Simple but effective etude for practicing different modal voicings over corresponding chords.

What is a mode and how do you approach it on the guitar?

Time to help with your alternate picking chops and review the 7 church modes with 3 notes per string patterns.The track will go from one mode to the other without stoping, so make sure to be familiar with the following position.

How to play modes, with practical examples. All modes played with Alternate Picking technique.

Learn to play and recognize by ear the modes from the Major scale.

It's easy for guitar players to get stuck in the same area of the fretboard while improvising. In this lesson we'll study a little exercise using open strings that should help you see your scales in a new linear way.

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!

Lesson teaching tricks and tips of the modes of the melodic minor scale. Nowadays, this scale is primarily used in jazz/fusion, but some excerpts of it can be found in other styles as well, such as prog rock, country, funk, samba and others.

Learn 7 modes of the major scale and how to match them with chords for successful improvising!