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  • So we've been looking through the forums, and one of the things

  • that we've noticed is that, although

  • people seem to understand what we're talking

  • about in videos with regard to modes, there's some people that aren't

  • entirely sure about what that actually means in terms of how they sound.

  • So one important thing I think is that people often

  • think well okay C-I-O-N is, is almost [INAUDIBLE] C major.

  • There's all the white notes on the piano from C to C.

  • c, d, e, f, g, a, b, and back to c again.

  • But d Dorian.

  • Is using exactly the same pair of notes, but it's just starting the scale on D.

  • So instead of C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, we've got D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D.

  • Now, a fairly legitimate question that people often say

  • is, well, what difference does this, does this make actually?

  • It's just the same pair of notes, why is it going to sound any different?

  • I think the important thing to note is it's

  • the internal relationships, between the notes we hear D.

  • As our, as our kind of important note in this key and as such

  • although we are using the same note system the relationships between them changes.

  • Let's do a major chord and myself instead of playing the scale, I'll just

  • play a little once the music starts

  • flowing, just as an illustration for what's form.

  • >> And what I am going to do is not just

  • play the cord exactly, I'm going to do a little bit to.

  • As well just to give us a sense of music in this mode.

  • So this first thing, the idea we're trying

  • to create here is the major mode music sounds.

  • [MUSIC]

  • [MUSIC]

  • Okay, so that was just all the notes of

  • the C major scale with a C major triad, okay?

  • Taking the signature scale that was a triad built on the

  • first note, C and the scale built on the first note, C.

  • We're just going to move up a tone.

  • We're going to do everything on B, which is the

  • second note using the same notes available to us.

  • [MUSIC]

  • Okay, so that was a completely different set.

  • We're still using all the same notes.

  • But, because we have the different triad, the

  • triad broke on the second note of the scale.

  • But on D, we've got a minor triad, and

  • actually the Dorian, have a minor center as well.

  • So let's move up to the third one, which is a,.

  • [MUSIC]

  • [MUSIC]

  • Again a minor sound on the future on the third still using

  • all the same notes but because of the internal relationship of the notes.

  • We get a completely different sound.

  • We'll just get through them a wee bit quicker, and then what

  • we're going to do is move on to the fourth, which is [INAUDIBLE]

  • [MUSIC]

  • F.

  • [MUSIC]

  • Okay, so again, that's a major sound, it's something different.

  • Into another one because of the different internal relationships of notes.

  • So, so far we've had, Ionian, which was major sound

  • and still using the same notes of C major scale.

  • Dorian, which was minor sound.

  • Phrygian, which was minor sound.

  • And, and then we just had Lydian, which was major sound.

  • And, again, these are always in the same notes

  • drawn from the sequence of scales so hopefully you

  • can see now, already that these are starting to

  • sound, very different just by using the same [UNKNOWN] notes.

  • [SOUND] So we're going to go to the [UNKNOWN] now [INAUDIBLE].

  • Scale of G, in this case.

  • [MUSIC]

  • We're now going to move up.

  • We're going to go on to the sixth.

  • [MUSIC]

  • Mold [UNKNOWN] on the trend [UNKNOWN] on the scale [UNKNOWN].

  • [MUSIC]

  • Okay, so all the notes are natural minor we've called other ones in this course.

  • But again this really is just a variable just to let you hear

  • the differences starting the new one hear to go, and try to introduce yourself.

  • Now we're going to move on to the seventh, the triad built on the

  • seventh degree, and we're going to play with the mode built on the seventh degree.

  • This is a diminished triad, and this is our Locrian mode.

  • And it does have a different sound.

  • [MUSIC]

  • [MUSIC]

  • It's quite hard to hear that one, as

  • coming home, because of this diminished fifth relationship.

  • It doesn't sit as easily as the other ones do.

  • >> But as a result of that, it does

  • give us quite a distinct character for this one.

  • This is just a little video really just to, to-

  • >> Just play some jazz.

  • [LAUGH] >> Play some music.

  • But also to let you get cards and skills

  • working together and hopefully tie down this, this idea

  • of notes and how you can get very, very

  • different sounds using the same pool of available notes.

So we've been looking through the forums, and one of the things

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