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 five interlocking patterns that are usually taught for the pentatonic scale. Each of those 5 patterns line up along side each other to cover the entire fingerboard with one scale.
A minor pentatonic = A C D E G
Anywhere you find those notes on the fingerboard, it’s the A minor pentatonic scale. If…
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…
Start forcing yourself to play notes out of step-wise sequence.
One way to do that is learn melodic patterns. Go through your scales and play 1 3 – 2 4 – 3 5 – 4 6 – 5 7 – 6 8 – 7 9 (thirds) or 1 4 – 2 5…
