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Summary: Part 1 - Learn how to shift modes when playing jazz guitar with improvisation in this solo guitar lesson on video, with jazz music tips & techniques.

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Casey Cormier Casey Cormier has been playing both the guitar and bass for ten years, performing in rock and roll clubs along the New Jersey Coast as well as in New York Cit... read more

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Mode Shifts: Jazz Guitar Improvisation

CASEY CORMIER: Alright. Now we can use this idea of our key changing, and therefore the modes changing that we're using to link together the changes with phrases. Maybe say using some chromatics and some other lines or emphasizing where it changes. So, we know that we start off in the key of E flat. [HUMS MELODY] The second we hit this B flat minor 7; and the E flat 7 we have changed and we're in the key of A flat major 7 for two bars. So we start off here. Now, let's just stay in one position for now. Let's stay in this position that we started the melody in. Okay? In E flat, we're using the mode Mixolydian, B flat Mixolydian, and if we end up in A flat, well, B flat is the 2nd scale degree and starting on the 2nd scale degree is the Dorian, which is what appeared the melody was in anyway because we got this D flat. Okay? But we found out now that we start off in Mixolydian where we have this major. This is the note difference, these two. So we can start off our phrase, one, two, three-and, four [PLAYS LICK] but then we need to land there [HUMS LICK] the second that we hit the next measure. We can create some phrases with that [PLAYS LICK] or [PLAYS LICK] but [PLAYS LICK] we maybe well land on that. if we want to highlight the difference, or we can [PLAYS LICK] We can avoid it. [HUMS MELODY]

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