The closest thing I have to a musical bible right now is Mick Goodrick's book, The Advancing Guitarist. I've been working through it for a couple years now, and I especially enjoyed the exercise of playing scales/modes up and down a single string. The exercise helped me better understand:
- the character of "modes"
- the nature of intervals as the fundamental "unit" of modes
- ...and many other things :)
To make it easier to practice all the mode and string combinations on a single string (7 modes + 6 strings = 42 possibilities), I built a website, UNOstring. Basically, a student is presented a random string/mode combination. The student can also play along to a simple organ drone that corresponds to the tonal center (eg. for D Dorian, a sustained D pitch will be played on the organ).
I also recently added an interactive chord chart that highlights the derivative pitches (https://unostring.com/chords/). It is pretty bare-bones right now, but I plan to make it more comprehensive in the coming months.
I'm very interested in building more interactive learning tools. There's a ton of great resources for learning guitar/music-theory, but I'm specifically interested in the idea of "interactive" tools. Any suggestions on this type of thing? Also, if you have any feedback, criticisms, or new feature requests for UNOstring, I'd LOVE to hear them!
PS. This is not exactly a "lesson" per se, so I just marked the flair as "other"?
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