Nice one , I'm trying to get my head around modes. A good johnny Mnemonic for you is- I (Ionian), Don't (Dorian), Punch (Phrygian), Like (Lydian) Muhammed (Mixolydian) A (Aeolian) Li (Locrain), it helps me remember anyway.
I don't think any explanation was ever more clear. You have covered enough angles on this so there is no excuse for anybody to not understand modes. Except of course for the guys who aren't subbed to your channel. You are LEGEND bro. Thank you ...
Man! Modes are supposed to be confusing and unknowable... like Music Magic! You only get to know about them if you sell your soul! You always make things simple, understandable, and practice-able (word?)! Thank you letting us in on the magic! You are a wonderful teacher, my friend!
Now that I watched this video, the dark overlord youtube algorithm will suggest all the crappy mode videos that are confusing/wrong for the next 5 days.
Brian, you have done it again. I have watched and learned from all of your excellent “mode” videos, this is the best. You have tied it all together, another brilliant explanation , beginners and advanced should now have a complete understanding of modes. Well done.
Really cool way to think about the modes...I wish I had this shortcut a long time ago, although I have done this pattern swap before with pentatonic, I hadn't thought about the 7 modes this way before...BTW, for anyone who wants to know, the E Locrian pattern in this application would start at the 1st fret *on low E* or an octave higher, with that pattern beginning on the 13th fret...Great video!!!
Perfect example of why EVERYTHING we hear is intervals. The tonality/mood changes completely, just off the back of the interval between that drone E and the position Brian is playing in.
What a great way to present it. It seems simple in how you would present it, but I've seen so many fumble the ball and make it so confusing for no reason. Excellent job.👋🤘🏆
Yes...beginning to understand this section 'Parallel Modes'. The pattern is user friendly. 3-notes per string, with the same pattern on pairs of strings - E, A...D, G...B, E. I can now practise these exercises with confidence. Thank you.
Best video on this topic. Straight to the point. Was so confused with this for sometime. So many other videos making it look 👀 confusing. This is simple, precise and concise. Subscribed 👏👍🤘
You put out a modes vid that is the most common sense of explaining the Latin confusion in looking at the whole picture of seeing modes for what they are. Just a different way of driving the guitar that has the same engine and fuel but knowing how to drive accordingly. If that doesn't poetically sound like mode spaghetti.
I saw the 60 second version of modes with the same pattern which prompted further questions. This longer, more detailed version answered them! great lesson! Thanks
Fantastic. For those who bail...stick with it. Play the drone note E perhaps with a looper and listen to the different texture and tones surrounding the E when you play the different E modes. Even hum the scale it makes it easier to understand.
My very first lessons in playing Solo's were all based around the modes of the c major scale and while it made sense and after a lot of practice I could finally play Solo's on guitar this video was a real light bulb moment for applying the modes in context, thanks Brian I really appreciate the time and effort you put into the lessons, you have a way of explaining things that makes sense and really easy to follow
some theory is very complicated to explain. But some can be way easier than some make it out to be. You just need to explain it the right and easiest way possible just like anything. You sir are the best at explaining guitar theory. The best I say! you got IT!
Nice, tnx! Best video I've seen so far, where I could actually hear the difference. 🎉 This deserves to be uploaded as 60s short - 7 modes, just 1 pattern 😉
The light bulb is on brother!!!!! My teacher tried to teach modes to me years ago, and consistently failed. The way it was explained was so incredibly complicated compared to this. Now, after watching this video I feel like I’m on the path to musical fluency. I’ve had all of the surrounding knowledge and knew once I heard this the way I needed to I would immediately become the player I knew I could be!! I owe you big!!!!
Great video found your channel. couple years ago. I learned the modes the old-fashioned way 30 years ago. Or so. lol.. I still learn a lot from your videos or get reminded of stuff I forgot. keep up the great work and I'll keep watching. I share your videos with all my friends whether they they been playing for one year or 40 years. We've all enjoyed them. and get something out of them.
I’m knowledgeable about modes and must say this is a great explanation. It gets way better though as there are four more accepted major scale patterns to reposition and learn to mesh them together😀
This is really game breaking for me. I never used modes before because I was doing it the harder way LOLl!! Now I'm actually starting to use them instead of just thinking major, minor and diminished. Can't wait to learn more about the ideal ways to use them. Cheers!!
Music is simple if you use logical explanations. I’ve been teaching and advocating this approach for yrs ( on the piano ) great video & one idea I have used for yrs.
Brian, I don't fully understand the theory, (hopefully that will come in time), but you have given me something structured to practise playing. I need to print off the circle of 5ths and the modes to help with the video that I will watch over more. Thank You for taking the time to put these videos out there.
Thanks Brian as always simply brilliant as always know will be, i can remember seeing this mode stuff forever ago and just thinking this is not for people like me this is for people into algebra whatever just beyond me. Thanks a lot. .
What an amazing Explanation !!! How simple ist that ?? … and the cognition from this video is, if more people would be aware of that, they imediately would stop to argue, you play „lydian“ over a F-chord, when the song is in the key of C Major.
I got this one. Thank you for a concise explanation and demonstration. But i still can not connect the feeling or intuition for modes into practical building right tones on the guitar. Someday i´ll get it.
@@Geistlos0 it is 100% determined by the chord progression. If the chord progression says "hey we're in Dorian now", then you're in Dorian. Honestly this obsession with modes is only a guitar community thing, and it comes as a result of people thinking that modes are "fretboard patterns". I've said it many times, and I'll continue to say it...most guitar players could completely ignore modes altogether and they will be perfectly fine. However if you are dead set on trying to figure out how to actually use these damn things in your playing, then here is a video for that 😁 ua-cam.com/video/SVDUxH2op2M/v-deo.htmlsi=Y6uaULAtZeM5wgDJ
That was easy to understand and helps a lot. My problem is learning how to improvise with in a scale or mode. I just meander like you did up and down the notes of the mode. I know this was a mode tutorial, but I need direction with improvisation.
Thanks BK and a gargantuan *Thank-you* for your 'Chord Targeting' series! BTW as I'd wager many have asked for Zombie Guitar logoed merch; add me to that list! Thanks again from the rainy Pac NW!
Brian I am trying to get to grips with modes and I need to know some more information please ? What chord in the chord progression are you playing E Phrygian and E Dorian over please ? Is it E minor or C major or e minor or D major ? Is the parent major scale the chord in the chord progression or is it the E minor that is the correct chord that is in the chord progression ? And when it comes to the circle of fifths is the E minor chord in key or or out of key ? And please tell me what key are we in for this example ?what is the tonal centre ? And are we talking parallel modes or relative modes here in this example ?this information helps me understand thanks
This is what you told me to check out: Parallel Modes. - That is indeed the way to hear the differences! 3 major modes (1-4-5); that’s Major, Major with #4 (#11), and Dominant (b7). Then there’s 3 Minor modes (2-6-3); Dorian (b3/b7), Aolian (b3/b6/b7), and Phrygian (b2/b3/b6/b7). Finally Locrian has b2/b3/b5/b6/b7; it works over a Diminished triad, and is the least useable for that reason. - Copy down all 7 formulas. Post them where you practice. Download a free ear training app; associate a song with each interval; work it until you can always score 100%. - This is essential. If you don’t do it, rest assured that many others will. -
I appreciate you checking out my vids! If I were to recommend any ONE video to watch on this topic, it would be this one here: ua-cam.com/video/KM0mnNcp6eE/v-deo.htmlsi=MkrwKx_DrqAKAoOU I get into the modes of harmonic minor and melodic minor in that video as well 😁
@@zombieguitar I will do that! I went to Jazz college so I do know all of those modes as well. What about HARMONIC MAJOR? You need to cover those 7 modes as well. (Rick Beato does a great job of covering all of this stuff!)
@m.vonhollen6673 I know that you know your stuff 😀. A lot of times I reply to comments with other people reading them in mind. You're absolutely right though, I do need to cover harmonic major as well as double harmonic minor. Those are 2 scales I haven't covered yet here on this channel!
Brian, I'm french and I love all your vidéos. Each one is like a diamond. Really ! By the way, I'm searching for one of them where you're talking about the "similitude" betwenn the différent modes, Ionian & éolian... But I don't find it 😢. If you read me and see which one I'm talking about, it 'll be fantastic 🤗😅. Good job Brian. I'm one of your fan 🎉😂🤘
Hey thanks for the comment! I'm not sure exactly which video you're talking about, but if you search "Brian Kelly modes" in the UA-cam search bar, all of my modes vids will come up. You may be able to find it that way 😀
@@lovenailpolish3 favorite mode of the major scale has to be Lydian for me. Favorite mode in general... Phrygian Dominant, which is the 5th mode of the harmonic minor scale 😁
If you have any additional questions about modes, they are probably answered here: ua-cam.com/video/KM0mnNcp6eE/v-deo.html
Nice one , I'm trying to get my head around modes. A good johnny Mnemonic for you is-
I (Ionian), Don't (Dorian), Punch (Phrygian), Like (Lydian) Muhammed (Mixolydian) A (Aeolian) Li (Locrain), it helps me remember anyway.
I don't think any explanation was ever more clear. You have covered enough angles on this so there is no excuse for anybody to not understand modes. Except of course for the guys who aren't subbed to your channel. You are LEGEND bro. Thank you ...
Thank you! Much appreciated 😀
The best explanation of the modes ever.
Thought this was one of the best explanations of Modes out there. thanks Brian. :)
Man! Modes are supposed to be confusing and unknowable... like Music Magic! You only get to know about them if you sell your soul!
You always make things simple, understandable, and practice-able (word?)! Thank you letting us in on the magic! You are a wonderful teacher, my friend!
This guy is like a fountain of musical knowledge. And explains it in a way that even my dumb brain can understand. Good stuff, bro!
Now that I watched this video, the dark overlord youtube algorithm will suggest all the crappy mode videos that are confusing/wrong for the next 5 days.
@@jasonwojcik that damn algorithm!!
Bro just delete your watch history 🎉
Brian, you have done it again. I have watched and learned from all of your excellent “mode” videos, this is the best. You have tied it all together, another brilliant explanation , beginners and advanced should now have a complete understanding of modes. Well done.
Yes. Thank you for the parallel approach that pulls them all down to the same root.
Really cool way to think about the modes...I wish I had this shortcut a long time ago, although I have done this pattern swap before with pentatonic, I hadn't thought about the 7 modes this way before...BTW, for anyone who wants to know, the E Locrian pattern in this application would start at the 1st fret *on low E* or an octave higher, with that pattern beginning on the 13th fret...Great video!!!
Underrated guitar teacher I salute you
Brilliant lesson as always. The pace you explain stuff is bang on👍
Another genius explanation by Brian Kelly. Thanks!
Perfect example of why EVERYTHING we hear is intervals. The tonality/mood changes completely, just off the back of the interval between that drone E and the position Brian is playing in.
This was 'aha' moment for me .
This makes modes make sense, finally! Thank you.
What a great way to present it. It seems simple in how you would present it, but I've seen so many fumble the ball and make it so confusing for no reason. Excellent job.👋🤘🏆
At last. Explained .I finally get it. Thanks Brian.
Yes...beginning to understand this section 'Parallel Modes'. The pattern is user friendly. 3-notes per string, with the same pattern on pairs of strings - E, A...D, G...B, E. I can now practise these exercises with confidence. Thank you.
Best video on this topic. Straight to the point. Was so confused with this for sometime. So many other videos making it look 👀 confusing. This is simple, precise and concise. Subscribed 👏👍🤘
You put out a modes vid that is the most common sense of explaining the Latin confusion in looking at the whole picture of seeing modes for what they are. Just a different way of driving the guitar that has the same engine and fuel but knowing how to drive accordingly. If that doesn't poetically sound like mode spaghetti.
I saw the 60 second version of modes with the same pattern which prompted further questions. This longer, more detailed version answered them! great lesson! Thanks
Fantastic. For those who bail...stick with it. Play the drone note E perhaps with a looper and listen to the different texture and tones surrounding the E when you play the different E modes. Even hum the scale it makes it easier to understand.
this guy is the best teacher you can have!
My very first lessons in playing Solo's were all based around the modes of the c major scale and while it made sense and after a lot of practice I could finally play Solo's on guitar this video was a real light bulb moment for applying the modes in context, thanks Brian I really appreciate the time and effort you put into the lessons, you have a way of explaining things that makes sense and really easy to follow
Well done! Excellent clarity! Спасибо большое!
Perspective yes. Great job explaining this video is gold
Awsome job well explained. Your one of the best guitar teachers out there! 🤘
Awesome Brian. Can't wait to lay down a backing chord to practice this. The simplest explanation yet.
That was great lesson. Thank you so much and made a lot of sense to me!!!
some theory is very complicated to explain. But some can be way easier than some make it out to be. You just need to explain it the right and easiest way possible just like anything. You sir are the best at explaining guitar theory. The best I say! you got IT!
I agree with other comments. You've done it again. Clear as a bell... after all this time (years)!! Thank you.
Nice, tnx! Best video I've seen so far, where I could actually hear the difference. 🎉 This deserves to be uploaded as 60s short - 7 modes, just 1 pattern 😉
@@a.grujic8905 good call. I don't know if I'll be able to get this one down to 60 seconds, but I'll give it a shot!
The light bulb is on brother!!!!! My teacher tried to teach modes to me years ago, and consistently failed. The way it was explained was so incredibly complicated compared to this. Now, after watching this video I feel like I’m on the path to musical fluency. I’ve had all of the surrounding knowledge and knew once I heard this the way I needed to I would immediately become the player I knew I could be!! I owe you big!!!!
Thanks for doin' what you love to do.
Brilliant! Thanks for the wisdom sharing! 👍🎸😎
Thank you Brian.
Thanks for the lesson.
Definitely clicked finally someone who explained this in a way to understand it.
Thanks Brian. I'm finally starting to understand it. Now, to punish the neighbours for a while.....
Great video! Thanks brother
Excellent explanation
Dude you nailed it. I have subscribed! Good work. 😎🎸🇨🇦
I like this video, easy and simple.
Excellent job!
Thanks Brian that’s a very good lesson and does make modes easier to understand nice one 👍
The video title does not lie! It's like a door just opened in my brain. Well done, Brian, thanks.
awesome, as always your calm measured teaching is greatly appreciated.
Another great video Brian.
You did it again, great lesson thanks!
Great video found your channel. couple years ago. I learned the modes the old-fashioned way 30 years ago. Or so. lol.. I still learn a lot from your videos or get reminded of stuff I forgot. keep up the great work and I'll keep watching. I share your videos with all my friends whether they they been playing for one year or 40 years. We've all enjoyed them. and get something out of them.
This did click it for me. Thanks. Now I can use it in any key.
I think this video has finally made it click for me. This was an incredible way to explain it. Thank you!
My mentor here, thanks
this is great thanks Brin
Thank You!
Fantastic, couldn't understand this, NOW I can. Thank you Brian
I’m knowledgeable about modes and must say this is a great explanation. It gets way better though as there are four more accepted major scale patterns to reposition and learn to mesh them together😀
Good lesson sir ❤❤❤❤
This is really game breaking for me. I never used modes before because I was doing it the harder way LOLl!! Now I'm actually starting to use them instead of just thinking major, minor and diminished. Can't wait to learn more about the ideal ways to use them.
Cheers!!
Man i love how you teach
Really good explanation
NICE bRIAN GREAT EXPLANATION!
Music is simple if you use logical explanations. I’ve been teaching and advocating this approach for yrs ( on the piano ) great video & one idea I have used for yrs.
You're a genius, I'm very versed but you teach me stuff all the time!
Really helpful. As the title said, it clicked! Thanks a lot!
Easily the best lesson on modes over ever seen 😊
Lightbulb moment....how long I have suffered ... I must be on the low side of the bell curve ... thank you for this
Great explanation. Thank you.
Brian, I don't fully understand the theory, (hopefully that will come in time), but you have given me something structured to practise playing. I need to print off the circle of 5ths and the modes to help with the video that I will watch over more. Thank You for taking the time to put these videos out there.
@@martin9756 definitely check out my "modes 101" video to fully understand the theory behind modes ua-cam.com/video/KM0mnNcp6eE/v-deo.html
Thanks Brian as always simply brilliant as always know will be, i can remember seeing this mode stuff forever ago and just thinking this is not for people like me this is for people into algebra whatever just beyond me. Thanks a lot. .
Thanks, Brian!
His explanations are great I followed along no problem at all and I'm not a music buff
Major A-Ha moment! Thank you very much Brian!
What an amazing Explanation !!! How simple ist that ?? … and the cognition from this video is, if more people would be aware of that, they imediately would stop to argue, you play „lydian“ over a F-chord, when the song is in the key of C Major.
Very cool, THANKS🤠
Great one.
Thank you 👍
Thks Brian as usual!
Finally got it - great job.
❤ Good work Brian, this is a good supplement to working with modes💀 #1 zombie Michael
Amazing!
Very helpful
Awesome!
thanks, that was great
well done.
Thank You...❤
I got this one. Thank you for a concise explanation and demonstration. But i still can not connect the feeling or intuition for modes into practical building right tones on the guitar. Someday i´ll get it.
@@Geistlos0 it is 100% determined by the chord progression. If the chord progression says "hey we're in Dorian now", then you're in Dorian.
Honestly this obsession with modes is only a guitar community thing, and it comes as a result of people thinking that modes are "fretboard patterns". I've said it many times, and I'll continue to say it...most guitar players could completely ignore modes altogether and they will be perfectly fine.
However if you are dead set on trying to figure out how to actually use these damn things in your playing, then here is a video for that 😁 ua-cam.com/video/SVDUxH2op2M/v-deo.htmlsi=Y6uaULAtZeM5wgDJ
Awesome lessons. Someone needs to do a video of the putto solo to Got Me Under Pressure.
That was easy to understand and helps a lot. My problem is learning how to improvise with in a scale or mode. I just meander like you did up and down the notes of the mode. I know this was a mode tutorial, but I need direction with improvisation.
Here's a video about how to actually use modes in your playing 🎸 ua-cam.com/video/SVDUxH2op2M/v-deo.htmlsi=eHa0CFmmS2R5OlJE
Thanks BK and a gargantuan *Thank-you* for your 'Chord Targeting' series! BTW as I'd wager many have asked for Zombie Guitar logoed merch; add me to that list! Thanks again from the rainy Pac NW!
hey! this makes so much sense now it's incredible!!!!!!!!
i wanted to ask, why that pattern?
@@HexterJexter I used that pattern because it is an easy way to visualize the intervals of the major scale:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Locrian min 7d5 or minor d5 makes a good tension chord/ momentary key Change or passing chord..
Magic!!
Wow...thank you so much. Light bulb moment for me!!! lol
Man! This is insane! Light bulb moment
Brian I am trying to get to grips with modes and I need to know some more information please ? What chord in the chord progression are you playing E Phrygian and E Dorian over please ? Is it E minor or C major or e minor or D major ? Is the parent major scale the chord in the chord progression or is it the E minor that is the correct chord that is in the chord progression ? And when it comes to the circle of fifths is the E minor chord in key or or out of key ? And please tell me what key are we in for this example ?what is the tonal centre ? And are we talking parallel modes or relative modes here in this example ?this information helps me understand thanks
ua-cam.com/video/KM0mnNcp6eE/v-deo.html
@@zombieguitaroh yea of course ! Now I get it ! Lol :) thanks heaps for teaching me Brian ! You are a great help to me cheers mate :)
This is what you told me to check out: Parallel Modes. - That is indeed the way to hear the differences! 3 major modes (1-4-5); that’s Major, Major with #4 (#11), and Dominant (b7). Then there’s 3 Minor modes (2-6-3); Dorian (b3/b7), Aolian (b3/b6/b7), and Phrygian (b2/b3/b6/b7).
Finally Locrian has b2/b3/b5/b6/b7; it works over a Diminished triad, and is the least useable for that reason.
- Copy down all 7 formulas. Post them where you practice. Download a free ear training app; associate a song with each interval; work it until you can always score 100%.
- This is essential. If you don’t do it, rest assured that many others will. -
I appreciate you checking out my vids! If I were to recommend any ONE video to watch on this topic, it would be this one here: ua-cam.com/video/KM0mnNcp6eE/v-deo.htmlsi=MkrwKx_DrqAKAoOU
I get into the modes of harmonic minor and melodic minor in that video as well 😁
@@zombieguitar I will do that! I went to Jazz college so I do know all of those modes as well.
What about HARMONIC MAJOR? You need to cover those 7 modes as well. (Rick Beato does a great job of covering all of this stuff!)
@m.vonhollen6673 I know that you know your stuff 😀. A lot of times I reply to comments with other people reading them in mind. You're absolutely right though, I do need to cover harmonic major as well as double harmonic minor. Those are 2 scales I haven't covered yet here on this channel!
Brian, I'm french and I love all your vidéos. Each one is like a diamond. Really !
By the way, I'm searching for one of them where you're talking about the "similitude" betwenn the différent modes, Ionian & éolian... But I don't find it 😢. If you read me and see which one I'm talking about, it 'll be fantastic 🤗😅.
Good job Brian. I'm one of your fan 🎉😂🤘
Hey thanks for the comment! I'm not sure exactly which video you're talking about, but if you search "Brian Kelly modes" in the UA-cam search bar, all of my modes vids will come up. You may be able to find it that way 😀
Thanks very much, Brian @@zombieguitar
Trying to learn this again and this is helping a lot! I love your guitar tone here. Do you have a favorite mode?
@@lovenailpolish3 favorite mode of the major scale has to be Lydian for me. Favorite mode in general... Phrygian Dominant, which is the 5th mode of the harmonic minor scale 😁
@@zombieguitar Cool, thanks for the info!