This post is the beginning of a series on digging into the major scale modes and their sound. It will focus on understanding the theory and applying it to the fretboard and then move onto getting the sound into your ear so that it is instantly recognizable: A.K.A ear training.<\/p>\n
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This post will give a quick over view of the major scale theory, and by quick we mean quick (check out a more in depth post on the major scale here<\/a>). Its main thrust is to introduce two different way of thinking about modes and applying them.<\/p>\n Modes: what are they?<\/strong><\/p>\n A mode is just a scale! Nothing more nothing less! But to be more specific it is better to describe it as a scale within a scale<\/strong>. There are seven modes that can be deduced from the major scale and they have names that come from yea olden days in Greece and their tribes.<\/p>\n So we get:<\/p>\n Think of the major scale as the mother scale, and as with all scales the spaces or intervals between each note truly represent that scales character\/sound. In this case its Julie Andrews and Doe a deer…(Yes that song from the Sound of Music. A fantastic way to get the mother scale (major scale) into your aural memory bank!)<\/p>\n\n