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THE MAJOR PENTATONIC SCALE: Illustrated below right is the “basic box shape” C Major Pentatonic. It’s relative minor, A Minor Pe ...

Major Pentatonic Sus4 scale links A cool way to spice up the Major Pentatonic scale is to add the fourth degree to the scale. In ...

MAJOR PENTATONIC SUS4 SCALE LINKS: Major Pentatonic Sus4 Expanded 1 Major Pentatonic Sus4 Expanded 2 Root notes in black Sus4 no ...

THE MAJOR SCALE: All music theory compares back to the major scale. You are probably familiar with the sound of the major scale ...

THE MAJOR SCALE: Below are four more major scale shapes. This will make six in total. Commit these to memory. In the next lesson ...

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Introduction to the modes of the major scale To get your lead playing to the next level you will want to learn the modes of the ...

Modal overview The major scale is a seven-note scale. For each of the seven individual notes of the major scale there is a corre ...

The modes drawn out on paper 69 - To start digesting the modes let’s examine the key of C major. Remembering the modal sequence, ...

THE MODES DRAWN OUT ON PAPER CONTINUED: Dorian is an awesome mode, its used all the time in many genres of music including rock, ...

THE MODES DRAWN OUT ON PAPER CONTINUED: If you start any major scale on and emphasize the 2 nd note, you are playing in the Dori ...

The Major scale 64 - In order to understand the modes we will need to look at the interval structure that defines each mode and ...

The modes of the major scale individually Key points when applying the modes: 1.Understand your choices when soloing and improvi ...

Applying the Modes of the Major scale 73 - STEP 2: Once determined which mode to use, CONVERT back to the parent major scale. Fr ...

The Natural Minor Scale - Aeolian Mode 75 - There is only one major scale but there are three types of minor scales - Natural Mi ...

AEOLIAN MODE - THE NATURAL MINOR SCALE: The Aeolian mode can be utilzed often in blues and rock soloing, as well as in many othe ...

The Dorian Mode The Dorian mode is the second mode of the major scale and utilizes all the notes in a major scale starting from ...

Aeolian and Dorian examples 78 - We are going to examine some basic minor key examples and be very structured about writing out ...

AEOLIAN AND DORIAN EXAMPLES: EXAMPLE PROGRESSION 1: Dm to Gm By analyzing the chords we determine we are in the key of D minor. ...

AEOLIAN AND DORIAN EXAMPLES: EXAMPLE PROGRESSION 2: Dm to G major By analyzing the chords we determine we are in the key of D mi ...