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Fsgdjv9th August 2008Great lesson, I this will help me a lot with both alternate picking and changing between 16'th triplets and 32 notes. Awesome!
shideru_guitar13th July 2008that was off the chain !!! lol
{TooL}4207th June 2008great workout!
Nick Kellie30th May 2008very nice lesson
Danilo Capezzuto29th May 2008Nice lesson David!
Nick32527th May 2008great excercise david
Carlos Carrillo27th May 2008Hey David!!!
very nice lesson!!!
Dejan Farkas26th May 2008Cool
Muris Varajic25th May 2008Sounds awesome David!!
chmilew25th May 2008Great lesson and also an awesome video quality !
Juan M. Valero25th May 2008Great lesson mate
- Alex8725th May 2008
I love your lessons about church modes. You are very good at making exercises with them! Great lesson man.
Alex 
at lights end25th May 2008cool
Hisham Al-Sanea25th May 2008good one David.
Trond Vold25th May 2008Excellent workout
Pablo Vazquez25th May 2008Nice lesson!!! Great David!
Marcus Lavendell25th May 2008Great lesson as always Dave!
kaznie_NL25th May 2008Nice lesson David and cool layout Kris!!
Joe Kataldo25th May 2008Wow Great Lesson, hey kris beautiful new layout
ItsMe25th May 2008great exercise
eddiecat25th May 2008Thank you.
Eddie
TreyDeschamp25th May 2008Great exercise David you rock!
Bogdan Radovic25th May 2008Excellent work David !!
Nighthawk125th May 2008You are a modes genius David ! Great and highly useful lessons as always. Thank you !!!
botoxfox25th May 2008Cool stuff.
rockztar25th May 2008insane!!!!
Awesome
Kristofer Dahl25th May 2008Thanks for this exercise David!
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In today's lesson we'll study an effective exercise that will focus on alternate picking over the 7 church modes. Start by studying the tab to memorize the sequence used.
We will combine 16th triplet notes (6 notes per beat) with 32nd notes (8 notes per beat). Once you are comfortable with the sequence, practice the whole track at slow tempo.
To make things a bit more complicated, I decided to play each mode separating them by a half step only. Here is the order in which we'll play them:
C Ionian
C# Dorian
D Phrygian
D# Lydian
E Mixolydian
F Aeolian
F# Locrian
Then we'll go back descending that order until we get back to the Ionian mode in C.
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