Guitar lessons: The major scale has a distinctive sound, thanks to its sequence of intervals: tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone (TTSTTTS). When the major scale starts from a different ...

The ‘happiest’ sounding of the modes, the Ionian is identical to the major scale, so it’s highly likely you’re already playing it on guitar. However, things really come alive when you ...

As you practice more modes and scales on your guitar, your songwriting skills will grow. Soon you will find you are using the same sounds and intervals and you need to break out of the scale and ...

Playing the guitar is the best. The. Best. I have played guitar for 22 years and every single day I feel the same excitement about picking it up as the first day.

When dealing with harder scales such as the harmonic minor or the distinction between modes, begin with focusing on a smaller section or concentrate on those key intervals.

A Phrygian mode (rhythm guitar riff) Here’s another minor Latin style progression using Am7, Bmaj7 and Gm7 chords within the Phrygian mode. The muted strings imitate the sound of the guiro ...

The terms relative major and relative minor are used to described two keys and scales which share all the same notes and the same key signature. This means that it is common to modulate or change ...