Spice up your playing and give your licks a different twist by adding chromatic passing notes.

This lesson focuses on guitar pick choices and how to pick your first notes.

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.

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

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!

Mixolydian mode ballad

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

This lesson by is going to focus on hearing the modes and understand how to build modal chord progressions using triads. Triads are small 3 note chords constructed with a Root, 3rd and 5th.

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.