Guitar modes

Get several guitar scales charts that cover the 13 most popular guitar scales you should know. No download required.

The complete guide to guitar modes, with tab, music & fret diagrams. Learn to play any modal scale. Find out what modes are & how to improvise with them.

Q: What are modes and how do they work? A: I get this question a lot, but have only touched on it in past columns, as it relates to other questions. Here's a straightforward guide to modes and scales to follow. Modes are a very simple concept but can take some time to really understand and ge

You will find on this website a useful infographic with guitar shapes about the seven modes of the major scale and their related drop 2 and drop 3 chords.

This lesson offers some guitar neck diagrams and theory charts of the Persian scale also known as Raga lalita.

Scale formula: 1, 2, b3, 4, 5, b6, b7. Called the natural minor scale to distinguish it from the various other types of minor scale. Also known as the Aeolian mode. It shares its notes with its relative major scale, so all the patterns are the same, only the root has moved. Download PDF

This approach offers an economical way to cover a lot of fretboard ground while broadening the availability of notes within a given position.

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