Modes: A quick guide and useful approach

[@CameronCooper]

Fantastic lesson Gus as always, I certainly am enlightened :)

[@evliyaarslan]

Thank a lot really. You are our best teacher ever and also our friend. Thanks for your contents .

[@metalzzzx]

Very useful and easy-to-understand approach.

[@roserebelsoul3210]

GusG!!!!!! So enjoyable to follow your music!!! And explaining you give us!!!! Ty! One of My Greatest Fav!! 🎸⚡️🔥🎼🙏

[@Vassilis61]

Buddy, I have watched tons of videos and couldn't figure out what a mode was. With you, it took me just to watch your video and... bang everything came to place. You're not only one of the top-5 greatest guitarists but you are the greatest teacher. Cheers from your native Greece...

[@mikeseadorf4952]

Excellent lesson Gus!! Always very appreciated & thanks for your time 🤘🤘🤘

[@fei-fun2856]

Nice job Gusss! By the way I’m in love with this guitar man! Thus reverse headstock its awesome!!!

[@rebellionentertainmentholdings]

Thank You Gus. We wouldn't lend our ears regarding stuff like this except from our heroes like you. We love you. North East India

[@vdwanderley]

Gorgeous guitar

[@vassilikipipertzi705]

great video as always !!!!!!!!!!

[@AErealm]

I like to choose a lot of Dorian - shreds face off effortlessly. like that!

[@Hitemwhereithurtss]

great vid

[@shredderhector9261]

Awesome as always Gus 🤘

[@4dmind]

Hahaha! I do the same thing. It's the only way I could figure out to visualize the intervals. My favorite cat lover. Can't wait for some new Gus G. material, nudge, nudge.

[@ruelclaro6684]

Sweet😊😊😊

[@Kostas_Zacharakis]

Great video Gus

[@andrewk2352]

Τέλειο βίντεο gus!!! It would also be great if you talked about the harmonic minor/Phrygian dominant scales that you use a lot in a future video 🎸 🤘🤘

[@hexzsx9891]

Hey Gus I just started soloing basically like started to learn leads Ik the pentatonic scale but I really don’t know where to go after that do you have any tips great video btw

[@kaloudarosvas]

Great stuff Kosta! Maybe you sould do something more bluesy next time, for the blues-rockers out there! Συνεχισε ετσι με τετοιες βιντεαρες..

[@TheLucidDreamer12]

Rule of thumb: Rock, Metal, Blues, Country: Use modes to follow the chord progression Jazz: Use modes to construct the chords, but change the scale to the major or minor of the root of the chord (playing "over" the chords) Classical: the melodic line doesn't necessarily follow the chords (playing "across" the chords)

[@redphoenixgre]

We are waiting a review with your guitars..!!

[@panoslazidis576]

Gus Εισαι αρχηγός !!!

[@panagiotiskaroutas6859]

Awesome video and very useful! thank you so much! Very nice! your new sour cherry🎸

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Great stuff! Sounds a lot like Vinnie Moore's approach.

[@firetv]

Xavier L.Sanacore exactly! His approach is what did it for me back in the day ;)

Modes are great, but is that Gary Moore Custom Shop strat behind you😱

[@kqh123]

Gus, you said you're playing in C major but it sounds like its Bb major to my ear?

[@firetv]

K QH you’re right, that’s cause I’m tuned down a whole step. Forgot to mention it in the video

[@kqh123]

@@firetv That makes sense now. I was having trouble playing along with you because of that. Thank you for clarifying. Good video.

[@goued7291]

i thought it was all modes the 7 same position, and the mode depend on the bass background

[@taniantoulia2250]

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[@andrerichard628]

The only way the modes will make sense it seems is if you understand basic chord construction, hopefully to start up through 7th chords, but the 4 triads are a must. The modes aren't super confusing but sadly one video isn't adequate space to give them a proper treatment and puts an undue burden on the supremely talented Gus! Or any teacher for that matter. Basic intervals and chord construction is a revelation for your playing and an achievable one.

[@doransponsel4813]

I didn't know guitars with blunt headstock were aloud to play metal

[@lo3572]

My approach has always been ignorance

[@dadev4426]

Mote smote jote

[@benearhart1224]

OMG Thank you. It has taken me forever to get confirmation that it's the same scale and you are just playing from a different tonal center. This also suggests that you do not really "use" modes. You play in a "tonal center", which is a note in your scale. And so, your mode is dictated by the choice of scale and tonal center. For me, a mode doesn't feel like something you use. It feels like a description of what you happen to be doing. Furthermore, if you are playing melody in the chords of your progression, then there isn't really any choice at all, as you've already made them. So really it seems to boil down to where you want to add melody relative to the root note. That's kind of the same thing. But, it seems the way everybody explains it they make it seem like there are more variables there than there really are. it's the same deal with the major and minor chords of a scale. Pick a note in your scale and, relative to that, you will either have a major or minor third. Done. So all this stuff is just ways of talking about ONE SCALE.

[@kokoriko999]

what the modes are...what the Mozart ..