Scales, Modes, and How to Use Them | Ep56

The Musician Toolkit with David Lane

Basic classical music education introduces students to a major scale, 3 types of minor scales, and a chromatic scale. If you continue a little deeper, you might get a passing introduction to the modes (such as dorian and phyrigian), the whole tone scale, pentatonic scales, and maybe the diminished scale, not to mention non-Western and even synthetic scales. But how many of these do you really know well in terms of theory? Further still, how many of these scales have you committed to practicing in all keys? This episode will introduce you to all of these scales and hopefully encourage you to really expand the variety of scales you have been learning.

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