How’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to show you a cool exercise for chaining the positions of the major scale together and it’s just a good all-around picking exercise and an exercise for your fretting hand for shifting back and forth between the positions. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at this.
All right, so the first thing here let’s just go over these two scale patterns just in case you don’t know them. So these patterns that I’m using are three notes per string. I like using the three note per string scales because it just makes it easier for alternate picking and for hooking the patterns together and this is completely movable. So we’re doing this in the key of G major, but you can move this around to whatever key you want.
So I’m starting here on the third fret of the low E because that’s G. So we’re starting on G and we’ve got three, five, seven and then on the A string three, five, seven, the D string we have four, five, seven, the G string, four, five, seven, the B string, five, seven, eight and the high E, five, seven and eight; so that’s our G major scale, G Ionian.
So how these hook together is there’s three notes per string and notes two and three are notes one and two of the next position. So the next position is going to start on the fifth fret, this is our Dorian shape. So now we’ve got five, seven, eight and then on the A string we have five, seven, nine, D string five, seven, nine, G string five, seven, nine, B string seven, eight, ten, and high E seven, eight and ten.
All right, so for this little sequence what we’re going to do is we’re going to play the first six notes of Ionian and now we’re going to shift up to the next position. So right now we just left off we’re on the third, fifth, and seventh fret. So we’re going to move up to the next position which will put us at the fifth, seventh and ninth fret, and then we’re gonna descend the Dorian shape, so nine, seven, five, and then to the low E, eight, seven and five. So that’s basically the entire sequence and then all we do is just move on to the next string. We’re starting on the A string and we’ll do the same sequence based on the A and the D strings. So now for the A string, we start on the third fret, three, five, seven and then to the D string, four, five, and seven. Now again these two notes here at the fifth and the seventh are notes one and two of the next position, so now we’re just going to shift up nine, seven, five, and then on the eight on the D string and then to the A string, nine, seven and five. Now we’ll just start the sequence over again on the D string, four, five, seven, and then to the G string, four, five and seven. Now I shift up nine, seven and five on the G string and nine, seven and five on the D string. Now we start the sequence over again on our G string, so again we’ve got four, five, and seven and now when we go to the B string we have to shift up a half step and it’s five, seven, and eight.
Now we shift up to our next position, so again notes two and three here are notes one and two. So starting on the B string, ten, eight, and seven, and then we have to shift down a half step when we go to the third string, nine, seven, and five. Now we start the sequence over again on the second string, the B string, so we five, seven, and eight and then to the high E, five, seven, and eight. Now we shift up ten, eight, seven and go to the B string, ten, eight, seven and then end there on eight. Now the reason I end there on eight is that it’s our G, so it just makes it resolve.
All right, so again like I said, this is movable. If you wanted to do this say in the key of A major, then we would start here on the fifth fret, so on and so forth like that, it’s movable, you can move it around to wherever it is that you would like it to be, whatever key you would like to play in. Now the entire thing is done with alternate picking, so I’m down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up and then we go starting on the fifth string it starts with a downstroke, so no two downs in a row no two ups in a row. All right, so like I said it’s pretty simple to play. If you don’t already know those scales you’re going to have to get them down first, so that adds a little bit of a challenge to it, but basically what I want you to get out of this is just the exercise and the way that it hooks together. So I did a lesson a while back that went over all seven of the modes and the patterns and stuff, so if you refer back to that you can not only learn the two scales that we used, here but the other five that go along with it and then you can do a larger arrangement of this exercise. So you could start off with G Ionian and then A Dorian and then shift up to B Phrygian and then up from there to Lydian and so on.
I’ll put a link for that lesson right here so you can go check that out and learn the other patterns and then you could expand on this whole idea.
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Lead Guitar Lesson – Learn the Melodic Minor Guitar Modes – Guitar Theory
Hello. This is Cameron Rasmussen for guitarcontrol.com.
Hi, guys. Today we’re going to be talking about non diatonic modes again.
Now, as I’ve discussed in earlier videos, a mode is a scale that sits
within another scale when you rearrange tones and semitones and you
start and end on a different note than you began with originally,
but still using all the same notes of the original scale.
This is part II about guitar modes from Cameron…
about the greek modes applied to the guitar!
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Lead Guitar Lesson – How to Play the Modes on Guitar –
Part II – Guitar Theory
This is Cameron Rasmussen for guitarcontrol.com.
So today we’re going to be talking about modes again,
part II. This is because years ago when I was learning
the modes for myself I had to look at them in so many
different ways until I actually understood what they
were and how to use them. Now, that’s why I want to do
this video today and we’re going to be looking at them
from different perspectives.
Now the first mode we’re looking at today is G major
or G ionian and the numbers for it are arranged as such:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1. Simple. The tones and semitones
are arranged like this: tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone,
semitone. So that’s the template for the order of tones
and semitones that we’re going to be using and changing
around for every other mode that we look at today.
This is Cameron with another cool guitar lesson
about the harmonic minor modes applied to the guitar!
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Lead Guitar Lesson – Learn the Harmonic Minor Guitar Modes – Guitar Theory
Hello. This is Cameron Rasmussen for guitarcontrol.com.
So, guys, today we’re going to be talking about non-diatonic
modes. Now, as we’ve discussed in earlier videos, a mode
is a scale that’s within another scale when you rearrange
the order of tones and semi tones and start and end on a
different note than the one that you began with.
The modes that we’ve covered so far in previous videos were
diatonic modes; modes that come from the major scale. Today
we’re going to be covering modes that are not diatonic, such
as modes that come from the harmonic minor scale.
We’re going to be using the key of A flat minor for
these examples and we’re going to be starting with
the first mode, harmonic minor in A flat.
The second mode is locrian natural 6, and it goes like this.
The third mode is ionian sharp 5, and that sounds like this.
The fourth mode is called dorian sharp 4 and it sounds like this.
The fifth mode is called phrygian dominant and it is
the most commonly used mode of harmonic minor.
The sixth mode is called lydian sharp 2 and that one goes like this.
The last mode from the 7th is sometimes referred to as the
diminished scale. But it’s not in the traditional sense
like a whole-half or half-whole diminished scale.
It sounds like this.
So out of all the scales and modes I showed you today
there are two that you should definitely have under your
belt. The first one is the harmonic minor scale from the
root. It’s very widely used through lots of kind of metal,
like shred metal and neo classical metal, because it gives
you that more classical baroque sounding side of metal.
If I had a groove like this in A flat, I could just use
the scale however I wanted, implying that natural 7 on
the groove, like this. I was just randomly choosing
little licks in harmonic minor and it fits.
So the second scale that you should know, as I said before,
is the phrygian dominant scale. It’s very widely used in metal
as well as jazz, and this is because when you take the arpeggio
that’s built from it using the root, 3rd, 5th and flat 7th of this,
you get a dominant 7th chord. In this case you would get E7. If
you use the rest of the notes from the scale you get flat 9 and
flat 13 from this scale. These are nice tensions to add on a dominant
7th chord when you’re using it and you’re improvising. If I just had
some kind of groove on E7… And that was all using phrygian dominant.
All right, guys, this has been a quick lesson in non
diatonic modes in harmonic minor. These are good
modes to use because they give you new flavors and
sounds when you’re improvising and even composing
your own stuff that isn’t as widely heard by people.
If you learn them they won’t let you down.
Please click the link in the video description
if you’d like to see the tab for the examples I
showed you today and I’ll see you next time.
This is Cameron with another cool guitar lesson!
This one is about the greek modes applied to the guitar!
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Lead Guitar Lesson – How to Play the Modes on Guitar – Part I
Hey, guys. This is Cameron Rasmussen for guitarcontrol.com.
Today, guys, I would like to talk to you about modes. Modes
are a very, very important part of all music and understanding
them is a great way to breakthrough in your improvising when
you’re soloing on anything. It opens so many doors and it opens-up
the way you see the fretboard in such a great way. That’s what
I’d like to look at today.
What a mode is, is a scale that sits inside another scale.
You pick whatever scale you want to use and then if you pick
a different note inside that scale, play all the same notes,
start an end on it an octave up, you’ve played a mode of that
scale. That’s what a mode is in a nutshell.
We’re going to be looking at the modes inside G major today.
G major is a mode in itself. It’s also known as ionian. Ionian
is the first mode we’re going to be looking at. Major and ionian
are interchangeable terms. So this is G ionian. Here it goes.
The next mode, dorian, goes like this. The next one after that
is phrygian from the 3rd. It goes like this. The fourth mode,
from the 4th, is lydian and that goes like this. The fifth mode,
from the 5th, is mixolydian and that goes like this. The sixth
mode is known as aeolian, which is also an interchangeable term
for relative minor. They’re both the same thing. That one goes
like this. The last mode from the 7th, locrian, goes like this,
down here on the 2nd fret.
There are seven modes that I just showed you, and they all have
a lot of applications when you get into higher levels. But two
of them that I’m going to show you now, mixolydian and dorian,
have two very essential applications whether you’re playing jazz
or blues or rock. You can use it in lots of different places,
but they’re very important to know.
The names of the modes, again, like I said before, going through
them are ionian, the major scale; dorian; phrygian; lydian;
mixolydian; aeolian, relative minor; locrian and back to ionian.
Certain chords, sometimes specific on context, but certain chords
always get matched-up with certain modes. One example of this would
be any 7th chord. So if we had an E7th chord, we would have —
mixolydian would go with that because it has a natural 3rd and a
flat 7, just like in an E7 chord. So it’s like a major scale with
a flat 7. You’d actually look at that as your root if you were
soloing on just that one chord.
Now, in jazz, on any minor 7th chord, let’s say D minor 7,
you almost always use dorian on that chord. It gives you
the natural 6th instead of a flat 6 from aeolian. That gives
you a much more jazzy sound and depending on if you’re
playing in moving-chord context or a modal context, you
can use that natural 6th a little bit more. But for minor
7th chords, it’s generally dorian that you use.
So, guys, you can play around with the modes I just showed
you inside G major and make sure you use the root of that
mode very specifically and like make it strong. Play around
with the sound of it and you’ll notice it has a very unique
sound, even though you’re still inside G major.
All right, guys, please click the link in the video description
if you’d like to see the tab and I’ll see you next time.