What You Should Know About Chord Families and Their Modes

This episode is from my Facebook Live Lecture on 12-22-16 and is called What You Should Know About Chord Families and Their Modes. I take all the Modes and group them into Major, Minor and Dominant Type Modal Sounds for Improvisation and Composing. This is Part 1 of 2

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Rick,
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I remember watching this video a while back and wondering if you were speaking Latin or Portugese. Thanks to your videos (and of course, let's not forget, diligent practice!) I actually understand this stuff now. It's incredible! Many thanks Rick!

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[AimeeNolte]

Great comprehensive video! Loved seeing all the scale families payed out like this.

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[edzielinski]

Great video - explains exactly what gives each scale its character and why. I've seen other videos on this topic but none provide the practical knowledge and key insights into how/when these are used in such a comprehensive manner. I've been studying scales for a couple years now, and I'm only now appreciating how much these very slight changes intervals in each scale make a huge difference in sound character, and that the greats use them to get their signature sound.

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[JoshBeetler]

Rick, I want you to know that these lessons are ideas are exactly what was missing in my college education. I had great professors and players, but the modal/fusion side of things was just not part of curriculum. Your ideas about quartal chords and modal chords, diminshed maj 7 chords, man all that stuff totally opened new sounds and chord shapes to me and I wanted to thank you for that.

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Simple lesson, but probably one of your most important ones (broadly speaking).

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