Breaking Down the Barriers: Understanding Modes of the Major Scale, Pt 1
Understanding what modes actually are is the first step to using them effectively as an improvising guitarist. It is all part of understanding what we like when we’re listening to or learning a song....
View ArticleAdding Texture To Your Playing With Archaic Scales!
I am personally very fond of music theory and harmony theory. It’s a never-ending tail of interesting little facts and can-do’s and cannot-do’s. Many of those rules were created in Europe during the...
View ArticleBreaking Down the Barriers: The Lydian Mode
The Lydian mode is one of the most expressive modes of the major scale, and through this article, I hope to explain its exotic, yet familiar sound, and how we can use it in our modern compositions....
View ArticlePutting It All Together: The Mode Wrap Up
After many articles I figured it was about time I put this together into one, huh? After all, there is a lot of information on the Seymour Duncan website about tone and the best way to get it. My job...
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