How to USE modes!!

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• MI

  @michaelkeithson · 3 years ago · pinned

  I&apos;ve now released a &apos;Part II&apos; to this video that hopefully clears up a few of the points I hadn&apos;t explained well or skipped over in this video. Once you&apos;ve watched this video, check it out: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnD5F6o7B1g">https://youtu.be/ZnD5F6o7B1g</a>

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• PA

  @ParaBellum2024 · 3 years ago

  My wife made some hard-boiled eggs the other day, and when I got home, I was amazed at how mixolydian the house smelt!

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• GR

  @Gr8Passion4Music · 10 months ago

  There&apos;s a song by Fleetwood Mac, &quot;It&apos;s only over you&quot;, it also stays in one chord for long time. You might have listened or you might like to listen if you haven&apos;t. Do check it out sometime, you&apos;ll enjoy the chord arrangement :-)

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• SL

  @slimtim9570 · 3 years ago

  I dig how you explain things! You walk it through step by step logically and it feels very intuitive to me

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• TH

  @TheCalebSchultz · 2 years ago

  This unlocked something in my music theory brain that I knew need to be unlocked but I didn&apos;t know exactly what it was yet, but knew it was there and it was this. Thank you.

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• SE

  @semileo01 · 5 days ago

  One of the best YT tutorials I&apos;ve seen, well paced with great delivery. &nbsp;Thanks so much!

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  @yinoveryang4246 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Its always about the root note. The root of the scale. Everything you&apos;re hearing and making sense of in music, you&apos;re always aware of where that tonal centre is. (Leaving out modulation for the moment)<br>Mis-training modes starts with the teacher saying something like &quot;C major (Ionian) is exactly the same scale as C- minor (Aolian).&quot; Or they say something like Im afraid &quot;if you start with the second note that is a dorian mode&quot; without mentioning that in-fact it&apos;s E dorian not D Dorian. So yes it&apos;s a dorian scale. But it&apos;s a completely different scale, with a different root. The fact it uses the same notes is incidental, and has no musical impact. All the relationships within that scale are different to our ears. To explain them as being the same scale is what leads people off on the wrong path and leads to much confusion, <br>Each mode has different intervals and different chords, and we are always aware of where the root note is when we are listening (and hopefully playing). The history of where these diatonic modal scales come from is as ancient as their names, they are firmly set within us.

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• CH

  @ChinqMiau1 · 2 years ago

  You have a gift to explain things well. The words used, tone, examples, pace, sequencing... Also the lighting and camera, a joy to watch. Thank you for sharing.

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• JA

  @jaimedominicpanelo7246 · 2 years ago

  In guitar, modes are used as connectors after melody with &nbsp;tension notes to a resolving melody, usually going to the end chord of a stanza. In improvisation solos, modes form the licks joined in between melodies.

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• CH

  @christopherhudson3551 · 1 year ago

  The main thing I got from this video is NOT to think of modes in relation to the parent chord ... that is something I&apos;ve wrestled with since first learning about modes.

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• MI

  @mikegeld1280 · 2 years ago

  It all pretty much comes down to options, one can take a scale with them or use the mode that &quot;fits &quot; the root of the chord or play some outside notes to add spice/flavor,either way it&apos;s all jazz

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  @daviddellemonache2757 · 3 years ago

  This is the best video on modes that I’ve ever seen. &nbsp;Well done and thank you sir!

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