OT: Theory...Modes epiphany?

[PeteDuBaldo]

There really is no such thing as a "proper" or "right" mode. If it sounds good to you, it's right. It might not be the most pleasant sound to hit a C# and hold it on a C Major Chord, but if you use it as a passing tone to the ii-it can give you a cool flavor. It's important to know that when you run the modes, you aren't just training your fingers to hit the right frets. You are training your ear to hear the difference between a phrygian mode and aeolian. They are both minor but the phrygian has a flat 2nd.

What makes a guy like Pino a bad ass? He doesn't over analyze every single chord as it comes along. When you are on a studio session or soloing you aren't going to have time for that.He hears the chord, and he plays the flavor he thinks fits best with it. He comes up with sweet sh*t that most of us would never come up with, but it seems so RIGHT when he plays it. Why? Because his ear is trained to pick up all the nuances of the chord so he can play off them.

Well put.

 

[tkarter]

Forgive me brethren of the bass. My previous posts may have seemed like I thought I know more than I do.

I want to understand.

I learned chordal scales. I am trying to balance the two methods and become the best that I may become. Given my age I may or may not achieve that.

I do alright in two languages. We were talking two methods of bass teaching.

Chordal scales are my native language.

Wasabi was teaching my second language and I failed the first semester. My bad.


tk

 

[sandman@midlife]

TK, my brother, you are not alone.
I want to know this so I can use it, but it a long ways off.
But what a great journey

 

[Wasabi]

Forgive me brethren of the bass. My previous posts may have seemed like I thought I know more than I do.

I want to understand.

I learned chordal scales. I am trying to balance the two methods and become the best that I may become. Given my age I may or may not achieve that.

I do alright in two languages. We were talking two methods of bass teaching.

Chordal scales are my native language.

Wasabi was teaching my second language and I failed the first semester. My bad.


tk

I'm not sure what you mean by a chordal scale. There may be more connection there than you think.

 

[dlloyd]

I'm not sure what you mean by a chordal scale. There may be more connection there than you think.

The way I was reading it was as the "mode" per chord thing.