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The subject of modes crops up time and again among guitarists wishing to inject new flavours into their solos. The main challenge is learning a bunch of new scale shapes. However, this can be made ...

Guitar skills: Essentially, a mode is a scale that doesn’t start on its root note. For example, the Lydian mode starts on the fourth note of the major scale, so C ...

Learning to play an instrument takes significant time and effort, especially when learning independently. As a mostly self-taught guitarist, I have found the internet, particularly YouTube, to be an ...