i used to struggle learning modes,patterns e.t.c,had a great thirst for anything guitar .. used to sit and watch anybody play (still do when i get the chance) just to see where their fingers went
then one day i realized that their all the same thing ... after that i realized that i could take most scale books and rip out most pages
(suppose having the same "scale" repeated in every key is great for staring at while actually playing in that key )
for those that don't know ...
(and im speaking of relative to today,guitarists and not "ye olde" interpretations of modes or history)
if you know 1 pattern block then you know 7 different "scales" its
impossible to know only 1, to get the other "scales" just change the root note
i.e:- if you record yourself
(on a phone or whatever) playing a C note then play a Cmajor scale over the top it sounds all "happy" ... if you then record a D note and play the
EXACT same Cmajor pattern in the
exact same place it sounds all bluesy
(its now D Dorian mode)
now do it with an E,F,G,A,B keeping that Cmajor pattern in the
exact same place ... that lil happy major scale is also death metal,rawk,weird,neoclassical,sad,tearful,lost,blues yada,yada ..
modes = a scale with the root note changed,that's it,no matter how complicated anybody makes it sound all you do is change 1 fecking note
thinking of it this way will save hours an hours of wasted work ...
btw id recommend learning the pattern blocks using 3 notes per string,this tidily makes 7 easier to learn patterns and after much practice the 3 notes per string will help you get great speeds up
(like it or not you WILL get faster )
Major scale depersonalized and reduced to pattern blocks
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