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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 😉
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 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.
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 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!
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.
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.
@@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 😁
@@dangatton7138 Locrian is still a minor type of scale because it has a b3 in it, but it is based off the diminished vii° chord in the key. For simplicity, I wanted to keep it to just the 3 major and 3 minor chords of the key. Also, when using the movable scale pattern from this video, the '7' falls on the D-string...which adds more complexity to the explanation. I'm trying to keep these vids around 10 minutes these days, so cutting Locrian out was definitely a good way to do that 🤣
@@zombieguitar this explanation will help so many people. Ive dabbled in modes and of course scales but your explanation I wish i had 10 years ago THX!!
because Blues kinda combines major and minor tonality. so you're basically adding more bluesiness by playing minor intervals over a major or dominant chord. blues progressions will also often not be "in-key" in the sense of diatonic theory but may have many of their chords in the form of dominant chords instead (major chord + minor 7th of its root)
I don’t even know if my question reflects where my real confusion lies, but here it goes: Say, I’ve mastered these modes. What then was the practical benefit it gave me? Is it being better in playing solos? But obviously soloing using these scales is not really a good way. I still have to create melodic combinations.
Ugh. Just watched video about major scale positions and understood, that I was in the wrong position thinking position = mode. But how to I solo and improvise in Dorian or whatever more? What’s logic behind that, otherwise I would just go up and down from start of the more to then and that’s it.
Hi Brian i noticed when you got to the 3rd mode you moved the pattern back by a half step, in stead of a whole step is that because the pattern follows the same whole step half step rhythm of the major scale?
Nope. You just have to play the key-scale over the chord that is associated with the mode in question, and you'll get the modal sound that you are going for!
Yes definitely. It would be a different pattern each time if you did that. Here's a vid on that ua-cam.com/video/1Etwvjlzchs/v-deo.htmlsi=SPu4ixE-5wCWRiu3
Okay so question the way ive been playing modes is this for example, im playing in key of C so using the C major scale 1234567, if i want a mixolydian sound i just add the flat7 note, so 123456b7, is that wrong?
@@spartangamer8287 yes that is exactly right. That would be C Mixolydian. Comparing C Ionian to C Mixolydian would be a parallel relationship. Now if you were to compare C Ionian to G Mixolydian, that would be a relative relationship because they both share the same notes and are simply different perspectives of the same key. For a complete understanding of modes, you need to understand both the relative and the parallel relationships!
@@zombieguitar I keep watching your videos and want to practice your 8 week lesson. We've been taking care of the grandkids , so it makes it hard to find time. I just got my music area set up. We involve the 8 year old and 6 year old when we do play. The wife and I are both guitar players. I have my eye on a 1996 American strat at the music store. Maybe if I purchase it I will be inspired to do your 8 week solo video. Thanks for your lessons, I really enjoy watching.
I was actually starting to understand until you suddenly said you were playing the D major scale. You said everything was in E. And just prior to that you said instead of ending on the note E you were ending on the note E. That makes no sense.
Another way to think of this (I think anyway, I'm only starting to learn this myself, largely from Brian): Basically all the scales we generally think of; major, minor, the modes, even the pentatonics...are basically just one giant scale pattern just starting at different points (and skipping notes if pentatonic) and that can be shifted up and down the neck for different keys. So the E Dorian is the same pattern as D major but just starting from the 'E' instead of the 'D'. You could also think of it in terms of different intervals but it amounts to exactly the same thing. It's basically the same reason that C major scale is the same as A minor scale. A minor is just C major but starting from A instead of C.
E Dorian = D major scale. Just know all 7 positions of the D major scale but instead of D as the root note, now E is your root or the tonal center of the D maj scale. Nothing has changed except E is minor. If you google E Dorian you will see that it’s actually within the D Maj scale except now the emphasis is on the E. What’s really cool is, you can even play the E minor pentatonic and if you look real close, you will realize that you are actually in the same D Maj scale. Check it out.
Just want to add…this will really blow your mind. On the topic of the D Maj scale, if you were to play the A mixolydian mode, which is still the D Maj scale, you would change tonal center to the A note. Or, just simply play the A Maj pentatonic and your good. But of course if you want that A mixolydian flavor you should really play all the notes in the D Maj scale.
Thought this was one of the best explanations of Modes out there. thanks Brian. :)
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.
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!
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.
Yes. Thank you for the parallel approach that pulls them all down to the same root.
Brilliant lesson as always. The pace you explain stuff is bang on👍
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 is great. Insightful.
I've played through scale modes for many hundreds of hours without understanding it like this.
This makes modes make sense, finally! Thank you.
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!!
The video title does not lie! It's like a door just opened in my brain. Well done, Brian, thanks.
The best explanation of the modes ever.
Another genius explanation by Brian Kelly. Thanks!
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 😀
I agree with other comments. You've done it again. Clear as a bell... after all this time (years)!! Thank you.
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!
Thanks Brian that’s a very good lesson and does make modes easier to understand nice one 👍
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!
Brilliant! Thanks for the wisdom sharing! 👍🎸😎
You did it again, great lesson thanks!
Thanks Brian. I'm finally starting to understand it. Now, to punish the neighbours for a while.....
I think this video has finally made it click for me. This was an incredible way to explain it. Thank you!
Thank you! Excellent explanation.
Well done! Excellent clarity! Спасибо большое!
Excellent explanation
At last. Explained .I finally get it. Thanks Brian.
awesome, as always your calm measured teaching is greatly appreciated.
Fantastic, couldn't understand this, NOW I can. Thank you Brian
Easily the best lesson on modes over ever seen 😊
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.
Great video! Thanks brother
My mentor here, thanks
Man i love how you teach
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!
Lightbulb moment....how long I have suffered ... I must be on the low side of the bell curve ... thank you for this
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!!
This did click it for me. Thanks. Now I can use it in any key.
Great one.
Thanks, Brian!
Thks Brian as usual!
Finally got it - great job.
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.
Amazing!
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 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!
Man! This is insane! Light bulb moment
Thank You...❤
Very helpful
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
well done.
Awesome!
Wow...thank you so much. Light bulb moment for me!!! lol
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
Very cool, THANKS🤠
I Dont Particularly Like Modes A Lot..but Brian explained it well.
@@John-ic6zo I see what you did there 🤣
Thank you 👍
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, that was great
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.
Magic!!
Lydian is the satriani sound
Tim Peirce did a video the other on the 3/4 main modes you really only need - intersting
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!
My head is now spinning.
You probably don't need to worry about modes then 😁
@@zombieguitar I guess you're right.
Radical
I agree and it is by far taking the ??? out of modes. is the Locrian a Diminished scale then?? thx 4 this post your a great teacher
@@dangatton7138 Locrian is still a minor type of scale because it has a b3 in it, but it is based off the diminished vii° chord in the key. For simplicity, I wanted to keep it to just the 3 major and 3 minor chords of the key. Also, when using the movable scale pattern from this video, the '7' falls on the D-string...which adds more complexity to the explanation. I'm trying to keep these vids around 10 minutes these days, so cutting Locrian out was definitely a good way to do that 🤣
@@zombieguitar this explanation will help so many people. Ive dabbled in modes and of course scales but your explanation I wish i had 10 years ago THX!!
Does this explain why you can play an A Aolean mode over an A major chord and still sound Bluesy good?
because Blues kinda combines major and minor tonality. so you're basically adding more bluesiness by playing minor intervals over a major or dominant chord. blues progressions will also often not be "in-key" in the sense of diatonic theory but may have many of their chords in the form of dominant chords instead (major chord + minor 7th of its root)
I don’t even know if my question reflects where my real confusion lies, but here it goes:
Say, I’ve mastered these modes. What then was the practical benefit it gave me? Is it being better in playing solos? But obviously soloing using these scales is not really a good way. I still have to create melodic combinations.
@@rexbesana499 here's a video on that 😁ua-cam.com/video/SVDUxH2op2M/v-deo.htmlsi=vVx3ytIVQb5N9gJR
Ugh. Just watched video about major scale positions and understood, that I was in the wrong position thinking position = mode. But how to I solo and improvise in Dorian or whatever more? What’s logic behind that, otherwise I would just go up and down from start of the more to then and that’s it.
@@martinsskutans6646 definitely check out the video that I linked to here in this video....modes 101
@@zombieguitar Yep, watched that exact video and understood, that I was mislead about modes 😅
Hi Brian i noticed when you got to the 3rd mode you moved the pattern back by a half step, in stead of a whole step is that because the pattern follows the same whole step half step rhythm of the major scale?
Yes exactly!
Ty, well done sir as usual
do you have to end on the same note you started on?
Nope. You just have to play the key-scale over the chord that is associated with the mode in question, and you'll get the modal sound that you are going for!
Could you just play the various different mode shapes(patterns) in the same box using E as the starting note?
I meant starting with E on the sixth string.
Yes definitely. It would be a different pattern each time if you did that. Here's a vid on that
ua-cam.com/video/1Etwvjlzchs/v-deo.htmlsi=SPu4ixE-5wCWRiu3
@zombieguitar Yup. Thank you, Brian.
Okay so question the way ive been playing modes is this for example, im playing in key of C so using the C major scale 1234567, if i want a mixolydian sound i just add the flat7 note, so 123456b7, is that wrong?
Cause then I would have C mixolydian by adding b7 note unless I've been thinking about this wrong really like know if I've been doing it wrong lol
@@spartangamer8287 yes that is exactly right. That would be C Mixolydian. Comparing C Ionian to C Mixolydian would be a parallel relationship.
Now if you were to compare C Ionian to G Mixolydian, that would be a relative relationship because they both share the same notes and are simply different perspectives of the same key.
For a complete understanding of modes, you need to understand both the relative and the parallel relationships!
@@zombieguitar ok cool thanks appreciate it!!
I like your shirt.
Thank you! Walmart special 😁
@@zombieguitar I keep watching your videos and want to practice your 8 week lesson. We've been taking care of the grandkids , so it makes it hard to find time. I just got my music area set up. We involve the 8 year old and 6 year old when we do play. The wife and I are both guitar players. I have my eye on a 1996 American strat at the music store. Maybe if I purchase it I will be inspired to do your 8 week solo video. Thanks for your lessons, I really enjoy watching.
@@brianlau6373 Thank you for watching, much appreciated!
I was actually starting to understand until you suddenly said you were playing the D major scale. You said everything was in E. And just prior to that you said instead of ending on the note E you were ending on the note E. That makes no sense.
@@donkiddick3562 D major scale played over an E minor chord is E Dorian.
Another way to think of this (I think anyway, I'm only starting to learn this myself, largely from Brian):
Basically all the scales we generally think of; major, minor, the modes, even the pentatonics...are basically just one giant scale pattern just starting at different points (and skipping notes if pentatonic) and that can be shifted up and down the neck for different keys.
So the E Dorian is the same pattern as D major but just starting from the 'E' instead of the 'D'.
You could also think of it in terms of different intervals but it amounts to exactly the same thing.
It's basically the same reason that C major scale is the same as A minor scale. A minor is just C major but starting from A instead of C.
E Dorian = D major scale. Just know all 7 positions of the D major scale but instead of D as the root note, now E is your root or the tonal center of the D maj scale. Nothing has changed except E is minor. If you google E Dorian you will see that it’s actually within the D Maj scale except now the emphasis is on the E. What’s really cool is, you can even play the E minor pentatonic and if you look real close, you will realize that you are actually in the same D Maj scale. Check it out.
Just want to add…this will really blow your mind. On the topic of the D Maj scale, if you were to play the A mixolydian mode, which is still the D Maj scale, you would change tonal center to the A note. Or, just simply play the A Maj pentatonic and your good. But of course if you want that A mixolydian flavor you should really play all the notes in the D Maj scale.
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@@thehappyheretic2136 hey I appreciate you checking out the site! There is a PayPal option, but only for the lifetime membership though.
Great explanation. Thank you!
Great explanation. Thank you.