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Hi everybody, this is Brian from betweenthelakes.com; I am here to give you guys another free guitar lesson. Today we are going to talk about choosing modes to go over top of your chords and a lot of times it is kind of confusing but is really not that hard because all you have to do is count intervals and match. So the stuff you learn in first and second grade have a count and have a match, all you have to do is apply that to music, to chords and you can figure it all out and it is not that hard. Who would have thought, so let us start off with the C Major 7 okay, that has that group 3rd, 5 and a 7 major 7 and it sound quite nice, it is popular at jazz chord. A scale we want to use over that is the major scale or Aeolian. Because that fits perfectly in others, nothing that sounds weird. It has got the rot, it has got the 3rd, it has got the 5th and it has got the 7th so it is perfect in it.
There is nothing we got to really mess around with so, the next chord I am going to show you an example for is, the dominant 7th. It has got that flat seven in there and you cannot use the Aeolian because it has got that major 7. You cannot do that otherwise it will going to sound a little strange so, you have to modify that. You want to go with the Mixolydian mode because it has a flat 7 in it and that is really the only thing that changes everything else, stays the same so you got, and there you go. You want to use a mixolydian over a dominant 7th chord.
Let us go over to a minor 7th and basically minor 7th has a flat third and a flat 7 in it, gives it that nice colorful melancholy sound. So, what you want to do is find the mode that has that flat 3rd and had flat 7th in it and a great mode is the Dorian mode and that goes up just like that it has that flat 3rd and that flat 7th. Works perfectly, so there you go, there is three different modes for three different chords to start off with and you can go to the website and check out all these modes and bunch more, the fit with other chords and all you have to do is count, figure out what intervals are in the chord, figure out what intervals match up with the mode and try that mode if you like it then you just found one that you can play over a chord so, thank you for joining me again and I will catch you next time.
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