My way of practicing the modes

[Bassguy87564]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh1ZZgEc4S0
Here is how I practice the mode. I just want some input on it, and maybe show some people so they can try it to. I try it with ever not from C# to C.
Oyeah I messed up on the title for the last scale oops.

[Asher S]

Actually, your way was Jaco's way 20 years ago. See at 4:54 on this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfJ2f52ox7o

As far as practicing modes, whatever works for you... Personally I find it helpful to always keep in mind where the key center is for a given mode.

Here's a chart I made a while back when I was studying modes:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attach...8&d=1223258335

[Dbassmon]

Here is my input...respectfully.

Slow down and play these exercises cleanly. Get out your metronome and clean up the time. Make a beautiful, musical sound...always. Don't worry about speed, worry about tone and time.

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect - Vince Lombardi

[diglo]

The chart you made is the same chart I study from the Bass for Dummies book.

Originally Posted by Asher S

Actually, your way was Jaco's way 20 years ago. See at 4:54 on this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfJ2f52ox7o

As far as practicing modes, whatever works for you... Personally I find it helpful to always keep in mind where the key center is for a given mode.

Here's a chart I made a while back when I was studying modes:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attach...8&d=1223258335

[MarkTAW]

Originally Posted by Dbassmon

Here is my input...respectfully.

Slow down and play these exercises cleanly. Get out your metronome and clean up the time. Make a beautiful, musical sound...always. Don't worry about speed, worry about tone and time.

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect - Vince Lombardi

+1 play with a metronome & make sure you have a groove and not just the scales.

You're playing seconds - try playing thirds, fourths, fifths, etc. Go up with thirds, move down a second and then do the other thirds going down. Alternate thirds and fourths, alternate thirds and seconds. Go up a third, down a second, up a third, down a second, etc. Up a fourth, down a third, etc.

Write down some chord progressions (maybe even record some on) & play over them. Start with the venerable ii, V, I. From there, learn the chord progressions of different songs & play some changes over them.

Learn other people's solos, learn vocal melodies. There's more to life than scales.

[PaulMacCnj]

Do you have a band that you can jam with? And I mean "Jam"? If you have a group that likes to play the jam style of music, you can put the modes to use and learn a lot. In the group that I jam with, we like to play a lot of Grateful Dead music since there is so much room for improv. You learn a lot from thinking about the modes while running through scales. The fretboard becomes a huge pallet. Practice, pratice, practice!

[Bassguy87564]

Originally Posted by Asher S

Actually, your way was Jaco's way 20 years agoattachmentid=104778&d=1223258335[/url]

I did get it from Modern Electric Bass I just added to the pattern.

Originally Posted by Dbassmon

Here is my input...respectfully.

Slow down and play these exercises cleanly. Get out your metronome and clean up the time. Make a beautiful, musical sound...always. Don't worry about speed, worry about tone and time.

Thanks for the input This is something I do need to work on this exercise. I just recently come up with it and in the middle of the process but thank you.

Originally Posted by MarkTAW

+1 play with a metronome & make sure you have a groove and not just the scales.

You're playing seconds - try playing thirds, fourths, fifths, etc. Go up with thirds, move down a second and then do the other thirds going down. Alternate thirds and fourths, alternate thirds and seconds. Go up a third, down a second, up a third, down a second, etc. Up a fourth, down a third, etc.

Write down some chord progressions (maybe even record some on) & play over them. Start with the venerable ii, V, I. From there, learn the chord progressions of different songs & play some changes over them.

Learn other people's solos, learn vocal melodies. There's more to life than scales.

I am doing alot of this with my bass teacher at Hofstra. Im working on a transcription of Blues by Five and Just Friends.

Originally Posted by PaulMacCnj

Do you have a band that you can jam with? And I mean "Jam"? If you have a group that likes to play the jam style of music, you can put the modes to use and learn a lot. In the group that I jam with, we like to play a lot of Grateful Dead music since there is so much room for improv. You learn a lot from thinking about the modes while running through scales. The fretboard becomes a huge pallet. Practice, pratice, practice!

This was a group I played with last semester not quite Grateful Dead but it was something to work on my improv. This was pretty much for a class I took last semester and again this semester.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmIvZkqDcMw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1s4...eature=related
not quite jaco but I had fun with it. O yeah guitarist parents filmed it thats why alot of close ups of him.

[Blunt]

John Abercrombie said you are playing the same scale. Now think about that. Its all about substitution.