Great content man. My breakthrough moment was finding out that modes are given by the music you play over. It's all major scale. And pentatonics firsst and CAGED second
For me it just sort of happened. Learnt a few scale shapes early on but didn't know what they were, then eventually realised you could use 2 different shapes to play the same scale in different places. Then started getting into improvising and quickly was able to just play up and down anywhere without thinking about it. Starting with the full major and minor scale rather than the pentatonic helped a lot too as you quickly realise the relationships between the strings, the it's just 8 notes for the whole neck.
I need to go over the modes again. I did so back in the day, but was too busy raising kids and trying to satisfy a bipolor wife and play music at the same time and I just couldn't spread myself around enough. One thing I did learn is that many times no matter what the chord being played you can play outside of what is considered normal and play what sounds good to your ear and if it works it's good as Yngwie would say, but I can see how modes would make it easier to understand. Great motivator sir. Trying to catch up on your vids. I've had some heart health problems and haven't been able to watch as much as I would prefer. It is what it is. Have a great day my friend. ♥️🤘
Just subbed after watching a few videos Elmo. Unusual name. My father's name was Elmo. He was born in 1912. Your the only other person I've ever heard of with that name. He was the best man I ever knew. 🤗
Thanks Elmo, I quit when I was young after acceling quick at first and then came the theory! well im 52 and am enjoying the journey and learning modes and scales. I wish I had this back then but here I go anyway lol. thanks for the caring about all this stuff and offering your stuff for free to those who cant pay. Big Fan
For me biggest break throught moment was: connecting modes with pentatonic shapes and chords in all CAGED position (major and minor). Great video Elmo as always. 👍🏼
You’re absolutely correct. This is a lesson in life itself. You can never give up. As a retired Pipefitter, I learned up until my last day of work. I even learned from much more inexperienced lads throughout my career. In fact I was better in my last year than previous years.😬
My breakthrough after playing scales, slowly, for years and years…was the first couple bars of the Stairway to Heaven solo. I was like ahhhhhh, finally. I subscribed here within the last year for grad reviews about cheap to expensive teles. Ended up getting the MIM black on black. Love it. Just realized you have lessons on here also, and love your playing so I’m psyched to check some more of these out, thanks, rock on man! 🤘🏼🤩🤘🏼
To me playing all the scales all over the neck, three notes per string was the best way to learn and still is! Now when I grab my guitar, I play different difficult exercises and scales first of all. Warm up your hands and you'll get better and better every day. I mean your right hand is also important as your left hand.
Thanks for this, I’m in this space and stagnating for the past few years. Playing a long time I just need to get disciplined I start to make progress and then I regress lol. Love the content great stuff
Inspiring words, Elmo. I'm at the stage of going up and down the scales and wondering what this has to do with playing songs. I'm going to take your advice and try out different sequences.
For me learning all the notes on the fretboard helped a lot more than learning giant multi-octave patterns. It’s important to visualize root notes. Also learning the sound of a scale is priority over learning patterns IMO
I need to listen to part 1. Amazing......the scales and modes scare me lol. I need to dig in deep. I do the usual pentatonic but now I have added relative major stuff. Also working on phrygian stuff and some diminished. Still a long way to go. Thanks for the inspiration!
Great video sir. It is interesting and modes are hard. I don't really know them or have them down, but I figured out a long time ago 99% of the music I play is rehearsed or I figure it out by ear anyway and don't need to know what mode I'm playing except maybe to communicate with other musicians, but most of then are like me and play by ear as well. I do have a basic understanding. It seems to me it's all what position you're in and what intervals, note choices you make, but I just figure it out. If it works and sounds good, then as Yngwie says, it's good. That probably didn't explain it well, but I guess I just don't care enough about the modes to learn them and memorize them. I do understand how it works in basic theory though, and it is damn hard. 🤣 Like Chinese math. 🤣🤣 Sometimes other musicians have asked me what scale I'm playing or what mods is that of what key and scale, and I just say hell I don't know, I just play the damn thing. Glad I dont have to write it down. 🤣 I think it's better to learn it though and that people serious about using guitar to make a living should learn the modes. Hope you're well sir and I hope the same for family and friends sir.
there is no shortcut. there is no substitute for doing the work. learn the full major scale and then get the sound of each mode and then you should make a big advance in your playing. then learn non-diatonic harmony. it never ends. only death will end the musical journey. even that might not be so.........
May I add that there's one very important thing? Use your ears. Listen to what you're playing, don't just play the scales. Besides this, it helped me a lot to play along with songs (any song will do) to make your scales practical. Just my two cents...🤘
There’s no easy way to learn the modes. The more time you put in, the more likely that you will have those eureka moments. What I did was learn the E natural minor scale all over the neck. Like really learn it like it’s like breathing. Then I got into the relative modes for Em. Connections were made quickly. Than I learned how to move them up and down the neck. With the amount of really good instruction available online, there’s quicker ways to learn but we all learn differently. This may not work for you.
It really can be easy. Start with Ionian, the full major. Then learn the names in order using a pnemonic like 'I don't play loud music at lunch' (Ionian, dorian, phrygian, Lydian, mixolydian, aeolian, Locrian) then you just shift the root note by one space, and move down the list. So A Ionian contains all the same notes as B dorian, contains all the same notes as C# Phrygian etc. Anyone that knows the basic major scale can pick up modes in an afternoon, then just spend some time playing each one over a drone of the root note and you can quickly understand how to use modes musically and get a feel for each one
Check out the other videos in the series: ua-cam.com/play/PLNaLwTdlpQNFtqDVSww0t1hlSuy4pF4wJ.html
I've been meaning too. Life keeps getting in the way. 😉
"I want everyone who wants to learn guitar to learn it, whether they have money or not..." So honourable is that. 👍🤙
Great content man. My breakthrough moment was finding out that modes are given by the music you play over. It's all major scale. And pentatonics firsst and CAGED second
For me it just sort of happened. Learnt a few scale shapes early on but didn't know what they were, then eventually realised you could use 2 different shapes to play the same scale in different places. Then started getting into improvising and quickly was able to just play up and down anywhere without thinking about it. Starting with the full major and minor scale rather than the pentatonic helped a lot too as you quickly realise the relationships between the strings, the it's just 8 notes for the whole neck.
I need to go over the modes again. I did so back in the day, but was too busy raising kids and trying to satisfy a bipolor wife and play music at the same time and I just couldn't spread myself around enough.
One thing I did learn is that many times no matter what the chord being played you can play outside of what is considered normal and play what sounds good to your ear and if it works it's good as Yngwie would say, but I can see how modes would make it easier to understand.
Great motivator sir.
Trying to catch up on your vids. I've had some heart health problems and haven't been able to watch as much as I would prefer. It is what it is.
Have a great day my friend. ♥️🤘
Sorry to hear. Hope you're doing better.
Just subbed after watching a few videos Elmo. Unusual name. My father's name was Elmo. He was born in 1912. Your the only other person I've ever heard of with that name. He was the best man I ever knew. 🤗
Thanks! And you're right, it is an unusual name :)
@@MrPolevaulter his brother my Godfather's name was Elmer🤗, got anybody in your family with that name?
Thanks Elmo, I quit when I was young after acceling quick at first and then came the theory! well im 52 and am enjoying the journey and learning modes and scales. I wish I had this back then but here I go anyway lol. thanks for the caring about all this stuff and offering your stuff for free to those who cant pay. Big Fan
Thanks :)
For me biggest break throught moment was: connecting modes with pentatonic shapes and chords in all CAGED position (major and minor).
Great video Elmo as always. 👍🏼
Thanks!
Thanks for drawing attention to sequences and minor pentatonic.
My pleasure!
Thank you for a brilliant and heartfelt video. I’ve enjoyed lots of your other content, but this really persuaded me to try again.
Glad I could help :)
You’re absolutely correct. This is a lesson in life itself. You can never give up. As a retired Pipefitter, I learned up until my last day of work. I even learned from much more inexperienced lads throughout my career. In fact I was better in my last year than previous years.😬
Cool, I like your explanation of learning scales etc. I learned them years ago and am now going back. Re remembering.
Yeh - good explanation. Now that the hot weather of Summer is declining, it's time to get "back in the saddle."
Love more like this man, scales and modes are a nightmare for me.
My breakthrough after playing scales, slowly, for years and years…was the first couple bars of the Stairway to Heaven solo. I was like ahhhhhh, finally. I subscribed here within the last year for grad reviews about cheap to expensive teles. Ended up getting the MIM black on black. Love it. Just realized you have lessons on here also, and love your playing so I’m psyched to check some more of these out, thanks, rock on man! 🤘🏼🤩🤘🏼
Thanks :)
To me playing all the scales all over the neck, three notes per string was the best way to learn and still is! Now when I grab my guitar, I play different difficult exercises and scales first of all. Warm up your hands and you'll get better and better every day. I mean your right hand is also important as your left hand.
Thanks for this, I’m in this space and stagnating for the past few years. Playing a long time I just need to get disciplined I start to make progress and then I regress lol. Love the content great stuff
Inspiring words, Elmo. I'm at the stage of going up and down the scales and wondering what this has to do with playing songs. I'm going to take your advice and try out different sequences.
Cheers!
Thanks for this pep talk video! It gives me the incentive to learn the modes after 51 years of playing the guitar. Yes I I'm 66 years old.
Best of luck :)
Fantastic as always!
Cheers!
Elmo, For me, this was a break-thru video. Thank you for being human.
And thank you :)
Lots of good edvice, thank you for your work and inspirasjon. Tusen tack.
Tackar :)
For me learning all the notes on the fretboard helped a lot more than learning giant multi-octave patterns. It’s important to visualize root notes. Also learning the sound of a scale is priority over learning patterns IMO
Best way to learn the notes?
@@ericsalinas1839 just learn one note at a time all over the fretboard. There’s a million exercises you can come up with on your own.
I need to listen to part 1. Amazing......the scales and modes scare me lol. I need to dig in deep. I do the usual pentatonic but now I have added relative major stuff. Also working on phrygian stuff and some diminished. Still a long way to go. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks :)
@@MrPolevaulter You bet!
Great video sir. It is interesting and modes are hard. I don't really know them or have them down, but I figured out a long time ago 99% of the music I play is rehearsed or I figure it out by ear anyway and don't need to know what mode I'm playing except maybe to communicate with other musicians, but most of then are like me and play by ear as well. I do have a basic understanding. It seems to me it's all what position you're in and what intervals, note choices you make, but I just figure it out. If it works and sounds good, then as Yngwie says, it's good. That probably didn't explain it well, but I guess I just don't care enough about the modes to learn them and memorize them. I do understand how it works in basic theory though, and it is damn hard. 🤣 Like Chinese math. 🤣🤣
Sometimes other musicians have asked me what scale I'm playing or what mods is that of what key and scale, and I just say hell I don't know, I just play the damn thing. Glad I dont have to write it down. 🤣
I think it's better to learn it though and that people serious about using guitar to make a living should learn the modes.
Hope you're well sir and I hope the same for family and friends sir.
You don't need to learn modes, you can figure them out in an afternoon they are ridiculously simple. It's the same shapes as you already know
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there is no shortcut. there is no substitute for doing the work. learn the full major scale and then get the sound of each mode and then you should make a big advance in your playing. then learn non-diatonic harmony. it never ends. only death will end the musical journey. even that might not be so.........
When in doubt, play A pentatonic
:D
Betyder detta att jag måste börja öva skalor? 😬
:D
May I add that there's one very important thing? Use your ears. Listen to what you're playing, don't just play the scales. Besides this, it helped me a lot to play along with songs (any song will do) to make your scales practical.
Just my two cents...🤘
Asolutely.
Hello :)
There’s no easy way to learn the modes. The more time you put in, the more likely that you will have those eureka moments. What I did was learn the E natural minor scale all over the neck. Like really learn it like it’s like breathing. Then I got into the relative modes for Em. Connections were made quickly. Than I learned how to move them up and down the neck.
With the amount of really good instruction available online, there’s quicker ways to learn but we all learn differently. This may not work for you.
It really can be easy. Start with Ionian, the full major. Then learn the names in order using a pnemonic like 'I don't play loud music at lunch' (Ionian, dorian, phrygian, Lydian, mixolydian, aeolian, Locrian) then you just shift the root note by one space, and move down the list. So A Ionian contains all the same notes as B dorian, contains all the same notes as C# Phrygian etc. Anyone that knows the basic major scale can pick up modes in an afternoon, then just spend some time playing each one over a drone of the root note and you can quickly understand how to use modes musically and get a feel for each one
The question is how should I learn scales 😅
:D
Just start