Safe Lube For Guitar.

On my fender strat the high e and b strings pass under a metal piece on the neck. My strings get stuck on the metal piece and it makes tuning a pain because when you turn the tuning knobs the strings sometimes stick. Would putting a small about of vaseline (petroleum jelly) under the metal piece be alright and not weaken the strings over time?

What Is The Best Way To Learn Modes.

I know most of the major scale and I need to improvise around it a little more to get more comfortable with it. After I learn the major scale how should I go about learning the modes. I know Ivan has a good lesson in Modes Workshop and your lesson on Learning the Modes brought me to ask this question. Should I learn the first box of all the modes and also learn their arpeggios like you show in your Learning the Modes lesson, or should I concentrate on each mode, such as Phrygian, and learn the mode up and down the guitar neck in each "box" before I move onto the next? Which would be the easiest approach to learning modes? Is it important to learn the modes up and down the guitar first, or is that a thing I should work on later once i get a basic understanding of the first box of each mode, learn their arpeggios, and what chord they are played over, for example Ionian and Lydian are played over Maj7.

Any Plans For New "lick Of The Day"

Just wondering if Kris has any plans to introduce more "Lick of the Day." Maybe he could include licks from the other instructors' videos as another way to introduce us to things we may not have found before.

When Do We Play This Note In The C Major Scale

Since you have to start on the root note, when do we ever play the circled note?