Understand the Modes

by Dirk Hagemann

You play some scales and the Minor Pentatonic, but you want to enhance your licks, add other notes and sounds to your guitar play? Then the Modes are just right for you!Unfortunately there are a lot of articles, discussions and videos about Modes online, but most of the time, they are made by people with, let´s say, too much musical knowledge. It´s like a non PC user is talking to a computer salesman or nerd. Most of the time, these videos and articles are more confusing than helpful and lead to more questions than answers.I´m not one of these guys, and I tried to understand it from a self-taught guitar player’s view. And as I finally understood the modes, I wondered why people can´t explain them, as easy as they are. Now I’ll try to bring you that kind of knowledge. I won´t bore you with useless or confusing information you will probably never need to know.

33 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2010