You’re positively my favorite guitar teacher on UA-cam. David, I’m a guitarist and a teacher with a degree in Education (but I’m not a guitar teacher 🤷🏻♂️), and your approach checks all the boxes. I learned all the theory and scale content you have here years ago, but I still learn a fresh way to view these things from you. Now THAT’S a sign of a good teacher...one who can teach other teachers with aplomb. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Another youtuber, Rick Beato, goes even further, yet he is sometimes really merciless in the complexity of his explanations. I really appreciate this style a lot. It is a very good teaching!
Phrygian Dominant sounds like something Marty Friedman would throw around. Love the lessons and looking forward to more! I may not understand everything now, but that's what the "favorite" button is for!
Thankyou David - Keeping the rhythm simple and using single chords made this lesson easy to understand...This subject can be challenging but you handled it very well.
Thank you for this lesson !! As a rock guitarist , I tend to play mostly minor modes but I'm trying to become a more rounded musician & this lesson truly helps !!
Thanks so much for the different patterns. Learned a couple I'd never tried before. Those will be really fun to transpose everywhere until they disappear into being a natural part of my vocabulary.
Thanks so much and that's EXACTLY what you want to do with this information. Play around with it, but be sure to move it into other keys and areas on the neck. Have some fun with it! : )
For me this was a terrific lesson David. It just happened to tap into something I was working on right now and expanded it further. Something, sometime for everyone here. Thanks.
This is the first time I’m actually looking at your channel, dude. …Don’t ask why. I usually just follow your videos. But You have wealth of info here! …I’m going digging… And thanks!
Can't thank you enough Dave! I'm a minor pentatonic freak with a couple of odds and ends mixed in. This is an eye/ear opening lesson for me, exactly what I needed. I WILL devour and conquer! Best Damn Channel Out There🤘
I have the same feeling too David, I gravitate to the minor tonalities also. But I'm really glad you showed us some modes to use in the major scale. Great lesson!!
The sequencing with the modal tonalitys make a huge difference in the sound of the modes I often run through the Lydian scales all over the neck because I love the dreamy sound of it what a great lesson many thanks David love it 👍
It’s beginning to sink in for me, once you master the ionian (major), all the other modes are just Ionian scales in other intervals of the key. Terms like dominant (which can be used in different contexts confusingly) just tell how to alter the intervals in your scale, in fact, each mode is just a modification of one of the intervals. That’s how I think of it - for example, C Dorian - the order of modes is Ionian/Dorian/Phrygian/Lydian/Mixolydian/Aeolian/Locrian, so C Dorian is the second mode where the Ionian is Bb, therefore, you modify C Ionian to have the same notes as Bb - C/D/E/F/G/A/B becomes C/D/Eb/F/G/A/Bb. Note that as it’s a minor mode, the 7th interval is already flattened. Hope that helps!
@@PaulJonesy Thanks for that explanation, it makes sense up to where you said " Ionian is Bb, therefore, you modify C Ionian to have the same notes as Bb - C/D/E/F/G/A/B becomes C/D/Eb/F/G/A/Bb". I'm not sure how you knew this bit, is this something that just has to be memorized? Cheers and thanks for taking the time to reply.
Wonderful lesson, Dave! Really enjoyed this one and loved all the sequences. Definitely going to practice all those sequences on all the modes/scales you went over on this lesson. Keep up the good work!
I love minor scales most but major keys are cool as hell especially with blues and alot of good rock riffs lean towards a major scale it's all related anyways. phrygian dominant is such a musical sound when I learned that back in the day it opened up tons of doors for my playing.
Great lesson, David! I wanna get comfortable harmonizing the melodic minor scale so I can start experimenting with chord progressions, but it seems like the chord shapes are gonna be funkier and have a lot of different ways to voice them.
Thanks you so much bro! I've learned more from you in the last year than any lessons I've ever had!! I even made a Dave lessons playlist on my tube channel just to learn and perfect my skills... (been jamming the guitar for over 30 years, and I own a guitar repair shop up in Mass.) I seen you did a Jimmy Hearing video but no Jerry??? I know JG was a folk blues player but when he was on, he was ON! And shreadded the major scales like no other... Just wondering of you ever plan on doing a Chords of Jerry Garcia? I know he didn't use much of a distortion tone, but man, you gotta love his improve skills... He ranks close to shredders but it's all, well mostly major... but fast and mostly improv... would love to see a Garcia video from you so I can learn what it is Im playing and why it works, theoretically! Thank you Dave for all the great videos!!
The only major tonality I like in music is early Yes or early Genesis. They seemed to put more into it than pop music. It can be done, it just takes creativity. Think "Yours is no Disgrace" or "Firth Of Fifth". Glorious.
12:00 sorry I'm making myself a reference point for an interesting idea from Dave 😆 and I had a question about mixolydian: I've played over progressions where the individual chords might not have a flat 7 in them, but if the progression does have a flat 7 chord ( like if a song is in A and also includes a G chord but neither are dominant 7th or 13th chords) where mixolydian is the only mode that seems to work....(2 tickets to paradise by Eddie Money for example), is this correct? Or is my ear bad? 😆
I've been studying modes lately, but I've been approaching it by finding the major scale the contains the note of A in it, so the C major scale is A minor. Then I don't have to remember all the flats and sharps. Is this wrong?
How relevant is it that you have Joe Satriani's/ Surfing with the Alien on your wall behind you and talking about scale modes and sequences which Satch uses frequently in his music. Good observation Hey Dave? I'm with you on Dark, moody and sad sounding music. More my style as well. As a guitar player myself I prefer these types of educational LNL . You definitely know your stuff. ROCK ON.🎸
I just checked Tom Kolb's book on music theory - it is available as donation whare. Yet I already know music theory on this level (which isn't meant critical at all). I like exploring these things myself. I always think that real learning is discovering or even inventing. Get some basic ideas and then go exploring. Check music pieces you like and try to find out the harmonies.
in the 80's as a teen, I stole the 'Guitar Handbook' hardback from the local public library....used it all through high school...learned 80-90% of the theory I know from it....maybe I should give it back now?
Nope, I can't say that I have, so that must be a group from when I wasn't in the Atlanta area. Are you from Georgia? I went to AIM when it was in Norcross, GA and lived in that area, which is about 20 minutes north of the city. : )
@@LateNightLessons Atlanta band that was on island def jam in the? 2005? Ish era... Their record "burn it black" is good rock... Not so much guitar mastery but good songs.
Any chance you could explain that "weird sequence" in more detail? I would like to learn it better so I can transpose it around. Ill buy a Coffee mug ;)
Don't forget the Melodic Minor Scale is used in jazz music for Altered Dominant 7 chords. Dominant7b9 or Dominant7#9 jazz would use the melodic minor scale. If you look at the guitar solo of Hendrix purple haze its in E dorian which is very unusual because Hendrix starts at C# and ends on a bending to B note which is a big no no in classical music to start and end not on the home root to resolve back to the root home for correct tonality. When playing modes that start and end on different scale degrees is breaking the classical rules because a cadence will end the phrase back to the root to resolve back to home. Hendrix doesn't do this never resolves back to home or starts from home but uses E dorian in purple haze very weird because the starting and ending notes aren't resolving back to the tonality. Another thing to remember is that randy rhoads not only did scalar sequencing like what late night was showing in this video but when you do "embellishment sequencing as a pattern" is what Randy Rhoads obsessed on. What is Embellishment sequencing patterns is you make a pattern mixing different embellishments. Example is one note is plucked the next two notes are pull offs and the next two notes are hammer ons, this is a pattern and you will add this embellishment sequencing pattern WITH the scalar sequencing. What late night was showing in this video was scalar sequencing patterns but was plain vanilla as all the notes are only plucked no pull offs or hammer ons and making a pattern sequencing of the embellishments.
Jam band guitarists Jerry Garcia and Trey Anastasio could shred the major scale like no one else... the Phish song Down With Disease in 94-95, just blistering solos. There's an official release from Chicago June '94 if anyone is looking to check it out.
Thanks for the second half of your comment! You may use/think of whatever players you'd like, but aside from both of those players being two of my biggest influences - Vai and Petrucci (and Zappa) are the best names I can think of to get the "sound" of Lydian & Lydian Dominant across to someone that doesn't know what they are - so good luck with finding alternate players that are actually relevant to that particular conversation that people actually know by name. I used those names for a specific reason, mainly because they use those modal sounds all the time, but you can use whomever you wish.
@@LateNightLessons must be demoralising when some idiot posts a rude comment like that. Thanks for the lesson. Nice introduction to modes ... something I’d never really ventured into.
You’re positively my favorite guitar teacher on UA-cam. David, I’m a guitarist and a teacher with a degree in Education (but I’m not a guitar teacher 🤷🏻♂️), and your approach checks all the boxes. I learned all the theory and scale content you have here years ago, but I still learn a fresh way to view these things from you. Now THAT’S a sign of a good teacher...one who can teach other teachers with aplomb. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I'm just constantly amazed how much you know about music theory.
Another youtuber, Rick Beato, goes even further, yet he is sometimes really merciless in the complexity of his explanations. I really appreciate this style a lot. It is a very good teaching!
Ya. I read some of those guitar magazines. Didn't realize he was in a bunch of them
Phrygian Dominant sounds like something Marty Friedman would throw around. Love the lessons and looking forward to more! I may not understand everything now, but that's what the "favorite" button is for!
Thankyou David - Keeping the rhythm simple and using single chords made this lesson easy to understand...This subject can be challenging but you handled it very well.
Thank you for this lesson !! As a rock guitarist , I tend to play mostly minor modes but I'm trying to become a more rounded musician & this lesson truly helps !!
I love Dicky Betts major soloing other than that I’m a minor fanatic also. Another great lesson 🍺’ski!
Hey David, I am really enjoying your talent and teaching.....respect from Ireland!
Thanks so much for the different patterns. Learned a couple I'd never tried before.
Those will be really fun to transpose everywhere until they disappear into being a natural part of my vocabulary.
Thanks so much and that's EXACTLY what you want to do with this information.
Play around with it, but be sure to move it into other keys and areas on the neck.
Have some fun with it!
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For me this was a terrific lesson David. It just happened to tap into something I was working on right now and expanded it further. Something, sometime for everyone here. Thanks.
That improv soloing over E6 sounded really sweet!
This is the first time I’m actually looking at your channel, dude. …Don’t ask why. I usually just follow your videos. But You have wealth of info here! …I’m going digging… And thanks!
Phyrigian Dominant is so cool! Absolutely gold information in here, gonna take me a long time to learn and absorb it all. Thanks
This is a FANTASTIC lesson David!! So much information here in just 20 minutes.
Can't thank you enough Dave! I'm a minor pentatonic freak with a couple of odds and ends mixed in. This is an eye/ear opening lesson for me, exactly what I needed. I WILL devour and conquer!
Best Damn Channel Out There🤘
I'd love to know more about that descending lick in fourths! It would be great if you could do a lesson on just that and other variations.
I have the same feeling too David, I gravitate to the minor tonalities also. But I'm really glad you showed us some modes to use in the major scale. Great lesson!!
Great lesson as always David! 😎🎸
and hey....congrats!!....you've gone over the 50 k subscribers....well done David.
The sequencing with the modal tonalitys make a huge difference in the sound of the modes I often run through the Lydian scales all over the neck because I love the dreamy sound of it what a great lesson many thanks David love it 👍
I'm gonna have to watch this 19 times before I understand a 10th of what he's trying to get across.
Me too but lots a great stuff.
It’s beginning to sink in for me, once you master the ionian (major), all the other modes are just Ionian scales in other intervals of the key. Terms like dominant (which can be used in different contexts confusingly) just tell how to alter the intervals in your scale, in fact, each mode is just a modification of one of the intervals. That’s how I think of it - for example, C Dorian - the order of modes is Ionian/Dorian/Phrygian/Lydian/Mixolydian/Aeolian/Locrian, so C Dorian is the second mode where the Ionian is Bb, therefore, you modify C Ionian to have the same notes as Bb - C/D/E/F/G/A/B becomes C/D/Eb/F/G/A/Bb. Note that as it’s a minor mode, the 7th interval is already flattened. Hope that helps!
@@PaulJonesy Thanks for that explanation, it makes sense up to where you said " Ionian is Bb, therefore, you modify C Ionian to have the same notes as Bb - C/D/E/F/G/A/B becomes C/D/Eb/F/G/A/Bb". I'm not sure how you knew this bit, is this something that just has to be memorized? Cheers and thanks for taking the time to reply.
Thank you for the heads up on tom's book..i just ordered it..your the best educator on u tube
Wonderful lesson, Dave! Really enjoyed this one and loved all the sequences. Definitely going to practice all those sequences on all the modes/scales you went over on this lesson. Keep up the good work!
I love minor scales most but major keys are cool as hell especially with blues and alot of good rock riffs lean towards a major scale it's all related anyways. phrygian dominant is such a musical sound when I learned that back in the day it opened up tons of doors for my playing.
Excellent lesson Dave, last one reminds me of Sails of Charon riff by Uli Jon.
killer lesson bro! Great job! please more lessons like this chord progressions for these melodic minor scales, !
Great lesson, David! I wanna get comfortable harmonizing the melodic minor scale so I can start experimenting with chord progressions, but it seems like the chord shapes are gonna be funkier and have a lot of different ways to voice them.
very informative and very condensed lesson.....lots of tips to draw from....will keep me busy for next few days....!...;-)
Tom Kolb was my private lesson teacher at MI. Could not recommend his work more.
Thanks you so much bro! I've learned more from you in the last year than any lessons I've ever had!! I even made a Dave lessons playlist on my tube channel just to learn and perfect my skills... (been jamming the guitar for over 30 years, and I own a guitar repair shop up in Mass.) I seen you did a Jimmy Hearing video but no Jerry??? I know JG was a folk blues player but when he was on, he was ON! And shreadded the major scales like no other... Just wondering of you ever plan on doing a Chords of Jerry Garcia? I know he didn't use much of a distortion tone, but man, you gotta love his improve skills... He ranks close to shredders but it's all, well mostly major... but fast and mostly improv... would love to see a Garcia video from you so I can learn what it is Im playing and why it works, theoretically! Thank you Dave for all the great videos!!
You are a great teacher 🙏
The only major tonality I like in music is early Yes or early Genesis. They seemed to put more into it than pop music. It can be done, it just takes creativity. Think "Yours is no Disgrace" or "Firth Of Fifth". Glorious.
Nice shout out to Tom kolb and his book! It’s a great book and Tom is a great guitarist/ educator and a great guy as well.
12:00 sorry I'm making myself a reference point for an interesting idea from Dave 😆 and I had a question about mixolydian: I've played over progressions where the individual chords might not have a flat 7 in them, but if the progression does have a flat 7 chord ( like if a song is in A and also includes a G chord but neither are dominant 7th or 13th chords) where mixolydian is the only mode that seems to work....(2 tickets to paradise by Eddie Money for example), is this correct? Or is my ear bad? 😆
Cool lesson
Any chance of a U2 The Edge lesson?
Cheers mate
Awesome !
David how about a chord play /three for all about the 70's era Doobie Bros, Humble pie, The Doors and/or Eagles ?
Good stuff!!
I've been studying modes lately, but I've been approaching it by finding the major scale the contains the note of A in it, so the C major scale is A minor. Then I don't have to remember all the flats and sharps. Is this wrong?
How relevant is it that you have Joe Satriani's/ Surfing with the Alien on your wall behind you and talking about scale modes and sequences which Satch uses frequently in his music. Good observation Hey Dave? I'm with you on Dark, moody and sad sounding music. More my style as well. As a guitar player myself I prefer these types of educational LNL . You definitely know your stuff. ROCK ON.🎸
I just checked Tom Kolb's book on music theory - it is available as donation whare. Yet I already know music theory on this level (which isn't meant critical at all). I like exploring these things myself. I always think that real learning is discovering or even inventing. Get some basic ideas and then go exploring. Check music pieces you like and try to find out the harmonies.
I love being the first one to watch this! Kinda cool! Thanks David!
@Black Hat Music 😀🍎
in the 80's as a teen, I stole the 'Guitar Handbook' hardback from the local public library....used it all through high school...learned 80-90% of the theory I know from it....maybe I should give it back now?
I share you liking for the minor tonality.
Mr dave... have you ever heard the band "injected"? Or was that after your Atlanta days?
Nope, I can't say that I have, so that must be a group from when I wasn't in the Atlanta area.
Are you from Georgia?
I went to AIM when it was in Norcross, GA and lived in that area, which is about 20 minutes north of the city.
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@@LateNightLessons Atlanta band that was on island def jam in the? 2005? Ish era... Their record "burn it black" is good rock... Not so much guitar mastery but good songs.
@@marcjordan29 I'll check it out and thanks!
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if I can make a book recommendation... it would be Chord Factory by Jon Damien
That is a great theory book.
Beato Book is great for guitarist
Could anyone add a link to the book mentioned please? Seems like essential reading :) Quality content as always Dave, cant get enough of your videos
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This video sounds like every song off of Eat A Peach by the Allman Brothers
\m/ thx!
Surely from one perspective the scales are the same but it's the harmony that changes?
Any chance you could explain that "weird sequence" in more detail? I would like to learn it better so I can transpose it around. Ill buy a Coffee mug ;)
You got hands like steve vai.
That first "cowboy" chord. Pour Me Trick Pony
How damn tall are you man ? Good gosh, you can bar the neck with your pinky
Don't forget the Melodic Minor Scale is used in jazz music for Altered Dominant 7 chords. Dominant7b9 or Dominant7#9 jazz would use the melodic minor scale. If you look at the guitar solo of Hendrix purple haze its in E dorian which is very unusual because Hendrix starts at C# and ends on a bending to B note which is a big no no in classical music to start and end not on the home root to resolve back to the root home for correct tonality. When playing modes that start and end on different scale degrees is breaking the classical rules because a cadence will end the phrase back to the root to resolve back to home. Hendrix doesn't do this never resolves back to home or starts from home but uses E dorian in purple haze very weird because the starting and ending notes aren't resolving back to the tonality. Another thing to remember is that randy rhoads not only did scalar sequencing like what late night was showing in this video but when you do "embellishment sequencing as a pattern" is what Randy Rhoads obsessed on. What is Embellishment sequencing patterns is you make a pattern mixing different embellishments. Example is one note is plucked the next two notes are pull offs and the next two notes are hammer ons, this is a pattern and you will add this embellishment sequencing pattern WITH the scalar sequencing. What late night was showing in this video was scalar sequencing patterns but was plain vanilla as all the notes are only plucked no pull offs or hammer ons and making a pattern sequencing of the embellishments.
Dave, Satriani once told someone that if “you don’t know all the notes on the fretboard you ain’t shit”
Is it imperative to know all the notes, Dave?
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Jam band guitarists Jerry Garcia and Trey Anastasio could shred the major scale like no one else... the Phish song Down With Disease in 94-95, just blistering solos. There's an official release from Chicago June '94 if anyone is looking to check it out.
This just makes me realise how much of a dumbass i am.
Pop music pays the bills no matter how dice it !
man, there were a crap ton of ads on this video
Wanna hear the major scale played well....Listen to Jerry Garcia.
HOWARD STERN ONCE SAID TO BILLY CORGAN(SMASHING PUMKINS) IF IT DOESNT MAKE ME SAID I DON’T LIKE IT.....
JAMES SCOTT NICHOLSON, ONTARIO, CANADA
Stop mentioning Steve vai and pettrucci. How boring. Good video though.
Thanks for the second half of your comment!
You may use/think of whatever players you'd like, but aside from both of those players being two of my biggest influences - Vai and Petrucci (and Zappa) are the best names I can think of to get the "sound" of Lydian & Lydian Dominant across to someone that doesn't know what they are - so good luck with finding alternate players that are actually relevant to that particular conversation that people actually know by name.
I used those names for a specific reason, mainly because they use those modal sounds all the time, but you can use whomever you wish.
@@LateNightLessons must be demoralising when some idiot posts a rude comment like that. Thanks for the lesson. Nice introduction to modes ... something I’d never really ventured into.
Opinions: everyone has one. And that's a good thing.
But telling others what to do is decidedly not an opinion. Just saying.
Thank you
Love to see a review of those Bach books
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