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Uploaded by on Jun 26, 2009

This will hopefully help your conceptual understanding of how modes work.

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  • Nicely explained. Now, tell us why learning modes is important. How does this help our bass playing? When are arpeggios formed from modes as opposed to scales, and why?

  • @GaryBass100 Understanding modes allows you to conceptually understand(as a bass player) how to best compliment the melody. Modes and scales are the same. You have the first scale, in this case the Major scale, and every other scale is a mode of the first one.

  • Ok, so if I was in they key of C for example and I wanted to play G Mixolydian, then I would be playing an F# as opposed to the F. And to use the mode to get its different sound, I would put emphasis on the F# during the song?

  • Well actually there is no F# in G Mixolydian or C. They are relative modes so they consist of the same notes what you would want to do to get sound of the G Mixolydian is to fit in the notes of the G7 chord: G B D F. Also if you were talking about a bassline, you would want to establish G as your root note or tonal center. I hope that helped

  • nice Guitar Center PG shirt!

  • AH a fellow ex GC employee. I still live right across the street from the one in San Jose which is where I used to work.

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  • thank you man very helpful.

  • thank you so much you dont know how hard its been for me to find what mode scale they relate too as so many people banter on about the modal references without explaining that there all based on the major scale.

  • very nice my friend

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  • This is one of the best breakdowns of the modes that I've seen. I learned absolutely every other aspect of music theory and it took me awhile to understand modes. I wish someone would have explained it to me like this a long time ago.

  • Cool. What is it?

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