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Why You’re Still Struggling to Learn the Modes

There comes a time in every guitarist’s life when they feel the need to *drum roll* learn the modes. While […]

The Dorian scale makes for an interesting twist you can use in a 12-bar blues. Yes, that’s right, you can […]

There are literally endless things you can do with pentatonic scales in music and especially on the guitar. We all […]

If you’ve been playing or studying modes for a while now, you might have overlooked the Phrygian mode in favor […]

This is something that a lot of players dismiss because they think they must learn 5 or 7 patterns for […]

I often get students who like the idea or the sound of modes but are put off by the theory, […]

A student once asked me if there was a foolproof way not to get lost when soloing on guitar and […]

You can find tons of stuff on modes right here on the blog, but I’d like to share this quick […]

This is a common problem among guitar players: they get very good at getting some great licks and runs from […]