🚀The advancing Guitarist: practice your modes in parallel to unravel modes 🔑
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- 🎵The Advancing Guitarist - by Mick Goodrick is a legendary guitar book that asks all the right questions of the reader. It's a suggestive book that encourages you to reflect about how you practice and engage with music. That said, it covers some big topics and requires some basic music theory. In this video I break down one of Mick's greatest suggestions - playing modes in parallel and playing on string (the unitar). In today's videos I cover:
🔴Playing on one string - thinking in intervals
🔴Playing all of the modes in parallel on one string to see similarities and differences
🔴How to practice this way to gain modal clarity and work musically with the modes
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Great lesson. When thinking about the organization of modes, I find it more helpful to think about them from brightest to darkest (major: Lydian to Ionian to Mixolydian, minor: Dorian to Aeolian to Phrygian, diminished: Locrian), which is one of Mick's suggestions. Two benefits: (1) this automatically groups the modes into major and minor and (2) there's only one note difference between the modes as you descend from brightest mode to darkest (e.g., Lydian and Ionian differ only by #4, Ionian and Mixolydian only differ by b7, Mixolydian and Dorian by b3, etc.). This ordering also allows you see the relationships between modes that neighbor each other in brightness (like Mixolydian and Dorian) that may not be obvious from thinking of the modes in scale degree order.
When looking at the modes in scale degree order, the easiest way to remember the brightest-to-darkest order is the Circle of Fifths. For example, in the key of C, the order is: F Lydian - C Ionian - G Mixolydian - D Dorian - A Aeolian - E Phrygian - B Locrian.
Thanks for the comment and detail re the brightness of the modes. I never thought about the circle of 5ths link - that's really useful to know. That circle of 5ths just keeps on giving! The grouping of major and minor is something I found really helpful when I first came across that. It really helps simplify things. I'll have to have another read of the brightness section.
I think it was by searching for Mick Goodrick that I first came to your channel, Andy. I first heard about him in the mid-1970s by way of exploring, who else, Pat Metheny. A guitar teacher I had at the time who was just getting into jazz, or back into jazz (and making rapid advances in his playing) though him more interesting than Metheny. He also thought Bill Connors more interesting. It seems to me that few, if any, guitar UA-cam channel instructors ever mention Connors.
You're right, I don't hear anyone talking about him.
I’ve been reading and practicing the book for two weeks and it has blown my mind…I was locked with scale run positions.Poor man’s guide to counterpoint is my favourite approach.
It's such an eye or maybe even ear opening book! Lifetime of stuff to work through in there!
Brian Gardner
Great lesson,
Many thanks for your very informative lesson,
Thank you Andy
Cheers for the comment Brian. I’m glad you like it 👍
Thanks for your video and the backing tracks! So helpful!
My pleasure!
The best lessonI have attended! Thanks from
Italy.
Thank you very much :)
Working back through your lessons. Very clear, very useful. Great job!
GREAT LESSON & COOL SOUNDS!
Thanks :)
Really good stuff. Thanks for putting this out for us!
My pleasure - glad you liked it :)
Hi,have You ever meet anything about harmonic Major/ionian b6?
Any books with instructions how to use it,who and why create harm.Major if noone use it?
Tonal and modal music in harmonic Major,functional harmony?
Possibilities,because we have few rootless dominants in harm Major
we could even make few different tonic chords on one degree in harm Major
(if we ommit rule of thirds)
the same scale which is for example minor scale,could have Major tonic chord
3th degree of C-harm Major
e,g,b -minor tonic chord
or e,a-flat,b -Major tonic chord
or even e,a-flat,c - augmented tonic
Why there is NOTHING about harmonic Major everywhere still??? :(
Great video. I have the book but this really explains it. 👍🙂
Glad it was helpful!
Really great lesson - thank you Andy 👍
You're welcome :)
Very helpful. Thank you🙏🏻
You’re welcome 😊
Hi Andy have you any tips for remembering those intervals? (2nds, 3rds...etc). I've been going through your videos and they have really helped my jazz playing 😎.
Glad to hear you have found the videos helpful. Couple of thoughts on this: it's good to have references to recall intervals - eg a melody with a 5th that you know well as a reference point. I'd create a table with each interval and a reference song. Then as you go about life be curious about everything you hear - can you determine the first interval of a song or an advert?
I think it's also important to really characterise them - this is personal. How does a 2nd sound to you? How would you describe it say compared to a major 3rd?
I'd also, say that being able to hear it before playing it is important - eg can you do it without the instrument? Try say playing a C and then singing a 2nd, then play to check if you're correct.
@@jazzguitarwithandy thanks Andy
It's great to know the name of the modes in relation to how to use them, but at the end of the day they are just one scale started on different degrees. With the amount of things to practice on the guitar, I honestly think time is better spent on becoming very strong on arpeggios, chord tones and learning the neck cold. If you want to work on modes, there's honestly only 3 or 4 that are worth the effort. Just my 2 cents.
I think the chord tone vs modes/scales approach is a great debate to be had. I think the modes take a lot of work to internalise the sound and get fluent with them. I personally mix between both approaches, that said I can't say I spend a lot of time practicing the locrian mode! I really like the book as a way to help those working with modes to see them in relation to each other.
Robert, in order to really get the sound and feel of a mode it I think it's necessary to play them in parallel ie all with the same root.
Great lesson again, Andy. It's a great way to add layers of musicality on top of understanding. I have another really worthwhile focus to my practice. Thanks
@@Arthur_My_Dear My point being is that many guitar teachers over emphasize the value of modes, instead of concentrating on chord tones/arpeggios.
@@Beulzabob yeah, I’ve seen that on the tube. Andy, however, spends nearly all his time on chords and melodies (rightly so) and is laying out some modal theory, maybe even for the first time on his channel. Also, I found his application of modes a very useful exercise to build on. Just my two cents 😊
ok this is great information but I just purchased the Adv Guit book and in it he says not to play anything (Unitar lesson, one string) other than Natural notes, no flats or sharps. So at what point do you decide to go to Parallel scales (hope I'm getting the terms correct)?
This confused me cause I was trying to decide, when you get up to say Lydian or Mixo- scale do you start on the fifth or sixth frets and go backwards on that scale ? Probably getting too much in the weeds but I really wasn't sure...BTW love that Telecaster.
Get used to that one string and really work on creating ideas. When you feel ready, add another string. You could always try those other modes (Lydian/Mixo) on a string where the root will be closer to the nut?
@@jazzguitarwithandythanks ! I've been keeping at the one string for a week and a half. Been at this jazz guitar "thing" for a while and am really slow at it. I've learned a lot of theory but have the hardest time at applying it (ie actually being able to play 🤣). This one string method seems very Jedi-training kinda of learning...but I'll try anything ! Thanks Andy !
A year of work just there...
Yes! It's something which some people rush through. They might intellectually understand the modes but to truly know them they need to be practiced to the point where they can hear the difference. I knew I was getting somewhere when I could say pick out the fact that someone was using Dorian when I was listening to someone's solo.
Play with 🦷😂🔥😉!