Take the major scale as a starting point.
C major gives us the notes C D E F G A B
If you take that same note collection and make it sound like some kind of D scale, you get the D Dorian mode.
If you take that same note collection and make it sound like some…
Playing modes over a pedal tone is going to nail the sound of each mode down, but it can also be misleading in that you can wander around aimlessly within the mode and think you’re really “doing it”.
What you need, though, is to develop a sense of the strong and weak notes in each mode,…
What make the modes is where the music resolves… comes to rest… feels at home.
If you take a pool of notes – C D E F G A B – and make the C sound like home, you get the major scale or C Ionian mode (at this point think of mode as meaning way…
There are many good ways to practice modes.
Start in a major scale position and alter the notes in that position to get the modes:
Lydian – raise the 4th
Ionian – return the 4th to natural
Mixolydian – lower the 7th
Dorian – lower the 3rd and 7th
Aeolian – lower the 3rd, 6th and 7th
Phrygian – loser the…
