To create modal music, a few ingredients need to be present: Clear Tonal Centre Tonic Chord Harmony Established Presence Of Characteristic Note. What Is a Tonal Centre? The single strongest note that the whole of the passage or song wants to resolve to. The opposite...
The Following is a list of broad stroke concepts. There are many ways to practice scales and integrate them into your playing and writing. The way you practice them will drive what you want to get from them. What you want to get out of them corresponds to why you want...
In my “Unsolved Music Mysteries” blog entry, I set out a basic framework for what modes are and how they are used in general terms. In this blog entry, I’ll deal with this topic in higher resolution. Each mode/scale creates a series of intervals...
If there is one subject that seems to pop up on almost every guitar blog and forum… it’s modes. To understand modes, it’s helpful to be fluent in the following areas: Major, Harmonic Minor, and Melodic Minor Scales (Know the notes and chords in all 12...
