Modes

[casey]

Hi Everyone,

i was just wondeirng if anyone had an easy way to remeber the order of modes coresponding to the notes of the c major scale... i can never remeebr the order. any easier way than memorize?

thanks,
Casey

[Guitonne]

Why don't you try to remember a few a time rather than all at once. If anyone has an easier way, I'm all ears.

Anyone read Jon Finn's article in Guitar? The best I've read on modal fingerings.

[Bofatron]

you might try grouping them into functional categories: tonic, sub dom and dom. I iii and vi = tonics, ii and IV are sub dom, and V and vii dim are dom.

So, Ionian, Phrygian, and Aeolian are related
Dorian and Lydian are functionall related

and Mix. and Locrian are related

Or you could think of them in terms of proximity:

Lydian is just an Ionian with an aug 4th degree.

There are a lot of ways to go about this, whatever works is the right way for you

Shred Like Hell ;-)
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[casey]

you're last option sounds alot more appealing, but i just need to remmeber the order, i know how to play all the modes and can name them, just not in correspoding order to the C major scale.

[Bofatron]

well, Okay, then make up a phrase:

IDPLMAL =

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;-)

how's that?

http://ShredLikeHell.com

[LuigiCabrini]

The one I knew was:
I don't play loud marshalls any longer.