chusss - The Visitor BLOG: February 2017

16 February 2017

The Unique Flavor of Guitar Modes

Not only on the guitar of course, they are modes.. Music modes can be applied in any kind of music on any instrument. In this quick post I will give you an overview of the unique flavor of each of the musical modes.

I have been planning to do this long ago, and here it is finally.

The concept of parallel modes (when you play all modes starting from the same root note)

has been very useful to me to understand and apply the musical modes. Feeling the unique flavor/taste of each mode helped me apply it perfectly in the right context while improvising or composing a solo for a song or a guitar instrumental.

I first read about that in a lesson by Joe Satriani that he posted in "Guitar World" magazine.

So in this video I will go improvising through all the modes starting from C.

I play each mode separately for about 40 seconds then move on to the next one.

With each mode I have included some words that describe the feeling I get

when I listen or play that mode, this too helped me understand the modes clearly

The main purpose of this video is to show the unique taste of each guitar mode. However here are scale charts of the 7 modes as demonstrated in the video. Make sure to listen and play each mode slowly until your ears and mind are clearly aware and familiar with its unique taste.

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