For this episode of Teaching Tuesday I explain what scales and modes are and how rock and metal bands use them. Any questions leave a comment. My video on Key and Tonal Centers- • How Musicians Write So...
Thanks for the explanation, John. It is amazing how scales can be used in rock music. Angus Young and David Gilmour usually stick to the pentatonics, but how different they play and sound! What do you think is the secret of Blackmore? He seems to combine different scales in 1 solo. Why is is style so absorbing and adventurous? hope you can shine a light.
When you say "modal", Phrygian, I knew it was not modern modal Jazz ideas you were referring to, but is modal jazz also a referent to the Greek system? To add to the language game looseness, there is a theological concept referring to modalism, as in Christ assuming three different "modes" instead of the Nicene trinity of one in three.
