The Modes - Part 1.

In ''The Modes - Part 1.'' we'll look at playing the Modes and how each Mode corresponds to the chord progression that aligns itself sequentially with the notes of the Major Scale.

The Modes:

Mode 1. The Ionian Mode (Major Scale)
Mode 2. The Dorian Mode
Mode 3. The Phrygian Mode
Mode 4. The Lydian Mode
Mode 5. The Mixolydian Mode
Mode 6. The Æolian Mode
Mode 7. The Locrian Mode

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[TeamLib3rty]

Lydian and Phyrgian are the same thing aren't they?

[DieselBodine]

@TeamLib3rty ~ No. Lydian is like a Major Scale with the only difference being a sharped 4th. Phrygian is totally different, being minor not major, having a flatted 2nd & 3rd (minor), unaltered 4th & 5th, flatted 6th & 7th.

[lakerz1993]

does each mode sound different even if there in the same key .and if so how does this work since they have the same notes

[DieselBodine]

@lakerz1993 ~ not sure I understand your question. The modes all sound different. i.e., various minor modes can be used over a minor chord with the choice being which one(s) fit(s) best according to the general key at that place in the music. Your decision on which to use may coincide with how you want to handle the off-chord notes as passing tones between chordal notes.

[lakerz1993]

ok would you call it F ionian  Gdorian A phryigan and so on. or since there all in the key of F would it be F-( ) all the way

[DieselBodine]

@lakerz1993 ~ Yes. It can be a little awkward deciding which key to write out music in. Use the key represented by the Ionian Mode, though the tonal center of your one chord may be based on a mode, or use the key signature of the mode's root and have to add the required accidentals.

[420joeisdead]

@kostaVHjovanovic yea it would work g7

[Alexknobsob]

Hair-dryer, or carpet-cleaner mode?

[jose044]

You look like john scotfield hehe

[kostaVHjovanovic]

@DieselBodine please answer...do i play c major over a A minor - G major progresion?