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A curious thing happens when a bass player learns about the major modes. They soon find themselves wondering about the minor modes on bass as well.

This is completely natural! Most people only talk about the major modes, but what if you’re playing a song in a minor key?

Do the same rules apply? Are ‘new’ modes something you have to spend time learning now?

It’s actually much simpler than that. In fact, if you know the major modes, you already know the minor modes!

That’s right - they’re the same modes, just in a different order, and that’s exactly what you’ll learn about in today’s lesson.

Before you check this one out though, you need to have a solid understanding of the major modes. Without that, I’m afraid this video won’t make a whole lot of sense. If you haven’t already, sign up to get a copy of my Ultimate Guide To The Modes For Bass. You can get it for free here:

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Inside, you’ll get 2 videos, a 16-page guide to each of the modes, plus 24 practice tracks so you can start mastering your modes today.

Once you’ve gone through the guide and understand how the modes work, come back to this video. I promise, this lesson will be much easier to follow when you have that solid foundation.

As far as how to think about the minor modes and their chord relationships, there are two ways of doing it.

Some people prefer to translate everything into the major key and work everything out from there.

Others would rather just treat the tonic of the minor key as the ‘1’. So you can have the exact same chord progression and different people thinking about it in very different ways, but it would still work.

So if you had a chord progression:

Em - Am - D - Em

You could think of it as either:

1 - 4 - 7 - 1 (if you’re thinking in terms of E minor)

Or:

6 - 2 - 5 - 6 (if you’re thinking in G major)

How you think about everything is up to you. There are no wrong answers when it comes to how you think about the minor modes on bass.

As always, if you have any questions, just let me know by leaving a comment below. I’m happy to help out however I can.

Good luck with the lesson and happy playing!

Cheers,

Luke

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