SCALES/MODES PART 1 - BY BODOM

great lesson man!

Thanks :)

Hey awesome lesson but I have a question. Sorry if I'm too noob but can you play the notes in the scale in any order or is there a specific sequence?

Yeah there is a certian order. For example if someone asked you to play the C Major scale/Ionian mode then you would play the notes C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C in that order. If they asked you to play C minor/Aeolian mode then you would play the notes C,D,Eb,F,G,Ab,Bb,C.

Just wanted to say that acording to some other sources the modes does not end at the root note. They will continue, for example, the C Ionian wont end at C it will continue on and end at D. So will the B locrian go on and not end with B but continue with C and D

Where are you getting this info from? I dont think you are understanding it. The mode starts on the given note and ends on that given note. So C Ionan would start on C and stop at C. Now you can continue on, but you are just repeating the same notes over. If you end on anything other than the C then you are changing tonal center, changing the mode. So if you wanted to play C Ionian and have that major feel/sound, but you keep ending on the D note then you are drawing your ear to the D note, not the C, so you would have the Dorian feel/sound not the Ionian.

Aperantly on some pages they show not only the mode but the whole pattern for that scale(at that given frett). I found a page that said that you only play from root to root so dont play the last one or two notes. So when you are using the scale pattern you dont play he last two notes.

Do you remeber what site?
You do only play from root to root. But not the root of the Key the root of the mode. So for example if I were playing in the Key of C and I wanted to play D dorian I would play D,E,F,G,A,B,C and end on D(root of the mode). I would not play D,E,F,G,A,B and end on C(root of the Key).

ty for the gr8 lesson.

hey a qustion here, on the key of c, d dorian sounds like the maj scale except u have to eliminate the high d and add a low c is there a reason for this?

Let me see if I understand your question. Are you asking if you add a C note to the to the first of the scale and not play the last D note, end on a C note, why does it sound like the major scale? If that is the case then the answer is it sounds like it because it is the major scale :P. The only difference between C major and D dorian is the order inwhich the notes are played. C major starts and ends on C, and D dorian starts and ends on D.
Hope this was your question.

ye it was, kool, also my teach said phrygian, dorian and aeolian are the min scales nd modes, he showed tht inside aeolian is phrygian, could u do a lesson on tht? like explaining if u extend the inside note what it becomes.

this helped so much I have never been able to quite grasp the modes and scales but that helped a lot
thanks again

I dont know what happened but the chart was cut off at the bottom. So here it is.

Probably one of the most informative lessons I've come across pertaining to understanding modal theory. Bodom this is seriously what I have been searching for the past 2 months. Thank you so much.

That really simplified modes for me!!!! Thanx Bodom! [hAteCreW}

Thanks. Can I print out that chart?

Nice !

Ya may wanna show that those first pattern-scales are just that , Positional-Pattern-Scales (instead of the 'Longer versions (3-per string)

other than that lil correction/information great job !
and i can tell you put a LOT of work into this ...BRAVO! Suh!

Rawk!
Cs

this is great. would you answer what scale this is, the shape I mean. and forgive me if I'm too noob to understand, but I was told this is the A minor scale.


--------------------------------------------------------5---7---8---------------------------------
--------------------------------------------5--6--8-----------------------------------------------
-------------------------------4---6---7----------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------5---7-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------5--7--8------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--5--7--8-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

forgive my horrible tablature, but this is waht i've been told is an A minor, but it ends on a C, would you explain to me what this is and what it can be applied to, the shape I mean.

Assuming that you are playing in E Standard tuning, that scale is the A Aeolian Scale which is the sixth mode in the key of C Major. The A Aeolian Scale is also known as the A Natural Minor Scale, A Minor is also the relative minor to C Major.