Guitar Modal Harmony

Guitar Modal Harmony

Advanced guitar tutor specialising in a very simple Box Method to unlock modal scale harmony theory.

Lesson rates are USD$40 for half hour or $75 for full hour paid through Paypal.

Private Guitar Lessons with Peter Koppes | Guitar Modal Harmony — Guitar Modal Harmony 29/06/2024

Guitar lessons are now available with me for private lessons online to learn guitar Scale theory.
Lead players and songwriters at levels from beginner to advanced will learn how to easily create melodic guitar lines for chord progressions in modern popular music.

Interest can be registered at the website's link below.

Private Guitar Lessons with Peter Koppes | Guitar Modal Harmony — Guitar Modal Harmony Book private online guitar lessons with master guitarist, Peter Koppes. Tailored sessions to appreciate scales and modes for songwriting and improvisation.

Guitar Modal Harmony 12/05/2024

Finally the Guitar Modal Harmony guitar Scales website is now complete with the addition of Advanced Level and Members section featuring Scale Demonstration videos and Backing Track videos including the Dominant 7 #9 'Hendrix' Chord Mode as well as a Jazz Blues category with 8 essential Scales.

Almost everything any guitarist might need for playing Scales along with modern popular chord progressions is here:

Guitar Modal Harmony HOW TO USE GUITAR SCALES Guitar players can now easily discover intuitively the correct Scales for Chord Progressions and Key Changes while staying in the same Scale Position usually.Commence with the INTRODUCTORY LEVEL COURSE featuring a very simple ‘Box’ method based on the Modes using the E a...

Guitar Modal Harmony 30/04/2024

Finally the Guitar Modal Harmony guitar Scales website is now complete with the addition of Advanced Level and Members section featuring Scale Demonstration videos and Backing Track videos including the Dominant 7 #9 'Hendrix' Chord Mode as well as a Jazz Blues category with 8 essential Scales.

Almost everything any guitarist might need for playing along with modern popular chord progressions is here:

Guitar Modal Harmony HOW TO USE GUITAR SCALES Guitar players can now easily discover intuitively the correct Scales for Chord Progressions and Key Changes while staying in the same Scale Position usually.Commence with the INTRODUCTORY LEVEL COURSE featuring a very simple ‘Box’ method based on the Modes using the E a...

EASIEST GUITAR SCALES EVER to play over Chord Progressions also staying in one Scale Position 26/09/2023

This video is for guitarists to appreciate a very simple method for jamming along with other musicians or recordings using only the E and B strings to identify the Scales in a piece of music.
It is based on the Pentatonic Scale using 'Box' and 'Limbo Box' Shapes (invented names) that can be easily modified to navigate Scale changes in most chord progressions.
This method is based on a new approach to the Modes and a perfect introduction to them as well.

EASIEST GUITAR SCALES EVER to play over Chord Progressions also staying in one Scale Position

05/09/2023

Announcing the soft launch of my guitar Scales instruction website for revolutionary courses at Introductory and Intermediate Levels initially and also Advanced Level soon. The brief sections of the Courses are free and then paid Membership provides access to further learning materials featuring Scale Demonstration videos and Backing Track videos plus Scales Sheets as well.
Especially the newly invented 'Box' and "Limbo' methods are so easy, providing a simple way for guitarists to play Scales over Chord Progressions while remaining in the same Scale Position usually.
Featured also are revolutionary new Scales for Augmented and Diminished chords, that have seven Notes as with Modes.
They are affected by the Key affects which complication may have caused the confusion previously.
The Beatles used these chords extensively in their great influence on modern music.
Inquisitive songwriters can now use these chords with confidence that the new Scale theory can support them.
Hear and see here: www.guitarmodalharmony.com

22/10/2022

The Hendrix Chord has a 7 Note guitar Scale not previously available on YouTube but now posted at this address, and is also a preview of instruction videos from Courses at a website called Guitar Modal Harmony. https://youtu.be/acrA9unQhOA

B Diminished to Phrygian A 21/10/2022

This Diminished Chord example is harmonised using the Harmonic Minor Scale variation of the Root Mode wherein this B Diminished Chord is a whole tone above the A Phrygian Mode.
All other Diminished Chords can also be harmonised with variations of 7 Note Modes as can be heard in a playlist that includes this video with Written Score.

B Diminished to Phrygian A Musical Scores version of the Music Evolution Therapy album by Peter Koppes featuring 56 short instrumental examples of revolutionary new music Scale Theory ...

11/10/2022

This is an excerpt of a drawing visualising music science with houses to represent the 12 Key Signatures and the modal relationships are featured in a 5 minute video here: https://youtu.be/GlH0Tx-r-TQ

HENDRIX CHORD guitar scale Dominant 7#9 Mode in A 08/10/2022

This guitar demonstration video featuring the previously unidentified Scale for the 'Hendrix' Chord is an example of videos that will be available at the Guitar Modal Harmony channel on YouTube and a website that will also provide Courses with streamable backing tracks and downloadable Scales Sheets.
This rare Scale is also known as the Hungarian Major Scale and Nasikabhushani Raga.

HENDRIX CHORD guitar scale Dominant 7#9 Mode in A First preview of the Guitar Modal Harmony instruction website www.guitarmodalharmony.com. This is a guitar fretboard demonstration with tablature of the prev...

25/09/2022

Here is the link to the YouTube playlist of Written Score versions of the 56 tracks from the recently released album 'Music Evolution Therapy' by Peter Koppes featuring short piano pieces with orchestral effects to exemplify Modal Scale transitions for Augmented and Diminished Chords as well as the Dominant 7 #9 'Hendrix' Chord.
Play on shuffle in background for best effect. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGk3QJ-ajzjhJAY-vIIAZoJzyCJpqqxn

23/09/2022

This self-drawn image is featured at the end of the Modes Of Music Illustrated video from previous post and shows all the 12 Keys of music as houses on a circular street with Notes being leaves on the trees and the spiral slide representing Portamento.

Modes Of Music Illustrated 23/09/2022

Here is a link to my video explaining Music Science with illustrations that I developed over several years to assist teaching songwriting and guitar theory. Even non-musicians might find this view of the metaphysical art of music enriching.

Modes Of Music Illustrated A pictorial explanation of the science of music from the Modes perspective based on the sol-fa system where the sequence of notes Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti have ...