Pentatonic Modal Interchange Tutorial/Exercises

Today, we will look at superimposing the 'classic' minor Pentatonic on
"Modal Interchange" Chords. Example C major7 to C minor7
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[@brunoe.3694]

Nick you’re so sophisticated using chords and your music production sounds beautifully. It reminds me the West London broken beat scene and people such as Kaidi Tatham and 4hero. I used to work with these people. The way you teach is so inspiring. A million thanks. Hello from São Paulo Brazil.

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Thank you for enriching my life with the love you have put into your educational videos and materials... You have a great talent and you deserve acknowledgement...Thank you..

[@chriscopeman8820]

I bought the Pentatonic Expansion Exercises a couple of days ago and I'm very happy with the materials in the package. Lots of good stuff to work on!

[@MoGratitude]

Good to hear, closest thing I have is the guitar scale bible and the beato book. Next is this one

[@mergeband]

Most educational and most comprehensive explanation of modal interchange for my improvisation journey! Thank you!!!

[@bobludwig1067]

Dude you are brilliant! I’m barely scratching the surface of this information and my understanding is taking quantum leaps. And then there’s the issue of implementing it until it shows up on gigs.

[@flux1940]

u are one the best music channels by far on this website

[@ewwitsantonio]

One of the best music theory channels around! Thanks for the great lesson

[@elpepebolivar5787]

So tasty and encouraging... Incredible feel on 3/4.... Great content as always

[@JazzBass]

One of Best Modal interchange practice!! I will download, thank you

[@gabrielcostasax]

Capo Nick!!, estás a full con tus métodos, tremendo papá!!

[@JuanG.AcostaHABITACIONSONORA]

Everything in this (and all your videos) is absolutely brilliant!: from the extraordinary content, to the awesome video concept and edition, the way you explain...I have no words, I just feel like clapping for hours👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. THANKS.

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One of your best! Keep digging, yes!

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Wow, this vid and your musical concept blew me away!!!

[@eckerjoe]

So very nice ! I love your work !

[@CudderMC]

i love your strings, so lush! thanks for all!

[@FedericoMalamanBass]

Awesome! :-)

[@michelefaragalli]

Juste noticed that Wayne Shorter's "Infant Eyes" is largely built on these chords :)

[@gabrielmirandamartinez8451]

Great stuff!! Thanks a lot!!! :)

[@lumo_]

modal interchange really does tickle my fancy. thanks for the guidance

[@josiecrotwell8627]

Cool video very helpful thanks 🙏

[@ypolchenko-freejazz-guitar]

Cool stuf here. Thanks!

[@calherron]

Thanks for the great video!

[@mybiggrin]

Thank you very much. I'm confused as to how the Dbmaj7b5 fits into the Ebmajor group theoretically, bc the normal chord would be dmin7b5. It sounds amazing, so I will always keep it in mind now, but I'm still curious.

[@DavidSmith-fx8lo]

He answers that question at time stamp 0:47.

[@WoodsAxel]

That should be a Db Lydian chord borrowed from Eb Mixolydian. The #4 has been written enharmonically as a b5, which is confusing to say the least... Source: I have developed a somewhat similar system.

[@jfpary7336]

Simply wonderful.

[@Vospi]

I love your tone when you play. It's spectacularly tender. I love your presentation. I have a question. Say I play in G major; then a scale to move to for a modal interchange would be G minor. But if you think that I play in E minor, I now have an ability to move to E major! Is my assumption correct, and could I use both? It sounds like there wouldn't be a "restriction" or anything, but yet I wonder if it counts, or would it go by another name, etc! Love and kisses from Russia.

[@jkdbobby]

Vospi I am not Nick but you are correct that E major works in your example as mods interchange.

[@vospi-random]

@@jkdbobby Thank you, so does G minor work as well?

[@jkdbobby]

vospi-random yes. Moving from major to minor with the same tonal center, in this case G, works. It also works to think of this in E, since E is the 6th note of the G major scale. E is relative minor, then modal interchange explains using chords from E minor. Not sure theory pushes the composition piece. I would use theory to hear the sounds when practicing and then eventually those sounds will happen in your imagination/songwriting.

[@Vospi]

​@@jkdbobby Thanks again; my goal there was to acquire knowledge about terminology; I'm fine without "the safety net" of it with just using borrowed chords and moving to other modes, but I was curious how applicable is the term that presenter used for this and other cases. Thanks a bunch! :)

[@timothyritchie5290]

Ooo thanks dude that was fun to play with. Got me into exploring subdominants to move between the relative keys too. Could you or have you done a video on that?

[@ajadrew]

So helpful, thanks as always!

[@alexojohndlaborgona3653]

Saludos mr. Nick!.

[@johannascrops1029]

Totalmente agradecido con tu contenido !!!👏🏽

[@Faz99Master]

Simply inspiring material. Hopefully you can explain how Dbmaj7b5 is part of the Ebmaj tonality? I'm 100% stumped 😕

[@lightfinga]

Or how Emaj 7b5 is part of the Ebminor tonality... I'm bewildered too...

[@nhklog674]

Any materials for bass lines creation ideas ? 😅

[@zabtej1645]

What do you mean by Db maj 5b not being diatonic to Eb major?

[@UandMisterG]

Canon! Great thanks !

[@arnieus866]

Is it mathematically possible to determine the number of parallel tonalities in the universe?

[@GreatOxford]

Deserving of further research at CERN.

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I really want to buy this. When will you add bass clef?

[@jakemf1]

Highly recommend the PDF-KILLER

[@marcopepe4046]

At 02:30 could you please explain how did you harmonize the major scale? That are not the classic chords. Thanks

[@marcopepe4046]

After a more careful analysis I realized that Ebadd9/G is Gmin7 b6 substantially... clear! At last you replaced Dbmin7b5 with the major one... nice! But, why Db instead of D? The exercise sounds great!

[@ldezo]

The b9th and 4th from playing Eb pentatonic over a D chord would produce a lot of tension. Playing a Db chord underneath changes these intervals to a 9th and a #4 which are much smoother, you find yourself playing Db lydian instead of D locrian! In summary, it's mostly an aesthetic choice. Try both and see which one you like better!

[@marcopepe4046]

@@ldezo great! Thank you very much for the explanation. Cheers

[@pariah206]

Any smooth jazz groups, or groups in general that do this fairly often? Heavy use of modal interchange or modulations.

[@SpaghettiToaster]

All of bebop, especially Bill Evans

[@CMM5300]

Why is there Dbmaj7b5 in the key of Eb major?

[@JazzDuets]

One answer could be that it sounds great. the second could be that it is the bVIImaj7 and a third answer could be I have no idea, ask the creator!

[@CMM5300]

@@JazzDuets so basically borrowed from mixolydian? bVII Maj7. I guess. I mean that chord comes from Lydian as a "hidden" chord but using it as a bVII means mixolydian. Right? I think? He said chords from major and from minor but that one seems out of place with the key center both major and minor parrellel.

[@CMM5300]

@@JazzDuets are you the person who made the video? I just couldn't figure out why that chord was there or... how it was thought to put there anyway. It happens to be my knew favorite arppeggio lately. I'm just trying to learn more about it and how to use it.

[@ewwitsantonio]

Some of the chords used remind me of some Galaxy 2 Galaxy tracks. :)

[@Pretzels722]

the link to the exercise in the description isn't working

[@tuneintomusic7753]

Awesome! Modal interchange can create some very interesting colours. Sidestepping can be another way of using a similar technique. Check out @tuneintomusic's latest upload on how to use this technique on the guitar :)

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Chrono trigger music vibe

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[@nickman9639]

When you notice that Thundercat uses this type of sound.

[@lumo_]

which one of his did that remind you?

[@nickman9639]

@@lumo_ King of The hill alternates between C#mi7 and A#mi7.

[@abuventertainment2856]

For sure

[@simoncuypers1213]

All these lines give me stank face...

[@Walans]

This is pure gold! Thank you so much for sharing this valuable information with all of us man