Modes: The Final Answer | Understand Modes on Any Instrument

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Modes?! Right? Not anymore! In this lesson I will help you to UNDERSTAND and EMBRACE modes once and for all. After you understand what a mode is, I will explain how they are used AND how to memorize them.

🎧LESSON INDEX

0:00 Lesson Intro
0:18 What’s a Mode?
5:21 How Modes are Used
8:23 How We Learn the Modes
16:58 Quick Review!
17:51 Outro

💡 LESSON TOPICS

♪ Modes are scales. When you play a scale you already know, but start and end on a note other than the first one, that’s a mode!
♪ Primarily, modes are used to stay in key.
♪ Modes can also be used to play in a specific style. Blues tends to use lots of Mixolydian modes.
♪ We memorize modes based on scale degrees.
♪ Each mode is in either major or minor tonality, determined by the 3rd. We compare major modes to the major scale and minor modes to the minor scale.
♪ We think of modes in scale degrees, having exceptions to either the major or the natural minor scale.

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📝DOCUMENTS

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🧑 ABOUT ME

My name is Alex, and my passion is teaching music online. I’m a bass player and composer by training and trade, but what I really love to do is teach. I make my living teaching private lessons on Bass, Guitar, Piano, and Ukulele. My favorite thing to teach is theory - helping the students understand the “why” behind the music and empowering them to make better and more informed musical choices. I’m very adamant about teaching technique. This is how you gain power and control over your instrument and ultimately raise the ceiling on where your limits are and where they will be in the future.

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