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Hey everybody, it's Mike here from the Art of Guitar.
We're here with another video.
It seems like there's a lot of confusion when it comes to modes.
I've been on a couple guitar forums and the biggest question is, you know, when does this mode work with this?
What are modes?
Why do they have those crazy names and all that stuff?
So today what I want to do is I want to get you guys started in the right direction with modes.
And one thing is just to get rid of one big misconception about them and that's where they're where they come from.
So let's just take the most basic example.
Like C major.
So let's just start with a major scale.
So a major scale is built off of a series of whole steps and half steps.
Remember a whole step is two frets.
Half step is gonna be one fret difference.
Okay?
So let's play a C major [Ab] scale and I'll do a lot of visuals on the screen
with text so you guys can see what I'm talking about.
So here's your typical Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, [C] La, Ti, Do major scale.
[E] That's C,
D, E, [C] F,
G, A, [B] B, C.
So that's C major.
It's built off of if you start on C, [D] you have a whole step,
[C] another whole step, [E] half step, whole step, whole step, [C] whole step, half step.
So that's the sound of that scale.
[E] Now luckily, this is also called a mode.
It has a mode name, which is Ionian.
Why do they call it Ionian?
Because it's a bunch of people from a long time ago that want to confuse the hell out of you.
Okay, so we have this as the major scale, but mode wise you will call it Ionian mode.
Okay?
_ [C] _ So if you know major scale, you already know a mode.
[E] Now where the confusion comes in is when you start to do the other modes.
But before we do that, what I want to do is I want to put a C note as a bass note
and I want to play what I just did, the C Ionian mode for you guys to listen to.
So I'll just use a looper.
I'll just go like a
[C] _
real simple loop and I'll just go. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So that's the sound of Ionian.
It has a really good sound.
Now we're gonna start to use the derivative approach to find the other modes.
There's seven of them, by the way.
There's Ionian, there's Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian,
Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian.
A really good way to memorize all of these is to think,
I don't play loud music [E] at lunch.
So that's just a quick way to remember it and remember Locrian's at the bottom.
It's an easy way to remember that one since there's two L's.
Okay?
Just a quick little tip for you.
Now we're not going to cover all seven, but we're going to cover two or three today
just so you get the sound and you can see where things are coming from.
Okay?
So let's now take [Em] that same scale we just did, C major.
Instead of starting on C this time, we're gonna just stay in the same, you know, set of notes that we played earlier.
But we're gonna just happen to start on the next note, D.
So you'll see we're gonna start on D,
then according to the last scale we played, the next note is E.
So that's a whole step.
Then there's a half step right away [E] because it's an F.
Whole step, [E] whole step, whole step, half step.
And then we have to go to the D past the C that we already played as the octave.
So we're gonna go here.
So we're just basically using the C major scale,
but we're starting on D and we're going to the octave D within those parameters.
Okay?
Now people don't know why that would make any difference in the sound, but here's a good way to do this.
Okay?
So I'm gonna play D to D.
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Okay, that's called D [Bb] Dorian.
Now to really hear it, I'm gonna put another pedal tone.
So I'm gonna erase this one and I'll just play a D note [D] for a while.
_ Easiest loop ever.
Now I'm gonna start on D and do what I just did. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Do you guys hear how interesting that is compared to the Ionian mode?
They're both good.
But if you play the D note and then play the D Dorian mode, you can hear right away
[E] _ the minor quality of it, can't you?
So you get this.
[Dm] _ _ [D] _ [E] Now if you're telling me that sounds like C major, then you're not hearing things right because it has a completely different sound.
Remember C major sounded like this.
C Ionian [C] sounded like this. _ _
[B] Okay, it's got a real positive, real bright sound.
D Dorian is gonna sound like this.
[Dm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] For those of you guys who know your minor scale, just think of it as a minor scale with a raised sixth note.
Okay?
_ So there's a lot of ways to think of modes.
But what I really want to impress upon you today is the idea that we're taking this all from the same
original scale, the C major, okay?
All right, we might as well do one more because I think we have some time for [E] that.
So what's the next note in the C scale?
We started on C, then D.
Now we're gonna start on E.
And we're gonna go from E to the octave E using the same scales we originally did, C major.
So remember C D E F G A B C.
Those are the notes of the C major scale.
No sharps, no flats.
But we're gonna start on the third note of that now, and we're gonna play the notes through.
So we're [Em] gonna go E,
[E] what comes after E, F.
So right away you have a half step.
So you know that's gonna [Em] sound crazy.
And then we have G, A, E.
B, C.
_ So because now the whole steps and half steps are all different from the original scale, the original mode,
you're gonna hear why these have their own distinctive sounds, okay?
So let's go ahead and [E] get an E pedal tone happening.
So I'll just go
_ going from E to E.
Here we go.
Two, three, four. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Interesting sound, isn't it?
That half step in the beginning just kind of throws you for a loop.
_ But because we have the pedal tone going in E, you really hear the [C] quality of this mode.
All right, so
[Em] _ _ pretty wicked sound.
Okay, so that should give you an idea of how the modes are derived.
So take all of the crazy mode names that I gave you early on and try to match that up with what we're doing here.
So C will be the first one, D will be the second one, and so on.
And see for yourself
how these modes sound and what they're built from.
It's very [Ab] important.
And then if you want to create your own [C] backing track, go ahead and do what I just did.
So just play C for a while,
[Em] record that, loop it if you can, and then go ahead and play the C scale, C Ionian mode over the top of that, and
then go to D and do the same thing that I did earlier.
And you're really going to get a feel for these modes,
and I think it's going to clear up a lot of confusion for people.
The next level is to actually utilize them in different situations.
We're going to teach all that on the website coming up, and we'll also finish all the extra notes that I didn't teach today that
I left up to you guys on the website in the next couple weeks here,
so that you can check your work if you