**UNDER CONSTRUCTION** The Modes of the Major Scale: The First Thing You Need to Know to Master the Guitar.

THE MODES OF THE MAJOR SCALE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU CAN LEARN ON GUITAR!

IT'S SO IMPORTANT, I HAVE TO SAY IT AGAIN.

THE MODES OF THE MAJOR SCALE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU CAN LEARN ON GUITAR!

BEFORE YOU READ THE BELOW, PLEASE TRY TO INTERNALIZE THAT STATEMENT!

It doesn't matter what style of music you want to learn to play on guitar, most of the music played on guitar is based on "The Modes"

Most of the music you have ever heard is based on "The Modes."

Therefore, most of the music you will ever want to play is based on The Modes.

Most of the melodies you hear in your head are based on The Modes.

Most of the melodies you wish you could play on guitar are based on The Modes.

Whether you want to play Rock, Blues, Funk, Punk, R&B, Hip Hop, Metal, Classical or even Jazz, you need to start with playing and understanding The Modes.

All those styles of music are largely based on The Modes.

THE GOOD NEWS: THERE ARE ONLY 7 MODES.

MORE GOOD NEWS: IF YOU LEARN THE MODES OUR WAY, YOU'LL BE FLUENT IN THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC ON THE GUITAR.

WE WANT YOU TO BE FLUENT IN THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC!

Our method of learning "The Modes" will get you playing them immediately in a practical way that will:

* Increase your ability to play the right notes at the right time! (that's the bottom line)

* Increase your ability to play "off the top of your head" i.e. improvise!!

* Find your own "voice" or style on your instrument!!!

* Increase your confidence in playing!!!!

* Increase how confident your playing SOUNDS!!!!!

* Sound more professional!!!!!

* Really understand music!!!!!!!

* Finally understand music!!!!!!!

LET'S DIG INTO EACH OF THE POINTS ABOVE, SHALL WE?

* Increase your ability to play the right notes at the right time! (that's the bottom line)

I mean, it doesn't get more basic than that, does it? It's almost funny to think about. But it is really that simple. Our method gets you to play the "right" notes over and over again, in context, until you can't help but play the right notes all the time. In fact, we'll get you to the point where you can amuse yourself (and others) for hours by mixing up which right notes you play. This is called improvising.

* Increase your ability to play "off the top of your head" i.e. improvise!!

By the time you are done with our training, your fingers will automatically play the right notes. So, instead of playing the right notes in a predetermined order or pattern, it will be easy and fun for you to mess around with playing the notes in different orders. We guarantee that you will get lost in playing your instrument. You will actually be excited, listening to yourself play new things from one moment to the next and you will want to keep going and going. You will be a real player. A real improviser.

* Find your own "voice" or style on your instrument!!!

As you, "mess around" on your instrument, playing the right notes in new patterns that you think of on the spot, you will notice that you like some notes better than others. You will notice that you like to hear certain notes in certain orders. You will begin to notice that you like to hear certain notes and patterns in certain rhythms. Sometimes you will find a note, pattern and/or rhythm that you really like and you will want to play it over and over again. You will play it over and over again because it feels so good to you and it may even evolve over time. Guess what? You are developing your own "voice" on your instrument. You are becoming an artist.

* Increase your confidence in playing!!!!

Now you are able to play the right notes almost all the time. You are able to think of new note patterns on the spot and listen to your own playing as if it were coming out of the radio. You play a pattern and you hear a different ending in your head and you play it effortlessly. You are having fun doing it because you are good at it. You know what you are doing. You are confident.

* Increase how confident your playing SOUNDS!!!!!

At first, you are just learning which notes to play. You are training your fingers, through muscle memory, to land on the right notes. You are playing the notes in time and in the context of music. Over time, you will realize that playing confidently is just playing the right notes precisely in time and in context with the music. That's all it is. You will notice people saying to you that you sound great and you will not believe them at first...but you will actually sound great. One day, you will listen to a recording of yourself and say, "oh my god, I can play guitar and I sound great."

* Sound more professional!!!!!

You sound like a student. Don't worry about that because a student is a beautiful thing to be. Being a student means that you are trying to improve yourself. And if you are not trying to improve yourself, then you are wasting the precious gift of being a human, alive.

Learning The Modes is the beginning step to learning the language of music. It is sort of like learning the alphabet.

Let's dig into the analogy a little.

Most children begin to recognize the letters of the alphabet around 2 years old and can recite it fully by the age of 5. By the time a child turns 5, he or she can typically say more than 3,000 words.

That's starting from zero.

You want to master the guitar. If you are just starting, great. You are starting off right. If you've been playing guitar for 2 years or 5 years and you don't know the modes, you'd better start because you need to at least keep up with the toddler in our example. And if you've been playing for longer than

You have probably heard tens of thousands of songs. You can probably recognize hundreds or even thousands of musical structures (melodies or chord changes) but you don't have a framework to understand them or categorize them.

Most people also begin hearing music from birth.

Most of the music you have ever heard in your entire life is based on "The Modes." In fact, most of the music you have heard in your life is based on just a few of the modes (and there are only 7 of them to start).

Even more than learning your native language, learning the language of music requires learning the alphabet of music. It requires learning the sound of the notes and the relationships between them. Whether you've been playing music for 2 years or 22 years, if you don't know "The Modes," then you need to start immediately.

If you know a few songs or you know 1,000 songs but you don't know the language of music then it is like knowing how to say the words but not knowing what they mean.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE MODES, YOU DON'T KNOW MUSIC.