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The Mando ModeExplorer
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Mandolinists: Open strings got you all tied up?
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Prepare to embark on a Thrilling Expedition! The Mando ModeExplorer is your guide across vast musical landscapes where you will enjoy exploring
and discovering thousands of new ways to get from Here to There, expanding your horizons to encompass the whole neck of the mandolin,
and witnessing chords and scales as never before - In their Native Habitat!
Much more than a scale or chord dictionary (though it definitely shines in these categories),
the ModeExplorer teaches you the all-important context that makes the chords and scales work together.
The way we say it is: "The Scale IS the Chord, and the Chord IS the Scale!"
As you explore, you'll discover that a set of chords actually defines scales, and a scale defines a set of chords.
You'll see that, given a set of chords, you can decide what to play along with those chords to make it sound right.
And you'll see how it's all done on mandolin. We map it all out for you.
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Discovery Starts Right Here!
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Like all ModeExplorers, the Mando ModeExplorer
displays all the modes of the standard major scale, presenting the fingerings
graphically on the neck of the mandolin, in every key and every position on the
neck, plays those modes for you, provides a dozens of useful
“synthetic scales” and “symmetric scales”, figures out all the chords that can be created for all
those scales all over the neck of the mandolin in all keys and plays them for
you! And it does this for scales
that YOU INVENT, too!
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But that's truly only the beginning!
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All the chords derived from all degrees of all the scales in all the keys are
demonstrated
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Each chord is shown in four different inversions!
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Not only can you see the scales and their component chords, but you can hear
them too!
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Real mandolin sounds to demonstrate chords and scales - Not some fake midi
soundcard approximation
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Build your own chord progressions from the Mando ModeExplorer
and jam along
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Enter a chord series into the Mode Calculator, and it tells you what scales you
might use to play!
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The ModeExplorer Web Service provides additional scales and chords when an
Internet connection is available (No connection required)
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Finally! Identify and give a REAL name to those heretofore mysterious note
clusters in The Groveland Chord DNA Laboratory!
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The ModeExplorer Chart Exchange allows you to exchange chord progression ideas
with other players and print them out
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Choose from eight "violin positions"
(w/half position) for visualizing scales in manageable chunks, or all scale
notes at once
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We also included
FFcP support! All
scales can be broken down into
JazzMando's
1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th FFcP... All diatonic modes of the major scale and
synthetic scales, like harmonic minor, melodic minor, the Altered scale,
Locrian#2... For all tonics!
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Ample help: Mando ModeExplorer's FieldGuide, The ScaleWatcher's FieldGuide, The
ChordWatcher's FieldGuide - 75 pages packed with ModeExplorer how-to's, improv
tips, modes, and chords! (.pdf)
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...and on and on...
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For soloing instrumentalists, many of the most useful scales are represented here:
Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, symmetrical scales, and more. For accompanists, thousands of useful chord forms are
provided with their parent scales.
And perhaps most useful tool of all, The Chord Calculator provides the
musician with the power to punch in parts of chord progressions and see what scales
will be appropriate for improvising, for every occasion in jazz, blues, rock,
or whatever.
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Get the edge on the other guys.
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Get the BIG PICTURE.
Combined with the ModeExplorer Web Service, the Mando ModeExplorer is the absolute best way for
mandolinists to organize
their arsenals of scales and chords. Color your compositions, revitalize old
chops, put everything in context.
A lifetime of musical information graphically and sonically represented on the
neck of a mandolin! See it and hear it all!
Where do I get me one of these things?
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System Requirements: Pentium II 400 MHz or greater with 128 MB memory, 46 MB HD recommended. Windows 2000, Windows XP, or more recent recommended.
1024x768 resolution display, sound card, mouse, and CD-ROM required. Internet Explorer 5.01 or greater required. The Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework
is required: Free
from Microsoft. Adobe Acrobat required for PDF Help file viewing: Free
from Adobe.
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