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  • I “met” Chappers via the Anderton's videos; I feel in love with him here. You shall be getting my money after I have paid off my new guitar, good sir!

  • locrian sound nice when you tune down your guitar to D#... ask Slayer ;D

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  • you didn't lie in the first part, this changed my musical life.

  • Making Modes understandable in a clear and easy manner....and with humour too. Thank you! Loved this lesson.

  • Outstanding. Anyone wanting to start to get their head wrapped around "MODES" should really check out these two videos. I've watched a bunch and these may be the best two for getting started. Thank you for taking the time to make them. Really appreciated. Cheers to you.

  • thank you so much for this!

  • been playing for 4 years and never fully understood modes.... until now. really enjoyed that, nice one Chappers, thanks

  • what is the scale that jazz players use?

  • Great lesson. But I'm still going to learn the different mode shapes...

  • thanks really helpfull... I didn't understand a thing about modes. The way you explain it makes it fun to learn.

  • Im impressed. did you sat down and thought about teaching it this way? thats good teaching

  • I love you for showing me this....

  • this made so much sense! big thanks

  • am I the only one who was taught just to change specific notes in a major or minor scale to get modes?

  • @stevieboy444 maybe they came here expecting a kazoo lesson. -shrug-

  • wow ... epiphany, thanks!

  • Thank you !!!!!!! What a GREAT teacher !!!!!

  • This lesson was what I've been waiting for, for years! Thank you so much for this. I have books on modes and learned the various patterns, but you've just given me the insight that I needed to take everything to the next level. Thanks again!

  • Thank you so much! :D You are an amazing teacher and I've learnt a hell of a lot in just 15 minutes....now I can't wait to find my two signature modes :)

  • Aha ok, get it now. But correct me if I'm wrong, that was just a theoretical mistake, if you would play the scale there is no difference between the sharpened 4th or flattend 5th? No-flame-o ^^

  • @JurgenCeulemans Yes, you are correct, an F sharp and G flat are the same pitch but were not talking about enharmonic equivalents. Were talking about scale structure and intervals. If we were to call it a flat 5th then the scale would still contain the natural 4th, if we call it a sharp 4th then it will then contain a natural perfect 5th. It would be inappropriate to call it a flat 5 as it has structural implications on the scale, you are playing a sharp 4 in perspective to the Tonic/Root. Peace

  • @RichLucky13 Peace! Chappers rocks :)

  • Thanks for the lesson! The whole approach seems really cool! Just a minor point that Lydian is actually is a sharp 4 and not a flat 5. Might be worth putting a comment box on there to stop any crazy comments!

  • well done mr. chapman

  • Thankyou so much,,,,,you have a great technique for a new ( to me ) approach... you're a good man

  • It was quiet funny when you played every mode without the drone it just sounded like a major scale untill you added the drone! Finally found a good way to understand the modes! Thank you very much for sharing this!! :)

  • Hey Man, thanks for your tutorial, I think your great teacher and amazing player but...

    Please check your facts bro, The Lydian Mode in no way has a flat 5th.

    It is a Sharp 4th. e.g. C D E F-sharp G A B C.

    If it had a flat 5th: C D E F G-flat A B C

    which would mean the intervals would be in the wrong order to create lydian mode.

    If you get me?

    - Peace.

  • @RichLucky13 F-sharp and G-flat is the same note, why don't you check YOUR FACTS?

  • @JurgenCeulemans Before this turns into a flame war. You're right Jurgen F# and Gb are the same note. However if you think of Lydian as having a flat 5 you'd end up keeping the natural fourth. I.e. 1 2 3 4 5b 6 7 8. Lydian is actually 1 2 3 4# 5 6 7 8. As in it has a natural fifth and an augmented fourth (with no natural fourth). I hope this make sense?

  • This is the best explanation on modes I have ever heard. Thank you

  • 25 years of off and on playing, trying in vain to make some sense of it all... and you've just given me that moment of clarity! Unbelievable... I can't thank you enough. I'm gonna have to buy one of your guitars in the new year. Any ML1's available?

  • My god! I've been playing guitar for years and Modes just confused the hell out of me. I have never seen them explained so simply. Thank you Thank you!!!!

  • Rob - great lesson; this is actually how I teach the modes (droning the open E) to other guitar players and my guitar students - because the other ways that they are taught are so confusing. I was actually going to make a video like this one, but I see there is no longer a reason for it...

  • I must say the "drone" trick is great. I notice I can fool around with modes when I'm playing to a backing track but I tend to get lost if I'm just improvising for the hell of it. The "ear interval calculation" thing is a very interesting thing. Thanks Rob!

  • "it sounds like utter failidge" what a technical term :) love it!

  • Hearing the E major scale being played in a different position feels like the same old thing, but expecting Chappers to play the low E string and let it ring while playing the scale makes me impatient, and as soon as he does, his facial expression and "mythical" improvisations totally crack me up everytime

  • @stevieboy444 cuz they prolly misclicked:P

  • Rob, thank you. This is beautiful. What can you tell me about chord progressions with the various modes?

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  • AMAZING LESSON! thank you so much man, i can only aspire to be you!

  • dear mr chappers, correct me if i'm wrong please because i'm getting confused. i thought u got dorian mode by shifting all the notes of the major scale up, say a c major scale and i made the d the root that would be dorian and g# the root for phrygian? are you using different positions of the scale than me because i'm playing the c dorian scale as: e string 10 12 13 a string:10 12 14 d string 10 12 14?

  • FUCKING GREAT I MUST MEET YOU!

  • @RobChappers My question is would you refer to all of these modes as "E *mode name*?" Like E Dorian and E Ionian. Or is it E Ionian, D Dorian, etc...

  • @zeppelinfan182

    From wikipedia, adapted to "E" (wiki writes for C)

    E Ionian (E-F#-G#-A#-B-C#-D#-E) is also F# Dorian (F#-G#-A#-B-C#-D#-E-F#), G# Phrygian (G#-A#-B-C#-D#-E-F#-G#) and so on, until you return to the original E Ionian Mode

  • this is fucking great. great structure, easy to follow. great.

  • I knew tons of scales for years, and couldn't make any sense of Modes ! This just gave NEW Meaning to all of it !!!! Thanks !!!!!

  • Superb and this clearly explains what modes are in a nutshell, I learnt something adn I have been playing for years so mega thanks

  • thankyou it finaly made sense.I hope you have more vids?

  • half a year ago i didnt understand anything ure talking about. Now everything makes sense and its so beautiful that i just cried...no joke.

  • I think I get it. You are droning the E against the first note of the particular mode, right?

  • @verypeachy1 if you dont hear the droned E you just hear the major scale but in a different key (depending on which mode) but when you drone the E you hear it as in the key of E but it sound like a different mode

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  • Where did you read that Satriani focused on Dorian and Mixolydian? I know why he chose them. I just want to read or listen to him describing it.

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  • you make it so easy. thank you so much

  • Please someone answers this question. Can an E scale shape be considered the Dorian mode of D (a D sound being the root)?

  • THANK YOU!

  • learned in 10 minutes...I want my money back...love them...

  • I don't get it. Why are you always starting on E?

  • @verypeachy1 Because it's easy to use as a drone note, to show how an individual mode sounds.

  • @verypeachy1 You can apply it to any note and there are 7 modes to each that have different styles and each different mode on the same notes will work well with other minor scales in most cases

    Im learning with my own teacher mainly using G as the root while soloing over different modal chord progressions interlinking different scales which is a total mind**** for me cos i hate scales as it is

  • Excellent

  • Dear God! Thank you for using this musician to help bring some clarity to. me. I'm truly grateful for this lesson, thank you

  • this is THE BOMB! i was trying to teach my friend how mode works and he was like "uh? what?", know what ill do? ill paste this video on his facebook page you're a good teacher!

  • okay so i get all of this apart from... is a drone absolutely necessary? I'm pretty sure it is... but just wanna confirm my thoughts.

  • @undeadcress It's necessary to learn the concept, but it isn't necessary in application.

  • lol, am I the only one who laughed at, "hahaha, evil happy, like me."

  • Maybe somebody has pointed it out with this video being three years old, but I caught a mistake you should maybe correct with an annotation. You said that Lydian had a flat 5th, when in the case of Lydian it's actually a sharp 4th.

  • How do you know what chord the root is? I mean I can figure out what the open strings are because of the names of the strings themselves, but I wouldn't have known where to find an E anywhere else on the neck if you hadn't shown it

  • Hell thats awesome!

  • i cant belive its this simple, this clears everything up, can somone do me a favor and just list the modes in the order he taught them

  • diminished yaaa:p

  • so is every mode you showed there in the key of E? if not, how do you find the key? how would you play it in other keys?

    just confused there... sorry if i sound utterly stupid. Can anyone help?

  • @Lolz4Every1 yes all the modes in this video are in the key of E... to play in the other keys you just need to change this same positions and intervals all over the neck, for example 3 frets before if you want to play in key of G...

  • This is the best lesson ever!!!!! I love you!!! no homo xD

  • Thanks BRO!!! Best lesson on the internet!!! Thanks once again!!

  • thanx man...succint!! to the point!! ...I understood the modes,..but had a hard time hearing them properly...the drone string is the trick..!!!

  • Rob are you a fan of Mark Tremonti? I believe he uses mixolydian quite a bit.

  • i'm playing in drop C... any tip mister Rob to learn thiswithout changing the tuning? :/ or I need to change it

  • I forgot how goofy you looked with that hair...

    Good lesson, though! Exactly how I start my students out (with a different shape, though)...

  • Thanks mate!!! you made it more easy to learn understand. keep it up, you teach very well.

  • you are an amazing teacher loll... mix easy to understand lessons with hilarity (too bad my english teachers not as good as you eh :P maybe i'd learn how to spell) and all around epicness

  • I like locrian. It can sound really satanic and even melodic when you get used to it.

  • how would this work over chords? Im feeling a bit slow

  • Good sir my mind is blown. You are a master at the art of teaching

  • That was a great explanation that was simple to follow. Thank you for making the modes make sense to me. Excellent !!! 

  • Thanks, I finally got the whole picture out of the puzzle. It finally make sense why bag pipe keeps a continuous sound in the back, why an other cithar playing only one note all thru the play while the master was playing his heart out. While violins filling the air complements the other instruments indeed bringing a"mood". Btw we have in our brain a large portion dedicated to intervals. One reason why one can hum the rythm of a phrase or a music; long before we can master it. IE: "a language"

  • so all of the modes played in the video are in E? My mind has been wrecked by watching mode videos by other people

  • This is so badass that the 6th is now called the sickth note :)

  • All those modes sounds little bit arabic for me, not only Frygian :D

  • Your beard helped me understand modes. Thank you, Rob's Beard.

  • Great lesson mate quick question for ya, or anyone else that can help. You have used your open E to drone out, can use an open A or D then drop the different modes beneath that to change it up a bit??

  • @mendoza51100 It's perfectly possible. But you can't just shift the fingering pattern down one string and expect it to work, you need to figure out how the notes play out on the lower strings first. As soon as you figure that bit out you can shift around between the E and A strings effortlessly. The D string too, but there are only a couple of modes that would work with those 3 notes specifically! Hope this helps a bit and keep at it. :)

  • I can't thank you enough dude :) that menacing cloud of confusion about modes just went away. Your actually somekind of superhero I think :D

  • Nice one Chappers, this was great. I totally get it now.

  • Thanks. This is a great explanation of modes.

    I get the concept of modes but when playing my ear just keeps trying to kick it into the relative minor and ignore my fingers. Do I just need to practice it more and listen to more modal work or am I missing something?

  • "The best thing since sliced bread" lol.

  • I have trouble saying the word "sixth" as well haha. Good video though! I learned a lot.

  • @ChromeFang I thought maybe it was just a British thing to pronounce it as "sikth"

  • Thank you dude! that's a very understandable way to explain that! very helpful to beginners and pros alike!

  • who the hells been disliking this, your great man! i dig it

  • Everything in this video is amazing except your views on locrian! it sounds so mysterious and dark and demeaning and beautiful. Dissonance is a wonderful tool.

    thank you so much for these lessons.

  • I've been struggling for about 2 years to learn those mods and now I finally got them. This really is the easiest way to learn them. Thanks for this great video! I can hardly wait for the next video

  • Wow .. amazing videos dude! You've really helped me learn something new and I really enjoyed that!

    I'll watching out for more videos! Thank you so much for putting the time and effort into these videos to help us learn :)

  • hey im sorry if this is a stupid question..

    Correct me if im wrong but i have this understanding that the modes have the same notes, but at different orders, is that right?

    If so when u move E to the 2nd mode, dorian, u start at D, but isnt D not inside the E major scale? im sorry if this is stupid to u maybe i have learnt the wrong thing

  • add a bit of fretbuzz at 0:54 onwards and then its easternhahahahaha

  • uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh monkey shit lol jk awsome video chappers

  • Chappers is the man, out of every youtube viedo with guitars in it, I pay attention to his the most.

  • Music theory god

  • Awesome video man! Helped me out a lot

  • Monkey LORD, any advice on how to expand this to other roots? like if i want to practice on a D, etc.

  • @pcgamezoid yeah man i was wondering that too :)

  • v good

    

  • That, was AWESOME!

  • can anyone concoct a jizolydian scale ?

  • @moss1transcendant i probably can but it takes faster up and down strokes

  • Music theory does not need to be confusing. Brilliant explanation and demonstration!

  • Really cool! All I play it seems is pentatonics,an blues licks! Which is cool,but I got to learn this! Im subscribing!

  • i think im in love with you chappers.....

  • x) I love the Lydian mode. It sounds so cool.

  • a way bit confused here argh!

  • a way bit confused here

  • i do not understand this

    the same scale for all modes ?

    every modehas a different tone material

  • When I saw the title I though :  - well another so called "smart" teacher-.... but man, I was so wrong. I do really understand modes for the very first time.

    Great, clear, easy .... I want to tell you one million times : THANK YOU !!!!!!!

  • When I saw the title I though : - well another so called "smart" teacher-.... but man, I was so wrong. I do really understand modes for the very first time.

    Great, clear, easy .... I want to tell you one million times : THANK YOU !!!!!!!

  • rocking rob!

  • I agree with all the thumbs up, brilliant explanation, keep teaching dude you're awesome

  • Chappermeister FTW

  • Locrian, the best thing since sliced bread. Hell yeah :P

  • Thanks for the lesson. Joe Satriani is a big fan of your work!!

  • the only thing i dont like about this guy is the way he always says "this is what i call" lol what you mean is "this is what i learned watching vinnie moore or satriani or a dozen other videos" no disrespect this guy gives the best lessons! but it would sound weird if he said "this is what i call a guitar" so why make out like he invented this shit? not being a hater!

  • wonderful! but if you want to change the key, whats the easiest way of doing it?

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  • Bravo :)

  • tnx

  • Great lesson, maybe tabs to accompany this lesson would top it of.

  • Best explanation of modes I've seen. Thanks for that! Your other lessons are excellent as well.

  • sorry chap, but lydian is a major scale with a raised 4th, not a flattened 5th

  • Damn it! Never thought that modes are so easy to be learned. This is the best lesson I have ever seen on the internet. Thanks Rob!

    Cheers!

  • I at first didn't completely understand you, but than when i learned intervals and stuff and a friend gave me some advice. It became totaly Clear! thnx

  • everyday is a school day!! thanks for that chappers, i've actually learned something about modes without feeling dazed and confused,lol

  • Great videos. I've been a professional musician for years now and must admit that theory was never my strong point. I'm at the point of finishing our 4th album and have been avoiding writing some lead for a while :) (got some serious block)

    Your videos have really brought the fun back and make theory understandable and less daunting. Keep it up.

  • Never learned so much in so little time while sitting on a toilet.

  • Great! Nice guitar clinic too.. :)

    Btw, I have that guitar too but the Indonesian version. :)

  • wow! that was the most helpful video i've seen in aons! I fuckin' love you rob!!! I LOVE YOU!!! YOU'RE THE BEST!!!

  • funny this vid became my 100th fav vid :)

    nice vid, finally understood the modes!!!

  • thanks ..awesome vid...simplified it ...thanks again

  • Thank you Rob you are one Bad Ass Funky Monkey!!

  • very cool, ive been building modes in my head using the the tone format and rolling it like a treadmill. this is better! maybe ive been doing it wrong, moving the root on the low E up and down for modes. locrian is utter failage, I cant stop laughing !

  • haha i love the part where you play the locrian ! haha its horrendous isnt it ;)

  • I can't get my jaw off the floor, thank you for the most understandable explanation of any form of musical theory on the internet.

  • @itachi456789 the same thing happened to me

  • @itachi456789 I know, right. I may have to pick the guitar back up again after that. Very well explained.

  • @itachi456789

    yea hes pretty darn good at prescribing isnt he. some grace to the guy.

  • @itachi456789 Wow... thanks mate, that really means a lot to me! ;-)

    I'm actually about to work on a third part soon!

    Chappers

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  • @RobChappers Dude it really is the best explanation i have seen of the modes on youtube. You kick ass sir. Thank you! Oh and by the way, ORANGE RULES!

  • The most valuable videos on youtube. Thank you, kind sir.

  • Great video!

  • Orange. Orange everywhere.

  • Thank you. I love you for your movies and your effort. Keep going! Cheers!

  • Thank you and I love you.

  • wow, yet another simple yet powerful way of explaining the modes. awesome.

  • chris robinson plays guitar pretty good....lol

  • I just heard my guitar sound interesting for the first time in 20 years . Thank you for that mate . 

  • Great videos, with an excellent teaching technique, combined with some very good humour.

    Made the theory of scale structure much more understandable

  • well the appifany that occured to me in this video has made me so exited that i probably wont sleep tonight, but its way way way worth it!

  • The droning with the modes sounds so psychedelic, i love it

  • great lesson ;D

    are you a little bit influenced by metallica?! ;D