Dear Mr. Chappers. I rarely ever comment on Youtube videos, but I have to thank you. The way you explained this concept in this video finally made me understand it, in spite of me struggling to wrap my brain around it for literally an entire year now. You, sir, have earned yourself a new subscriber, and my very most sincere gratitude. Thank you.
I always understood modes as targetting a specific tone as the root. If I wanted to play D Dorian, I would play the notes of the C Major scale with the D as my root because dorian is based off of the second degree of the major scale. Am I correct or has the internet influenced me to a false conclusion?
omg my brain is frying. i'm usually really good with musical theory but i'm just not getting this haha the lesson is giving me a rough understanding which is excellent compared to most other lessons that have given me nothing. i think my problem is that i'm confusing myself with so much jargon that's overflowing into other theory haha i need to tidy up my thoughts.... thanks btw
I think your point that all the scales (blues, harmonic etc aside) and modes are just one shape that we move around is the most important thing ive ever learned about playing the guitar
@jacobi2393 Thanks dude, and yes I would agree with you... It is a very simple concept that most teachers neglect to teach because it gives them less to teach ;-)
@gnrmanmatt This (and this video equally) are the two things that have helped me have a breakthrough in my understanding of guitar theory. Thanks a lot :)
ok I think I've got it - let's say I want to play in E Phrygian at the 5th fret. The fifth fret is A which is the three (shapes) up from E in the scale, three shapes up from Phrygian is Aeolian, so if you play the Aeolian shape at the 5th fret you will be playing in E Phrygian. It helps to draw a circle with 7 segments with the name of the modes in each.
Thanks you Mr. Chappers, I now realize that I know absolutely nothing about guitar playing .. I took lessons for two years as a teen and then not a thing else .... In stopping playing playing guitar for two decades and then coming back the one thing that I absolutely lost .. was the ability to play any sort of lead.
I'm confused... @ 2:34 you say you won't move your hand yet your examples all involve moving your hand about the fretboard, Lydian on Gsharp, Mixolydian on Fsharp and Dorian on Bminor. Why the contradiction?
@euphoricism i'm also a bit confused, maybe because my teacher thaught me the modes in a different way than what chappers explains, i'm learning all from root, for example, mixolydean - maj 2nd, maj 3rd, perfect 4th, perfect 5th, maj 6th, minor 7th, and also to help me sorting out the scale let's say i'm in D dorian and i find my "mother scale" by counting back 1 note as the dorian is the 2nd step of the diatonic scale i find out that D dorian is the that B iolian (major) starting in D.
Great info, thanks. I usually start out with my students teaching the modes, and one pretty simple shape (Eb natural minor on the 7th fret) and once they have that down, I pop the surprise that just changing the chord your are playing against changes the mode and thus the feel of the run... and of course, you can change the position of the shape over the same chord to do the same thing...
Anyway... you have sort of helped me to expand that lesson some. Thanks!
thanks allot for this! really cleared up allot. i used to think of modes as shapes and thats why i was confused about why modes in the same key had the same notes and what made them different. now i understand that a mode is determined by which note on a scale your call "home" or end on
Excelent lesson. I never really liked the idea of modes as intervals. I think it confuses people and makes it much more difficult. I always say to think of modes as a subset of one key (C major,d dorian) The d dorian is just a subset of C major only that your playing from d to d rather than c to c. It's different for exotic scales for the the usual suspect, it works well. Anyway, great lesson! I've never been a fast player but your insight will help increase my speed.
Fantastic lesson!!!, I've known the modal scale patterns for years, but never got my head around the application so to speak, altough I need to practice and think things through you just unlocked it and smashed the bullshit out of it, GREAT lesson thank you very very much. This will have a major impact on my playing!!!!
ps...It's all well and good knowing the theory, but it's nothing without an ear...I can twiddle in Mixolydian but can't for the life of me to get it to sound like blues...when I do it it always sounds like Clannad on Mogadon. :(
chappers your awsome you make things so clear and simple but this is going in one ear and out the other.....i think im gonna throw my guitar out the window in a minuit my head has just given up trying to understand
chappers your awsome you make things so clear and simple but this is going in one ear and out the other.....i think im gonna throw my guitar out the window in a minuit
Wow, this is a lot of information to digest! I thought I had it all, but then I tried to answer the questions and I couldn't. Still, let's have in mind that my knowledge regarding modes was none. This lesson was really helpful, I'll just have to watch it again really carefully and process everything again. I'll be waiting for part two. Thanks Chappers for explaining something a lot of people find difficult to learn!
Nice lesson. I am a fan of the CAGED system especially for that reason you said about needing to navigate in every position on the neck but there is so many ways to think of all this stuff and there's no such thing as knowing it "too well". Coming at it from alot of different angles seems to be useful in seeing the big picture. The counting up or down thing is useful.
Thank you so much, there's a ton of stuff in this lesson I had kind of figured out myself but had never had explained to me in a concise way that I could really apply.
Especially what you were saying about there really only being one shape.
Chappers, thanks for giving me another tool to add to my guitar arsenal. I have for user used Frank Gambale's three note per string method, and primarily used Major, Dorian and Mixolydian shapes. Why I never thought of a cooler patter for modes is beyond me. Thanks for opening my eyes a bit wider. You are a great teacher.
ok, now what I need to understand is what is a penthatonic scale. I think this is what I'm using all the time, because a straight major scale sounds wrong to my ear... but I really don't understand the mecanic of this thing... thanks chappers
@maxlamenace987654321 A pentatonic scale is a scale with five notes, the major and minor scales are heptatonic, or seven note scales and these seven note scales are what he's talking about in this video. because there are seven notes there are seven modes. The most common pentatonic, and the one you probably use is the minor scale with the second and sixth note removed, since the minor scale has seven notes taking two away makes it pentatonic
HOLY CRAP, CHAP! ive been self taught for years, playing basically off scales and ear, and just now discovered youtube video's like this one.. very inspiring. for the first time, i acutally wrote down the modes and want to go learn do all my research until this entire video makes perfect sense. please leave it up for a long time lol
@VintageburstStandard- I understand and can identify intervals, i can put the modes in order and can build modes based on theory. I also did learn the way he mentioned the modal shapes based on G. t just seems confusing here
@GrungePuppy27 Habit Vs music Vs programmed expectation, the curse of the music student. How 'bout this; don't learn any new songs, don't do anymore excercises, just spend your playing time working out the riffs, licks & song you can hear in your head when you're away from the guitar. Use your phone to scat all your ideas when you're out & about. Pretty soon you'll start to discover who you are as an artist. Good luck Brother
i love that never having lessons and being half decent my mind learning to play by ear and becoming quite proficient at it your lessons are bar none the best explained and most usefull of any youtube lesson ive ever encountered. can i live in your basement and learn guitar from you? ill move there from Canada fuck it.
I've been playing almost 9 years and my theory is pretty bad, i know scale shapes and stuff but this vid shall prove very handy. I basically learnt most of my stuff from just playing rather than reading up on modes and what not.
chappers, I already know the five positions of the pentatonic scale, so what mode would each position correspond to? I know that when you solo using the pentatonic, staring on the first position would be minor, playing the second position starting at the same spot would be major, so the second position is Ionian?
@maxima0087 There are seven positions of the major scale, becuse there are seven notes. The first position is the one everybody knows and you probably use it. The second position of the major scale would be a scale starting from the second note of the first postion, so if first position is 1234567 than second position is 2345671, starting on the third fret if you play the first position of the major scale it is G Ionian, if you start at the third fret and play the second postion it is G Dorian
@1xDRCx If you choose minor pentatonic you can put over it some modes (minor modes because of their minor third) So dorian mode is minor pentatonic+ major 2º+major 6th. If you choose 6th mode, eolian (or minor) its minor pentatonic+ major 2º+ minor 6th. You can do that with all minor modes. WIth major modes you just need to do the same thing but on major pentatonic place. If you put the major 2nd and 6th in all your minor pentatonic you have all the fretboard to play on that key, mode dorian
@1xDRCx maybe I can help u even a little. I don't think u can just apply mode by using " scale position". U need to know what is characteristic for that mode, what note. I'm not sure right now, so that this with credit, but I think that for example myxolidian mode would have fifth note as characteristic note. So u would simply pick chords that have that note in themselvs for "backingtrack" and use that note as much as u can. But saying again, take this with credit. Cheers
Thanks alot for the lesson, one of the best I've seen on modes, can't wait for part 2, btw i found the pattern you taught for the natural minor very good, you should inculde some more of those to cover good distance on the neck in an easy to understand way, like u said first finger slide minor pattern etc, made it easy to remember
Hey Chappers can you do me a huge favor? I have been writing music for about a year now and I feel like I am stuck in a rut with soloing. Could you go and listen to one of my songs and see what I mean? I just can't seem to break out of the box when it comes to soloing :/
Hey Chappers can you do me a huge favor? I have been writing music for about a year now and I feel like I am stuck in a rut with soloing. Could you go and listen to one of my songs and see what I mean? I just can't seem to break out of the box when it comes to soloing :/
chappers! gear question from a Isle of Wight monkeyfan! who makes the stock pickups for the ML2? they sound killer! and i really want to whack a set in my explorer project...
@joshmore They are just stock pups sourced by my guy in China, they just happen to rock - However we don't sell them separately so you can only get a set of Chapman Pickups in a Chapman Guitar. By the way the ML2 comes fitted as standard with the same humbucker as the ML1 \m/
@RobChappers oh but chappers! i have my project body and i want a stupidly cheap set of pickups to fill it out, i don't wanna buy an ML2 just to tear the pickups out D: source me a set and name your price ;)
@scotty688 You make a good point - it seems to me that the video, while being v good, doesn't actually do what Chappers describes at the beginning, i.e. enable one to play any mode at the position of one's hand - I thought he was going to go on and say 'ok here we are' at various positions and work it out from there, instead he stayed pretty much in the 2nd fret area for both examples. This is like how to play play the same scale with different tonality or something (I'm still learning myself)
I missed one example, I should say the third example was at the 7th fret - but the point remains we aren't basing the exercise around the position of the hand
@scotty688 ... playing E phrygian at the 14th fret would be the next scale up - Lydian. What part of the aeolian shape is at the 14th, I can't work out however...argh
very nice lesson i already realized this concept on my own when i first got into modes although i think that to really take the most out of this a player must be aware that there are certain target notes within modes that need to be hit and brought out to outline the flavour of the mode itself ;)
@NNX7 Top point Dude. After all, the literal translation from the ancient Greek for modes is Moods, the one thing that nearly everyone who tries to explain the modes forgets to say. So, just to spell it out clearly, when people ask what are modes, they are ways of expressing musical moods.
I didn't really get Modes yet but wouldn't the B Major scale played over E be Lydian? Because Lydian is the fourth mode and E is the fourth note in the B major scale?
@RobChappers So when I want to play a certain Mode I just have to work out the matching scale (based on Major Minor Minor Major Major Minor Diminished) which contains the Key as nth note were n is the number of the Mode?
Shape per mode isn't just limiting at first. It seems to me to be a really awful way to teach modes. I've always tried to teach modes this way as well. Loved how you presented it. Going to steal parts of it if you don't mind ;p
Then the remaining step is to write licks in their chosen modes, creating a practical working live vocabulary that they could use in say a tasty blues rock jam. This eliminates the "Playing scales not music" type sound that is so prevalent ;-)
uhm, so basically all you do is: you choose, for example a C-major scale, and then if you play all the notes from the C-major scale starting on a D you get a Dorian scale?
@GrungePuppy27 Well you could try using less gain, thicker strings and a higher action - make it harder for you to use legato which is the main ingredient here .-)
I remember posting a comment on the 15 minute lesson on modes asking for help in their application a year ago. Finally it's here. Thanks Rob, my understanding of modes deepened and many of my doubts got cleared. You really are a people's musician taking the time to teach this and keeping it all so simple. Thank you so much.
I finally just about almost kinda sorta get it now, maybe.
YouBeToobing 1 week ago
finally, modes acomplished!
logeybear5150 1 week ago
Brilliant, thanks..........is there any more?
docnozzle 2 weeks ago
Dear Mr. Chappers. I rarely ever comment on Youtube videos, but I have to thank you. The way you explained this concept in this video finally made me understand it, in spite of me struggling to wrap my brain around it for literally an entire year now. You, sir, have earned yourself a new subscriber, and my very most sincere gratitude. Thank you.
cho0onger456 4 weeks ago
Chappers, you are my god. Thankyou.
mjwoodworth 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Is this like the relative minor thingy?
ravenshield56 1 month ago
I always understood modes as targetting a specific tone as the root. If I wanted to play D Dorian, I would play the notes of the C Major scale with the D as my root because dorian is based off of the second degree of the major scale. Am I correct or has the internet influenced me to a false conclusion?
jacobtheguitarfreak 3 months ago
@jacobtheguitarfreak Correct. If you want to hear the unique sound of Dorian...drone a D note and play D Dorian over it. :)
ajb2k9 2 months ago
Brilliant lesson - really helped me a lot, so thank you. (Y)
acousticguitar48 4 months ago
GREAT tone. It sends chills up my spine....it's perfect!
missystu 4 months ago
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Hmm What if I learnt the CAGED major scale and not the 7pos??
iamgreyhound 4 months ago
Part 2 please!
jimmynitcher 5 months ago
part 2 please!!
jimmynitcher 5 months ago
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matineesuxxx 6 months ago
which lesson in your store deals with intervals? None are labeled "intervals" or some such.
GoliathGT 6 months ago
omg my brain is frying. i'm usually really good with musical theory but i'm just not getting this haha the lesson is giving me a rough understanding which is excellent compared to most other lessons that have given me nothing. i think my problem is that i'm confusing myself with so much jargon that's overflowing into other theory haha i need to tidy up my thoughts.... thanks btw
chops1995 6 months ago
@chops1995 this lesson makes way more sense after youeve seen the previous videos. 'Learn the modes in just 15 minutes'
chacalXXX 5 months ago
I got it :) thnx man ur a great teacher. I subscribed to a lot of other utube teachers but this vid makes u my number one.
Mrsamlki 6 months ago
Chappers, you're such a Legend, Great lesson :)
JHincheyGuitar 6 months ago
So wherever your mode is placed, say E, you count up the modes until you get to a certain one? what aghh 6 people have tried to explain this to me :P
ravenshield56 7 months ago
I think your point that all the scales (blues, harmonic etc aside) and modes are just one shape that we move around is the most important thing ive ever learned about playing the guitar
jacobi2393 7 months ago 3
@jacobi2393 You will son learn that it is the most basic...
chacalXXX 5 months ago
@jacobi2393 Thanks dude, and yes I would agree with you... It is a very simple concept that most teachers neglect to teach because it gives them less to teach ;-)
RobChappers 5 months ago
see I think I started to do this last night after watching your first vid on modes
greyndog1 7 months ago
ok thanks, I'm really into this so looking forward eagerly awaiting on tenterhooks etc
jimmynitcher 7 months ago
fantastic video Rob - when can we see part 2 ?
merseyguy1974 7 months ago
easy way to remember people !
idiots dont play like metallica and led zeppelin
ionian, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian, aeolian, locrian :)
gnrmanmatt 7 months ago 23
@gnrmanmatt This (and this video equally) are the two things that have helped me have a breakthrough in my understanding of guitar theory. Thanks a lot :)
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@gnrmanmatt
Or you could use:
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D1vid3By0 1 month ago 4
ok I think I've got it - let's say I want to play in E Phrygian at the 5th fret. The fifth fret is A which is the three (shapes) up from E in the scale, three shapes up from Phrygian is Aeolian, so if you play the Aeolian shape at the 5th fret you will be playing in E Phrygian. It helps to draw a circle with 7 segments with the name of the modes in each.
jimmynitcher 7 months ago
So helpful lesson! Thanks!
ladaxi 7 months ago
Dude... THANK YOU!!! u saved me 1000 hours of thinking!
AzinGuitar 7 months ago
so basically, if the song is in the key of C, and i played an A minor scale, its becomes a C major scale?
tico7464 7 months ago
Thanks you Mr. Chappers, I now realize that I know absolutely nothing about guitar playing .. I took lessons for two years as a teen and then not a thing else .... In stopping playing playing guitar for two decades and then coming back the one thing that I absolutely lost .. was the ability to play any sort of lead.
You've provided the map to find my way ....
jabberwocky1969 8 months ago
i think I'm confused... if I picked for example Lydian mode and the root note was F on the first fret... the aeolian mode would be on the 5th fret?
mattconsul 8 months ago
Where's ur hair bro?!?
metalmikewhite 8 months ago
Could this info applied to playing the bass? obviously excluding the use of the high b and e strings...
JJVonGuckin 8 months ago
I'm confused... @ 2:34 you say you won't move your hand yet your examples all involve moving your hand about the fretboard, Lydian on Gsharp, Mixolydian on Fsharp and Dorian on Bminor. Why the contradiction?
fishbandit 8 months ago
I've been fighting with modes for a while, this is a good shove, but I'm still not there.
I'd write out slower, shorter phrases so that we can really *hear* the differences.
euphoricism 8 months ago
@euphoricism i'm also a bit confused, maybe because my teacher thaught me the modes in a different way than what chappers explains, i'm learning all from root, for example, mixolydean - maj 2nd, maj 3rd, perfect 4th, perfect 5th, maj 6th, minor 7th, and also to help me sorting out the scale let's say i'm in D dorian and i find my "mother scale" by counting back 1 note as the dorian is the 2nd step of the diatonic scale i find out that D dorian is the that B iolian (major) starting in D.
gabiruman 8 months ago
@euphoricism sorry i meant C dorian not D : x
gabiruman 8 months ago
Best lesson on modes EVER!!
47Wolfgang 8 months ago
Niiice. Bravo monsieur Chapman ! :)
Fkn42 8 months ago
Helped a lot, can't wait for part 2
Rozier168 8 months ago
Great info, thanks. I usually start out with my students teaching the modes, and one pretty simple shape (Eb natural minor on the 7th fret) and once they have that down, I pop the surprise that just changing the chord your are playing against changes the mode and thus the feel of the run... and of course, you can change the position of the shape over the same chord to do the same thing...
Anyway... you have sort of helped me to expand that lesson some. Thanks!
cybershane 8 months ago
Thanks Chappers. I actually for the first time got a real sense of what modes are all about.
PhilipPorter 8 months ago
modes now makes sense!
GregWarnsMusic 8 months ago
If I could possess a PRS guitar when I snap my fingers, I'd be so happy.
Zimmy244 8 months ago
I hate you for making me wait for the next lesson XDD
ScaRav90 8 months ago
@ScaRav90 na dude you should love him for giving you the 1st lol
fippysteed 8 months ago
You said that you were a session player. Have you played on any records that we might know???
PieceOfMind56 8 months ago
thanks allot for this! really cleared up allot. i used to think of modes as shapes and thats why i was confused about why modes in the same key had the same notes and what made them different. now i understand that a mode is determined by which note on a scale your call "home" or end on
SixStringSolid 8 months ago
Excelent lesson. I never really liked the idea of modes as intervals. I think it confuses people and makes it much more difficult. I always say to think of modes as a subset of one key (C major,d dorian) The d dorian is just a subset of C major only that your playing from d to d rather than c to c. It's different for exotic scales for the the usual suspect, it works well. Anyway, great lesson! I've never been a fast player but your insight will help increase my speed.
Guitarpima 8 months ago
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maxima0087 8 months ago
Fantastic lesson!!!, I've known the modal scale patterns for years, but never got my head around the application so to speak, altough I need to practice and think things through you just unlocked it and smashed the bullshit out of it, GREAT lesson thank you very very much. This will have a major impact on my playing!!!!
best wishes to you
//Ken1
stringmanipulator 8 months ago
I've watched this through a few times and it is slowly starting to sink in. Thanks so much.
ednaplate 8 months ago
I really love you man
CAshine64 8 months ago
Although I knew of most of this theory already, I never quite understood the implications of it until now.
I'm going to have to go back and really look at all the modes and shapes and see how I can apply them
0cscott 8 months ago
watched it a second time Rob! Thanks again!
Grasping this lesson gave me a nice feeling of liberty on the neck and I <3 Chameleons XD
jacksonabuser 8 months ago
i think i need lessons...
stratdude83 8 months ago
ps...It's all well and good knowing the theory, but it's nothing without an ear...I can twiddle in Mixolydian but can't for the life of me to get it to sound like blues...when I do it it always sounds like Clannad on Mogadon. :(
wesmatron 8 months ago
Best vid.
wesmatron 8 months ago
chappers your awsome you make things so clear and simple but this is going in one ear and out the other.....i think im gonna throw my guitar out the window in a minuit my head has just given up trying to understand
jamescaamano 8 months ago
At 4:36 it's Gus G's lick
olo2223 8 months ago
chappers your awsome you make things so clear and simple but this is going in one ear and out the other.....i think im gonna throw my guitar out the window in a minuit
jamescaamano 8 months ago
Why don't you have a DVD out with such lessons, this was very helpful, Thank You!!!!!
aryasridhar007 8 months ago 6
@aryasridhar007 Thanks mate, actually I will have in a few months ;-)
RobChappers 8 months ago
@RobChappers Will it be available in the US?
cowcrusher 7 months ago
too much for my brain to handle 0.0
YOUDUDE56 8 months ago
can't wait for part 2 :D
PlasticCoatedCheese 8 months ago
Wow, this is a lot of information to digest! I thought I had it all, but then I tried to answer the questions and I couldn't. Still, let's have in mind that my knowledge regarding modes was none. This lesson was really helpful, I'll just have to watch it again really carefully and process everything again. I'll be waiting for part two. Thanks Chappers for explaining something a lot of people find difficult to learn!
JoaoNGoncalves 8 months ago
Ive seen the major scale being learned in 5 positions and in 7, whats the best to do?
fu2iosa 8 months ago
Nice lesson. I am a fan of the CAGED system especially for that reason you said about needing to navigate in every position on the neck but there is so many ways to think of all this stuff and there's no such thing as knowing it "too well". Coming at it from alot of different angles seems to be useful in seeing the big picture. The counting up or down thing is useful.
jonw82 8 months ago
at 7:35 basicly everyone just wet their pants and gave up.
iwannacapo 8 months ago
my easy way of remember modes is - I Dont Particularly Like Modes A Lot (Ionian Dorian Phrygian Lydian Mixolydian Aeolian Locrian)
It sticks in your head! only downsides is the two L's. haha :)
marcandrewrose 8 months ago
4:50 wtf?!
how did you do that?;o
sify11 8 months ago
Well done and well explained!
Wallimann 8 months ago
You are a true force for good in the Multiverse. A wonderful expose, encouraging everyone toward better understanding. That was a real \m/, \m/.
Fun for the whole family.
sikpikfrank 8 months ago
Thank you so much, there's a ton of stuff in this lesson I had kind of figured out myself but had never had explained to me in a concise way that I could really apply.
Especially what you were saying about there really only being one shape.
22FretsIsNotEnough 8 months ago
:/ Isn't it usually taught in C Major(Ionian) due to there is no "accidental" notes, unlike G that has F#?
bvried 8 months ago
An absolute belter of a lesson, Chappers. I've had a lightbulb moment!
TheBigDavey 8 months ago
@TheBigDavey That's great thanks mate, really glad it helped ;-)
RobChappers 8 months ago
Ionion FTW!
Harrysound 8 months ago
i have study a lot of modal scales and in my opinion is the better way for know very well all neck!!!!
MONDOCHITARRA 8 months ago
This is a great lesson! The best lesson on modes I have seen, even better than Vinnie Moores lesson on modes!
skexinator 8 months ago
Chappers, thanks for giving me another tool to add to my guitar arsenal. I have for user used Frank Gambale's three note per string method, and primarily used Major, Dorian and Mixolydian shapes. Why I never thought of a cooler patter for modes is beyond me. Thanks for opening my eyes a bit wider. You are a great teacher.
Chazv4u 8 months ago
ok, now what I need to understand is what is a penthatonic scale. I think this is what I'm using all the time, because a straight major scale sounds wrong to my ear... but I really don't understand the mecanic of this thing... thanks chappers
maxlamenace987654321 8 months ago
@maxlamenace987654321 A pentatonic scale is a scale with five notes, the major and minor scales are heptatonic, or seven note scales and these seven note scales are what he's talking about in this video. because there are seven notes there are seven modes. The most common pentatonic, and the one you probably use is the minor scale with the second and sixth note removed, since the minor scale has seven notes taking two away makes it pentatonic
1xDRCx 8 months ago
@1xDRCx thanks man, that makes sens! chears!
maxlamenace987654321 8 months ago
@maxlamenace987654321 No problem, glad to help :)
1xDRCx 8 months ago
This is officially the best video...ever. EVER! +40000 man points for you :D.
mjwoodworth 8 months ago
Your the best Rob!
I've never been good to theory, but I want to work my ass off to learn all these modes
garfish111 8 months ago
HOLY CRAP, CHAP! ive been self taught for years, playing basically off scales and ear, and just now discovered youtube video's like this one.. very inspiring. for the first time, i acutally wrote down the modes and want to go learn do all my research until this entire video makes perfect sense. please leave it up for a long time lol
poobumm78 8 months ago
dammit...we chose the same mode.....lydian.....
tabotabojayar 8 months ago
I honestly cannot understand this lesson at all.
pawdidit 8 months ago
@pawdidit Did you take note of the prerequisites for the lesson?
VintageburstStandard 8 months ago
@VintageburstStandard- I understand and can identify intervals, i can put the modes in order and can build modes based on theory. I also did learn the way he mentioned the modal shapes based on G. t just seems confusing here
pawdidit 8 months ago
@VintageburstStandard yes i already know them. its just the way its explained is hard to follow
pawdidit 8 months ago
So if:
Bm over E = E dorian
A over E = E Mixolydian?
1990EAM 8 months ago
@1990EAM if you play the F# natural minor scale over and E you have E mixo raise everything two frets and u have E lydian
rguitar 8 months ago
Whoa, Chappers need to shave that neck... remember you have short hair now...lol.
mike31jmb 8 months ago
Dammit Chappers! It doesn't work with me... SNAP.. Same guitar -____-
Joshmv14 8 months ago
lol.... "sits on my nut..."
firstgearlead 8 months ago
@GrungePuppy27 Habit Vs music Vs programmed expectation, the curse of the music student. How 'bout this; don't learn any new songs, don't do anymore excercises, just spend your playing time working out the riffs, licks & song you can hear in your head when you're away from the guitar. Use your phone to scat all your ideas when you're out & about. Pretty soon you'll start to discover who you are as an artist. Good luck Brother
vubear 8 months ago
i love that never having lessons and being half decent my mind learning to play by ear and becoming quite proficient at it your lessons are bar none the best explained and most usefull of any youtube lesson ive ever encountered. can i live in your basement and learn guitar from you? ill move there from Canada fuck it.
mattmorron 8 months ago
i am very slowly but surely getting these applications down...
not that hard after all.
the hardest part is memorizing all the goddamn shapes ;D
TommittajaFIN 8 months ago
I got 3 out of 4
cderycke 8 months ago
I love the flat top attempt.
6footginger 8 months ago
I've been playing almost 9 years and my theory is pretty bad, i know scale shapes and stuff but this vid shall prove very handy. I basically learnt most of my stuff from just playing rather than reading up on modes and what not.
MadCatChiken 8 months ago
08:48 "Sits on, basically, my nut"
Oooh. Sounded wrong. =))
miggiquerido 8 months ago 7
@miggiquerido Best laugh of the day! Well done!
vubear 8 months ago
@miggiquerido only if he's rooting on the a...
jimmymickey 8 months ago
@jimmymickey I don't think you get what I pointed out there.. It sounded funny.
miggiquerido 8 months ago
i just happened to watch this while playing my bass then i started going with it, yay for 6 strings
DragonSuushi 8 months ago
chappers, I already know the five positions of the pentatonic scale, so what mode would each position correspond to? I know that when you solo using the pentatonic, staring on the first position would be minor, playing the second position starting at the same spot would be major, so the second position is Ionian?
1xDRCx 8 months ago 2
@1xDRCx Hi mate, I'm actually going to be covering this in a lesson at some point soon! ;-)
RobChappers 8 months ago 10
@RobChappers please do cause i'm currently trying to scrape my brain off the wall lol...
iwannacapo 8 months ago
@RobChappers hey Rob, nice lesson but i dont understand between 14:49 to 15:46 .
maxima0087 8 months ago
@maxima0087 There are seven positions of the major scale, becuse there are seven notes. The first position is the one everybody knows and you probably use it. The second position of the major scale would be a scale starting from the second note of the first postion, so if first position is 1234567 than second position is 2345671, starting on the third fret if you play the first position of the major scale it is G Ionian, if you start at the third fret and play the second postion it is G Dorian
1xDRCx 8 months ago
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maxima0087 8 months ago
@1xDRCx If you choose minor pentatonic you can put over it some modes (minor modes because of their minor third) So dorian mode is minor pentatonic+ major 2º+major 6th. If you choose 6th mode, eolian (or minor) its minor pentatonic+ major 2º+ minor 6th. You can do that with all minor modes. WIth major modes you just need to do the same thing but on major pentatonic place. If you put the major 2nd and 6th in all your minor pentatonic you have all the fretboard to play on that key, mode dorian
112358miau 8 months ago
@1xDRCx maybe I can help u even a little. I don't think u can just apply mode by using " scale position". U need to know what is characteristic for that mode, what note. I'm not sure right now, so that this with credit, but I think that for example myxolidian mode would have fifth note as characteristic note. So u would simply pick chords that have that note in themselvs for "backingtrack" and use that note as much as u can. But saying again, take this with credit. Cheers
afwef1 8 months ago
Thanks alot for the lesson, one of the best I've seen on modes, can't wait for part 2, btw i found the pattern you taught for the natural minor very good, you should inculde some more of those to cover good distance on the neck in an easy to understand way, like u said first finger slide minor pattern etc, made it easy to remember
boojoo1234 8 months ago
@boojoo1234 Thanks dude, I teach around five of these long scale patterns to my students - I might include these in part 2/3 etc ;-)
RobChappers 8 months ago
@RobChappers That would be great...Amazing bro ;-) Got all the questions right by the way :P
gutiole 8 months ago
this is awesome! i was pretty surprised when i understood this.. and i was just being lazy playing gmajor over songs with other roots :D
najtrows 8 months ago
Someone wants to be zakk wylde with all those pentatonic licks!
SomeYoungGuy1993 8 months ago
wHAT ARE THOSE THINGS I LEARNT LAST YEAR IN MUSIC...TONALITY OR SOMETHING O.o
ravenshield56 8 months ago
Hey Chappers can you do me a huge favor? I have been writing music for about a year now and I feel like I am stuck in a rut with soloing. Could you go and listen to one of my songs and see what I mean? I just can't seem to break out of the box when it comes to soloing :/
balls-on-parade.bandcamp (dot) com
RingoFreakingStarr 8 months ago
Hey Chappers can you do me a huge favor? I have been writing music for about a year now and I feel like I am stuck in a rut with soloing. Could you go and listen to one of my songs and see what I mean? I just can't seem to break out of the box when it comes to soloing :/
balls-on-parade.bandcamp.com/
RingoFreakingStarr 8 months ago
Lord, there are no more ML1?:(
mykemztr 8 months ago
is it weird that i on;y watch this for the knowledge? i don't even play guitar :D
pwed546 8 months ago
You look so much like my old guitar teacher with your hair cut off :P
saintofbladez 8 months ago
chappers! gear question from a Isle of Wight monkeyfan! who makes the stock pickups for the ML2? they sound killer! and i really want to whack a set in my explorer project...
joshmore 8 months ago
@joshmore They are just stock pups sourced by my guy in China, they just happen to rock - However we don't sell them separately so you can only get a set of Chapman Pickups in a Chapman Guitar. By the way the ML2 comes fitted as standard with the same humbucker as the ML1 \m/
RobChappers 8 months ago
@RobChappers oh but chappers! i have my project body and i want a stupidly cheap set of pickups to fill it out, i don't wanna buy an ML2 just to tear the pickups out D: source me a set and name your price ;)
joshmore 8 months ago
I use to practice the minor scales this way, id do them all from one area and move on :p, but this is a mind blown moment for me.
custommade21 8 months ago
I learned modal theory to the level you teach here 2 years ago, but still I felt like I wanted to watch the whole video...
Joeseffel 8 months ago
YES I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMTHING LIKE THIS. LOVE YO CHAPPERS
CMSpida 8 months ago
How could I play E Phrygian in say the 14th fret? Anyone answer because I couldn't be anymore confused.
scotty688 8 months ago
@scotty688 Play F sharp Lydian.
vubear 8 months ago
@scotty688 You make a good point - it seems to me that the video, while being v good, doesn't actually do what Chappers describes at the beginning, i.e. enable one to play any mode at the position of one's hand - I thought he was going to go on and say 'ok here we are' at various positions and work it out from there, instead he stayed pretty much in the 2nd fret area for both examples. This is like how to play play the same scale with different tonality or something (I'm still learning myself)
jimmynitcher 7 months ago
I missed one example, I should say the third example was at the 7th fret - but the point remains we aren't basing the exercise around the position of the hand
jimmynitcher 7 months ago
@jimmynitcher This is part one - More to come
RobChappers 7 months ago
@scotty688 ... playing E phrygian at the 14th fret would be the next scale up - Lydian. What part of the aeolian shape is at the 14th, I can't work out however...argh
jimmynitcher 7 months ago
Chappers = win
dazwil 8 months ago
700th Video :) \m/
WeeReid123 8 months ago
very nice lesson i already realized this concept on my own when i first got into modes although i think that to really take the most out of this a player must be aware that there are certain target notes within modes that need to be hit and brought out to outline the flavour of the mode itself ;)
NNX7 8 months ago
@NNX7 Top point Dude. After all, the literal translation from the ancient Greek for modes is Moods, the one thing that nearly everyone who tries to explain the modes forgets to say. So, just to spell it out clearly, when people ask what are modes, they are ways of expressing musical moods.
vubear 8 months ago
You're the man Chappers. Thank you so much for these videos
GSADL 8 months ago
I do need to do some learning but in a mood of watching a chappers video lol, i'll definitely come back when i've finished learning modes.
rgjmce666 8 months ago
I was jizzing when i seen you uploaded this!
Miteour17 8 months ago
I didn't really get Modes yet but wouldn't the B Major scale played over E be Lydian? Because Lydian is the fourth mode and E is the fourth note in the B major scale?
MonkeyZo0 8 months ago
@MonkeyZo0 Correct! E Lydian contains the same notes as B maj ;-)
RobChappers 8 months ago
@RobChappers So when I want to play a certain Mode I just have to work out the matching scale (based on Major Minor Minor Major Major Minor Diminished) which contains the Key as nth note were n is the number of the Mode?
MonkeyZo0 8 months ago
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dangercellphone 8 months ago
Shape per mode isn't just limiting at first. It seems to me to be a really awful way to teach modes. I've always tried to teach modes this way as well. Loved how you presented it. Going to steal parts of it if you don't mind ;p
harro333 8 months ago
great lesson
rguitar 8 months ago
Excellent lesson Rob. I've been playing over twenty years but I probably found this as wonderfully useful as some of the beginners. Thanks a lot.
HBNeary 8 months ago
Then the remaining step is to write licks in their chosen modes, creating a practical working live vocabulary that they could use in say a tasty blues rock jam. This eliminates the "Playing scales not music" type sound that is so prevalent ;-)
Cheers
RobChappers 8 months ago 5
uhm, so basically all you do is: you choose, for example a C-major scale, and then if you play all the notes from the C-major scale starting on a D you get a Dorian scale?
EivindS94 8 months ago
@GrungePuppy27 Well you could try using less gain, thicker strings and a higher action - make it harder for you to use legato which is the main ingredient here .-)
RobChappers 8 months ago
@RobChappers Say Chappers, what's up with the black screen behind you that's taped on the wall?
brando18guitarplyr 8 months ago
@brando18guitarplyr
its for better lighting/camera focus etc.
Riotstarter100 8 months ago
@Riotstarter100 Ok! thanks for the info!
brando18guitarplyr 8 months ago
Mnemonic to remember the correct order: I Don't Play Lydian Mode After Lunch
MonkeyZo0 8 months ago
I remember posting a comment on the 15 minute lesson on modes asking for help in their application a year ago. Finally it's here. Thanks Rob, my understanding of modes deepened and many of my doubts got cleared. You really are a people's musician taking the time to teach this and keeping it all so simple. Thank you so much.
anshumanchaube95 8 months ago
Got all the questions right :D cool video, nice to see how different people teach modes.
ashwalyeo 8 months ago
\o/
jake7doyle 8 months ago
I wish I could get a PRS by doing that with my fingers :) 6:09
GuitarAriaFreak1010 8 months ago
are you using a sm57
GuitarRazze 8 months ago