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

Pentatonics are extremely useful to create cool solos. But what if we added some notes to them? How about adding to the pentatonics the notes that would make them work on modes?

If you are looking for some new phrasing and a different sound, I think this lesson can be useful to you. Techniques here: alternate picking, slides, string skipping, vibrato.

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

Introduction to Phrygian Mode.

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!

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.

We'll continue exploring the different modes. As you know this training is very important for singers and also for composing and do improvisations.

The classical Phrygian dominant mode in a progressive rock manner by using Chromatic lines , inside/outside playing and random notes.