Guitar Lessons - The Modal System - Modes Essentials
What you'll learn
- Gain a deep understanding of the modal system, by mastering the seven most commonly used modes in modern music.
- Open up a whole new realm of musical creativity.
- Build your soloing and phrasing vocabulary.
- Play along with 7 downloadable backing tracks.
- Incorporate a modal flavour to your pentatonic scales.
- Learn pentatonic substitution, adding more tonal variety to your solos.
- Incorporate all of these concepts and ideas into your own playing, making you a stronger, more musical and harmonically rich soloist and composer.
Requirements
- All you need in order to begin is an electric guitar, an amplifier, a pick and a desire to take your playing to new heights.
- We do however recommend taking our Complete Foundation Course which will give you the skills to tackle this course.
Description
If the concept of Modes seems like a mystery to you, this series of lessons, taught by top UK Session guitarists, Bobby Harrison and Nick Radcliffe, will give you a deep understanding of the modal system. If you already know the major scale, there’s a strong chance you may have already been using some of its modes without even knowing it.
You might have heard the names: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian. If not, you will certainly have heard their sounds on many popular songs. These are the modes of the major scale and although there are other more exotic modes from other scales, these seven are the most commonly used in modern music.
Learning how to use the modal system will open up a whole new realm of musical creativity.
Over the following lessons, Nick and Bobby break down the theory and applications of the Modal System step by step, giving you plenty of demo solos to inspire you, encouraging you to play along with the 7 backing tracks and come up with your own ideas. Later, Bobby and Nick show you how to incorporate pentatonic scales into your modal playing, giving you even more possibilities when soloing.
Who this course is for:
- Some prior experience of the electric guitar is required i.e. at least a basic grasp of chords and scales. This course would suit the intermediate player, but would also be perfect for the advanced player looking to brush up on music theory and add a modal flavour to their guitar playing.
Course content
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Instructor
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FretHub is a fresh and comprehensive collection of online guitar lessons, offering hundreds of hours of video tuition, from two highly qualified and respected teachers with over 50 years of combined professional experience.
As session guitarists, between us, we have played alongside artists such as Queen's Brian May, Alice Cooper, Cliff Richard, Olivia Newton-John, Tony Hadley and Gabrielle. As tutors, we have taught thousands of students worldwide.
Our guitar lessons are taught in a down-to-earth manner and presented in a logical and progressive order, providing the consistency and familiarity you get from taking guitar lessons with a private tutor.
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From beginners through to advanced players, FretHub has everything you need to help you become the guitarist you've always wanted to be.
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