone cool :)
+zan colja Neil Patrick Harris?
MrGameArnt YES THAT'S IT!
There's only one scale in Western music, learn that and it's all lydian, major etc, it's just what you emphasize
Right on Ken!
Sean Daniel
Thanks brother took me awhile to really grasp that but once you do it's a whole new world lol
Why am I watching this I already learned modes
Should'nt be called "basic Mood Scales" instead.?
Haha, it could be.
Still none the wiser. Shan't he giving up though.
Dude you say they ahve the same notes then you say you need to flat the 7 on mixolayian. You contradict yourself
Arrghh you are good, but there's no such thing as the G mode (6.51). This is just confusing. To understand modes you have to think relationally. Modes only have meaning in relation to the scale they are modes of. So G is only the Mixolydian of the C major scale. It makes no sense to talk of one without the other. The best way to learn modes is through the sound of them. Just play a drone C note and then play the major scale but starting on different notes of the C major scale (or any drone note of any scale for that matter).
Music is great. But why should we be made to think a lively is happy note and a slightly milder is stuffed with sad sense. I can be disciplined to learn these without those abnormal stuff of feeling. Its very annoying to think one is great feeling and another which is great but milder is stuffed with such abnormal thought. It is not hPpy or sad. They are not true. Emotions are stuffed unnecessarily.
that chart is retarculous
If you change the rootnote in every diffent mode noone is going to understand what the fuck you are doin'! Explain every mode on the same rootnote and it's going to be clear that the modes give a whole different feel.
Fair.