Locrian Piano Mode - Piano Lessons

Pianolessons.com the #1 Name in Piano Lessons Online Locrian Mode – Nate Bosch Hi, I’m Nate Bosch and today’s lesson I want to talk to you about the seventh mode of the major scale. This mode is called the Locrian mode. Now if we’re going to play a C major scale we want to start the scale on the seventh note of the C scale which is B. But we’re only going to be using the notes found in the C major scale. So let’s start, ill go down a little bit here, we start just below, here’s the seventh note. There’s the scale. Starting on the seventh note there’s the Locrian scale. Now this mode helps us build what we call seventh chords. And you use that by playing every other note in the scale to build the chord. So let’s start with B, we’ll skip a note to D, skip a note F, skip another note A. Now if we play that chord right there what we get is a B half diminished chord or you can also call it, there’s another name for it, B minor 7 flat 5. Now let’s apply that same principle to another scale. That was the key of C—let’s pick G for example. So here’s the G major scale. Now the Locrian mode we start on the seventh note of the scale which is the F sharp but we are only using the notes found in the G scales. So we’ll start there—so there’s our scale. Now let’s build at the seventh chord that comes out of that scale. We have the F sharp an A, a C and an E. So that’s what we call an F sharp half diminished chord or F sharp minor 7 flat 5. So there you have the Locrian mode.