William – lets not get too bogged down in practicing with modes. If you are working with a new tune, that is in a scale that you don’t play very often – then that’s the time to practice some modes. If you are working in the C major scale, which is the most common scale then you shouldn’t need to practice modes that much.

Later down the line, in proper improvisation, you wouldn’t play up and down modes in each bar. You would only do that to get yourself fluid fingerwise with rarely used scales.

I would move on to the 2nd and 3rd videos in tenor lesson two, to avoid annoying household members. What you are doing now is to start building up ideas – practice for a couple of minutes. Then stop and think about what you have played whether you liked it or not, practice the timing, then start again with another variation. It’s a bit like meditating, you have to give it time for the brain to absorb the phrases being played from the different combination of notes in a specific bar. Don’t rush the next section, get the ideas played out in your head that sound good – when you have settled with how an idea is played the way you want, then sort out the timing within a bar in relation to the backing track bar. Start out on lower speeds before playing faster.

a better explanation for G-C-F
for the G chord use the notes in Gmajor scale (g a b c d e f#)
for the C chord use the notes in the Cmajor scale (c d e f g a b)
for the F chord use the notes in the Fmajor scale (f g a Bb c d e)

as an alternative to just using the notes in the Songs Major Scale.

Using Mode names gets very confusing, it’s easier to use mode numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 as that reflects the starting position in the scale, and it also matches up with the chord numbers 1,3,5,7. So if you choose any chord number that will give you the mode number start position in the scale.

But it all comes back to which scale you use, do you use the Scale of song or the scales that each chord belongs too, either is acceptable depending on which is easier to play or which one sounds better. Some people use the chromatic scale…

modes and scales are one ting we can actually practice without blowing into the sax, so not the best way to practice but it can still be done without getting family members mad!

Hi guys. Waving hello, hi, well, now, i do like Rita’s mode, ya, just sayin’ 🙂
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