Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian... Modes can be very confusing! Wallimann created this lesson to help you memorize the 7 modes taken out of a Major scale. This lesson should definitally boost your mode knowledge!

Today's lesson will help you memorize the 5 positions of the pentatonic scale. This scale has a relative minor pentatoinic scale, which means that both of these scales share the same notes and positions.What makes one sound major or minor depends on the chords in the background.

How I attempted to learn a crazy difficult country solo in 4 months.

Arpeggiating through a 20 chords harmony!

B is a key that is not used too often on the guitar because of the barre chords - and not too many open chords.

A is a very popular guitar key with the 3 main chords A D E - which are easy to play, and all feature the open strings. This gives the key a very full sound on the guitar. There's more songs out there in A than you can shake a stick!

The key of F is not used as often for guitar because it has a lot of barre chords and not a lot of ringing open string ones. It can be a difficult key for beginners uncomfortable with barre chords.

E is a popular key and it uses the lowest E note available on a standard tuned guitar, and is a powerful Rock and Blues key standard.

There's only one barre chord to play in this one, the B minor, so it's an easy enough one to pick up for beginners. Most of the time you won't hear the m7b5 chord being used in songs as it isn't a very strong sounding chord.