*NEW:* I'm currently rolling out *Improv 101,* a step-by-step improvisation course for guitarists of _all ability levels_ (there are _no_ prerequisites other than being able to physically play single-note lines on your guitar). You can get early access on Patreon patreon.com/fretscience or learn more at fretscience.com/2024/10/25/fret-science-improv-101/ Fret Science is a new and robust method for understanding the fretboard (learning all of your scales, arpeggios, and chords) with _dramatically_ less memorization. And then using that knowledge to improvise and play freely in _any_ style of music. The core method for learning scales and chords is available _for free_ here on UA-cam. If you're new to the channel, I invite you to check out the "Big Picture" video and recommended video viewing order here: ua-cam.com/play/PLMuHlX9RiFi1L1RdC0CzYa1qxZllD5Ujz.html&si=cOp25GnXrL28rbLQ If you want to go deeper or interact with me directly, come join me on Patreon patreon.com/fretscience where I'm sharing exclusive new lessons, breaking down classic solos, and rolling out a new improvisation method that will help guitarists of _all ability levels_ learn to improvise confidently over chord changes in any style. You can also connect with me at fretscience.com or support my work with a donation at buymeacoffee.com/fretscience 🎸🧪🤘
A great teacher is one who can simplify complex concepts and distill it to simple digests. Mr. Keith is one of the best teachers I've seen for guitar concepts. Fret Science is Invaluable and indispensible.
I bought your 10 pack PDF out of thanks for simplying modes more than any other video has for me to date, and the diagrams are simply amazing tools. I am appreciative of your hard work which has helped make me the musician I am today.
90's GIT grad here: Keith, these teaching techniques are killer. I just bought the FS Bundle not only for the knowledge refresh but also to show my support for your channel. I look forward to future content.
I’m a beginner guitar student and I absolutely love your lessons! They’ve helped me progress very quickly and have made difficult concepts much easier to get a handle on.🎉
Brewer, I've been playing for 50 plus years. I wish this program was around 50 years ago. I've gotten better by leaps and bounds after working just a few of the concepts here. Have a great , fun journey. You will be a monster player in a few years and get so much enjoyment out of playing. Enjoy!
Your channel, teaching methodology and ability to explain complex theory - especially with the fantastic visuals, is the best I’ve seen on UA-cam - thanks so much for sharing and for taking the time to put this stuff together!
This lesson really helped a bunch of stuff fall into place in my understanding of what's going on in the song Rock + Roll by Eden. The guitar plays a bunch of pairs of notes up and down the neck on the low E and G strings with the shape changing depending on the position. I now realise the whole thing is all just notes from the D# major (or G# lydian?) scale on the E string, with corresponding major/minor thirds up on the G string.
Subbed. Watched all of your videos. Made my purchase of your bundle to support your channel. As a 60-yr old Mechanical Engineer, I love your systematic approach to teaching music. Thank you.
Lovin the sc 13e Martin. I have always been drawn to the sound of Martins! 🤞 I’ll get to enjoy a higher end one soon! Thank you Keith for sharing your knowledge with the videos. You rocked this one. It’s great to put a face on great teacher!
Thank you very much Keith. Been following your channel for about a year now and I think it is the best in understanding the guitar. I dig the academic way that you have structured it. The modes I hated for so long are now my best friends. Thank you again from New Zealand. Well done.
Your content is just so good, ive never understood music theory much at all until I found your channel! Much appreciation man, please keep up the awesome work
Keith, great to put a face with what I consider the genius behind the simple concepts offered here. This is bar none, the absolute best approach to the guitar fretboard I've ever taken. Really appreciate the work you've put in. I already purchased the full program and bought programs for my friends also. I'll be purchasing this one also. I always thought that learning and applying double stops is possibly one of the best ways to learn guitar in a very musical manner. Although I've used the concepts here, this will really help to clarify and help to make me a better player. Thanks so much!
@@fretscience Hi Keith. Possibly a future project for you to offer: Sometimes the most challenging thing for me, in a jam type atmosphere, is to quickly figure out the key center of a song. Usually what happens is some very advanced player will count off a tune without identifying the key center and even then, the actual key center (depending on the context) is not technically correct, but quite normal in that situation. For example: I do now know that if someone calls out a key as A, it could be actually A minor, A major or A7, etc. When I hear a dominant A7 with the b7, 3 and 5, I know that it's pretty safe to assume the key center is actually in the key of G, so I can apply the modal concepts to that key of G, but keeping in mind the root is in A. Analyzing a tune on the fly is by far my most challenging skill to develop. The whole process keeps me on my toes, no doubt, but that's part of growing as a player. I would love to see a sequential process for myself to practice at home that I can then use on stage to figure out the true key center (s). Much respect to you and thanks so much for the work you've put into developing your programs. Wonderful stuff!
It’s hard enough to figure out what to play in a jam setting when you *know* the key, but I hear you. I’ll have to get better at that before I can figure out how to teach it 🤣
Hey Keith…as a bass player and rather obsessed universal pattern seeker, I’m loving your content. Thank you very much. Subscribed! Playing bass with others usually involves outlining chords linearly while emphasizing rhythm and adding fills-all to support the song. Sometimes we’re asked to solo as well. I am actively trying to adapt your material for these purposes and wondering if you plan to do a video more focused on bass playing.
I’m not sure that I have much of anything bass-focused to say. I’ve considered doing a short video on how to adapt all of these patterns to other tunings, e.g., basses, but that doesn’t seem all that compelling. I’ve always wanted to learn to play good walking bass lines, so maybe if I figure that out 🤣 If you have specific ideas you’d like to see covered, let me know! 🎸🧪🤘
Thanks for a wonderful visual guitar harmonized solo lines representation scale degree 3/6 intervals for us to see and play all over the fretboard. We welcome you for appearing live in this video. Great analysis of all the guitar fretboard videos I seen and also some practical songs analysis. Hope to see you share more often in the coming You tube channel.
You have a great way of explaining these concepts. Im always excited when I see you made a new video, because it means I'm going to understand the topic better than I did before!
Thanks for this. It really builds off of the previous video which I think is what I was missing. I'm trying to apply these third shapes to the pentatonic scale, the same way you applied modes. It's obviously there, I just need to nail it down and memorize it.
You may find that it’s easier to jump from thinking about a pentatonic scale to thinking about the mode before playing thirds. That way, you only have one sequence of Major-minor-minor-Major-Major-minor-minor to memorize. There isn’t a universal pattern like that for the pentatonic scale-it depends on the underlying mode that you’re hearing whether you acknowledge it explicitly or not. My “hidden in plain sight” video is the method I use for this: ua-cam.com/video/jrukJYI8ecY/v-deo.htmlsi=PJvubld17pDcrel-
@@fretscience Yes I understand what you're saying. I see the 3 NPS patterns in my head when I'm playing, which helps me to determine which mode I'm in. And then apply the major and minor thirds to that. So what's really happening is I'm applying it to the major scale and not the pentatonic scale, depending on what degree I'm in. Or something like that, lol.
Welcome aboard! I'm a massive AC/DC fan, and I definitely intend to break down some of Angus's leads, somewhat in the style of my most recent video: ua-cam.com/video/HxduRFOkw0k/v-deo.html 🎸🧪🤘
@user-ly8gh7rb8o Yes, I have a system that adapts the rectangle and stack concept to harmonic (and melodic) minor. It’s not quite at the top of my list, but I will eventually do a video on it. I’ll count your comment as a vote to do it sooner 😅
If you're new to the channel, I'd like to offer a warm welcome! To see how this video fits into the big picture of fretboard understanding, check out this overview video: ua-cam.com/video/tpC115zjKiw/v-deo.html or download a FREE 12-page overview e-book: fretscience.myshopify.com/products/building-fretboard-fluency-the-big-picture-pdf-ebook Individual cheat sheets and a heavily discounted bundle are available for purchase at: fretscience.myshopify.com 🎸🧪🤘
"Fret Science" has a claim to guitar immortality for coining the term "WARP" as a shorthand term for the effects of the one-fret reduced interval between the 3rd and 2nd strings.
Hello Keith. Appreciate your work and enjoy the vids. I have been trying to sort out the harmony Question for a couple of days now. So, please see if I'm in the ball park. Just a Q on the Instant harmony double stops page 4of5. If using the key of F and play in Dorian, ie treat the 2nd as the starting note, then I'm playing in F Dorian??if I treat the 3rd as the starting note the I'm playing F mixolydian ?? . Like wise if I was playing in key of G the I treat A (the 2nd) as the starting note I'd be playing A Dorian. Doing it this way I could simply continue on with the Dorian or mixolydian scale degree patterns. Going from Ionian to Dorian or Mixolydian is changing Key, at what point do I need to modulate to the new key via an intermediate or passing key/ chord? Asking this as I could use your double stops as the passing / harmony mechanism and move into the Dorian Key?? Having said all this If playing in key of F and I play a minor chord, I have gone from say Ionian to Dorian, another mode (another chord), not a big step on the fretboard. But a large jump, say to Phrygian I'd need to modulate this move? aarrr now I get it, think in chords not Modes. Modulate using the double stops to form triads, (pedal note +start note + target note) replacing the third interval from Maj 3rd to a minor 3rd will now place you in either Dorian or any other minor mode depending on the resultant chord intervals. Please review and let me know if I have sussed it out or only confused myself. Regards Keffo PS if my reasoning is correct , that is really kool.
It's tricky to describe this with just words in a UA-cam comment, but I'll try. If you are treating the second scale degree of a major scale as the root, you are playing in the Dorian mode. So, to play in F Dorian, you would start with the notes of the Eb major scale, since F is the second note of that scale. To play in F Mixolydian, you would need to figure out which major scale has an F as its fifth scale degree. In this case, you'd be using the notes of the Bb major scale. My video on the modes explains how the modes themselves work in more detail: ua-cam.com/video/bFvTVnhmFfE/v-deo.html Modulation is an entirely different topic that I haven't covered in any of my videos. I don't have any shortcuts to offer there yet!
Great lesson! I have that same guitar, and I'm curious which profile you're using on the Fishman Aura pedal. From the photo, it look like you're using "concert" #3. Is that correct? Have you found that to be the best sounding profile for this instrument? Thanks!
Yes, I think that’s what I used. I just played around for about five minutes to find a setting that sounded full via my audio interface. Please let me know if you find a setting you like better! The tone control on the guitar was set to neutral, but I found it didn’t matter much. 🎸🧪🤘
Looks like another musician I enjoy: Fred Amisen. I get the explanation here, but I'm a year away from being able to use it because you sort of have to already be at the soloing stage I think.
It’s worthwhile to practice playing a harmonized scale up and down a string even before learning to improvise. These fingerings (especially the 6ths in the Nuno section) pop up *everywhere* in rhythm guitar parts. Practicing this will make those types of parts much easier to remember and understand.
Like a lot of rock music, it’s mainly in the Mixolydian mode. So in G Mixolydian, the normally sharp F is flattened, and you get the same notes as C major, but with the tonal center still being G
As I understand it, the tonal center is always in the name of the mode. It’s what your ear hears as home (otherwise you’re playing a different mode). Each mode shares the same notes as a different major scale. So D Mixolydian does indeed have the same notes as G major, but when you play it, D sounds like home. In Brown Eyed Girl, the notes are from C major, but the chord progression resolves to a G major triad, so it’s G Mixolydian.
In Decadence Dance, A sounds like home, but the notes are from D Major, making it A Mixolydian. In the fragment from Blackbird, the notes are from F Major, but G sounds like home, making it G Dorian.
Ha! I ordered a sample from one of the on-demand shops, but I haven’t set up a storefront for merch. At the moment, only about 5 or 6 people have Fret Science t-shirts, and that’s all the swag that exists 🤣
My husband spotted the mug, I was showing him your comment and he said Oh Keith he's got some of the best videos on UA-cam , you can tell him I said so ! So there you go.
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*NEW:* I'm currently rolling out *Improv 101,* a step-by-step improvisation course for guitarists of _all ability levels_ (there are _no_ prerequisites other than being able to physically play single-note lines on your guitar). You can get early access on Patreon patreon.com/fretscience or learn more at fretscience.com/2024/10/25/fret-science-improv-101/
Fret Science is a new and robust method for understanding the fretboard (learning all of your scales, arpeggios, and chords) with _dramatically_ less memorization. And then using that knowledge to improvise and play freely in _any_ style of music.
The core method for learning scales and chords is available _for free_ here on UA-cam. If you're new to the channel, I invite you to check out the "Big Picture" video and recommended video viewing order here: ua-cam.com/play/PLMuHlX9RiFi1L1RdC0CzYa1qxZllD5Ujz.html&si=cOp25GnXrL28rbLQ
If you want to go deeper or interact with me directly, come join me on Patreon patreon.com/fretscience where I'm sharing exclusive new lessons, breaking down classic solos, and rolling out a new improvisation method that will help guitarists of _all ability levels_ learn to improvise confidently over chord changes in any style.
You can also connect with me at fretscience.com or support my work with a donation at buymeacoffee.com/fretscience
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I almost never leave comment on youtube, but your lessons, way to explain and visuals are just top-notch.
Thank you! 🎸🧪🤘
A great teacher is one who can simplify complex concepts and distill it to simple digests. Mr. Keith is one of the best teachers I've seen for guitar concepts. Fret Science is Invaluable and indispensible.
Thanks so much for your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘
I bought your 10 pack PDF out of thanks for simplying modes more than any other video has for me to date, and the diagrams are simply amazing tools. I am appreciative of your hard work which has helped make me the musician I am today.
Many thanks for your support and your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘
90's GIT grad here: Keith, these teaching techniques are killer. I just bought the FS Bundle not only for the knowledge refresh but also to show my support for your channel.
I look forward to future content.
That’s awesome to hear…thanks for your kind words and your support! 🎸🧪🤘
I’m a beginner guitar student and I absolutely love your lessons! They’ve helped me progress very quickly and have made difficult concepts much easier to get a handle on.🎉
That’s fantastic to hear…rock on! 🎸🧪🤘
Brewer, I've been playing for 50 plus years. I wish this program was around 50 years ago. I've gotten better by leaps and bounds after working just a few of the concepts here. Have a great , fun journey. You will be a monster player in a few years and get so much enjoyment out of playing. Enjoy!
Your channel, teaching methodology and ability to explain complex theory - especially with the fantastic visuals, is the best I’ve seen on UA-cam - thanks so much for sharing and for taking the time to put this stuff together!
Thanks for your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘
This lesson really helped a bunch of stuff fall into place in my understanding of what's going on in the song Rock + Roll by Eden. The guitar plays a bunch of pairs of notes up and down the neck on the low E and G strings with the shape changing depending on the position. I now realise the whole thing is all just notes from the D# major (or G# lydian?) scale on the E string, with corresponding major/minor thirds up on the G string.
Nice…recognizing those types of patterns makes songs much easier to learn! 🎸🧪🤘
So great to finally see you and I love your wonderfully instructional approach. Hoping that you will produce more and frequent videos.
Thank you! This one took much longer than expected - I still have a lot to learn about video editing 🤣 🎸🧪🤘
@@fretscience you are doing very well. Keep up the good work.
Your presentations are outstanding and thank you! Today, the mystery is solved, now able to connect “the voice” to a face. 😊
More absolute gold from this channel. I can’t thank you enough for all that you are doing here.
Thanks, Tom…much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
This is good stuff. Time to play with this, and the re-entrant tuning on my ukuleles...
Subbed. Watched all of your videos. Made my purchase of your bundle to support your channel. As a 60-yr old Mechanical Engineer, I love your systematic approach to teaching music. Thank you.
3 days late but am ready to get my mind blown yet again. This channel keeps giving
Glad you’re back…thanks for the kind words! 🎸🧪🤘
Also great to see a face to this amazing content you've been providing. Thank you sir!
Much appreciated, Neil! 🎸🧪🤘
Excellent video! The SC-13e has been my favorite guitar for a few years now. Highly, highly recommended!
Thanks, Eric! 🎸🧪🤘
Best Guitar videos on UA-cam! Great job! 👍🏾
Much appreciated, thank you! 🎸🧪🤘
Lovin the sc 13e Martin. I have always been drawn to the sound of Martins! 🤞 I’ll get to enjoy a higher end one soon!
Thank you Keith for sharing your knowledge with the videos. You rocked this one. It’s great to put a face on great teacher!
Thanks for your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘
Thankyou so much for excellent presentation
Thank you very much Keith. Been following your channel for about a year now and I think it is the best in understanding the guitar. I dig the academic way that you have structured it. The modes I hated for so long are now my best friends. Thank you again from New Zealand. Well done.
That’s awesome to hear…thanks for sticking around! 🎸🧪🤘
Your content is just so good, ive never understood music theory much at all until I found your channel! Much appreciation man, please keep up the awesome work
Thanks for your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘
Keith! Your videos are pure gold thank you so much! 🎉🤘
My pleasure! 🎸🧪🤘
Keith, great to put a face with what I consider the genius behind the simple concepts offered here. This is bar none, the absolute best approach to the guitar fretboard I've ever taken. Really appreciate the work you've put in. I already purchased the full program and bought programs for my friends also. I'll be purchasing this one also. I always thought that learning and applying double stops is possibly one of the best ways to learn guitar in a very musical manner. Although I've used the concepts here, this will really help to clarify and help to make me a better player. Thanks so much!
Thanks so much for your kind words and support! 🎸🧪🤘
@@fretscience Hi Keith. Possibly a future project for you to offer: Sometimes the most challenging thing for me, in a jam type atmosphere, is to quickly figure out the key center of a song. Usually what happens is some very advanced player will count off a tune without identifying the key center and even then, the actual key center (depending on the context) is not technically correct, but quite normal in that situation. For example: I do now know that if someone calls out a key as A, it could be actually A minor, A major or A7, etc. When I hear a dominant A7 with the b7, 3 and 5, I know that it's pretty safe to assume the key center is actually in the key of G, so I can apply the modal concepts to that key of G, but keeping in mind the root is in A. Analyzing a tune on the fly is by far my most challenging skill to develop. The whole process keeps me on my toes, no doubt, but that's part of growing as a player. I would love to see a sequential process for myself to practice at home that I can then use on stage to figure out the true key center (s). Much respect to you and thanks so much for the work you've put into developing your programs. Wonderful stuff!
It’s hard enough to figure out what to play in a jam setting when you *know* the key, but I hear you. I’ll have to get better at that before I can figure out how to teach it 🤣
Hey Keith…as a bass player and rather obsessed universal pattern seeker, I’m loving your content. Thank you very much. Subscribed!
Playing bass with others usually involves outlining chords linearly while emphasizing rhythm and adding fills-all to support the song. Sometimes we’re asked to solo as well.
I am actively trying to adapt your material for these purposes and wondering if you plan to do a video more focused on bass playing.
I’m not sure that I have much of anything bass-focused to say. I’ve considered doing a short video on how to adapt all of these patterns to other tunings, e.g., basses, but that doesn’t seem all that compelling. I’ve always wanted to learn to play good walking bass lines, so maybe if I figure that out 🤣
If you have specific ideas you’d like to see covered, let me know! 🎸🧪🤘
This is one of the greatest youtube channels all time, the quality of the contents are just absurd
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Thanks for a wonderful visual guitar harmonized solo lines representation scale degree 3/6 intervals for us to see and play all over the fretboard. We welcome you for appearing live in this video. Great analysis of all the guitar fretboard videos I seen and also some practical songs analysis. Hope to see you share more often in the coming You tube channel.
Thanks, Calvin! 🎸🧪🤘
Thanks for another great video Kieth and congratulations on 1 year of Fret Science. I have found it extremely helpful to my playing. Thank you!!!
Much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
Hi Keith. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Your pedagogy is Fab too!!
Thank you! 🎸🧪🤘
Hey Keith, this is a great video with great visuals!
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Your science is great Keith. Thank you very much.
Glad you liked it…thanks for watching! 🎸🧪🤘
You have a great way of explaining these concepts. Im always excited when I see you made a new video, because it means I'm going to understand the topic better than I did before!
Awesome, thank you! 🎸🧪🤘
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!! KEITH, INFINITELY!!!!!!! FOR THIS AWESOME EXPLANATION, (AS ARE ALL OF YOUR LESSONS!!!!!!!!!!)
Glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘
This is just brilliant. I LOVE the fretboard animations.
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Thank you ,your the best I've seen in you tube'
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Thank you very much! greetings from Argentina!
Very glad you’re here…greetings from Massachusetts! 🎸🧪🤘
Thanks!
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Nice to finally see your face Keith. Thanks for everything you've done :D
Thanks, Jon! 🎸🧪🤘
Thanks for this. It really builds off of the previous video which I think is what I was missing. I'm trying to apply these third shapes to the pentatonic scale, the same way you applied modes. It's obviously there, I just need to nail it down and memorize it.
Also, if I'm not mistaken, I think Led Zeppelin's Down by the Seaside has a really nice, easy minor third section.
You may find that it’s easier to jump from thinking about a pentatonic scale to thinking about the mode before playing thirds. That way, you only have one sequence of Major-minor-minor-Major-Major-minor-minor to memorize. There isn’t a universal pattern like that for the pentatonic scale-it depends on the underlying mode that you’re hearing whether you acknowledge it explicitly or not. My “hidden in plain sight” video is the method I use for this: ua-cam.com/video/jrukJYI8ecY/v-deo.htmlsi=PJvubld17pDcrel-
@@fretscience Yes I understand what you're saying. I see the 3 NPS patterns in my head when I'm playing, which helps me to determine which mode I'm in. And then apply the major and minor thirds to that. So what's really happening is I'm applying it to the major scale and not the pentatonic scale, depending on what degree I'm in. Or something like that, lol.
@robbdogg9134 exactly! 👍
got the pdf's package, thanks for putting this all together
Much appreciated, thanks!
such a great channel!
Thanks…glad you like it! 🎸🧪🤘
Do an AC/DC video and breakdown.
Analyze a song and Mac and ang and explain what they're doing.
I'm a new subscriber and I'm enjoying the channel.
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Welcome aboard! I'm a massive AC/DC fan, and I definitely intend to break down some of Angus's leads, somewhat in the style of my most recent video: ua-cam.com/video/HxduRFOkw0k/v-deo.html 🎸🧪🤘
I touch on how they build their open power chords in this video: ua-cam.com/video/qC3nLJXxr3I/v-deo.html
Спасибо, Кит! Ваши видео очень помогают!
Thank you, your video is very helpful! I recommend you to a guitarist I know.
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
@@fretscience Please tell me, do you plan to create a similar system for harmonic minor?
@@fretscience I mean your system with rectangle and stack.
@user-ly8gh7rb8o Yes, I have a system that adapts the rectangle and stack concept to harmonic (and melodic) minor. It’s not quite at the top of my list, but I will eventually do a video on it. I’ll count your comment as a vote to do it sooner 😅
Well done. Thank you.
thanks so much for your usefull videos.
I’m glad you’re finding them useful! 🎸🧪🤘
If you're new to the channel, I'd like to offer a warm welcome!
To see how this video fits into the big picture of fretboard understanding, check out this overview video: ua-cam.com/video/tpC115zjKiw/v-deo.html
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Another great example of this is the beginning of Just Seen A Face by the Beatles…super fun! Thanks!
"Fret Science" has a claim to guitar immortality for coining the term "WARP" as a shorthand term for the effects of the one-fret reduced interval between the 3rd and 2nd strings.
While I’d love to be the one to popularize it, the term “warp” is adapted from Jon Finn’s “warp refraction threshold”
Great lesson!
Thank you! 🎸🧪🤘
Hello Keith. Appreciate your work and enjoy the vids. I have been trying to sort out the harmony Question for a couple of days now. So, please see if I'm in the ball park. Just a Q on the Instant harmony double stops page 4of5. If using the key of F and play in Dorian, ie treat the 2nd as the starting note, then I'm playing in F Dorian??if I treat the 3rd as the starting note the I'm playing F mixolydian ?? . Like wise if I was playing in key of G the I treat A (the 2nd) as the starting note I'd be playing A Dorian. Doing it this way I could simply continue on with the Dorian or mixolydian scale degree patterns. Going from Ionian to Dorian or Mixolydian is changing Key, at what point do I need to modulate to the new key via an intermediate or passing key/ chord? Asking this as I could use your double stops as the passing / harmony mechanism and move into the Dorian Key?? Having said all this If playing in key of F and I play a minor chord, I have gone from say Ionian to Dorian, another mode (another chord), not a big step on the fretboard. But a large jump, say to Phrygian I'd need to modulate this move? aarrr now I get it, think in chords not Modes. Modulate using the double stops to form triads, (pedal note +start note + target note) replacing the third interval from Maj 3rd to a minor 3rd will now place you in either Dorian or any other minor mode depending on the resultant chord intervals. Please review and let me know if I have sussed it out or only confused myself. Regards Keffo PS if my reasoning is correct , that is really kool.
It's tricky to describe this with just words in a UA-cam comment, but I'll try. If you are treating the second scale degree of a major scale as the root, you are playing in the Dorian mode. So, to play in F Dorian, you would start with the notes of the Eb major scale, since F is the second note of that scale. To play in F Mixolydian, you would need to figure out which major scale has an F as its fifth scale degree. In this case, you'd be using the notes of the Bb major scale. My video on the modes explains how the modes themselves work in more detail: ua-cam.com/video/bFvTVnhmFfE/v-deo.html
Modulation is an entirely different topic that I haven't covered in any of my videos. I don't have any shortcuts to offer there yet!
Great lesson! I have that same guitar, and I'm curious which profile you're using on the Fishman Aura pedal. From the photo, it look like you're using "concert" #3. Is that correct? Have you found that to be the best sounding profile for this instrument? Thanks!
Yes, I think that’s what I used. I just played around for about five minutes to find a setting that sounded full via my audio interface. Please let me know if you find a setting you like better! The tone control on the guitar was set to neutral, but I found it didn’t matter much. 🎸🧪🤘
@@fretscience Thank you!
Thank you
Glad it was helpful…I really love this particular lesson! 🎸🧪🤘
You and Fred Armisten separated at birth!😊
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I don’t see it 🤣🎸🧪🤘
Merci beaucoup.
Pas de quoi! 🎸🧪🤘
Looks like another musician I enjoy: Fred Amisen. I get the explanation here, but I'm a year away from being able to use it because you sort of have to already be at the soloing stage I think.
It’s worthwhile to practice playing a harmonized scale up and down a string even before learning to improvise. These fingerings (especially the 6ths in the Nuno section) pop up *everywhere* in rhythm guitar parts. Practicing this will make those types of parts much easier to remember and understand.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the opening lick on brown eyed girl results in playing the song in G major, not C-major
Like a lot of rock music, it’s mainly in the Mixolydian mode. So in G Mixolydian, the normally sharp F is flattened, and you get the same notes as C major, but with the tonal center still being G
The telltale natural F occurs in the second phrase, over the C chord.
I always thought if the tonal centre is G, this would result in a D Mixolydian scale
As I understand it, the tonal center is always in the name of the mode. It’s what your ear hears as home (otherwise you’re playing a different mode). Each mode shares the same notes as a different major scale. So D Mixolydian does indeed have the same notes as G major, but when you play it, D sounds like home. In Brown Eyed Girl, the notes are from C major, but the chord progression resolves to a G major triad, so it’s G Mixolydian.
In Decadence Dance, A sounds like home, but the notes are from D Major, making it A Mixolydian. In the fragment from Blackbird, the notes are from F Major, but G sounds like home, making it G Dorian.
Thought wait….what’s going on here? Nice to put a face with voice. Love your videos.
Much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
Love the Martin,I want one. Not necessarily the $8500+ model…
The one I played is under $2k. Not inexpensive, but nowhere near the high end of guitar prices! 🎸🧪🤘
Where can we order the FS mug?
Ha! I ordered a sample from one of the on-demand shops, but I haven’t set up a storefront for merch. At the moment, only about 5 or 6 people have Fret Science t-shirts, and that’s all the swag that exists 🤣
@@fretscience I will be watching for a storefront in the future, we love the mug but a shirt would be even better!
My husband spotted the mug, I was showing him your comment and he said Oh Keith he's got some of the best videos on UA-cam , you can tell him I said so ! So there you go.
I don’t think I know your husband, but he has good taste 🤣
paid for the fret science bundle and never received the download .Whats going on
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This is cool
It’s one of my absolute favorite lessons 🎸🧪🤘
Hi Keith sensei
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Rhiannon
Great example!
Good stuff
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘