Modes Made NO SENSE To Me Until I Started Doing This!

This makes so much sense. Thank you!

I learned more about how to use modes in this video than I have from dozens of others combined.

Is it just me or is there no link to the "Modes in E" sheet anywhere?

I have only limited exposure to modes.What I don't quite understand were the notes you were playing vs the tab being displayed. Were you playing the same notes of the mode, but on different strings outside the tab being shown?

did Eddie learn this stuff?

Smart. He turned the guitar into a loop recorder by using the Open E as a pedal note!

god bless you. how luky i am for hit upon this knowledge. i studying mode for just a year memorizing all kinds of foems but not work. until i see your clip. thank you lots lots lots .i am so luky

Great exercise.

Modes are moods don’t forget the magnets

MAGNET IS THE KEY, thank you, very simple yet thorough lesson!

David, like you, I struggled for years due to the way I was taught; "This mode has a flat 3 and a flat 5, This mode has a flat 6 and a flat tire.... etc. WAAAY too much to try to remember for me. It finally dawned on me that the "E Locrian" is really an "F" Scale. It's not just "starting on a different note of the major scale... it is an entirely different scale. "E Phrygian" is actually a "C" Scale. Then I realized that the Numbers of the Modes tells you what Key it actually is. The 3rd Mode is Phrygian, so what is E the 3rd of... "C" so "E Phygian" is actually a "C" scale. Mixolydian"... the 5th Mode... what is "E" the 5th of?... "A" so "E Mixolydian" is actually an "A" scale. Anyway, that's what cleared it up for me. I guess we all learn differently, especially if we're taught differently. Anyway, Good Lesson. Excellent way of HEARING what they sound like over the drone "E". I hope my 2 cents worth helps somebody.

thank you very much

Thanks, this was by far the best video I have ever seen on this topic!

Really well explained

You can not understand the modes, if you don't know the origin. The time was before church and even before Crist. You can read about it at Platon and Arisdoteles.

The mode is defined by the finalis, that is ls the LAST tone of the line. You want to define the mode by the first tone and have a problem of understanding.

Every mode has his own character. Dorian is male and powerful, Phrygian is the mode of sorrow, Lydian is playful, Lokrian was not defined because it was hardly used. So you need Lyrics to decide the mode!

The meanig has changed with Guido of Arezzo, who looked at the beginning of the line and called the result still modes. He invented the solmisation. Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do. A line, that STARTS with Re is dorian. Same word, different meaning, the reasion for all this confusion.

So first you have to decide the meaning of "modes". Do you really want to combine your music with old church music? You are bluesplayers, so combine your music with Irish or Norwegian folk style. Here you can listen to modal music in the old meaning.

wow….just Thanks! i can say no more. i started playing 2 years ago, i have memorized the 7 modes and i started to doddle around with them being able to get fragments of good sound. this exercise is a really important piece to the understanding of modes. Again thanks for adding value to my guitar journey ❤👍💪

All of the modes of C major use the same chords and the same notes. Discussion over.

I used gemini ai to teach me about modes, it has no ego trying to impress me with word salad. Now that I watch these again its amazing how they like to throw in useless terminology to sound impressive

Never did get that email for the free guitar course ? 😢

yes that's the real modes meaning. I don't get why tons of stuff il still explaining modes just as "scales" without stressing the fact that each mode makes sense vs a "reference" pedal/note/tonality

This video opened up modes for me. Thank you so much.

But i never understand for example...if the song is in C major,...can you use D-dorian or G-mixolyidian and so on,.. over it...???

Whoosh (ducks down)

I really like this idea of picking the open E and practicing the modes over top of it. Really cool exercise.

This is just amazing

Dude. Play Sanitarium again. Play the whole thing.

Wow, thanks so much! I’ve been struggling to understand and remember the formula for modes. This is a huge help!

I have learn this approach not long ago after years of confusion, thank you for fortifying this idea.

This was awesome thank you!

Been really nice if the mode chart was in order….

great, thanks

Modes are moods

Excellent lesson!

the way to know how modes work and sound is to use them

another great view

Hey mate! I have a question, when you play E Mixolydian, you are playing the A major scale with the E as a magnet, right? But what about the chords? If I want to write an E mydolydian song, I have to also use the A major scale chords resolving in E as the magnet instead of A? Or I simply use the E major scale chords and the melody on A major? Cheers! Thanks for the video!

They call these parallel vs relative. Relative modes where you start on the position within the diatonic scale and parallel when you play each mode starting on the tonic.

It's the harmony you use that makes the modes you play. Without the tonal center of a progression you cannot understand what difference does it make to start your scale establishment from the other notes of the major scale.

Sorry, more confusing than ever.

Seems like the target note or characteristic note of a mode is always one of the half step notes.

Man... That's so much easier to understand... Thank you... This has been bugging me for a while. Thank you for playing from the same position! Now I can see how they relate to each other. Not just the same notes in a different place on the neck.. I paid $500 for a class and you showed me more in 12 minutes than that place has...

By far the best video on the topic, thanks!

This is fantastic. Helped immensely

What a great viewpoint of modes - it really opened my eyes to a different way of looking at them.

Great video! I learned a lot on this tricky subject. Thank you.