Guitar Chords within Modes
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Here’s a question from Klint
QUESTION:
- Hey Robert… thanks for the lessons… I appreciate you going to all the trouble posting those lessons. I’ve got one question…How do you create a chord using the modes? I mean, your chord progression in the Lydian mode sounds sweet, and I wanna how learn to do it. How do you do it? thanks…
ANSWER: Another Great question! One of the things I teach all of my guitar students is that just because you don’t know the name of a chord doesn’t mean it’s not a chord… With that being said, every mode has it’s different shapes and petterns, which makes it slightly different from the one before it, or ahead of it. Although they are all the same notes as the original scale, the notes are in a different order and that creates different shapes and patterns.
EXAMPLE: If I’m playing in the Lydian Mode, it has a certain pattern that must be followed, and within that pattern you can experiment with playing any of those notes together. This is how you create chords within a mode. You can play two notes together, or three, four, five notes together, and then you tie all of it together with little runs from within the mode.
Overview - you’re playing several notes together using only the notes within the mode pattern, and stringing them together with single notes from the same mode as well. This all goes back to what I was saying about how it doesn’t matter whether you know the names of these chords or not, as long as you can apply them musically and be comfortable doing it. You can always learn the names later. This method gets the ball rolling much quicker in a musical sense.
Re-apply this method to all the modes and you’ll soon be creating some real musical compositions.
Hope that sheds new light on the subject…Please leave me a comment to let me know how this helps you. Be assured, others will learn from your questions and comments as well.
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Thanks Bob. I understand now. I greatly appreciate the help.
Fantastic write up on Guitar Chords within Modes – ASK Bobby Molton! Always love your posts.
I know someone who don’t know the name of the chords he’s playing but it still sound the same as with othe guitar players. I looked at the position of his fingers and they are quite awkward! He’s doing a C minor that looked like a BbM7 or something like that! I guess it’s the way he tuned his guitar suited to his taste. What a guy and he even played classic Robert Johnson blues!Anyway, it’s great to find some lessons from you. We really appreciate it!
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I’m glad to hear that this post helped a few of you. More soon, Bob
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@ Winona,
Thank You! Glad you found some information that was helpful.
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