Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ‘happiest’ sounding of the modes, the Ionian is identical to the major scale, so it’s highly likely you’re already playing it ...

If you only ever learn one scale, then it has to be the major scale. If you know how this one works then you open the door to understanding how chords are built, what chord names mean, how scales and ...

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 ...