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

We'll continue exploring the different modes. As you know this training is very important for singers and also for composing and do improvisations.

This mode is a favourite of many modern rock guitar players like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John Petrucci etc. The backing track is in A Lydian tonality and has been inspired by Joe Satriani's Summer Song.

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.

Making a difference between the same melodies with changing the color and the volume of your voice.

We will cover a simple blues tune, and learn how to use previously learned knowledge from our breathing and vowels lesson and how put it in a blues song. This song uses D minor scale, and a simple blues backing in D minor.