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View File From Pentatonics To Modes - Tabs Nearly 100% of the guitar players who are interested to start working with modes come from the pentatonic. Here you find an easy way to convert your pentatonic patterns into the mode of your selection. You need to know the minor and the major pentatonic and then you are ready to go. Here you can learn about intervals in specific : Once you know the intervals the trick is that you know your pentatonic patterns by heart and also the intervals which are played in the patterns. To move from the pentatonic patterns to modes you just need to add 2 more notes. Which are those notes ? Major scales : All major scales contain the intervals of the major pentatonic which are : 1 2 3 5 6 Now you just need to add 2 more notes which define which mode you are playing. On the tabs those notes are displayed in green. The red notes are the root notes ( 1 ) Ionian Mode additional notes : 4 7 Lydian Mode additional notes : #4 7 Mixolydian Mode additional notes : 4 b7 Minor scales : All minor scales contain the intervals of the minor pentatonic which are : 1 b3 4 5 b7 Now you just need to add 2 more notes which define which mode you are playing. On the tabs those notes are displayed in green. The red notes are the root notes ( 1 ) Aeolian Mode additional notes : 2 b6 Lydian Mode additional notes : 2 6 Mixolydian Mode additional notes : b2 b6 This file is associated to this tutorial : If you want to move on to move mode patterns you find the 2 main and basic patterns here : Submitter admin Submitted 01/23/2024 Category Theory & Exercises  

That's nice to hear - don't miss the tutorial - will be 30 minutes of compressed knowledge. Coming soon.

Another perfect topic for my current focus. This will certainly help me reach my goals for the new year.

Cheers HP...........great song...............the music was written by a British pianist, George Shearing who was born blind. Despite this, George went on to have an amazing career in Jazz working alongside giants of the genre such as Stephane Grapelli, Nat Cole, Count Basie, Dave Brubeck and many others. An incredible talent!

Nearly 100% of the guitar players who are interested to start working with modes come from the pentatonic. Here you find an easy way to convert your pentatonic patterns into the mode of your selection. You need to know the minor and the major pentatonic and then you are ready to go. The trick is that you know your pentatonic patterns by heart and also the intervals which are played in the patterns. To move from the pentatonic patterns to modes you just need to add 2 more notes. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for all players who are sick of playing pentatonics all the time. Here I show you in detail how to proceed and in practical use how to start working with modes. Here you can download the file which comes along with this tutorial :

Creative Jazz Blues Guitar With Walking Bass ( Octaver Madness ) Here I give you some tips and tricks on how to play really cool and creative jazz blues in F with walking bass only with a brush jazz drum and an octaver effect set on 25 %. The beginning is really easy to play. The 2 + 4 feel is really essential for that - the full walking bass with chords is a bit more demanding but still in the range of any intermediate player. You can download the files associated to this tutorial here :

All Blues ( Miles Davis ) - Jazz Guitar Lesson Here you can learn the theme, the chords and some improvisation idea's of the tune " All Blues " by Miles which can be heard on the recording " Kind of Blue ". Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial here : If you have some further detailed questions please book a private online guitar lesson here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/store/category/1-private-online-guitar-lessons/

Here I show you my version of the theme of Bud Powell Trio's version of Lullaby of Birdland. It's a really nice and sweet tune and worth learning it. After that part I show you an intermediate version for chords on the tune and at the end of this tutorial I make a basic analysis for you to find out which modes are used on those chords. But you can also work with only the F minor scale + blue note on the A section. I will show you a version to get some inspiration. You can download the files associated to this tutorial here : If you need any further professional assistance please book a private lesson here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/store/category/1-private-online-guitar-lessons/

Hey Jeff, thanks for letting me know this story. I did not know it - but good to know