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Live Stream: Saturday, December 11th at 12:00pm EST (check your local time zone)
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Hey guys, we are back with Live Lesson EP037! This month’s topic is: Scales & Modes Explained (Part 2).
In this session, we’ll continue our deep dive into scales and modes. This month, our focus is on parallel modes. Which explains how each of the seven major scale modes are unique.
This month’s topic should stir up some great questions! So please post all you have below and I hope you guys join us for the live stream. 🙂
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Just viewed the live lessons on Scales and Modes – great work Matt! I have some background in music theory but I learn something new every time I revisit a topic. There are so many different ways everything is connected it is truly amazing. I have three questions.
#1 – Should we post comments here, or would you prefer we post them under the video on YouTube (or is there somewhere else that would be preferred)?
#2 – Is Leaves from the Vine from your Avatar Medley an example of C Mixolydian? It sure seems like it to me.
#3 – Not sure how to phrase this, but in the relative scales lesson you took the notes from the C Major scale and moved them down the fretboard using the different modes. This is a great way to learn the fretboard and I have incorporated it into my daily practice – thanks for this! If I took the C Dorian scale, could I do the same thing? If I did, when I played D Eb F G A Bb C would that be a different mode? D Phrygian?
Thanks for the great lessons!
@ajk101 – I can answer these for you 🙂
1) Either place is okay with us!
2) To my ear, I’d call it F major as the melody resolves to the tonic.
3) Yep! You’d be playing the 2nd and 3rd mode from Bb:
Thank you Andrew! This helps a lot. I was struggling with how you could tell the C Major and D Dorian apart because they share the same notes, but of course the I chord for the C Major is C major and the I chord for the D Dorian is D minor, and so on, and that’s a huge change right there. Now I see how, with some practice, you could tell the two apart by ear rather easily.
Thanks again and hope you are enjoying the holidays!
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