How To Understand the Modes in 5 Ideas

[@danhusband6154]

Thanks Suke, Ive just found your channel and looking forward to digging in!…Modes have always been problematic for me. I’ll be watching this one over a few more times…Ottawa, Canada here

[@LeadGuitarWorkshop]

Thank you for watching and welcome!

[@jeffdubuque3755]

great lesson really open things up, thanks , jeff Ontario Canada.

[@LeadGuitarWorkshop]

You are most welcome, glad you liked it

[@AtmaRising]

Awesome video Suke! You have a knack for explaining complex concepts in a much easier fashion. Keep ‘em coming please.

[@LeadGuitarWorkshop]

Thank you my man!

[@drcur801]

I’m here cuz the video about soloing was the best I ever found so if I don’t understand the modes after this 20 minutes I am gonna implode this is a warning

[@drcur801]

aight you are a very good teacher thank you for this

[@LeadGuitarWorkshop]

Give a few laps, Modes takes a while. Keep playing and thanks for watching

[@painter08]

bravo..that made more sense

[@LeadGuitarWorkshop]

Excellent, thank you!

[@rudybigboote3883]

You have no idea what you just did to me. You gave me a light bulb moment! I have been studying the modes for a while and have a good understanding of them but I could not identify them by ear. The way you explained it using the IV,V cadence resolving to the various scale degrees all of a sudden made them identifiable and I could taste the “flavors,” if you will, of the modes for the first time! By the way, you’re a very good music teacher so I’d bet you have been responsible for many light bulb moments! 👍🏼👍🏼

[@LeadGuitarWorkshop]

I love this, So good to hear, I love those moments, I've had many of the years as well as my students, so glad you did too. Keep playing!

[@rudybigboote3883]

@@LeadGuitarWorkshop thank you for💡me. I’m subbed.

[@seb240r4]

Points #2 and #3 really stuck out and opened up eyes...have heard these points before but your explanation really helped!

[@LeadGuitarWorkshop]

Great to hear, thanks for watching

[@bensonklugh]

Great many thanks

[@LeadGuitarWorkshop]

Thank you for watching!

[@ranakhasnavis7724]

This is an awesome and eye opening video. It also nicely complements your book Suke! The lightbulb went off about playing D Mixolidian globally on that D C/G progression. If we’re playing the changes over the same chord progression though, what would we play over the C and the G? Thanks!

[@LeadGuitarWorkshop]

Thank you so much for watching and the books, Keep Playing! Hope to see you in the Six String Community

[@chaleawkongking8014]

thank you very much

[@LeadGuitarWorkshop]

You are welcome, thanks for watching

[@antoniohillario9770]

Suke, you did an awesome job explaining how the progression declares the mode. QUESTION - Do you know of a trick to mentally calculate that Am to D is the A Dorian mode? I know that A Dorian is the ONLY mode with A minor as the one chord followed by a D Major chord because of a spreadsheet I use. Some modes are easy to determine mentally. Some may require external references (at least for me anyway). Shortcuts for this kind of thing are always welcome. Thank you very much!

[@LeadGuitarWorkshop]

Thanks Antonio, I look for the 2 (musically) adjacent Major chords to help me with IV and V. If you see more than 3 Major (or minor chords) then you know if there is a key change or borrowed chords etc. I memorized the Key of G first since its the most popular I saw on Guitar. Then 1 key at a time get to know the 6 usable chords in the keys you play in most often. Thanks for watching and Keep Playing!

[@jacobpittman1996]

I clicked because you are holding the same Godin that I have.

[@LeadGuitarWorkshop]

Killer! I love my Godins, I was so honored and proud to get an endorsement from them, one of the best guitars out there. Def my main guitars