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The modes explained clearly
What are the major scale modes? How do they relate to the pentatonic scale? What on earth is “brightness ordering”? All this and more are explained herein!
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The CAGED System (and Triads) Simplified
This ~16 minute video deconstructs the CAGED system using easy-to-understand animated building blocks (over 150 animations!), starting with triads, adding on pentatonic scales, and finishing with the major scale modes. This is everything you need to unlock the fretboard and get started improvising.
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Master the modes tonight
Learn the simple five-string pattern that completely unlocks the modes across the entire fretboard.
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Learn the modes in minutes!
Our first YouTube video! If you already know the pentatonic scale anywhere on the fretboard, you can instantly access the modes by understanding how the modes relate to the pentatonic scale and to each other.
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More yummy harmonies: spread thirds
Make beautiful fingerpicked harmonies just like The Beatles did.
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MmmMMmm: easy delicious harmonies with 3rds and 6ths in all seven diatonic modes
This mental model will have you playing beautiful harmonized licks instantly.
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A hierarchy of notes
Many guitarists learn and memorize diatonic scales, pentatonic scales, and triad arpeggios as three separate concepts, but they are intimately related, and it’s beneficial to learn each as an overlay on the next.
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Break into the box
“The Rectangle” is a handy place to access all seven diatonic modes in a four-fret span on just two strings.
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Hiding in plain sight
The link between pentatonic scales and the diatonic modes has been staring you in the face all along. And it’s both the key to quickly pivoting from one scale to another and an easy way to add color to your pentatonic soloing.
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