#219 - STOP Practicing Scales!
Added 2022-04-08 14:30:01 +0000 UTCLet's talk about practicing scales today! Did you know that most players approach this topic in the wrong way? I did so as well, so I want to show you a modal exercise concept that will unlock tons of amazing scales without having to actually learn them with confusing diagrams!
Here are all your practice files for this video (video play-alongs, tabs, guitar pro files, backing tracks): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ztT9_OdKggHaD7QIubDORTFTIQgxOlh9?usp=sharing
My main goal with this video and workout package is to show you how you can use the modes of any scale (meaning scale positions you actually already know by internalizing the original scale) to create much more interesting music and solos!
By the way, here's a Dropbox folder in case Google Drive doesn't work for you: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2lz85pgwcszaikw/AAAM5HqzliK8RdH6VEUeNf3ya?dl=0
Comments
Thought I really started grasping on all of the guitar theory part, but after this video I sounds Martian to me once again.. :/ Or just maybe I've grabbed on something too advanced for now..
Evilone
2023-08-20 17:32:38 +0000 UTCthis is so good, but could we also get the fretboard images in the downloadable lesson aswell?
Danilo Espinoza Pino
2023-03-18 20:10:46 +0000 UTCI will forever be eternally grateful I have found this Patreon channel. Out of all the guitarists/teachers I've found online, you are by far the easiest to understand and thorough in your style of explaining. Not only do we get theory, but you also go out of your way to explain the technical side down to the minute details. Especially explaining Bad practicing habits, as opposed to good practicing habits from the perspective of an accomplished musician. Which has been so lacking in all the places I;ve looked. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I've been looking for that for so long. Nothing has compared to this!
joe thomas
2022-09-05 17:23:11 +0000 UTCThere are also modes of the Melodic Minor Scale
Chris Egon Searle
2022-08-09 20:12:43 +0000 UTCHi there, great video! Very helpful. I'm curious if there are any additional modes from other types of scales
Will
2022-04-26 23:47:24 +0000 UTC@Eric Yeaa exactly.. i think that’s the point of the modes, to keep the same feel all over the fretboard. I think we can all switch from one mode to the next playing in the same key, which is basically same notes repeating. But same mode/feel all over the fretboard is challenging
nader medhat
2022-04-15 11:22:05 +0000 UTCI want to know the same and switching to different keys and keep the same mode
Éric Richard
2022-04-15 04:52:52 +0000 UTCI'd suggest just changing the characteristic scale degree of the natural minor scale you already know in case of Phrygian - it's just one note you have to adjust: https://www.patreon.com/posts/106-this-is-how-39916834 Hope that helps :)
Bernd Brodträger
2022-04-12 04:51:25 +0000 UTCThanks Bernth.. oh okay! Yea that’s clear. Do you have any previous video showing for example if i want to play a specific single mode throughout the whole fretboard? So in case I’m playing in Am key i can jump from one mode to another to cover the whole fretboard, normal approach we all learned, however if i want for example the Phrygian mode/feel in my whole solo using the whole fretboard how would we do it? Thanks
nader medhat
2022-04-12 04:49:07 +0000 UTCHey Nader, the meaning of this is seeing each position as an individual scale - of course, you can spread them across the neck very easily because the next shape on the neck for each mode is the following shape of the next mode :) If this is unclear, I'm happy to do a follow-up video in case the community votes for it! Thanks
Bernd Brodträger
2022-04-12 04:39:17 +0000 UTCIn other words, if you can post a video using same “concept” but covering all fretboard. Thanks
nader medhat
2022-04-11 19:20:21 +0000 UTCHi Bernth.. thanks for the video! :) i have a question please,, how could i continue the rest of the fretboard without memorizing the next pattern and the next pattern from Ionian to Dorian to Phrygian etc… so if i want to play Am scale i play on 5th fret Am scale box (Aeolian) up next to B Locrian then C Ionian etc.. that’s how i cover the whole fretboard! But if i play all modes as shown here, from root note A how can i approach the rest of the fretboard that way using this method? Sorry if i sound stupid! 🤘🏼
nader medhat
2022-04-11 19:19:20 +0000 UTCHey Marco, yes the root is the center of the scale and you can move it this way if you think in scale boxes. There's a theory course coming this week that will help out a lot with questions like this I think :)
Bernd Brodträger
2022-04-11 04:36:57 +0000 UTCHey Rain, I'd personally start with one of the alternate picking courses since it's the technique I use the most often :) The hand synchronization course is great for that, the alternate picking masterclass as well! Hope that helps
Bernd Brodträger
2022-04-11 04:34:59 +0000 UTCHey everyone! I've been a part of this awesome community for a while now and about to start tackling some of the 30 day courses. Not sure of the best place to ask so I figured on a more recent video would be ok. What would you all recommend as a good first course for someone whos getting back into guitar after a several years break and wanting to start from what you'd consider the ground up? I was kind of leaning towards the new guitar theory course since it covers a lot of basics/fundamentals. Thanks!
Rain
2022-04-10 06:52:01 +0000 UTChi Bernth ! Super noob question here : this means that if I move the first pattern from the fifth to the third fret I will get the G Harmonic minor scale and so on (1st fret F harmonic minor, 7th fret B Harmonic minor, etc) ? This would mean that if I have a base that has, say, two bars in A and then 2 bars in B I can make a solo on it using the first pattern in the first two bars and then using the same pattern two frets up on the 7th fret, right ?
Marco Maria Fernando Scandolaro
2022-04-10 04:57:10 +0000 UTCbrilliant bernth i cant wait you make my playing great mate , miss the random german word
jaz
2022-04-09 22:41:18 +0000 UTCYes, I'd just transpose most things if this is really your favorite tuning :) Drop tunings are impractical for a lot of things but I'm sure you can make it work for your goals and personal style!
Bernd Brodträger
2022-04-09 13:19:49 +0000 UTCThat will be featured in next week's in-depth theory course, can't wait to share it :)
Bernd Brodträger
2022-04-09 13:18:36 +0000 UTCThank you for another great lesson! I have always been reluctant to try to memorize so many different shapes. With this excercise and concept I can now play more intuitively and I am not ”caged” anymore.
Martti
2022-04-09 11:51:00 +0000 UTCwell said, there is NEVER enough time, or fast enough progress ;)
Paul Jenkins
2022-04-09 00:49:23 +0000 UTCI hear a backing track, but I do not know where to start or when to change scale shape/ mode through the chord changes. I can hear it in my nead, but freeze once I get to the fretboard, if you get my drift.
Steve Shaw
2022-04-08 23:57:28 +0000 UTCThat is how I understand it. So that you learn them as stand alone scales, instead of always thinking of them as different positions of another scale, like the Major scale for example. I find it really interesting, I like Bernth a lot, he keeps it fresh and he is super consistent with great information. I had only ever heard of a couple of these before outside of this video, and had no idea that one of them was a mode of another. I had also never thought about trying to learn the scales as sharps or flats of the Major scale position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, (that is actually something I am not 100% sure about, but I have kind of worked the first three on my own using the position formula, so I think those position formulas are all in relation to the Major scale, that might be like a standard thing?), and I think it just forces you to find the note on the fretboard yourself, and at the same time I am saying the note I land on to make sure it is the right note, A B C D E F G wise, and it is helping me learn the notes on the fretboard. Once I have done this, then I go ahead and just look at the diagram but I think I need to stop doing that, I should continue just working it out every single time until I have memorized everything, I just might start doing that...what stops me is I worry I will be left behind by the time the next lesson comes out, I wish I had more time..
Geyzer Salgado
2022-04-08 22:49:19 +0000 UTCWhat chord progression would I play these modes over I have trouble playing harmonic minor over chords I don’t know what to play my chords never fit
jaz
2022-04-08 22:22:29 +0000 UTCYooo veeery cool, Bernth! I have been practicing 3nps hepta scales (just minor and major), so I can't wait to practice these and work on connecting them with what I have been doing... I may need your help tho so might put something up on our VIP group on FB about it... Thanks so much 🙏🎸🤟
Ivan V.
2022-04-08 18:50:52 +0000 UTCstill doesn't understand scales and modes :'D :'D But I have no doubt that it is very well explained, as always
Alex U.
2022-04-08 18:47:26 +0000 UTCUmh. An other delicious topic. Exactly what I need right now. Thank you !!
Gabriel Feno
2022-04-08 18:07:42 +0000 UTCyo man, I was thinking about if there would be a video, since nowadays you are busy with tour and so, glad to see that you did a nice one :D Vielen danke, spiele straffe und laut 🤘🏽🤘🏽
Jose llopis temes
2022-04-08 15:50:54 +0000 UTCBest. Lesson. Ever. Now, I finally understand modes. Vielen Dank!
Paul McDonough
2022-04-08 15:42:54 +0000 UTCYour videos are the highlight of my week thank you Bernth.
Andrei Cristof
2022-04-08 15:37:53 +0000 UTCGreat stuff.
Arvid Richter
2022-04-08 15:29:01 +0000 UTCThis is the kind of thing I've been thinking for years. It's so INEFFICIENT to learn scale pattern after scale pattern!
Samuel Brockmann
2022-04-08 15:22:01 +0000 UTCBernth, I have my guitar in Drop D because I love it of course, do you have any tips for navigating the lessons? Should I move the notes up the fret board on the 6th string and then quickly go back down to the 5th string? Should I ignore the 6th string all together and learn 5 string patterns instead? Just some advice, I really want to avoid changing my tuning to E standard because I love Drop D and just want to get better at that instead of changing my tuning to something I do not intent to use much. Thanks!!
Geyzer Salgado
2022-04-08 15:08:10 +0000 UTCI think that this lesson is one of your most important. Because it’s true you get locked in to a certain pattern. Also it’s like when they are teaching algebra in school. And you may not get a certain part. So the teacher changes the way they teach and 🤯 you get it.
Hector Jimenez
2022-04-08 15:06:52 +0000 UTCinteresting. i've been working on the 3NPS exercises starting with C and getting in all the positions for that (diagram here -> https://jenslarsen.nl/WP/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/3NPS-Major-Scales-724x1024.jpg) so is the concept with this to use those shape patterns but to keep everything on the root note here or am I not understanding this right?
Paul Jenkins
2022-04-08 14:52:41 +0000 UTCHello from the heartland of the United States, Iowa. Nice exercise. This would make a good Warm-up
Gary Feinstein
2022-04-08 14:43:09 +0000 UTCHell yes🤘👽🤘 this is exactly how i learned the major modes, i cant wait to jam this!!!
DarthWooPV
2022-04-08 14:41:04 +0000 UTCRock = U 🤟 Hi from AUS
James Rafferty
2022-04-08 14:31:59 +0000 UTC
