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

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.

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

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

Learn to apply modes to the most common progressions.

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!

A solo over the chord progression of Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe Island

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