Thank you, your approach of modes is really comprehensible! Just a question though: In hispanic music I often hear this diminished second and the sound of this mode, but on a major chord (for example, in a progression Am, GM, FM, EM). Could we still say it's phrygian E even if we are on a E major chord?
Absolutely, because what makes it phrygian is the E to the F note interval, now you might want to be careful with playing the minor 3rd over that E chord (often used as an E7) cause it can cause some clashing, but throw that F in there and it'll sound wicked.
Awesome videos man. Just watched the one on triplets and I wanted to ask: I'm still learning pentatonic shapes, do you recommend me to include triplets as I practice the shapes or should I first get the shapes right and then get into triplets?
Absolutely include triplets. Something that gets overlooked a lot when practicing scales is practicing rhythms along at the same time. If you're gonna play a scale might as well work on subdivisions while you're at it. 2 birds with one stone!
Dudes you guys are the cats pijamas. I was having trouble understading modes and how they work but your videos helped me out big time. Thanks and cheers! Do a video on chord substutions plz!
You should equate the 7 dwarves with the modes..... Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey. Happy has to be Ionic but the rest you can figure out haha. Another great lesson ...love this series.
This is just a moment/transient mood and not a song example, but I think (?) Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" goes into Phrygian on the line (edited) "remember to always think twice". It is wonderful.
Well, Western music, which is the doninant music of musical study all over the civilized world, works with the diatonic scale. The major second will alaways be the default second note of the major scale, and playing a flat 2, or (flat 9,) also known as a minor second, will make your music sound like an indian sitar brigade is playing an acoustic jam session on your beachfront property. Sorry, Eurocentrism wins. It's much easier to have a C major scale with two half tones, than to have a major scale with a minor second, that has to sharpen all of it's 2nd notes to play a song that was not written by Ravi Shankar or the Mahavishnu Orchestra. :P
Gm, Cm, Aflatmaj, Eflatmaj, back to Gm. Is this a Gm Phrygian progression??? this is also the chord progression for Daft Punk/The Weekend. "I Feel it coming"
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"Alone Again or" is possibly a good western use of Phrygian. I like a lot The Damned cover of it (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nYVDN27CrOo.html)
You guys are likeable and sociable, but I don't watch guitar videos for the unrelated banter. Cut to the meat so I don't have to skip all around! Just the opinion of a passer-through. Your personalities will shine through during the lesson anyway. Good stuff otherwise, though, thanks.
You two act like you know so much about about modal harmony. Really, you just know the flats and sharps in each modal scale, and are just winging it in the examples of how to implement the modes. You guys are playing modes, and hitting random notes, and pretending like you meant to, and then saying, oh, very cool move there buddy. These guys are complete wankers. They have no idea what they are doing with modal harmonies. Learn the modes, and then move on, turn these jokers off, and learn from someone or something, that knows their modal jazz/harmonies. Learning modes only helps you when you start soloing over a chord progression. As the chords change, you can change modes to articulate the chords in your solo using the seven modes. Also, some modes work over more than one chord. For example, in an E minor 12 bar blues. With Em, Am, and dmin7 chords in the standard 12 bar format, E aeolian mode will work over the entire progression. But also, A aeolian works over the Am chord, and D dorian works over the Dmin7 chord. Does that make sense, does that make it obvious how half baked this lesson is? Hope I could point some of you in the right direction. Best of luck.
