Modes: most of the important ones

viz

OK, here are the important modes. Hope you like my slightly unorthodox way of depicting them! 

http://www.guitaristtv.com/Downloads/Modes 2014_02_18 - for GTV.xlsx

ChristophEar

Ooh, I like that way of visualising the tones/semitones!

monquixote

Viz you just post the links on here, you don't need BBCode.

viz

OK lol, got it thanks!

mike_l

Nice Work Viz.

 

I'll try to get my head round that properly. Sometime. In the future. ish.

viz

Yes, it's not the most exciting thing about music, I'll give you that.

snakemanStoo

I think the visual thing looks pretty cool

stonevibe

I think thats well laid out. Not that I have ever consciously looked at Modes in my playing....

viz

Thanks a lot - I've also used the same colour scheme throughout; and from the diatonic the colours are:

Ionian red, because it's strong and major

Dorian green, because of greensleeves

Phyrgian yellowy orange, because I don't know, it sounds yellowy orange and eastern and mysterious

Lydian pink because it's Steve Vai-ish and strident

Mixolydian brown because it has that brown flat sound

Aeolian blue because it's minor and blue

Locrian lilac because it's so bizarre and unsettling

and then I've used the same colours throughout the pages, so each mode can be easily identified. Eg in melodic minor, I've based it off the Aeolian, the first mode of the minor scale, so the first mode is blue (rather than having it based off the Ionian, red, and flattening the 3rd to make it minor, which would have been IMO incorrect), anyhoo etc.

 

bigjon

Top work, Sir Viz of that ilk. I salute your indefatigability. 

viz

Haha ta

Clarky

I think for general music [not jazz / fusion / prog or other more 'out there' stuff

the main scales / modes to learn are diatonic major, natural minor, mixolydian and dorian

and maybe add the harmonic minor

these will cover most bases across most genres / styles

viz

Absolutely, good point! And for the next phase, try:

Diatonic: 4th mode, "Lydian mode"
Melodic minor: 4th mode, "acoustic scale" (more pleasing than diatonic Lydian IMO)
Melodic minor: 1st and 5th modes
Hungarian minor: 5th mode

axisus

Ooooohhhhh ........ pretty ........... I see pretty .........

I just can't do scales by interval. I can figure it out on one string, but over all 6 explodes my head.

viz

A huge number of you have correctly pointed out that the major Locrian scale is just a mode of the Neapolitan major scale, and that the Gypsy scale is merely a mode of the Neapolitan minor scale, so for the sake of conciseness I have edited my post with the relevant modifications. Thanks to the many of you who PM'd me about these delicate points.

viz

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viz

In fact, seeing as you asked, here's a summary.

viz

I think this is the complete set - enjoy! http://www.guitaristtv.com/Downloads/Modes 2014_02_18 - for GTV.xlsx

axisus

viz said:

A huge number of you have correctly pointed out that the major Locrian scale is just a mode of the Neapolitan major scale

I scream when I hear the Neapolitan scale.

viz

Hahahaha!!

photek

viz said:

I think this is the complete set - enjoy! http://i865.photobucket.com/albums/ab217/Vizzage/MusicalmodesbyViz6_zps15fcbf56.jpg

Phew, I don't have a 7 string guitar so I don't need to learn this Great stuff viz thanks for sharing.