Music Theory Masterclass: Using Modes In A Musical Way

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Can you guys see me? Okay. So, I have been gone for Oh, man. I haven't been on in three weeks or so on a live stream, maybe four weeks.

I've been out of town. I've been traveling. I did the Nuno Bettton Court uh camp in Las Vegas. Then I went right from there to do some interviews in LA.

And I went to NAM in Anaheim. And then I came back to LA and then I I came home and I put out a video the other day and um it was a video on modes, kind of an old school video. There was a bunch of questions on it and I thought I would address some of those questions. Uh by the way, we have a sale ending tonight.

You can go to rickbiata.com. All seven of my courses are on sale. You can find the sale there. It's got all the stuff that we're talking about in here.

in my BA book interactive. It's got all the theory, ear training, it's got the stuff for you to hear what these sounds are when we talk about modes, be able to hear them, chord progressions, notes, soloing, things like that. Uh, and then there's many other courses too that are available. Quick lessons pro, my uh, arpeggio master class, my scale matrix course.

So, you get all seven of these courses. Go to rickpata.com. Okay. Um, now one of the things that I think is confusing about modes, the I had this little piece in there that if you listened far enough, you would hear it.

It was a string piece. What I did was I changed scales, uh, change modes. And, um, another easy way to do it because if you if you take modes all in one key, let's say we're in the key of C major, right? Uh, and I play That would be C Ionian.

And then if I start on D, [music] that's Dorian. But it's all the same note. So it's hard to really get a feel for what a mode sounds like unless you do something like this. When I write them out, the formulas, I do them all from the same note.

So if the major scale is this uh note sequence, 1 ...