You will get a feel for how various scales sound in a practical context. Don't get intimidated by the tempo, just head over to the spoken video and start recognizing modes right away!

Welcome to a lesson designed to outline the usage of each mode in a given context. Learning theory can, to say the least, be a little boring - but it is essential if you want to deepen your knowledge and connection with music and improvisation.

Learning modal positions can be difficult at first, this lesson should help!

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

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

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

An example how to connect modes using 5 position system when improvising. The lesson contains arpeggios, scales and some jazzy licks.

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.