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.

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.

Learn 7 modes of the major scale and how to match them with chords for successful improvising!

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.

This lesson by is going to focus on hearing the modes and understand how to build modal chord progressions using triads. Triads are small 3 note chords constructed with a Root, 3rd and 5th.

Illustrates how you could use the modes in a musical way.