Music Thoery. Modes |
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Music Thoery. Modes |
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Feb 26 2008, 01:15 PM |
Hi Adam, thanks for dropping by
As you thought - it all hinges on modes, and it sounds like you have the concept correct in your mind. Scale patterns and modes are very intimately connected so that if you move up one pattern for a scale and at the same time change the root up one dwgree of the scale you will move through all the relative modes for a scale - for example: C Ionian D Dorian E Phrygian F Lydian G Mixolydian A Aeolian B Locrian If you keep the root note the same, you just get boxes for the base scale but there is a very important caveat here - when we are learning boxes for instance with CAGED, the major scale is generally covered with only 5 boxes, not 7 (to simplify things a little). There are actually a couple of in between boxes that are not often played - you have to include these when figuring out the relative modes or it will all go wrong. For this reason I prefer 3nps scales for modes - there is nothing intrinsically different, its just that these are more often taught as 7 boxes instead of 5 so they work better. Now, how does this relate to Major and Minor pentatonic> Well, actually its all down to modes again - Major pentatonic is a mode of the Minor pentatonic scale, so the same rules apply. Go up one box, change the root note and you have a different scale. For instance: A minor pentatonic C major pentatonic (A and C are the first 2 notes in the A minor pentatonic scale of course). Hope this helps! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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Feb 26 2008, 07:26 PM |
Cool
The minor pentatonic has 5 modes (as it has 5 notes), they don;t all have names though, so you get: Pentatonic Minor Pentatonic Major Mode III Mode IV Mode V -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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