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20 Various Guitar Riffs Exploring Modes

10/3/2016

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This lesson supplements the 3 Note Per String Scale Shape Madness one.

The person who requested the 3 NPS lesson followed up with more details for further examples. That's what this lesson is about!

The first group of examples demonstrates going from C Ionian into B Harmonic minor, and then finishes up with E Melodic minor.

To transition from scale to scale in this first example, I used a note that is in adjacent scales. In other words, the last note I used in the C Ionian phrase is also a note in the B Harmonic minor scale. The last note I used in the B Harmonic minor scale is also a note used in E Melodic minor.
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The next example uses the same transition idea of shared notes.
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The last example of combining Ionian, Harmonic minor, and Melodic minor uses finger tapping.

All three scales contain the notes for an E minor chord - E, G, and B. An E minor triad will be tapped/arpeggiated as the start and transition for each scale.
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The next three riffs demonstrate going from B Phrygian into F# Locrian. These examples are in the key of G/Em. Because the tonal center focuses on B, and then F#, different mode sounds can be heard even though you are playing in just one key.
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This example could use some explaining on how to approach playing it.

No distortion!!! It will NOT sound good unless it's clean.

You will be holding down a B minor chord shape for the first half of the example, and then an F# diminished chord shape for the second half of the example. You'll be tapping notes near each chord shape to do something I like to call "chord tapping". 

Watch the video posted at the end of this lesson to see a demonstration of how it's done.
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The rest of the riffs/examples demonstrate climbing multiple octaves for all seven modes in the key of G.
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The following video demonstrates all the riffs/examples for this lesson.
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