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Now, if a picture paints a thousand words, then what is a video worth ?
It is quite easy once you get your head around the concept, but that takes some doing !
I thought that these videos, between them, explained things quite well.
https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjyDx4647QA
And Rob Chapman (no, don't start!) explains things pretty well here in this old video (if I have the right ones)
Duration 7:46
https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKbPIGnqt80
Duration 7:45
https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uhN5h1o7ww
Plenty more on YouTube, sometimes it just takes time to read and watch different approaches, looking at the same thing from different angles, and then the penny slowly drops, HTH
If the anchor bass is a C then we hear the typical Zappa Lydian mode (solo on "Inca Roads"), if it's an A then it's Dorian (solo on "The Torture Never Stops") and centring on D will give more of a bluesy type thing.
But think about it in terms of chords - vamp on A minor, C major and D major and all those notes fit in nicely. Choose a tonal centre and it turns into, "Hey Ma, I'm improvising in D Mixolydian!"
You note, initially, the key of G. However for E Mixolydian shouldn’t that be E Aeolian - a vi chord with the diatonic scale from E F# G A B C D E ? You seem to have taken E Mixolydian from A Dorian....confused, much
Is this possibly a problem with learning modes...that is trying to learn it by itself where, in reality, it really requires accompaniment to discern the nuances ?
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Edit: Beat me to it.
https://youtu.be/CTYJgmEvcKA
if you want to learn them face to face, and don't live millions of miles from Berkshire, you can book a one off face to face session with me and I'll walk you through them..
they're not that difficult when the penny drops..
I think the hardest thing for my students to learn is WHERE to use each one. Most find they’re already doing it without actually labelling it. It’s getting to know the sound of each mode and and example piece of music that highlights that sound. For example, the old satriani Classic ‘flying In a blue dream’ quite nicely outlines the Lydian sound in the first part of the track. I’ll even use something like ‘September’ by Earth Wind and Fire- ‘A’ major through the most part of the (verse) sequence then changing to ‘A’ mixolydian over the last chord to highlight the b7. It’s the much needed ‘ear training’ that’s needed, not just learning a shape.
Just my take on it...
Example: D Dorian has the character note "B".
Dorian Chords can be created by using every 4th note of the Mode, or for the more adventurous every 7th note (reversed 2nds)
Managed to figure out that you can play B Mixolydian (I think, from memory) over the solo of Show Me The Way by Peter Frampton - although I'm taking the approach of adding in both the blues notes AND the mixolydian notes. Sounds pretty good to my ears anyway!
EDIT - it's actually A Mixolydian..... with a B minor pentatonic shape over the top if you want. Plus blues notes if required.
A week ago I looked at this and went "huh?"
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/122331/
http://modewheel.co.uk/
Now I look at it and go "yay!"