QUOTE (Jeff0803 @ Sep 15 2008, 04:00 AM)
Hey Dave, I love your lessons on modes. Theyre starting to really help me get out of the basic major and minor rut Ive been in, but I have a question that might be sort of dumb. I know that some modes are better for soloing over major keys, and some are better for minor. Dorion, Phrygan, and Aeolian are the minor and Ionian, Lydian, Mixolydian major. If your playing in the key of C major can you play an A Dorion or A Phrygian mode over it because its the relative minor, or do you have to stay with the major modes. Same thing vice versa, if your playing an Am, can you play C Lydian or Mixolydian? I hope my questions clear, thanks for any response.
It doesn't work like this.
Cmaj has 7 degrees. All of the modes are within them, though they are relative modes.
to make this easier to understand, let me put it like this.
If you have a song in C maj, (ionian), it will have 7 modal chords.
Cmaj (ionian)
Dmin (dorian)
Emin (phrygian)
Fmaj (Lydian)
Gmaj (mixolydian)
Amin (Aeolian or natural minor)
Bdim (locrian)
These are the degrees of Cionian, or natural major.
However, if you wanted to play in Clydian, these chord's intervals would change, because the rootnotes change.
And that, is modulation, to change the rootnotes.
So, if we were to use Clydian as our mode, the full chord diagram would be like this:
Cmaj
Dmaj
Emin
F#dim
Gmaj
Amin
Bmin
If you notice, this is the same row, but the difference is that we start on the 4th degree of major's intervals instead.
Also, if you know the majorscale, you will see, if you go through its 7 patterns, that the chords (1 3 and 5th note) will cohere with the scalepatterns.
I hope this helped
And sorry for butting in Walli, but I can't help it
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