This lesson is based upon the idea that if we create wider scale boxes, then we’ll get more interesting intervals and sounds.
Sad to the Bone Minor keys are awesome. They sound dark and dramatic, and many musicians over the centuries have made great music with them. They’re also kind of a hassle to figure out. As I promised in a previous post, we’re going to delve into minor scale harmonization and their harmonic areas. If you […]
In the article Modes: An Introduction For The Ages I had discussed the fundamentals of what defined something as a mode, but I skimmed right over the sounds and feelings each mode can evoke. Ultimately when it comes to music you can talk and talk about the principles all day long, but it doesn't matter if you never hear any music out of it, so that's just what we're going to do here.
If you develop a good understanding of modes it really maximizes the number of emotions you can tap into from just one scale. If you have ever spent any amount of time committing the major scale to memory then the hardest part of the work is done because all of those scale forms you use remain the same.