Guitar Soloing: Using Modes (Overcome Your Fear of Music Theory)
An introduction to musical theory, focusing on the Dorian mode, to help expand your soloing options. Uses examples from Neil Young, Tom Petty, Wilco.
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Originally posted by UC2Q8Dyum4oXWqlVuBoUnJZg at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAA-ymQMRYc
This is not "playing modal". All you did was to find the key of the song and figured out that it was starting from the second degree of the G major scale…
In order to play modal you need a modal harmony.
Else, all the shapes (modes) will sound the same as the major/natural minor scale.
A good way to hear the modes is very simple:
0) get all the 7 shapes generated by the major scale and think they are not related to each other. Imagine them as unique scales, where the 1st note of each scale (mode) is the ROOT.
1) Play a single note as reference, e.g. the low E… (modes only sound modal when you have a reference note/chord harmonizing the scale)
2) Play the E major scale over the low E
3) Play the E Lydian scale over the low E
4) Play the E Mixolydian scale over the low E…
5) do the same for the minor modes (Dorian, Frigian and Eolian)
6) try out the strange sounding Locrian mode.
7) look for modal harmony classes on YOUTUBE
I have a mnemonic for the modes:
I
Don't
Pester
Ladies
Meanwhile
Acting
Lecherously
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i use to struggle with how modes were made, why they sounded the way they did, when do use them and every other question you can imagine. one day it snapped in my head. this video wouldve been a great help to me then and to anybody trying to understand modes now. modifications to the major scale is the best way to look at it!
Awesome lesson. Thanks for helping expand my horizon. Always grateful.