Harmonizing Scales Lesson

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- Emir Hot18th November 2008
  Nice one David
- Kuba Szafran18th November 2008
  As always lesson with lots of interesting ideas! I like that David, thanks !
- kaznie_NL18th November 2008
  Cool David, you just keep em coming!!
- Nemanja Filipovic18th November 2008
  Top notch playing David.Thanks mate.
- Nazgul18th November 2008
  This is an interesting topic and great work on that, David!
- Gerardo Siere18th November 2008
  Nice lesson David!
- Capt.Z18th November 2008
  super cool
- Wilska18th November 2008
  Amazing!
  As alaways nice theory in your lessons. Since that is something i'm not very good at I really appreciate it.
- Muris Varajic18th November 2008
  Good job David.
- Dejan Farkas18th November 2008
  Nice one Dave
- Sinisa Cekic18th November 2008
  Excellent work David !
- Hisham Al-Sanea18th November 2008
  good one David.
- Ivan Milenkovic18th November 2008
  Very interesting David
- THE BUZZARD18th November 2008
  HI DAVE, THIS IS A VERY COOL LESSON, I HEARD SO MANY DIFFERENT PLAYERS IN THIS LESSON, EXCELLENT JOB
- Bogdan Radovic18th November 2008
  Excellent work David!!
- David Wallimann20th November 2008
  Thanks everyone.
  Also, if you want to go further you can apply that concept to harmonize in 4ths, 5ths, or whichever interval you'd like to try. :-)

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- Tags: Harmony, Modes, Harmonizing, Harmonization
Harmonizing is one of the tricks that can help make one of your leads amazing. It is a must for any serious guitar players and today we'll discuss how to achieve that effect. But first, let's make sure that we are comfortable with the tools we'll used.

In order to harmonize, we need to be very comfortable with each position of the modes extracted from the Major scale. We'll work on 3 note per string patterns here:

Ionian
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian
Locrian

As you should know, the 7 previous scales follow each other on the fretboard. Because of that, we'll be able to harmonize easily any 3 note per string sequence by simply playing the same sequence on the relative mode to the original one.

Let's say that we want to harmonize an ascending A Major scale a 3rd up. We simply will ascend simultaneously the relative C# Phrygian mode.

The track I built to illustrate that concept will first go through the original lick, then we'll harmonize it a 3rd up.

Work slowly and make sure you try this on your own material.

Have fun!

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