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Alexiaden9313th May 2009Very cool playing ! You are awesome, David !
Melodicintenions4th April 2008perfect explained that sorda like Marty Freiedmen of megadeth totally worthy of my admiration keep it up!
Carlos Carrillo9th March 2008jerry!!!!!!!
nice job!!!!!!
beutifull lesson!!!!
thanks
shideru_guitar24th February 2008uhh david... i didnt get all of that or i hope i got some of it. i think my brain left through my ear with this lesson. so much to take in!
good though.
Alejandro Pinero17th February 2008Very nice lesson!! Very musical!!
David Wallimann14th February 2008Thanks for all the comments!
It makes my day!
Kizaze and others, can I use your comments on my website? :-)
Pablo Vazquez12th February 2008Really Cool!!!
pantera1810th February 2008I would love to see a lesson on your picking technique, youve got a very interesting technique, ive never seen anyone pick like that. You should do a lesson on that.
- Maximus9th February 2008
Great lesson David!
Hisham Al-Sanea9th February 2008usefull lesson walliman.
Jerry Arcidiacono9th February 2008Great lesson! I love the backing track's groove!
Kristofer Dahl9th February 2008Cool - thanks David!
Tuubsu9th February 2008Nice one!
Dejan Farkas9th February 2008Great lesson Dave
Kizaze449th February 2008David, you are opening doors for me that I never imagined possible. You asked if this makes sense - it does when you see video #1 and verbally explain it. It's actually quite simple, but I never thought of it that way. You are a great teacher! Thanks!
-Kizaze
Joe Kataldo9th February 2008Nice Topic
The Uncreator9th February 2008As always, an awesome addition to the lessons, think im gonna be learning something new here
Juan M. Valero9th February 2008another interesting lesson, great as always Dave
- David Wallimann9th February 2008
Thanks guys,
Yes Kris, you're right.. It's a way to prepare lines while playing over a modulation. 
IzzyCom9th February 2008As usual excellent stuff David!!
Great tone , great feel, great backing, great lesson!!!
Bogdan Radovic9th February 2008Very interesting lesson !
Great !
Toni Suominen9th February 2008Very nice and useful lesson David!
Ivan Milenkovic9th February 2008Great one Walli, nice theory explanation. Very useful lesson.
DeepRoots9th February 2008Great one, this answers alot of questions for me, cheers dave!
botoxfox9th February 2008Sounds really nice.
Muris Varajic9th February 2008Nice approach David,well explained!!
- Kristofer Dahl9th February 2008
Thanks David - this is an interesting way of thinking, I haven't thought of this as "Tonal Center" before!
So if I get this right - this is a way of thinking to "prepare" your lines for a change of key?
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Today, we'll apply the concept of tonal center to a standard blues chord progression. Tonal center is a way to bring different modulations to a common note in order to facilitate the transition between two foreign keys.
In this lesson, we'll be playing over the 3 following chords:
A7, D7 and E7
We'll play a Mixolydian mode over these chords. That's A Mixolydian, D Mixolydian and E Mixolydian.
To make things a little easier on the fingers, and to keep the musical ideas smoother, we can bring these 3 modes to a common tonal center note.
Several notes would work, but to keep things sinple, let's chose an A note. In other words, we need to ask the following questions:
Which mode starting in A is equivalent to D Mixolydian?
Which mode starting in A is equivalent to E Mixolydian?
The answer is A Dorian for D Mixolydian, and A Ionian for E Mixolydian.
Memorize the following scales and enjoy modulating over the chords!
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