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Axl_Rose
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07/05/2002 10:10 pm
--------------10------12---13--
--------------10------12---13--
---------9----10------12-------
---------9----10------12-------
---8----------10------12-------
---8----------10------12-------

Thats C major

So is the examples below the modes?

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---------9----10---------------
---8----------10------12-------
---8----------10------12-------C Major

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---------9----10------12-------
---8----------10------12-------
--------------10------12------- D dorian

Ie. a mode isnt every note of the scale on the guitar, otherwise it wouldnt be a mode it would be identical!

If thats what you guys have been talking about all this time then at last!! but when i solo i try to use all the notes. Are modes then the names given to parts of the solo that concentrate on a small part, ie not every note on the guitar of that scale?

So if you do a run from C (8fret 6string) to C (10fret 4th string) that C major scale. Is the mode where you concentrate on going up the scale but starting off on D (10fret 6string) to D (12fret 4th string) is that the mode D Dorian?

I just dont see the point in modes? Is it simply a way of teaching you which scales you can move to by giving them the same name (root note) ?

[Edited by Axl_Rose on 07-05-2002 at 05:16 PM]