sexywheat [none/use name]

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  • I would recommend learning the modes as well as how chords are constructed from them! When I say modes, they have names like Lydian, mixolydian, Dorian, etc. they all derive from the standard major and minor scales, but if you start on for example the second note of the minor scale rather than the first, you get an entirely new scale plus new chords and note relationships from them.

    The best part is that all modes can be played or based on any note as your root.

    IMO it is a very versatile way of both understanding and writing music, and is very light on the “traditional / classical” side of things. It can apply to piano too but it makes way more sense on guitar because all the scales/modes will look the same no matter what key you play them in (unlike piano where you have to take into account sharps and flats)