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Learn the major scales and you’ve go pretty much all you need to know to play alternative. If you want to get good at soloing, just experiment with playing different notes in the scales. Also, listen to good guitar players like Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page. You’ll naturally start to pick up some of their licks without even trying. But even just playing up and down the scales can be good enough.
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Harmonic Minor is as equally important as your Pentatonics
You could also learn some major, minor, and dominant 7th arpeggios, which are typical in blues/metal/progressive rock.
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do not worry too much about modes.
try some harmonic minor, melodic minor, and perhaps some diminished.
learn some 2 and 3 octave arpegios.
fun stuff!
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sweep pickin on the banjo!~!
I think it’s funny when people say don’t worry about learning modes.
Modes are essentially the Major, Minor, Penatonic, and Blues scales.
They just modify the scale to fit the Key so you can play that scale anywhere on the fret board.
Take your stand Major Keys. So you know how to play the G Major scale right? But where can you play it at? Starting on the 3rd Fret of the Low E, the 10th fret of the A string, and the 15th fret of the Low E?
What about all the other frets?
Modes teach you how to jam that Major Scale all over the fretboard. So take the Key of G Major: G, A, B, C, D, E, and F#
Now you got seven modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian.
Now match each tone with a mode:
G = Ionian
A = Dorian
B = Phrygian
C = Lydian
D = Mixolydian
E = Aeolian
F# = Locrian
Each mode has it’s own pattern. By learning all 7 modes, you can start the G Major scale on any note on the fretboard.
Then realize that the modes apply to any Key. So say you wanted to now jam in the Key of E Major.
Write out E Major: E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, and D#
Then match it up with the modes again:
E= Ionian
F# = Dorian
G# = Phrygian
A = Lydian
B = Mixolydian
C# = Aeolian
D# = Locrian
See so I’m not learning anything new. But now I can jam all over the E Major Key because of the 7 Modes.
Then what’s your memorize the 7 modes. You can start modifying the modes to your own preference. Such as Dominant modes.
But modes is the way to learn how to solo. People who solo well and say they don’t know modes, really do know modes, they just don’t realize it. Music comes down to making things sound good. Learning scales and modes just makes it easier to do this.
Learn Modes Here:
http://www.fretjam.com
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