Hi Noel, this video is amazing. It makes so much more sense hearing you explain the material in the book. Thank you so much for writing the book & making these videos!
Fantastic lessons and has really helped me at my stage of playing to really discover tonalities that I never thought of creating. People teach modes very badly but you really capture and share the true meaning of them. Keep up the lessons you're doing the world of music a great thing. Btw you're a fantastic player :@)
Wonderful Mr Noel ... Ok this is more difficult for a french guy with a poor english ... But , with google tranlater above video , and the 2 ears of course ...everything becomes clear . Many thanks for your book " Voicing modes " version 3,0,1 revisited . kindly regards .
Why the hell isn't your channel popular? Glad I stumbled on this. Beato is awesome, but confused the hella out of me bro. Yours is more accessible and understandable. Btw, do most modes outside of the main 7 diatonic have ethnic origins? Because I find out most of them indicate a main portion of that inherent sound. Like one day I was researching Melodic Minor and found it's called the "Hawaiian Scale". When I played in D# and improvised it had an exact resemblance to a specific guitar lick from Spongebob Squarepants!
Not a jazz guy, but as someone with more standard if not classical training, I like what you did here. Decades ago when I started getting into modes, it's not something I was formally taught, I realized the relationship between modes and keys, that one works off the other, which is what you've alluded to, only you've taken it on steroids. That said, I am of the firm idea that what you guys in jazz do is play scales, not modes. As someone who in his youth was a band leader and had to regularly transpose songs to accomodate varying singers vocal ranges, I take a structural perspective, in what makes it a mode is the relationship of the chords being played, not the notes you're soloing with at any one moment in time. That is, if a song, say a flamenco song, starts with E, goes into Am, F, and G, i know it's in the key of C or Am, but uses the Phrygian, not because a guitarist may play Am over what functionally is the tonic, the E, never mind the G# note, but because those chords make up the key of C or Am. That's where both perspectives diverge, and they're world's apart, IMHO. And yes, I know the counter might be, "but chordal structures are built on scales", but this again goes to my point that what jazz players do is just play scales ... And perhaps would necessitate having to redefine modes and scales. Just the same, I loved the video, and was interesting to see varying perspectives, and someone so honed with his instrument.
Why can’t you just drop the 5 and the 3 ( determines quality) and just play the 1, #4, ^7…. That way you establish a real Lydian sound…. to which then you can add your extensions of #9 and/or ^13…. (#11 no longer needed as the #4 is used in parent scale .. providing a more fundamental solid Lydian chord ..
And just end up with a 1-#2-6-7? Sure! There's no reason you can't do that. Did I say something that implied that that was not allowed? I do love that chord.
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Hi Noel, this video is amazing. It makes so much more sense hearing you explain the material in the book. Thank you so much for writing the book & making these videos!
Your channel really deserve more subscribers! Why the heck UA-cam didn´t suggeested it me before? Top player and top information!
The theory is one thing, but it's the fretboard awareness you have that really blows my mind
Fantastic lessons and has really helped me at my stage of playing to really discover tonalities that I never thought of creating. People teach modes very badly but you really capture and share the true meaning of them.
Keep up the lessons you're doing the world of music a great thing.
Btw you're a fantastic player :@)
hey Noel very nicly put, good lesson. thank you
Excellent video. Its a lot to take in, but I definitely can see the benefit of finding our voice . Amazing stuff 💯
Wonderful Mr Noel ... Ok this is more difficult for a french guy with a poor english ... But , with google tranlater above video , and the 2 ears of course ...everything becomes clear . Many thanks for your book " Voicing modes " version 3,0,1 revisited . kindly regards .
You’re amazing 🤩 you have been my solution 😢
congrat, it,s amazing the explanation, i have the book and it,s magnífico , si señor. muchas felicidades por tu gran trabajo
Does your book have any chord scales with frett and fingering
Great stuff. I bought the book a while back but this is a very helpful companion. Thank you.
Danilo8208SS thanks so much!
thank you so much !
So, let me get this straight ... the sharp 9 on a Maj7 chord is the 6th toe on the left foot??? Got it - LOL
Love the videos and your BOOK too!
Thanks!
I finally found something worthwhile on modes....
Why the hell isn't your channel popular? Glad I stumbled on this. Beato is awesome, but confused the hella out of me bro. Yours is more accessible and understandable.
Btw, do most modes outside of the main 7 diatonic have ethnic origins? Because I find out most of them indicate a main portion of that inherent sound. Like one day I was researching Melodic Minor and found it's called the "Hawaiian Scale". When I played in D# and improvised it had an exact resemblance to a specific guitar lick from Spongebob Squarepants!
my guy just referenced trogdor im hooked for life
Omg same
This is pure gold 🤩
This is amazing thank you
This opens the book up quite a bit for me....literally and figuratively. Also, you should TM the term "harmonic gravity"
Not a jazz guy, but as someone with more standard if not classical training, I like what you did here.
Decades ago when I started getting into modes, it's not something I was formally taught, I realized the relationship between modes and keys, that one works off the other, which is what you've alluded to, only you've taken it on steroids.
That said, I am of the firm idea that what you guys in jazz do is play scales, not modes.
As someone who in his youth was a band leader and had to regularly transpose songs to accomodate varying singers vocal ranges, I take a structural perspective, in what makes it a mode is the relationship of the chords being played, not the notes you're soloing with at any one moment in time.
That is, if a song, say a flamenco song, starts with E, goes into Am, F, and G, i know it's in the key of C or Am, but uses the Phrygian, not because a guitarist may play Am over what functionally is the tonic, the E, never mind the G# note, but because those chords make up the key of C or Am.
That's where both perspectives diverge, and they're world's apart, IMHO.
And yes, I know the counter might be, "but chordal structures are built on scales", but this again goes to my point that what jazz players do is just play scales ... And perhaps would necessitate having to redefine modes and scales.
Just the same, I loved the video, and was interesting to see varying perspectives, and someone so honed with his instrument.
This is so amazing. 🙏🙏🙏
Do you recommend going through the book front to back or grabbing reference materials as you go?
Feel free to skip around!
Thanks for the reply 👋
I don’t know which one must I buy firstly among your three books 🤔
Parallel diminished. Made it click for me. The scale is actually the combi of a major chord and a diminished.
This.is pretty cool.Do you include tabs for the chord shapes?
yep!
Cool stuff ! What guitar is that ?
Thanks. That’s a Collings Soco Deluxe
Nice Trogdor reference.
Genius
Why can’t you just drop the 5 and the 3 ( determines quality) and just play the 1, #4, ^7…. That way you establish a real Lydian sound…. to which then you can add your extensions of #9 and/or ^13…. (#11 no longer needed as the #4 is used in parent scale .. providing a more fundamental solid Lydian chord ..
And just end up with a 1-#2-6-7? Sure! There's no reason you can't do that. Did I say something that implied that that was not allowed? I do love that chord.
Next time I tuck into a plate of "bangers and mash" I''ll be telling myself its really a plate of dominant 7ths...
Where can I get the book?
Thanks for asking! There’s a link in the description
well this made me hungry