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Summary: Play the C Locrian scale in two octave scales and modes on a bass guitar; learn how from our expert bass guitar player in this free music instruction video.
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Questions & AnswersCASEY CORMIER: Okay, our final mode, the seventh mode is the Locrian mode. This is probably going to be the least used mode you will think of, but it is important to understand where it is, where it comes from so you basically have a complete idea of the modal structure. So let us look at C Locrian. We got C as our 1, we have the flat 2, a flat 3, regular 4, flat 5 now, the only one because this was a sharp 4 remember when we played Lydian so do not get those mixed up, this is a flat 5 now, flat 6, flat 7, and 1. So 4 and 1 are really our only natural parts of this mode everything else has been flatted so 1-flat 2-flat 3-4-flat 5-flat 6-flat 7 back to 1. Okay the relative of Locrian, the relative major, is always one step up, a half step up, in this case it's D flat, D flat-E flat-F-G flat-A flat-B flat-C-D flat have the same notes with Locrian and in fact they have the same moveable fingering just starting at a different place with your first finger instead of your second. So now if we play here, remember we were using all those examples of E flat, well there is no E flat Locrian but there is a D sharp Locrian. So this is now D sharp remember where the--okay [HUMMING D SHARP LOCRIAN] and D sharp Locrian is the relative to the major E, E Ionian. You will understand that a little more the more exposed you get into music why we cannot have the E flat Locrian because we have to have an F flat. So practice all of your modes.
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