3 Notes Per String Major Scales - Guitar Lesson

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[freezebritches]

I hope this helps you guys find these shapes Simple to Understand.
{{ A Mode is just a Major scale starting on its individual notes which gives us 7 different shapes which are covered in the above good lesson }}

Shape 1 is the B Major scale starting on the root note of B.
( This is called the B Ionian Mode or more commonly the Major scale )

Shape 2 is the A Major scale but starting on its 2nd note which is B
( This is called the B Dorian Mode...which is just A Major starting on its 2nd note )

Shape 3 is the G Major scale starting on it 3rd note which is B
( This is called the B Phrygian Mode...which is just G Major starting on its 3rd note )

Shape 4 is the F# Major scale starting on its 4th note which is B
( This is called the B Lydian Mode...which is just F# Major starting on its 4th note )

Shape 5 is the E Major scale but starting on its 5th note which is B
(This is called the B Mixolydian Mode...which is Just E major starting on its 5th note)

Shape 6 is the D Major scale but starting on its 6th note which is B
(This is called the B Aeolian Mode...which is just D Major starting on its 6th note)
(( The Aeolian mode is also known as the Relative Minor. In this case it's B minor as related to D Major scale))

Shape 7 is the C Major scale but starting on its 7th note which is B
(This is called the B Locrian Mode...which is just C Major starting on its 7th note)

It's also useful to bear in mind that the modes are either major or minor because of the chords in the scale they represent.
Ionian  is Major
Dorian is Minor
Phrygian is Minor
Lydian is Major
Mixolydian is Major or Dominent 7th
Aelonian is Minor ((Relative minor)
Locian is Minor 7th with a flattened 5th (very rarely used)

[GuitarLessons]

@steveo27545 Hey SteveO, what I am trying to get across by doing everything off of every note in the scale is to break the fretboard up into regions. Then it will be easy to locate a scale for every region very quickly. If you watch the major scale visualization videos you will get what I mean by regions. Melodic Minor scales with 3-notes per string are coming today!! Cheers.. Carl..

[cubic]

Now this is how you serve the community

[GuitarLessons]

@stratphil The A region just means any A note. Ab - A - A#.. Either one is considered the A region. :)

[GuitarLessons]

@JPTR76 Hey thanks for watching, I hope I am understanding the question correctly in that you want to know why I am not taking all 7 of these forms across the neck in one key instead of playing them all at the 7th fret? The reason is because this lesson is just to help you memorize the individual forms without thinking about keys. I feel if you first learn them in a key a lot of times it is hard to move change. I work on visualizing these forms in a key in other videos in my advanced playlist :)

[GuitarLessons]

@JPTR76 Great I am glad I could help, and maybe in the next 20 or 30 years I will be able to play like Eric Johnson and Steve Morse too. :)

[GuitarLessons]

@JPTR76 LOL thanks for the reply. If someone is using just the same scale shape in different positions of the neck then they are changing keys every time they do it. My approach is to show ALL 3-notes per string possibilities for each key across the entire neck. To help me fully understand your question perhaps you can send me a message with a link to the other 3-notes per string video and I will be happy to let you know the difference between the two. Thanks again!! Carl..

[BluesHeavy]

I have a question the way I learned how to solo was using the major or minor pentatonic scale. I would ask is it possible for you to show how you can build the modes using the pentatonic scale Example A Aeolian Mode is almost the same as the A minor pentatonic scale except that you add the 9th and the b6. The same can be applied using the G major penta and G Mixolydian.The Dorian, Phrygian, aeolian, locrian are all minor modes and Lonian, lydian, mixolydian are major modes.

[JPTR]

Thank you so much for these lessons. I am a little confused. On some other "3 note per string lessons" is see on youtube the seem to use on the the first shape you used in this lesson on all seven positions of the given key. What is the difference in that approach as opposed to this one? I am not complaining. I have learned more from you than any other teacher on youtube. Just wondering. Thanks!

[GuitarLessons]

@guitartillidie Hey thanks a lot. Yeah I know some of my videos don't have the most views but hopefully that will change eventually. I am trying to figure out how to market my vids, but I guess I am not very good at it quite yet. :)

[novatime]

Which lesson are you referring to? Understanding major key chord progressions? To watch first.

[jamesrusso]

Penta box guy, wow this is great.I can hear this in so much music, one example is Van Halen.I had a teenager flashback today.

[Farazkhurshid]

I have a question, Say the scale in the key of F in the first position starts on the first fret of the 6th string tht is F, will it act like a pentatonic scale where if u wanna play it in the key of G, the first position would start from 3rd fret 6th string G note and go on in an overlapping puzzle pattern for the next 6 positions?

[bendonkin]

playing the shapes in one spot from the B note on the E string is the same as playing all the 1st positions of the modes right?

[diositaaguilar]

Hey I'm watching you from Colombia. Wanna start playing guitar

[TheBassdread]

hi, thanks for the great vids. i'm trying to learn these shapes and hopefully progress to understand modes a lot better, my question is, whilst learning these shapes shall i call each by the mode name eg shape one ionian, shape two dorian etc or have i totally misunderstood this concept. many thanks

[awittypilot]

Well this lit a fire under my ass!  I got a lot from this.  It IS about patterns but your ear starts picking up modes along the way and it made it much easier for me.  Thanks a TON!

[stratphil]

where i lose you is when you start talkin about Ab, are you sayin within the A region you have 3 regions?

[CleverDjembe]

well... now what do i do with these shapes? it seems hard to memorize all of them.

[kennedy]

wahahah im 17 years old but i canot speak english nicely but i understand it. Im a pilipino but working in italy like a maid ><