Modes Made Somewhat Easy
February 20, 2014
One of the things that make many musicians scratch their heads are the modes. Let’s face it: They are so confusing yet in fact you need to learn and understand how to use them if you want to improve your musical skills and knowledge. We always hear how to use the modes in everything from writing songs to soloing over a complex jazz piece. In this piece, I’m going to show a couple of ways regarding how to understand modes.
Now, for us to understand this tutorial, we need to know what a major scale is and the names of the modes. Since we have seven notes in the major scale, we also get seven modes.
The Major Scale and it’s Relative Modes
We have this nice graphic above that shows our C major scale and its relative modes. We can easily play the each of the major scale’s relative…
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