5 Scales Over 5 Chords for 10-String Guitar + Little Improv at end

5 Scales Over 5 Chords for 10-String Guitar + Little Improv at end

Ignoring the Pentatonic, Double-Harmonic Major, and Chromatic scales, I've gotten in the habit of practicing which modes of 5 common scales PHYSICALLY work over the simplest triads outside the context of key. That way, if your buddy is just jamming on a Major chord, you can say to yourself, "Self, you've got 8 modes which you can play over this or blend together over this chord, hooray!". It's all about giving yourself a good starting-point toolbox for any jamming situation. This stuff is GREAT as daily warm up. For me, it's a staple of daily practice. Reference Sheet (focus only on the BOLD lists under Major, Minor, Dominant, Diminished, Augmented. However, notice that the more notes we add to the triad that we start to shave off the modes that used to work over the base chord type): http://www.waytoomanyzeros.com/downlo... The three note per-string patterns I'm using which correlate to the mode names in first link can be found at the end of my Ted Greene V-2 Shape V-System packet (for 6-string): http://www.waytoomanyzeros.com/downlo... 0:05 Major Triad (1,3,5): 8 modes 1:30 Minor Triad (1,b3,5): 9 modes 3:15 Dominant Triad (1,3,b7): 7 modes 4:30 Diminished Triad (1,b3,b5): 9 modes 6:00 Augmented Triad (1,3,#5): 7 modes 7:20 Improv while thinking in terms of a major roman numeral circle progression and playing with V-2 and V-5 shapes. For me, aside from learning songs and just jamming without thinking, this is like 50% of my foundation for writing and improvising (the other 50% being Ted Greene's V-System), so the patterns themselves are only meant as a starting place to drill into your brain. Once it's in there good (hands and ears), then you should feel confident to explore the fretboard with your ear to play outside of the presented starting patterns but within the same modes. The labels for the modes can be considered my dialect and are labelled in the context of the mode itself. That is, there are much more well established labels used in the real world than these. So, you'll want to understand that these labels are just that. No matter what you call Ionian, it'll always physically "work" over a major triad when you line up the root note of the mode with the root note of the chord/triad. (Super Locrian and my horrible label Mixolydian#7#1 is an example of the same physical shape but just different labels)