Probably my nicest intro yet. Did you learn anything about scales from this video tho?! Also, 52 Week Guitar Player is closed until mid-March. We'll only be accepting 100 new students when we reopen. Join the waiting list now dammit: brandondeon.com/survey-page2
Brandonnnn, are my eyes cheating me or did you fook up the intervallic structure of the pentatonic scales? At 5:35 you count the notes as "1 2 3 5 6" this seems correct to me, but at 6:01 you write "1 2 3 4 5" Sooooo... why it that, please? Is it a mistake from your side? I am a lil confused.
Hey bro, trying to watch a guitar lesson and my 7 year old son is next to me. Then you open your mouth and spout out stupid cuss words in the first 2 seconds that aren’t necessary. I don’t care how good you are (or think you are) but all of that went out the window just now.
@@jasonswitzer1748if you can identify the scale something is in, it’s easier to improvise. It also helps with making your own solos. That’s my understanding anyways
Here's the mnemonic I use to remember the order of the modes: I Don't Play Loud Music At Lunch Ionian, Dorian, Phrigian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian
IF YOU ARE CONFUSED EARLY ON IN THE VIDEO READ THIS: i was confused with this for a long time, learn every note on the fretboard and then ONLY learn the major (ionian) scale and the minor (aeolian scale or natural minor) once you know where every note on the fretboard is then learn about intervals (distance from each note) this will help you much more than this. AND DO IT. we are mostly all self taught and we forget crucial steps like learning all notes on the guitar or what is the actual major and minor scale. you will soon learn that all "modes" are the major scale just with different modes to make it sound more melodic. also if you have done this step this is a way to figure out how to play to a backing track in modes F lydian is in the key of c major ( 1ionian 2dorian 3 phyrigian 4 lydian 5 mixolydian 6 aeolian and 7locrian) if you count back the 4 since its the fourth mode just go back the four flydian 3e phyrigan d dorian and c ionian (major scale) i know this is confusing and this took me ages to understand but IF MODES CONFUSE YOU YOU NEED TO TAKE STEPS BACK! so all together 1 Learn all notes on the Fretboardand i mean every string from 0 to the 12th fret there are several ways of doing it. 2 then learn the major and minor scales ( ionian and aeolian) once you know them you will be so much further than you are now 3 learn intervals and how to modify the major and minor scale to get the modes. i struggled for years with this because i forgot the essentials of makes a guitar a guitar because i just learned songs so yeah go back and take these steps and then come back to this. this was my best way to explain this. i hope it helped
I was trying to learn the pentatonic scale and was frustrated without being able to understand the terminology. You make solid points and I’ll follow your suggestions. Thanks for the tips
I appreciate this. Do you have some specific exercises and/or videos on how to do each step, specifically learning every note on the fretboard and going from there?
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Right? I picked up the guitar just so I Had a place to stick my cigarette so I didn't have to hold it all the time. Got sick of my index and middle finger smelling like a bowling alley from my childhood.
Here's my easy guide to modal music: Sorted from "brightest" to "darkest". Compared to the major scale, the first has a sharp, the third has one flat, the fourth, two flats, and so on. Read below to find how they're _actually_ used. *Lydian* : just don't. *Ionian* : also known as the major scale. *Mixolydian* : if the song sounds okay in major, but you want to add a little something-something. This one gets used a LOT. The vocal line of "You Really Got Me" is in the mixolydian mode. Did I mention it gets used a lot? Which is ironic because it has the most exotic name. *Dorian* : The Pink Floyd scale. That kind of dreary, halfway between major and minor scale that David Gilmour loves. Most of the songs on _Dark Side_ are in the Dorian Mode -- "Time" specifically. Also appears in the "...and I find it kind of FUNny, I FIND it kind of sad" part of "Mad World" -- all caps is wherever the natural sixth occurs, which distinguishes the Dorian Mode from the... *Aeolian* : also known as the minor scale. *Phrygian* : for metalheads, or when you want something to sound Arabic. The bass run in the beginning of "Killing an Arab" is literally just the descending Phrygian scale. Take the minor key, and flat the second, and Ahab's yer uncle. *Locrian* : Remember what I said about the Lydian? That goes double for the Locrian. The only reason to ever write a song in the Locrian mode is to say "I wrote a song in the Locrian mode", and you'll cheat, anyway, by using the flat fifth as a percussive element, leaving all the melodic elements in the Phrygian mode. That's how both Bjork and Bartok pulled it off. Lastly: Minor Pentatonic: The standard blues/rock-n-roll scale. Malcolm Young already discovered every possible way you can play open minor Pentatonic chords, so the rest of us don't have to. Just listen to a lot of AC/DC (and who doesn't like AC/DC? They must be on cigarettes.) Major Pentatonic: If you want to sound like Skynyrd. Also some decent old-school country music. Just like all modes, this one can be used for both good and evil. If you want to be lazy, or you're on cigarettes, other than the major/minor/major-minor pentatonic, the modes that see heavy usage are the Mixolydian and the Dorian. But feel free to stretch your creativity and use others. Or none -- chromatic music is also a thing. I like me some Sonic Youth sometimes.
best guitar theory guy out there. Literally all you need to start without useless talking and other bullsht. If only you were there while I was starting out. keep on with those videos
“Playing guitar is a great way to express your creativity, and to learn how to play it here are the most rigid, math-like and creativity-killing set of rules you’ve ever heard” And yes I’m mad because I’m confused
I feel you bro. But think of it this way: to bend and play around the rules, you must first know the rules. They are just meant to be your tools to create w/e you want.
"Creativity-killing". Tell me you only know two scales without telling me you only know two scales. "Math-like" describes all music, or is it the "counting to seven" part that specifically annoys you? Only playing in two scales sounds rigid to me.
Honestly, I think the approach of starting modes from each note from a major scale is really useless in a practical way. Things like “if you wanna play F lydian, think about the C major scale but start on F”, and not only this is confusing, imagine wanting to play B lydian, you would have to figure out a scale in which B is the 4th note and then play that scale from it. It seems simple in paper, but imagine you’re improvising over a song a it has 2 borrowed chords from let’s say phrygian, it’s too complicated to use this approach in an improvising scenario. Me personally, think “formulas” are way easier to grasp. I.g. Lydian has a #4, so if you want to play C Lydian, just play C major and raise the fourth, makes so much more sense. Another interesting way of looking at modes, is to relate the minor modes to the minor pentatonic scale, since for example, Mixolydian si just adding the major third to the pentatonic. Hope this helps someone struggling to learn modes (just like I did)
I learned piano at a music school. Getting into guitar a couple years after on my own now. I was so confused on why the guy needlessly overcomplicated it like this, +1 to your comment.
Bro, just because this is where I finally have gotten a better grasp of this knowledge because of you, I subbed and clicked the notification bell😂🙏🏻🤘🏻🤣💯
The best way to learn scales is to learn them as route notes + octaves. The shaping is exactly the same all over the fretboard. Then you learn corresponding open/bar chords and arpeggios and you basically know a good chunk of guitar theory. This is what really helps you understand songs/riffs/licks you are learning. You still need to learn the shapes, but the route + octave shaping and the key is what is most important.
I watch these everytime they come up but I have been struggling with a way to understand modes and this is a great simplification. Thank you, now to practice
If you play CDEFGAB, that’s C Ionian; for C Mixolydian play b7/Bb; for C Lydian play #4/F#. Those 3 modes work over a MAJOR TRIAD. Now for Dorian play b3/Eb and b7/Bb; to make that Aolian b6/Ab as well as b3/b7; for Phrygian b2/Db as well as b3/b6/b7. Those 3 work over a MINOR TRIAD. Finally add b5/Gb to Phrygian’s b2/b3/b6/b7. That Locrian only works over a Diminished Triad. - So practice 3 over a C Major triad and 3 over a C Minor Triad, and only one over a C Diminished Triad. - Memorize the formulas. Sing along as you play them over the right chord.
I think the best way to see this is that the modes are just the names. its 1 scale but just moved up the neck of the guitar. So in one scale you can play it over the hole neck.and the position on the neck tells you what mode you are( based on what key you play in)
At 1:03 the term "accidental" is being used incorrectly. Accidentals refer to a sharp or flat that is placed to the immediate left of a note. The sharps or flats within the key signature itself are not considered accidentals.
Hey Brandon! Love the vid, very helpful as a beginner starting out. Just wanted to point out a possible editing error @4:33 withe the C Minor scale with E and A not having the flat symbols.
Scales or modes don't sound original music if they are played vertically. The mode pattern of the first 2 or 3 top strings must be joined in sequence with the next mode pattern of the 3rd or fourth strings, and so on to the next mode pattern played on the 5th or 6th strings, thus the phrase appears to be diagonally descending; can be played diagonally ascending or combination. But these are just the filler melody patterns, in between them there must be an original few notes of melody by your own choice. Then to complete the whole phrase, it must be resolved ending in any of the triads of the last chord in the progression. The number of notes played per beat must be about 4 to 6 notes and distributed equally to form 1 bar. On the chord progression, choose the mode pattern (inversion) to be played on all chords throughout the progression. One or more modes based on any of the chords in the progression may be played. How to play the modes are by your own pre-designed lick patterns (with intervals or skipped notes), usually skip the 3rd and 5th degrees, (only 5 out of 7notes are then played all throughout), but retain the root note. In this way, your melody will sound tensional at first, then will sound beautiful when resolved with the triads at the end of the phrase. Often times, arpeggios are played as resolving portion of the phrase. Watch how Matteo Mancuso plays, (only he does it way too fast and uses many kinds of lick patterns in a phrase).
i follow you on tik tok because your videos are great! This is the first youtube video of yours i have watched and it all clicked. I thought i would never understand scales and how they work but now i do! Thank you so much😭🙏
If your strugging like i did try and realise that learning each individual note to a scale is like learning each letter to the alphabet, once you learn the letters you can start putting the word's together, then you can improve your handwriting then you can finally enter the music dimension of bliss, finally feel the groove, the fret is no longer a straight neck but a snake with a million pathways and you hold the key to explore them all, so yeahh learning musics great
commenting to say id love a seperate video on the rest of the scales ans their shapes- im aware of a harmonic minor, but have no idea how exactly it correlates to the rest of the scales except for the fact that its a semitone difference - but i still wouldnt know how to remember it in relation to it all- something uve managed to teach amazingly with ur masterclass videos
returning to this in case anyone was wondering- to summarize, harmonic (and melodic) have one (or two) degrees raised, that being the seventh (and sixth), to find the shapes of these, you can just look for '[ionian mode] [move seventh per mode you moved, keeping in mind you started from aeolian], which, would result in dorian #4(#3#4 for melodic) for example, or phrygian #5 (#4#5 for melodic), just learn your damn scale degrees, and this is all the knowledge you need!
Great video. I was taught the five minor boxes and to play them in all 12 keys. Then I was taught to find the relative majors. From there I was taught to find the relative modes. LOL to me everything is a minor box. For example in the key of A, F# minor is A major, B minor is A mixolydian, E minor is A Dorian, D Minor is A phrygian, and G minor is A lydian. Phrygian Dominant is just the relative harmonic minor. I learned this from a jazz player. Now I can change between all my keys and modes like a beast. LOL except I suck at pentatonic scale.
Ok, crazy Canadian guy. I dig your style but enough of that. I watched the video as a sneak peak if you will. I'm still working out all of the keys of the Major and Minor scale. I'll be ready for this next.
So let me get this straight. If you take the Locrian mode in the key of C and then change it into the Locrian scale in the key of C you end up with the Locrian mode in the key of Db.
This is a great video, i found it helpful and easy to understand, the only suggestion i would make is ro include a simple glossary of terms for those who don't know what certain terms like natural or accidental mean
I enjoy that the reason you are attaching the modes to the five Pentatonic positions is to play them with the the natural major scale. I appreciate the nomenclature not literally literally on the intervalic structure. However we also know ... That the pentatonic scale shape can be used in other positions than where those modes would associate ... Which ... Still has five notes but it something completely different. I usually practice the latter shape based knowledge as it sounds good and relates to the instrument Since there is a lot to learn about different signs switching between scales. So I do not think of the Pentatonic that way, as you mentioned because it's possible to play the shape in ways that relate entirely differently ... I usually count there without changing the key. I am trying to learn funked up scales and licks mostly because the basics just almost apply but don't to me really. There a funky one with an M that's not mixo There's all kinds of crazy scales besides harmonic ... And even melodic. I really like the harmonic scale. I just try to sound fresh when I play and nothing does that like a different scale.
I dunno, I just learned the 5 positions of pentatonic scale (both major and minor, they just start off on different positions), then figured you can start that and play that on any string / fret, it's just the relation, the intervals, what matters. Then I found the scale with all the 'missing' notes (aka natural scale) and have been practicing that one same way like the pentatonic scale, 5 positions, starting on any string / fret and figuring out 'oh, that's the position I'm currently in' and going up and down, left and right, just noodling around. To me they're the same, but natural scale just has more notes in it. What note and what position (minor or major) you start the scale off with depends on the key the song is in or on your liking if there's no song or backing track you're playing to. I have no idea what those modes are, it's litterally just start wherever you want and play what's allowed within the shapes you're playing occasionally throwing in notes that for some reason still sound good even though they're not supposed to be there. Experienced musicians, explain what in the freaking world I'm doing wrong here? What is it with the modes and stuff? Am I just preceiving it differently or am I actually missing something yet?
How does the formula not contradict the mode? For instance, D Dorian is D E F G A B C D, but the formula says to flatten the 3rd and 7th, which would make it D E Fb G A B Cb D. Yet it is supposed to be the exact same notes as C major, so it shouldnt have any flats in it. Thanks for clarifying! I also dont get the point of modes because if you play D dorian (D E F G A B C D) to a C major chord progression, it doesnt sound any different.
RUclips deleted my original reply so here goes another shot. Every mode has its own characteristic feel, as per its different intervallic structure. Phrygian has that minor second that gives it that dark sound.
Modes of harmonic minor and melodic minor scales? Yes, please. Burning questions: Are modes of harmonic major used? Why only 26 modes and not a multiple of 7? Would arranging modes of major scale in order of descending 5ths make the Circle of 4ths and 5ths too complicated for 5 year olds? What's your take on Lydian Chromatic scales?
Im only 1:33 into the video and im already confused on exactly which frets am i supposed to start on? I mean with my guitar in hand i can sound out which fret and string your starting from on the first example of the Major C scale.
I’m using Harmonic Minor all the time and Locrian , Phrygian on the 5/Dom7. At first Sweet Georgia Brown sounded like she was having a nuclear meltdown. Turns out I don’t play fast enough yet.
I really don’t agree with this approach to teaching modes, because whilst it helps with understanding how to construct them, it doesn’t help from a musical standpoint. I find it easier to think of the modes as either fundamentally major or minor, with a small tweak (usually just one note) to give them a slightly different flavour. This way things still relate back to the same tonal centre.
Hey Brandon can you cover how to get the sound of the modes into your playing? I understand how to find them but they always just sound like a minor or major scale run to me...the only time I can get that cool different sound is when I play something using the harmonic minor to get that "latin sound" kind of like smooth by Santana. Anyways as someone who hasn't taken lessons in a long time I really appreciate your videos and teaching style
See it’s like combinations that seem endless and I don’t even know all the notes to even start memorizing the modes. scales seem easier because there’s like a set pattern to each scale, no matter where you play it on the fretboard. But notes and modes are still confusing to me.
I would like if you covered the 2 minor scales. I already understand basically where all the modes come from but I haven't heard anyone cover the 2 minor modes
Great video! Very clean, however, after all the years I have tried, I see how it works but I CANNOT incorporate it. It's just too much, too overwhelming. I have always had a mental block with this. I play by ear via shapes.
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Probably my nicest intro yet. Did you learn anything about scales from this video tho?! Also, 52 Week Guitar Player is closed until mid-March. We'll only be accepting 100 new students when we reopen. Join the waiting list now dammit: brandondeon.com/survey-page2
Thx so so so MUCH! this was really clear for me. Helped me a LOT.
Brandonnnn, are my eyes cheating me or did you fook up the intervallic structure of the pentatonic scales? At 5:35 you count the notes as "1 2 3 5 6" this seems correct to me, but at 6:01 you write "1 2 3 4 5" Sooooo... why it that, please? Is it a mistake from your side? I am a lil confused.
i dont want to learn this, but i have to, so i will, and i bet itl help me later.
Hey bro, trying to watch a guitar lesson and my 7 year old son is next to me. Then you open your mouth and spout out stupid cuss words in the first 2 seconds that aren’t necessary. I don’t care how good you are (or think you are) but all of that went out the window just now.
If this is for 5 year-olds, then I applaud the 5 year-olds of today. This had me confused 3 minutes in.
Yeah
Why is this stuff important? Please explain as though I were a 5 year old. :)
@@jasonswitzer1748it really isn’t just some scales to “spice” up your playing
@@jasonswitzer1748if you can identify the scale something is in, it’s easier to improvise.
It also helps with making your own solos.
That’s my understanding anyways
I made it all the way to 3:20. GOODBYE.
Here's the mnemonic I use to remember the order of the modes:
I Don't Play Loud Music At Lunch
Ionian, Dorian, Phrigian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian
I Don't Particularly Like Modes And Licks
Thank you! I actually really like that and will now be using it forever!
@@HuhWaitWhatNow You're welcome. My high-school band director taught me that 35+ years ago. It comes in handy. 🙂
@@PoPoRybnik or I Don't Particularly Like Modes A Lot
That's so smart
IF YOU ARE CONFUSED EARLY ON IN THE VIDEO READ THIS:
i was confused with this for a long time, learn every note on the fretboard and then ONLY learn the major (ionian) scale and the minor (aeolian scale or natural minor) once you know where every note on the fretboard is then learn about intervals (distance from each note) this will help you much more than this.
AND DO IT.
we are mostly all self taught and we forget crucial steps like learning all notes on the guitar or what is the actual major and minor scale. you will soon learn that all "modes" are the major scale just with different modes to make it sound more melodic.
also if you have done this step this is a way to figure out how to play to a backing track in modes F lydian is in the key of c major ( 1ionian 2dorian 3 phyrigian 4 lydian 5 mixolydian 6 aeolian and 7locrian)
if you count back the 4 since its the fourth mode just go back the four flydian 3e phyrigan d dorian and c ionian (major scale)
i know this is confusing and this took me ages to understand but IF MODES CONFUSE YOU YOU NEED TO TAKE STEPS BACK!
so all together
1 Learn all notes on the Fretboardand i mean every string from 0 to the 12th fret there are several ways of doing it.
2 then learn the major and minor scales ( ionian and aeolian) once you know them you will be so much further than you are now
3 learn intervals and how to modify the major and minor scale to get the modes.
i struggled for years with this because i forgot the essentials of makes a guitar a guitar because i just learned songs so yeah go back and take these steps and then come back to this.
this was my best way to explain this. i hope it helped
Thanks for taking the time to explain this it's really helpful!
Complex and difficult meet hard and complicated.
I was trying to learn the pentatonic scale and was frustrated without being able to understand the terminology. You make solid points and I’ll follow your suggestions. Thanks for the tips
I appreciate this. Do you have some specific exercises and/or videos on how to do each step, specifically learning every note on the fretboard and going from there?
Great! Can you elaborate more on what to do once we have memorised all the notes. Thanks!
Need no scales, I got cigarettes.
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after this video i think i need cigarettes
Right?
I picked up the guitar just so I Had a place to stick my cigarette so I didn't have to hold it all the time. Got sick of my index and middle finger smelling like a bowling alley from my childhood.
Hell yeah
Here's my easy guide to modal music: Sorted from "brightest" to "darkest". Compared to the major scale, the first has a sharp, the third has one flat, the fourth, two flats, and so on. Read below to find how they're _actually_ used.
*Lydian* : just don't.
*Ionian* : also known as the major scale.
*Mixolydian* : if the song sounds okay in major, but you want to add a little something-something. This one gets used a LOT. The vocal line of "You Really Got Me" is in the mixolydian mode. Did I mention it gets used a lot? Which is ironic because it has the most exotic name.
*Dorian* : The Pink Floyd scale. That kind of dreary, halfway between major and minor scale that David Gilmour loves. Most of the songs on _Dark Side_ are in the Dorian Mode -- "Time" specifically. Also appears in the "...and I find it kind of FUNny, I FIND it kind of sad" part of "Mad World" -- all caps is wherever the natural sixth occurs, which distinguishes the Dorian Mode from the...
*Aeolian* : also known as the minor scale.
*Phrygian* : for metalheads, or when you want something to sound Arabic. The bass run in the beginning of "Killing an Arab" is literally just the descending Phrygian scale. Take the minor key, and flat the second, and Ahab's yer uncle.
*Locrian* : Remember what I said about the Lydian? That goes double for the Locrian. The only reason to ever write a song in the Locrian mode is to say "I wrote a song in the Locrian mode", and you'll cheat, anyway, by using the flat fifth as a percussive element, leaving all the melodic elements in the Phrygian mode. That's how both Bjork and Bartok pulled it off.
Lastly:
Minor Pentatonic: The standard blues/rock-n-roll scale. Malcolm Young already discovered every possible way you can play open minor Pentatonic chords, so the rest of us don't have to. Just listen to a lot of AC/DC (and who doesn't like AC/DC? They must be on cigarettes.)
Major Pentatonic: If you want to sound like Skynyrd. Also some decent old-school country music. Just like all modes, this one can be used for both good and evil.
If you want to be lazy, or you're on cigarettes, other than the major/minor/major-minor pentatonic, the modes that see heavy usage are the Mixolydian and the Dorian. But feel free to stretch your creativity and use others. Or none -- chromatic music is also a thing. I like me some Sonic Youth sometimes.
Thank you, this is gold
best guitar theory guy out there. Literally all you need to start without useless talking and other bullsht. If only you were there while I was starting out. keep on with those videos
This is the only channel on RUclips to shit on the audience and they applaud 👏
It's not. There are several. He played Am you've been begging for by the way.
“Playing guitar is a great way to express your creativity, and to learn how to play it here are the most rigid, math-like and creativity-killing set of rules you’ve ever heard”
And yes I’m mad because I’m confused
Yeah, this guy will mislead you not going to lie. Check out Guthrie trapp and his CAGED philosophy. Listen to the dude improvise if you have doubts.
I feel you bro. But think of it this way: to bend and play around the rules, you must first know the rules. They are just meant to be your tools to create w/e you want.
Ultimately to train your ears and hands.
"Creativity-killing". Tell me you only know two scales without telling me you only know two scales. "Math-like" describes all music, or is it the "counting to seven" part that specifically annoys you?
Only playing in two scales sounds rigid to me.
@@jessejordache1869u literally made up the whole "two scales thing".
We need those two more.
This is one of the best, and simplest breakdowns of scales/modes that I have seen. Well done sir.
Do I need my fishing license for this?
i have my lifetime fishing... it did NOT in fact, help me with this
Honestly, I think the approach of starting modes from each note from a major scale is really useless in a practical way. Things like “if you wanna play F lydian, think about the C major scale but start on F”, and not only this is confusing, imagine wanting to play B lydian, you would have to figure out a scale in which B is the 4th note and then play that scale from it. It seems simple in paper, but imagine you’re improvising over a song a it has 2 borrowed chords from let’s say phrygian, it’s too complicated to use this approach in an improvising scenario. Me personally, think “formulas” are way easier to grasp. I.g. Lydian has a #4, so if you want to play C Lydian, just play C major and raise the fourth, makes so much more sense. Another interesting way of looking at modes, is to relate the minor modes to the minor pentatonic scale, since for example, Mixolydian si just adding the major third to the pentatonic. Hope this helps someone struggling to learn modes (just like I did)
I learned piano at a music school. Getting into guitar a couple years after on my own now. I was so confused on why the guy needlessly overcomplicated it like this, +1 to your comment.
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He literally explains it exactly the way you did in the section about intervallic structure...
THANK YOU SO MUCH
This is probably the best explanation of modes vs the various scales I have seen. Great job!
Great stuff, man! Thanks for this! I'd definitely be interested in the next video for the rest of the scales
Keep it up with these concise few minute videos! Super helpful to learn, reference, and share with others.
I wish you were my music theory teacher in my undergrad. Lol. This is explained way better than they ever explained it.
I wish there were videos like this 20 years ago!
Because of brandon now I don't smoke cigarettes anymore and start to use cocaiinnaa ❤
Bro, just because this is where I finally have gotten a better grasp of this knowledge because of you, I subbed and clicked the notification bell😂🙏🏻🤘🏻🤣💯
The best way to learn scales is to learn them as route notes + octaves. The shaping is exactly the same all over the fretboard. Then you learn corresponding open/bar chords and arpeggios and you basically know a good chunk of guitar theory. This is what really helps you understand songs/riffs/licks you are learning. You still need to learn the shapes, but the route + octave shaping and the key is what is most important.
I watch these everytime they come up but I have been struggling with a way to understand modes and this is a great simplification. Thank you, now to practice
If you play CDEFGAB, that’s C Ionian; for C Mixolydian play b7/Bb; for C Lydian play #4/F#. Those 3 modes work over a MAJOR TRIAD. Now for Dorian play b3/Eb and b7/Bb; to make that Aolian b6/Ab as well as b3/b7; for Phrygian b2/Db as well as b3/b6/b7. Those 3 work over a MINOR TRIAD. Finally add b5/Gb to Phrygian’s b2/b3/b6/b7. That Locrian only works over a Diminished Triad.
- So practice 3 over a C Major triad and 3 over a C Minor Triad, and only one over a C Diminished Triad.
- Memorize the formulas. Sing along as you play them over the right chord.
I think the best way to see this is that the modes are just the names. its 1 scale but just moved up the neck of the guitar. So in one scale you can play it over the hole neck.and the position on the neck tells you what mode you are( based on what key you play in)
first video of this channel i see and that has to be the best intro i've seen all year
At 1:03 the term "accidental" is being used incorrectly. Accidentals refer to a sharp or flat that is placed to the immediate left of a note. The sharps or flats within the key signature itself are not considered accidentals.
yeah idk why he said that
I was thinking the same thing, as a bass player I’m hanging on the right side of accidentals 🤓
The F# is on the left of the G in the higher octave 😉😂
One of the best lessons in modes I have ever seen. Great job. .
Seems like things are going better and better for you. You deserve the success. I hope it continues.
Hey Brandon! Love the vid, very helpful as a beginner starting out. Just wanted to point out a possible editing error @4:33 withe the C Minor scale with E and A not having the flat symbols.
I felt depressd and just grabbed a notebook to scribble the whole tutorial on paper, it helpd thanks
lol, you're the guy that keeps pooping up on my facebook ads. you've helped me a lot! thank you for this.
This dude is a cross between POWER THIRST ENERGY FOR MEN and a guitar teacher
Well done . Your method of teaching opened my old brain up and I learned a lot in 7 minutes.
Great stuff. I’d definitely be interested to see the harmonic minor and melodic minor videos if you decide to make them.
Scales or modes don't sound original music if they are played vertically. The mode pattern of the first 2 or 3 top strings must be joined in sequence with the next mode pattern of the 3rd or fourth strings, and so on to the next mode pattern played on the 5th or 6th strings, thus the phrase appears to be diagonally descending; can be played diagonally ascending or combination. But these are just the filler melody patterns, in between them there must be an original few notes of melody by your own choice. Then to complete the whole phrase, it must be resolved ending in any of the triads of the last chord in the progression. The number of notes played per beat must be about 4 to 6 notes and distributed equally to form 1 bar. On the chord progression, choose the mode pattern (inversion) to be played on all chords throughout the progression. One or more modes based on any of the chords in the progression may be played. How to play the modes are by your own pre-designed lick patterns (with intervals or skipped notes), usually skip the 3rd and 5th degrees, (only 5 out of 7notes are then played all throughout), but retain the root note. In this way, your melody will sound tensional at first, then will sound beautiful when resolved with the triads at the end of the phrase. Often times, arpeggios are played as resolving portion of the phrase. Watch how Matteo Mancuso plays, (only he does it way too fast and uses many kinds of lick patterns in a phrase).
Your short made me feel bad about myself so i looked for more scales thought this sounded good and come right back in a circle
Can u explain it like I’m 4?
worth mentioning that at 4:35 C Aeolian has Eb and Ab, not E and A
Yes, I was going to point out this error.
i follow you on tik tok because your videos are great! This is the first youtube video of yours i have watched and it all clicked. I thought i would never understand scales and how they work but now i do! Thank you so much😭🙏
If your strugging like i did try and realise that learning each individual note to a scale is like learning each letter to the alphabet, once you learn the letters you can start putting the word's together, then you can improve your handwriting then you can finally enter the music dimension of bliss, finally feel the groove, the fret is no longer a straight neck but a snake with a million pathways and you hold the key to explore them all, so yeahh learning musics great
Great video! Great structure of the information. Please do more of these short but full of information videos!
commenting to say id love a seperate video on the rest of the scales ans their shapes- im aware of a harmonic minor, but have no idea how exactly it correlates to the rest of the scales except for the fact that its a semitone difference - but i still wouldnt know how to remember it in relation to it all- something uve managed to teach amazingly with ur masterclass videos
returning to this in case anyone was wondering- to summarize, harmonic (and melodic) have one (or two) degrees raised, that being the seventh (and sixth), to find the shapes of these, you can just look for '[ionian mode] [move seventh per mode you moved, keeping in mind you started from aeolian], which, would result in dorian #4(#3#4 for melodic) for example, or phrygian #5 (#4#5 for melodic), just learn your damn scale degrees, and this is all the knowledge you need!
great job will refer back to your lessons till memorized thank you for your interest in teaching guitar
Great video. I was taught the five minor boxes and to play them in all 12 keys. Then I was taught to find the relative majors. From there I was taught to find the relative modes. LOL to me everything is a minor box. For example in the key of A, F# minor is A major, B minor is A mixolydian, E minor is A Dorian, D Minor is A phrygian, and G minor is A lydian. Phrygian Dominant is just the relative harmonic minor. I learned this from a jazz player. Now I can change between all my keys and modes like a beast. LOL except I suck at pentatonic scale.
Great video, really want further knowledge of scales and next video about them!
>be me, clearly a 5yo
>"YOU'RE STUPID AF AND I HATE YOU"
>"dad?"
Great title, Matt.
And those lyrics!
I was almost expecting you to mention “WTC 7” and “Event 201”.
Ok, crazy Canadian guy. I dig your style but enough of that. I watched the video as a sneak peak if you will. I'm still working out all of the keys of the Major and Minor scale. I'll be ready for this next.
All things considered, as much effort you put into making other people better, yeah you may be the nicest dude on the internet!
Thank you for clearly explaining everything. Many guitar teachers don’t take the time to go over the smallest fundamentals.
Thank you for your tough love. It keeps us entertained.
6:27 I hope this video does well and I would like you to cover the harmonic minor and melodic minor modes RAHHHH
So let me get this straight. If you take the Locrian mode in the key of C and then change it into the Locrian scale in the key of C you end up with the Locrian mode in the key of Db.
The anger in this video is ridiculously helpful 😂
Bro is literally Gordon Ramsay but in music
I’m so glad this dude isn’t my guitar teacher. Confusion from the get go.
This is a great video, i found it helpful and easy to understand, the only suggestion i would make is ro include a simple glossary of terms for those who don't know what certain terms like natural or accidental mean
Go for it harmonic minor and melodic is worth it :)
I enjoy that the reason you are attaching the modes to the five Pentatonic positions is to play them with the the natural major scale.
I appreciate the nomenclature not literally literally on the intervalic structure.
However we also know ... That the pentatonic scale shape can be used in other positions than where those modes would associate ... Which ... Still has five notes but it something completely different.
I usually practice the latter shape based knowledge as it sounds good and relates to the instrument
Since there is a lot to learn about different signs switching between scales.
So I do not think of the Pentatonic that way, as you mentioned because it's possible to play the shape in ways that relate entirely differently ... I usually count there without changing the key.
I am trying to learn funked up scales and licks mostly because the basics just almost apply but don't to me really.
There a funky one with an M that's not mixo
There's all kinds of crazy scales besides harmonic ... And even melodic.
I really like the harmonic scale.
I just try to sound fresh when I play and nothing does that like a different scale.
I dunno, I just learned the 5 positions of pentatonic scale (both major and minor, they just start off on different positions), then figured you can start that and play that on any string / fret, it's just the relation, the intervals, what matters. Then I found the scale with all the 'missing' notes (aka natural scale) and have been practicing that one same way like the pentatonic scale, 5 positions, starting on any string / fret and figuring out 'oh, that's the position I'm currently in' and going up and down, left and right, just noodling around. To me they're the same, but natural scale just has more notes in it. What note and what position (minor or major) you start the scale off with depends on the key the song is in or on your liking if there's no song or backing track you're playing to. I have no idea what those modes are, it's litterally just start wherever you want and play what's allowed within the shapes you're playing occasionally throwing in notes that for some reason still sound good even though they're not supposed to be there. Experienced musicians, explain what in the freaking world I'm doing wrong here? What is it with the modes and stuff? Am I just preceiving it differently or am I actually missing something yet?
How does the formula not contradict the mode? For instance, D Dorian is D E F G A B C D, but the formula says to flatten the 3rd and 7th, which would make it D E Fb G A B Cb D. Yet it is supposed to be the exact same notes as C major, so it shouldnt have any flats in it. Thanks for clarifying! I also dont get the point of modes because if you play D dorian (D E F G A B C D) to a C major chord progression, it doesnt sound any different.
I don’t get it either
Hell of a gud class buddy
@4:38 there's an error in the graphics: the Aeolian/Minor has Ab and Eb
If its all the same notes why call it different modes...just because yoyre starting it at a different note??
Like in baking… the order of the notes does affect the product
irs the same not on a different octave sometimes or on a different string
Because the intervals are different.
For instance, Phrygian has that distinctive flat second that makes it sound ominous and exotic
RUclips deleted my original reply so here goes another shot.
Every mode has its own characteristic feel, as per its different intervallic structure.
Phrygian has that minor second that gives it that dark sound.
The intro made me sub.
ok that's it I hated when people say Ghost is not metal. Ghost is METAL, and that is final
Great video!
I seem to use Ionian, aeolian, Dorian, Mixolydian most. After pentatonic minor and major. Putting it all together is the hard part over chord changes.
Bro i love you. Thankyou
Hmm, maybe you could explain it to me like I'm 4?
Excellent performance 👍
So you expect 5 year old to know what scale is?
there is an error in the diagram at 4:44: the aeolian scale should display Eb and Ab instead of E and A
Everybody gives this same information, but nobody explains when or how to use these modes
Great explanation!
My main problem with scales is not really understanding, it's remembering.
Modes of harmonic minor and melodic minor scales? Yes, please. Burning questions: Are modes of harmonic major used? Why only 26 modes and not a multiple of 7? Would arranging modes of major scale in order of descending 5ths make the Circle of 4ths and 5ths too complicated for 5 year olds? What's your take on Lydian Chromatic scales?
Im only 1:33 into the video and im already confused on exactly which frets am i supposed to start on? I mean with my guitar in hand i can sound out which fret and string your starting from on the first example of the Major C scale.
Every 6th scale note of a major scale will be its relative minor scale🤯
I’m using Harmonic Minor all the time and Locrian , Phrygian on the 5/Dom7. At first Sweet Georgia Brown sounded like she was having a nuclear meltdown. Turns out I don’t play fast enough yet.
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best intro ever
At 1:43 and at 3:05 the C dorian scales are different and don t have the same notes!
I really don’t agree with this approach to teaching modes, because whilst it helps with understanding how to construct them, it doesn’t help from a musical standpoint. I find it easier to think of the modes as either fundamentally major or minor, with a small tweak (usually just one note) to give them a slightly different flavour. This way things still relate back to the same tonal centre.
Hey Brandon can you cover how to get the sound of the modes into your playing? I understand how to find them but they always just sound like a minor or major scale run to me...the only time I can get that cool different sound is when I play something using the harmonic minor to get that "latin sound" kind of like smooth by Santana. Anyways as someone who hasn't taken lessons in a long time I really appreciate your videos and teaching style
If the pentatonic scales are five notes why did he play 6? I'm already 33% confused.
He played the root twice, c d e g a c
Let’s do it again but aim for the 12-18 month old mark
My five year old just had an aneurysm trying to work this out. 🥺
Damn, he really did explain it pretty well. I now actually have it🤣🤣🤣 bro, what a fuckin' bro for this💯🤘🏻
See it’s like combinations that seem endless and I don’t even know all the notes to even start memorizing the modes. scales seem easier because there’s like a set pattern to each scale, no matter where you play it on the fretboard. But notes and modes are still confusing to me.
His father is the angriest guitar player in the world.
You had me at “You’re all stupid as fuck!…” 😳😂😂🙌🙌🙌
my brain rejects modes. i just understand that sometimes the target notes shift. six of one…
would of been helpful if the fret numbers were there also in diagrams
I understood till the half tho. I'll use it
This started out helpful but I’m still confused as hell! I have had this explained to me so many times but it still doesn’t make any sense.
Plss go through the harmonic and melodic modes too
I would like if you covered the 2 minor scales. I already understand basically where all the modes come from but I haven't heard anyone cover the 2 minor modes
Great video! Very clean, however, after all the years I have tried, I see how it works but I CANNOT incorporate it. It's just too much, too overwhelming. I have always had a mental block with this. I play by ear via shapes.
Good good... Now explain it to me like I'm 3