The Seven Musical Modes for Guitar

Video Transcript

"So let's take a look at the modes, on paper. Here we go. We have seven modes, as I said. They're numbered like this. And you notice that this is the same as our major chord progressions, how that looked, with the major, minor, minor, major, major, minor diminish pattern. These are the scales that represent each of those chords in a progression. So the one chord would use an Ionian. This is our natural major scale, so if we were playing a C major, if we played a C Ionian, it would be the same thing, it would be a major scale. The one that we already know. We have a Dorian. It's a variation on a minor scale. The Phrygian, that's another minor scale, the Lydian, which, quickly, is a dominant version of the major scale. So I had the lowered seventh, this would work over our seventh chords. The Aeolian which is our natural minor or relative minor to the Ionian, is a sixth one, and the Locrian will be a diminished scale, the first one we'll see of that nature."