Question about cob music..

[ReighIB]

Does anybody know which scale alexi like to use for soloing.....and if you can, which mode does he uses frequently? Also, kind of stupid question, does the band it self use theory to make a song? or does alexi makes everything on his own?

 

[sindlei]

you know scales and modes go hand and hand, i believe he uses d minor alot, but i don't listen for that.

 

[bobvex]

alexi writes all the music

he uses d minor and major scales, some harmonic minors, and major and diminished arpeggios

 

[-Gavin-]

a lot of phyrigian mode in there.


Which is the 3rd mode of the major scale.

 

[AlexiFollower]

get a tab for guitar pro, use the scale search on the solo, there is your answer

 

[-Gavin-]

That's for pussies



LEarn all the modes of the major/minor scale and learn to identify them from tabs.


That's the ebst way to learn.

 

[AlexiFollower]

^yeah, but i'm too lazy to take the time to try and figure it out myself

 

[-Gavin-]

But dude, when playing riffs, you should always try and recognise pattens and say "this Ionian mode in the 8th position signifies the song is C major/Aminor" or whatever
you develop a lot more

 

[AlexiFollower]

i know the patterns i play(i.e. when making up stuff), but when i'm looking up the stuff in the tabs, i'm too lazy to think about it

 

[Tut Ankh Amon]

you can also not give a shit for scales and play drums

 

[asphyXy]

Or you can be like Billy Sheehan.

Interviewer: "Can you tell us how you incorporate [some random really technical sounding scale] into your songs?"
Sheehan: "What's that?"
Interviewer: "You were just doing it before."
Sheehan: "Oh."

 

[Liquid Shadow]

^yeah, but i'm too lazy to take the time to try and figure it out myself

Then you will get nowhere. Dedicate yourself to learning it, or don't count on learning it at all. It's really as simple as that. People who learn their modes half-assed cannot compose songs or solos, let alone improvise, even half as well as someone who has achieved an intricate understanding of the diatonic modes and how they all relate and intertwine.

 

[\m/Jason\m/]

Or you can be like Billy Sheehan.

Interviewer: "Can you tell us how you incorporate [some random really technical sounding scale] into your songs?"
Sheehan: "What's that?"
Interviewer: "You were just doing it before."
Sheehan: "Oh."

That is fucking TRUE
The guy fucking rules!!

 

[AlexiFollower]

you can also not give a shit for scales and play drums

i'd rather shoot myself than become a drummer...

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

But dude, when playing riffs, you should always try and recognise pattens and say "this Ionian mode in the 8th position signifies the song is C major/Aminor" or whatever
you develop a lot more

screw that. I just rock!

 

[Deliverance666]

alexi writes all the music

True, he does write almost all of the music, although he takes a lot of stuff from Beethoven. I think it says that somewhere on their website.

 

[ubiquitos]

True, he does write almost all of the music, although he takes a lot of stuff from Beethoven. I think it says that somewhere on their website.

i dont think there's any beethoven in Bodom

 

[rayden_ad]

yes there is, some parts of whatever classic music on Something Wild.

 

[ubiquitos]

red light in my eyes has parts from mozarts 'symphony #25' and 'confutatis' , and the nail has a part from Bach's 'Toccata in D-minor' but no beethoven

 

[AlexiFollower]

True, he does write almost all of the music, although he takes a lot of stuff from Beethoven. I think it says that somewhere on their website.

he used to use little things from MOZART pieces no butthoven