6:53 OMG! I'm about to burst in tears dying of nostalgia because I had the same tv when I was a child...

OMG, I feel like John Belushi in the blues brothers when he saw the light..in church. I had to come back and comment after 40 minutes of the best noodling of my life. Thank you David, such a great teacher

I have been playing guitar for 585 years and I’m ashamed to say I’ve never thought of modes on the guitar like this. This is a fantastic lesson! And your style of teaching is wonderful. Thank you!

Excellent video! I love the arc and the storytelling you're doing in these recent ones!

Most videos on this topic claim to simplify the subject but only confuse the issue further. Well done.

I always have the feeling you give more than you receive. All these free lessons. Thank you!

This is exactly the way I learned modes!. The best thing about learning guitar is when you discover that everything connects, Anyways great video sir David as always

As an adult having tried to study music for 20+ years, with earning difficulties, I MUST say this is the closest i have ever been to understanding the modes!! I was watching and couldn't believe what I was seeing....I have been trying to understand this the harder way, this has helped move me a long a little thank you

Absolutely fantastic! I had only learned bits and pieces of this overall unified approach in all my previous years of playing. This now gives me a complete framework of organization, comprehension, and application that can be used immediately, based on what I already know. Well, well done!

Insane video, so helpful .

Love David’s way and humor. Thanks LEGEND.

Wow, no more struggling,thank you, thank you, thank you. Genius

Intellectually this lesson is just at my level ; )

Great eye opener. But my eyes must have missed what you were pointing to when you ended with "it's right there". I loved the insight just the same. Stay Well Groovy One!

I memorized the diatonic shapes, but never realized this. That's really a very awesome thing to know!!

very good lesson !! I think I kind of walked the other way round on my guitar journey. I came from gipsy jazz and kind of learned how to use arpeggios and modes. That took me years and years and the journey still goes on. Then later on I discovered the electric guitar and wanted to play blues and rock. And therefore I'm working on digging into how to use all the pentatonic related wizzardry. So at the moment it's easier for me to sound like fusion on the electric than to sound like rock or blues. As crazy as that may sound. What helped me to learn to apply the modes was a sheet of paper where I have painted fretboard scemes with all the notes that related to one tonality. Then below the same for the next tonality. And so on with all guitar typical tonalities. Then it helped me to think as follows... Say we are in tonality of C and want to play over a d-minor chord. My way of thinking was "make it sound d-minor-like but use the tones in the C-sceme exclusively". Then if still in tonality of C and the chord goes to a-minor same approach "make it sound a-minor-like but use the tones in the C-sceme". When comparing the visual scemes of d-min and a-min both in tonality of C these are very similar but there is a tiny difference which is exactly the difference between dorian and aeolian minor mode. So it makes sense to put an emphasis on exactly the note that is different if you want to sound either dorian or aeolian. One more aspect that seemed important in my journey is when say in C again a chord is D7 (which is not exactly to be built up with C tonality notes whereas d-minor would be) it makes sense to amphasize exactly the one note that in D7 is NOT in the C-tonality which is the 3rd in D7 (which is F#). Or in other words if in C there comes up a D7 chord (instead of the D-min) it's like an invitation to colour my improvisation by emphasizing exactly this note (here F# which is the 3rd in D7) which is in the actual chord but not in the Tonality of C. Hope this kind of makes sense but that is how it works for me. So for me it's more a visual approach than a scale learning. Again I hope that makes sense somehow to anyone who might read through my comment and might try to comprehend :) I believe these visual approaches are really the way to go. There are many great Jazz players out there who said something like "yeah I use scales but I never really learned them". I believe that visual approaches are the key to how this works.... Again great video lesson !!

Your a genius and the way u break things down is amazing. Your videos are really helping me get better at guitar. Thank u sir.

I remember when Guitar Player magazines occasionally included CD's ☺️

Great lesson David. Very cool way of viewing modal application. Would love to see you do so more playing jumping from mode/pentatonic to another.

Flash back was fantastic and inspiring. Great video 🤘

This was brilliant David. Thank you. Simply brilliant!

I know you've covered this before. But now your explanation and presentation skills have grown so much it's clear as an in-tune guitar in a solid state Roland jazz amp. Yea!

Over 40 I've been playing guitar. Years and years of getting frustrated/bored and giving up with things. And then this video pops up: 🤯 Thanks man, awesome work.

Man, all these years... Thanks!

One Hell of a Cracking episode maestro

Haven’t watched the channel in awhile, good to be back!

If you know the scale degrees (maj min min maj maj min dim) just play min pentatonics on the minor degrees and major pentatonic on the major degrees. The relative distance between the minor or maj degrees are always the same - that’s the patterns distance David mentions. Pretty story, but it’s pretty simple things that’s happening there.

David this is genius! I never could get modes until you explained how to access them with something I know…the pentatonic! Thank you!!!

Estou aprendendo muito com suas aulas Grande Mestre, obrigado pela disponibilidade destes excelentes vídeos... Luís Amilton de Oliveira teu fã do Brasil...

Not a sales pitch, but I never understood modes until I purchased David’s course. It all clicked into place. Truly a great teacher.

i recently have come back to your channel David....i have to say...your videos and "style" are excellent and entertaining....plus you have convinced me to move on a bit to the "modes"....YES....i know...but this time i'll stick with it to the "end"....so here we go.....again....:-) music is a bit like walking through a "maze"...but once you know the way, it's a doddle....:-)

Oh man, the part where you first discover pentatonic pattern into Dorian mode with church choir in the background is just epic. I've played that part again and back again 😂😂. BTW, this video helped a lot. I've never really figured modes out prior to check this out.

It makes sense as I IV and V are major and II III VI are minor and I think they only differ by one note.

I still remember the first video that I watched from your channel 11 years ago 7 fusión licks 😭

Nice tutorial David, you always help us to discover the connections between diiferent stuff on the guitar fretboard, thank you so much!

Hi David, to relate to our introduction: yes, I am over 40. To be honest, I'm over 50. Actually over 60. Or even - no, I guess that's it for today. You donated me a new life today. I had learnt scales relatedness to modes in different positions and as you said, nothing sounded elegant or at least not wrong. This approach is just genius, using all the routine collected in decades of visualising and playing minor and major pentatonics. Thank you so much. I will show this to my guitar playing friends - after I'll have impressed them with my exploded competence :-).

I know modes very well but, This video changes many things. Thanks

Thank you. This video unlocked 6 of the 7 for me..

I'm a 3 NPS guy myself. That being said, could be useful to swap between the pentatonic scale with modes and the 3 NPS

Wow, this was enlightening ! I will have to explore this idea.

Cool,thanks.

best lesson ever!!!!!!

Tout simplement... J'ADORE !!! Merci David :)

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This is just brilliant. Love it.

Man it's just really true.....if u pick up the instrument and play it every day even just 15 min here 30 min there over a string of days the brain does this crazy amazing job of taking over with the muscle memory stuff kicking in to where it's like playing THROUGH you! 🤙🏼

Can you make video tutorial how to make solo on jazz chord by chord like your previous tutorials like fusion multiple keys thanks

I’ve been learning piano vsts and it really helps me with guitar modes....and this video really seals the deal for understanding how much scales are intertwined and it really shows how great a teacher you are. 🤘

Wow it took me 2 times watching it but Damb that helps a ton!!!

Ah, that's why I sometimes get into the Dorian and then into Aeolian when I play the minor pentatonic and embellish it with other notes. And then I'm a bit confused as to what I am doing, what tonality am I in? I can even do Dorian and Aeolian in the same position, it changes the flavor completely. I'll totally get into this video much more and play around with this. Why have I never heard of this before?

“THANK YOU”😀👍

Hi Dave , I’m a complete beginner . Is your online course any good for me to get playing along songs by ear ( especially the harmony part is what I’m aiming for ) ?All I know is how to read notes , and a few classical guitar pieces along with a few chords . Thanks

This is great.

This made smile haha

If you find the blues shape on the 5th position I am wondering if the other shapes are there too,

Bravo David

Good stuff, man! Thx!

Interesting video and I am confused as to how you chose starting on certain frets. Lets say that in the key of C one plays a Lydian Mode which starts on the 4th note which would be F. So does one just look for the classic Pentonic scale pattern that starts on the F note or contains an F note in the pattern?

"...the latest *Guitar *World* magazine..." Wait, that was an issue of *Guitar Player* that you showed! Back in the 1970s/1980s (probably earlier than you mean here!) the serious, genre-spanning lessons were in GP, which had a greater and broader instructional emphasis than GW, which (to my eyes, anyway), seemed to try to be a more star-focused alternative to GP. Anyway, glad to see an old GP issue featured here. I first learned about modes from Arnie Berle's column in GP, back in the 1970s. Nice explanation of the connections b/t modes and pentatonics, David. If you write out all the notes of any mode built on the key of C (D Dorian, E Phrygian, etc.), you're going to end up with the same full fretboard diagram-all the notes of the C scale. So it really should be no surprise that you can find the same shape across different modes. -Tom

OK, I'm confused. I was with you all the way until the Lydian mode, 3rd position (at 6:41). In the first two positions you have an Eb, a flat 5. But the last position starts on E natural? What am I missing?

2:43 RESUMES MOST OF IT

Three notes per string is more difficult to memories to me just because I got used to the other way to play them. 😄

Dropping 3 frets to Major pentatonic There's a start

Can you show that using a particular key?

In what key!!!!???? When you're centering everything around the 5th fret. Are you talking about modes of A major?

DAVID WILLIMANN, I think you forgot to mention is that you can only use that minor pentatonic first position shape "ONLY in 3 keys for each mode". You can't use that minor pentatonic first position shape for all 12 keys for each mode.

This video is tickling my brain. The first chart shows the 3 pentatonic patterns in the Dorian mode but how do you pick a key? Doesn't it all change with the key like Pentatonic does?

I mean im not very smart but i still dont really understand, so playing modes is just playing minor pentatonic scale, so it doesnt matter what others talk about on yt with their Major scales and on every mode starting on lower note etc, i mean if anyone can explain this it would be very useful :)

I'm missing something here.. When I play this to an "A Phrygian" mode backing track, playing in the position that starts at the 5th fret sounds good. The 10th fret sounds OK, but when I play starting on the 3rd fret it sounds horrible. What am I missing?

David, is this covered in the infusion course? Thanks

I get how you're supposed to access the modes, from the video, but I don't get how you choose to play a particular mode. Let's say a song is in the scale of E minor. Can I play E dorian over it?

OmG another light bulb moment. Many of the younger guys got stuck with Guitar Hero though ;-) The tools are incredible today but so is the lack of will power. Alright, now I revealed that I am really old and jealous of the youth.

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C D E F G A B. That’s regular major. Play it from E F G A B C D. Now it’s Phrygian. That’s all it is. Harmonize the scale and don’t start from the I chord. Pick a different point. 🤓

Inaccurate. If you play the same minor pentatonic shape (pattern) and move that same pattern to a different fret; you'll be changing keys. 5th fret is natural notes, 7th fret you'll be introducing an f# note, 12th fret is all natural notes again.

Cute, KZfaq and guitar players obsessed with Minor pentatonic. The modes are position names. But there is much more, exploring advanced Diatonic 3 not chopping instead of running. My 3 main modes, Dorian, Phygrian, Locrian and Locrian b6.