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Lessons: Lesson #435: I Hate Modes |
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Suggested Tempo: 120 |
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It may be handy to think of a scale as a "pitch collection"- the common major and minor pitch collections can therefore be rearranged to give you different sequences, although the basic framework doesn't change.
Kind of like building with legos- you can arrange a bunch of legos into different shapes, but basically,m you still have the same bunch of legos.
There are seven modes (because there are 7 notes in most pitch collections)....here is my handy-dandy little silly mnemonic aid:
In (Ionian) same as major scale
Dark (Dorian) major scale 2-2
Places (Phrygian) major scale 3-3
Leave (Lydian) major scale major scale 4-4
Many (Mixolydian) major scale 5-5
Apricot (Aeolian) major scale 6-6
Lollipops (Locrian) major scale 7-7
Don't laugh, it works.
Actually, laugh- it's fairly ridiculous.
Incidentally, the modes are named after regions of ancient Greece. Or something like that.
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