It's cool when someone as famous as Joe Satriani takes the time to talk about modes.

Joe Satriani is a Real player who's constantly full of great surprise!! His work NEVER gets old & he's definitely getting better all the time!! He's a real super hero of music & I learn something new every time I listen to his music!!

Using the school of rock analogy, Joe is a college professor with many PHD's and I have been held back in the first grade for 40 consecutive years.

Joe just has such a great imagination and how he thinks of the modes, its completely different from anyone else, and rather than just shredding up and down the modes like everybody else does, he looks at why its different and what can be done with it, this is why all of joe's songs have such a powerful meaning and strong melody to them, he can sure tell a great story with his songs and how he thinks of it. Absolutely Incredible!

He describes everything better than any teacher I've heard

GREAT TO HEAR A MUSICAL GENIUS SPEAK ABOUT MUSIC!

"You gotta look at the scale and see which triads build off each scale"-priceless sentence just amazing!🤔

For all you rythm guitarists out there: the same philosophy Satriani underlines here can be applied to chords, shapes and chord progression; mix m up, use different keys and see how they connect and what that does to emotional response

Master + a GUNS n ROSES t-shirt + that eye catching ibanez... what a lovely trio

Joe's wearing a Guns n Roses T-Shirt...! :-) So cool!

The fast way to recognize and learn diatonic scale modes is to relate them to major scale sources that you already know ! Ex. Lydian scale is s major scale built from the 5th degree of the lydian tonic tone ...so E Lydian = B major scale ...Dorian is 1 whole step higher than its major scale source Ex . E Dorian is D major scale ...do this for all 7 modes because the chords harmony is the same !

Not only is the guy a great technician and theorist, but he actually knows how to explain the stuff in plain terms: As soon as I watched this lesson, I finally 'got it' with modes!

They are not thinking about intervals, they are feeling them

The thing about modes is the first mode or major scale is just as exotic sounding as any other. I practiced mixolydian for days on end and didn't play anything else and when I reverted to a straight major scale the 7th note really stood out to me as slightly obtuse or 'strong' due to my ear being very familiar with the Mixo played previously. I really love Locrian mode for fusion style stuff, I like the unresolved tension.

learn the key signatures and where every note is on the neck, then this will make sense. Modes are just altered scales based off the 7 basic scales: Major, natural Minor, harmonic minor #6, melodic minor #6,#7 ascending b6,b7 descending, Augmented, 1/2 diminished, diminished. Learn your 12 intervals, triads, root/3rd/5th/7th..etc.

I remember in high school learning modes and thinking they were the coolest thing ever, they still are!

You are my very fav guitar player in the world.I love everything you do Joe and thank so very much. Everything you do gives me life.

We should be charged a billion dollars to watch this video. So much great information here (and in the 2nd vid).

I've come back to this video from time to time for nearly ten years now, it has had immense value and impact in helping me understand the modes and bring elements together musically, but it also just sounds delicious. Every time I come back, somehow I understand it a little more, I catch something I didn't the time before.

You are by far and then some the best of all time my friend thank you for everything leebone

Greatest electric guitar teacher on the planet, among other accomplishments.

Since I started listening to him back in the late 80's, his ability to switch modes within a song and change the tone is the one thing I thought was just too cool about his music.

One of my heroes!...hearing "Always with me, always you" on the radio as well as the Beatles influenced me to pick up the guitar; love you Satch

Joe explains everything with amazing clarity!

best description of modes and how to apply them practically. Incredible lesson from a true master.

How blessed is the modern day guitarist that not only do they get to witness the all time lord of the guitar bar none ( JOE SATCH BOOGIE MSATER ) he is also the best personality and the best teacher to ever play guitar , joe you are definitely from another planet and it’s one far superior to ours , you are a special person on this earth and we all love you 🎸🪕🎻

This is what separates Satch from the garden variety shredder. One thing I have discovered is that the context of a mode against what would normally be played is what makes it interesting but there is a reason that popular music and almost all conventional melody and tonal harmony fell to the ionian and variations of the aeolian or major and minor because they work the best if you want to sing a song about the Southland etc. Joe has internalized the "other" modes to the point of hearing them like you and I hear Ionian and and perhaps aeolian which is the secret. Just grabbing modes to grab modes for the sake of playing the old church modes won't get you anywhere. But, that's why he's Satch and can create such interesting instrumental music. What an inspirational musician!

GURU, MASTER, PROFESSOR... all in one!!!

My God, this guy is a genius.. I WILL master music theory eventually, if there's ever a reason.. Satriani's ability is it.

What he explains here is somthing every single musician should naturally think about. And here somthing I'd like to add for some read; he uses a lot of what i call double and triple time notes in his improv examples, he plays some nice slow blending notes and then "breaks down" the time with 2 or 3 quick notes and returns. Meaning 2 or even 3 notes are used as 1 quarter note or an 8th note depending on the rhythm if in 4/4

this should be around 2006... and I saw it back then... but tonight... this is the first time I am finally able to understand everything he is talking about!!!

Guys like Satriani and Vai can play scales and sound awesome.

Joe Satriani playing Lydian mode sounds like Flying in a Blue Dream.

Excellent insight into modes. The exploring into and creativity in the process is fantastic. Joe keeps it simple enough that I can keep my feet on the ground and learn these concepts as a beginner. Thanks so very much for this.

Great as musician, even greater as proffesor. Satch is amazing!

If I could take lessons from one pro, this is the guy.

It's amazing how western musicians are being inspired by eastern classical and making beautiful music !

I totally identify with Joe's thinking! I play 10 different instruments and styles and love to mash them up with the electric guitar my favorite instrument!

there are also synthetic modes like : oriental ; enigmatic etc In the seventies john mac laughlin published a song book at the time of mahavishnu orchestra listing them (about 8 or 10 different unknown modes) anyway THANKS TO YOU JOE for teaching kids how to get it right technology has made it much easier for beginners today

Joe u r da man!..very intelligent fellow here..I can't remember anything from my high school teacher:)

One of The Masters !!!

Every time he hits that phrygian scale, hot damn

So simple yet tasteful

There are two naming conventions. One is like Mixolydian b6, where people simply compare it to a major scale mode with alterations. Alternatively, many of those scales have gotten more unique names e.g Aeolian Dominant. Generally if you have a scale that matches another mode but 3 and/or 7 are altered to make it a natural 3 and b7, dominant is thrown on there. Phrygian Dominant (fifth mode Harmonic Minor), Lydian Dominant (Third Mode Melodic Minor) and Aeolian Dominant (Fifth Mode MM).

Shit Joe's a genius!!!

he is starting to not sound like a martian any more i can almost understand a few words he is talking about and is starting to make since.i think these videos are priceless Thank you for the info

What an awesome teacher

Third time watching this, I catch on to more each time.

Thanks again Joe........Leebone

Key E natural major - E Lydian - B Mixolydian-A Phrygian - Am Harmonic

I am in awe!

You are awesome for sharing this leant alot!

Wish he taught me!

Mind blown!!

Far out- great lesson

Oh my god! Now, I need to memorize All the Scales!

*MIND = BLOWN*

Thumbs up, great explanation.

Det is amejzing gajs, tenk yu so mach

Joe is a guitar wizard!!! a god of recording imagination! lol real shit

He's like in the blues clues house

When you get into the ZONE . 👍🏾👍🏾

I wish he was my teacher, he explains it all so well

I always thought Lydian was a jazz mode but.....lesson learned

Master class

His t shirt says how open he is about music

the E phrygian dominant has an eastern heady feel to it.nice tutorial

nice tshirt Joe 😀

Super cool!

this is gold!

Cool Joe !!

Yes. That e ringing out makes all the difference!!

Joe demonstrates a few basic techniques...I want to buy the album.

He's wearing a GNR t-shirt, therefore Slash must be respected. Slash haters gonna hate...

Such a great video. Going from the basic theory over practice and application to emotional themes as a practical use/desired goal. Couldn't have been more to the point. Thank you so much! Now here's a question for you pro shredders ;) when I think about modes while I play them I tend to switch between two different approaches. I either build the scale starting on any of the root notes, (which is how I understood Joe saying he learned to play any of the modes across two octaves for a start) this gives me a better idea of where the intervals are but sounds a little stiff because I have to jump from root to root. Also I will get lost as soon as I start speeding up or shifting position. My second approach is thinking in 3 note per string scale patterns, which gives me a solid grid all over the neck so I can go as fast as I want without getting lost. This is more fluent of course but I'm having a hard time thinking about any intervals. I often hear people say: "Well, it's easy to learn mixolydian. It's just one note different from a major scale." I know. But how do you play it fast? Do you still think "major" and always know when to play that minor seventh? Same with phrygian dominant. I know it's just one note different from phrygian. But I still have to learn it as a completely different fingering, right? So how do you approach playing different scales and what is your thought process behind it?

great modes lesson

Thanks.

he s style is so interesting

El maestro

Saying phrygian is enough as the dominant 7th is your last note before the octave of the root there for in its given position in Phrygian mode the 3rd position of the scale has the dominant 7th along with flat 2nd minor 3rd 4th and 5th natural flat 6 and flat or dominant 7th

is there any PDF for this video ?

great lesson

Cool af

wow cool guitar i wish i have one :3

lol a gnr t shirt. Never thought he was into that

Couldn't help but chuckle at his comment @ 3:36. Ha ha!

Guns n Roses T-shirt ! Cool Joe !

Matter of consolidation and portabilty. Tool box niceties.

2:21 Aeolian Dominant? If it raises its third to a major third wouldn't it just be Mixolydian b6? And if the minor third stays along with the minor seventh, wouldn't it just be regular Aeolian?

I had a lot of respect for Joe and took him very seriously for many years until.......I heard Chickenfoot. :-(

best~!

I didn't learn anything from this video . Grasshopper is ready master !

Guns n Roses tshirt!!!!

nice t-shirt is Cool too

Can someone tell the month and year of that Guitar World mag? Is it April 2006?

Is there a good example of a Dorian Melody? I find the interval of the I-III-VI in Dorian isn't the kind of thing you're likely to hear in too many pop tunes, so I'm having a hard time finding a good hummable melody to remember it by.

I'm gonna make a Guitar Temple in Mumbai,India where I'll keep his Idol.

Awesome! :-P

ok that hat though - how am i supposed to pay attention while he's wearing that

what is this from, is this part of a bigger lesson? also no locking nut,madness !