Finding Out Which Mode To Use |
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Finding Out Which Mode To Use |
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Jul 3 2008, 11:18 AM |
No problem at all Kjutte,you were only helping
Here my opinion tho. Chord progression we are talking about here is indeed simple one, Dm7,G7 and Cmaj7. And these chords are all included in key of C,right? This means that you can use C major scale( C Ionian) all the time! Of course you won't get much of Jazzy sound from it, but my point is to explain that you don't need to think of D Dorian while playing over Dm7 chord or to think about G Mixolydian while playing over G7 chord. All these modes have the same notes and C would be our root all the time so you can think of C major only,to make things easier to follow. -------------------- Youtube
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Jul 3 2008, 12:54 PM |
To add to that - these are what are called relative modes - and you play them in passing because you are visiting a different chord but you are really staying in the same key because your root chord stays the same ... and it is the root chord that really matters here - you are not changing key for each chord, it is the progression as a whole that matters.
Now, having said that, looking at combinations of those 3 particular chords, if you start your song with Dm7 as the root chord you will be playing in Dorian mode. Cmaj7 as the root makes it Ionian, and G7 as the root chord would make it Mixolydian. But in each of these cases, your tune would end up sounding very different because you would be using different modes. These 3 modes are all relative to each other because you are deriving them from the same major scale. C major or Ionian is the mother scale. Dm is the relative Dorian of C,and G is the relative Mixolydian of C. -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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