Adam - you and me both! Modes are something I haven’t been able to “get”, and I admit I just haven’t tried very hard, preferring to regard them as something of a “mystery box” to be opened later. OK, I guess later has arrived! I’m on it!!
I don’t get whether you change modality for the chord you’re on. I don’t get whether you are playing a modal scale on top of the other scale or abandoning it altogether. And I certainly don’t get why they are just shifted major scales. Why aren’t they different patterns like a harmonic minor? Maybe I’ll never know. 😌 You might be my last hope in this department because YouTube has not gotten me there.
Yep - writing it now, and sorry that it'll take until next Friday's Regular Post, but I'll have links to articles, trenchant commentary, a "Mystery Box" analogy, a "hat tip" to you, and maybe even "twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
And arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
One was to be used as evidence...." - still mulling that last one over, but it'll be a hoot!
Thanks Mike!!!
“If you arranged the notes a semitone apart on a piano your hand could play wider chords.” Well, I never thought about THAT before. Whoa.
Would love help on modal scale if you’re ever so inclined. I completely don’t get what’s going on there.
Adam - you and me both! Modes are something I haven’t been able to “get”, and I admit I just haven’t tried very hard, preferring to regard them as something of a “mystery box” to be opened later. OK, I guess later has arrived! I’m on it!!
I don’t get whether you change modality for the chord you’re on. I don’t get whether you are playing a modal scale on top of the other scale or abandoning it altogether. And I certainly don’t get why they are just shifted major scales. Why aren’t they different patterns like a harmonic minor? Maybe I’ll never know. 😌 You might be my last hope in this department because YouTube has not gotten me there.
Yep - writing it now, and sorry that it'll take until next Friday's Regular Post, but I'll have links to articles, trenchant commentary, a "Mystery Box" analogy, a "hat tip" to you, and maybe even "twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
And arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
One was to be used as evidence...." - still mulling that last one over, but it'll be a hoot!
I will read every word.