There was a family. Daddy, Mummy,Grandpa and 4 children one of which was mildly autistic.Grandpa was a loudmouth but was harmless.Daddy earned the money to run the household,and wrote the rule book for the house.To live in peace in this house,everyone had to understand that Dad was boss.So at any given time any of the other members of the house could instantaneously be in the good books of daddy by adhering to his laws.This is an introduction to modal theory where Daddy and Mummy were Majors,Grandpa was dominant (only in speech),there were 3 minors and an autistic half diminished sister.We will study the relationship of these family members in time and realize that its really quite easy.So welcome to the New Year and an easy introduction to modes and commodes.
...so when daddy and the family went out,they stayed together and followed his rules.The kids listened,mum made sure they stayed in line and Grandpa talked loudly every once in a while.When people asked them for a resume it was always...My name is ------ and I do ---- and I love -----,however all the ---- were lines coined by daddy.This was the way it was in daddy's world.Their names and identities were unique but when they stayed and travelled together the data that they put out was the same so as to make daddy happy.They lived in harmony like this.
Now take daddy's rule book to be the major scale.And this is THE only syntax we have to follow. Lets always take just the C Major scale which I have told you to plot on a fretboard diagram.
The family has Daddy= Cmaj7, Mummy= Fmaj7, Grandpa= G7 (gets altered when he is unwell),Child1 =Dm7,Child2=Em7
Child3 =Am7,Lil autistic sister=Bm7b5.
Let us take a random family member and say Child1 wants to say something to daddy and the rest and not be rude. She will be speaking with the notes D,E,F,G,A,B,C.Always starting with the note that is her name in this case Child1=Dm7 so,the note D.
If it were Grandpa asking for a sweet and hoping to get it he would ask using G,A,B,C,D,E,F. As grandpa=G7.Please now understand that this is the mode of speech to be in daddy's good books.
So what do we do to understand how it sounds when say Grandpa speaks? We play Grandpa's chord as the background sound...and over that we play G,A,B,C,D,E and F. We can play these notes in sequence and out of sequence but preferably starting with G.This sound will be the essence of Granpa's speech.The notes played over the chord IS that sound.
The Ancient Greeks gave these sounds names and they were called modes.The names were twisters and made people in our generation feel that they had to be Greek or mathematicians to understand. They are just names NOTHING else.The sound is what I want you to get.
Play the speeches of Child1,Child2 etc just like you did Grandpa's all over the neck always starting with the note that is the ID of that family member.You will hear how cool they sound.
This family is a family with no real gender or age differentials. They are people with name tags 'Daddy','Mummy' etc. They can switch tags anytime in a song.There can be 2 Mummy's it could be all autistic people in a family,in some really weird songs....but yeah get the drift.
Moral of the story: G Mixolydian are the notes of C major, D Dorian are the notes of C major and so on.Will do the name associations later. C Dorian will be Child1 of Daddy Bb and so on. If you imbibe these sounds your knowledge will be unshakeable I promise you :).
...so when daddy and the family went out,they stayed together and followed his rules.The kids listened,mum made sure they stayed in line and Grandpa talked loudly every once in a while.When people asked them for a resume it was always...My name is ------ and I do ---- and I love -----,however all the ---- were lines coined by daddy.This was the way it was in daddy's world.Their names and identities were unique but when they stayed and travelled together the data that they put out was the same so as to make daddy happy.They lived in harmony like this.
Now take daddy's rule book to be the major scale.And this is THE only syntax we have to follow. Lets always take just the C Major scale which I have told you to plot on a fretboard diagram.
The family has Daddy= Cmaj7, Mummy= Fmaj7, Grandpa= G7 (gets altered when he is unwell),Child1 =Dm7,Child2=Em7
Child3 =Am7,Lil autistic sister=Bm7b5.
Let us take a random family member and say Child1 wants to say something to daddy and the rest and not be rude. She will be speaking with the notes D,E,F,G,A,B,C.Always starting with the note that is her name in this case Child1=Dm7 so,the note D.
If it were Grandpa asking for a sweet and hoping to get it he would ask using G,A,B,C,D,E,F. As grandpa=G7.Please now understand that this is the mode of speech to be in daddy's good books.
So what do we do to understand how it sounds when say Grandpa speaks? We play Grandpa's chord as the background sound...and over that we play G,A,B,C,D,E and F. We can play these notes in sequence and out of sequence but preferably starting with G.This sound will be the essence of Granpa's speech.The notes played over the chord IS that sound.
The Ancient Greeks gave these sounds names and they were called modes.The names were twisters and made people in our generation feel that they had to be Greek or mathematicians to understand. They are just names NOTHING else.The sound is what I want you to get.
Play the speeches of Child1,Child2 etc just like you did Grandpa's all over the neck always starting with the note that is the ID of that family member.You will hear how cool they sound.
This family is a family with no real gender or age differentials. They are people with name tags 'Daddy','Mummy' etc. They can switch tags anytime in a song.There can be 2 Mummy's it could be all autistic people in a family,in some really weird songs....but yeah get the drift.
Moral of the story: G Mixolydian are the notes of C major, D Dorian are the notes of C major and so on.Will do the name associations later. C Dorian will be Child1 of Daddy Bb and so on. If you imbibe these sounds your knowledge will be unshakeable I promise you :).
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