Chords for Learn the modes In Just 15 minutes - Part One (Very easy lesson)

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_ So in the next few minutes I'm going to explain to you _ exactly how modes work
[G] and hopefully it will decobweb all the shizzle in your brain, [N] make things much
easier to understand and you can start exploring modes and modal playing using
one scale shape _ _ and it'll change your musical life.
_ So let's begin.
_ Essentially
we're going to be using this one scale shape, check it out.
Now this scale is a
little bit different from the normal ones that you probably have practiced in
so much as it starts on an A string.
[E] Now the reason for that is that I want to
have this big fat E string above me available to drone all the time.
_ Well
that's going to be our root or the beginning of our scale, an E.
So this [G] is
an E scale.
Now the reason we need that is because it's impossible to really
hear a mode unless you drone the root note underneath it.
So here's the scale.
Start with the second finger _ _ on the seventh fret [E] A string, _ that's an E note
and that's what I'm going to call note number one. _ _ _ _
Note number two will be with
the little finger A [Gb] string. _ _
_ [Bm] _ So [Ab] this is the ninth fret A. _
First finger down to our
third note and this is going to be the sixth fret D string. _ _ _ _ _
[A] Second finger down
right in front of it, _ _ _ little [Ab] finger down [B] same string. _ _ _ _
First finger [Db] down the string, so
this is the sixth fret G. _
Third finger [Eb] down, eighth fret G.
_ And the last note will be the
little [E] finger G string. _ _ _
So it's quite a simple scale, it's only going to cover one
octave.
Here it is again nice and slow.
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Db] _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [G] _ Now you might want to spend a few minutes
sitting some pause and get used to that scale because we're going to be moving
this scale around the fretboard backwards and forwards, always keeping it
exactly the same shape but it's going to sound different whenever we put it in
different places.
_ And the act of having it sound different will make you want to
play it with a different shape, your hand will want to play it differently.
It's
just the nature of being a human being, as long as you are a human being.
So
practice the shape, get familiar with it and then we'll progress now.
So _ [E] taking our
major shape, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ if I play this scale and the very first note is my root note, so I'm
playing it, _ _ _ _ _ _ yeah, _ _ _ _ _ and I play the scale over it, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ all you're hearing there is the good
[G] old-fashioned major scale.
And in the land of modes we call that the Ionian
mode. _
All these fancy names are derived from tribes in Greece and these Greek
tribes _ became notable for using these different scales.
So they're just Greek
names, you could just call them mode one, two, three, four, five, six and seven if it
makes you feel better.
_ It's all good.
So [E] mode one starts on the root. _ _ _
_ _ _ So if I just
play it as a scale, _
_ _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _
_ [E] _ it doesn't really sound like much but the second I put this root
down _ and drone it while I'm playing the scale, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
it becomes music.
You really begin
to [E] hear _ the sound of the scale and what's happening is in your mind you are,
without realising it, subconsciously measuring the distance between this base
root note _ _ and all the other scale notes.
_ And these little distances from the base
note to the scale notes, we call those distances intervals.
_ _ So the intervals are
what make you feel different things when you hear different kinds of scale or
mode.
[G] _ _
So _ _ let's move this bad boy around and cause_
that's my phone!
How terribly
inconvenient!
_ Wait a minute. _ _ _
Hello?
_ Hello, how can I help you?
_ This is Mr.
Chapman, yes. _ _ _ _ _ _
So where were we?
Oh yes, modes, pitch axis, all that kind of stuff.
So we've got our
scale and we know that if we play it with the first note of that scale being
on our root, which in this case is E, it could be any note though, _ _ we get the major
scale.
Let's move it backwards [E] two steps and see what happens.
So here's the scale. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So I've [Em] made it so that the very first note is my root note.
Let's shift the
whole thing back so that the second note of my scale is on E.
_ So now I just move
the whole thing back two steps.
[E] So now the second note of my scale _ is E.
_ _ I'll play
exactly the same [G] scale shape. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Just sounds like a scale, doesn't it?
_ [Abm] _ _
[D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
It sounds [Db] exactly
the same.
The reason for that is because I'm not droning the E string and what
you're getting is your ear is telling you the first note of the scale is [E] the
root.
_ _ _ But it's not.
The second note is the root.
So if I drone the E string _ and make you
hear that, _ program you to hear it as the root, _ _ and then play the scale, _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] suddenly _
[E] _ _ [E] _ _ _ it
becomes minor.
_ [G] So you've just experienced modal magic.
Monkey magic, if you will.
What you've got here [Em] _ is Dorian.
Dorian is what I would [Eb] call the second mode because
you start on the second note of a major scale and call that your root.
So I've
taken exactly the same scale shape, I haven't changed the shape at all, I just
shifted it back two frets so that the root [G] note was on my second note.
Simple
as that.
And you've got Dorian.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
So Dorian is a minor scale with an interesting
thing.
The sixth note of it is what I would call a major sixth.
Now if you
don't know what a major sixth is, you need to learn about intervalics _ and we
can do that at some point. _ _
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