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.

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

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.

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

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.

Learn how to solo over a Samba backing track.

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!