Modes can sometimes be used to facilitate transitions between two unrelated keys. Let's talk about it!

We'll take a look at David Gilmour's use of the Dorian scale over a backing track in the style of Another brick in the wall. I changed the lead, but built it around licks that Gilmour would play.

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

A guide on how to make your backing vocals better. Backing vocals are very important in your melodies, and it can really mean a lot to have some third interval backings on top of the main vocal melody.

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!

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

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.