Lead Guitar Modes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798985717334)

Have you heard about the Modes but were unsure of what they are?

Have you been playing Modes but not able to make them sound right?

Lead Guitar MODES is a music based method continuing with the same focus from the Level 1, 2, and 3 books, we are musicians and guitar players. Ten lessons to help you play a great guitar solo and be a musician that understands the music language. This is the fourth of a series of method books to help you grow with confidence and understanding as a musician and a guitar player. Built from the ground up, through years of teaching hundreds of students, this method helps lead guitar players build a solid foundation in the Modes. This advanced book is for players who feel very comfortable with pentatonics and wants to truly understand the Modes as scales and chord progressions. There are seven backing tracks, one for each mode. Players will develop the ability to play and create riffs and melodies in the different modes, and apply them to create advanced solos and melodies.

• Modes are scales and they are chord progressions!
• Learn to see a chord progression and know the key and mode.
• Each of the seven modes has a unique sound and will be explored as scales and chord progressions in the key of G.
• You will learn G Ionian, A Dorian, B Phrygian, C Lydian, D Mixolydian, E Aeolian, and F# Locrian.
• You will understand how to use them as a musician and as a guitar player.
• Use the same 5 pentatonic pattens and add 2 notes to make them the Mode patterns.
• Learn that each pattern is all of the modes in the key.
• Build 3 octave Mode scales with Neck Anatomy.
• "Self-Generate" chords and scales to play the modes.
• Extensive diagrams, examples, licks and tabs.

These books are the cumulative result of thirty five years of playing guitar, professionally playing for over twenty eight years and performing over two thousand shows nationally. These books were developed for over seventeen years while teaching in NYC averaging over fifty students a week in small groups and private lessons. Hundreds and hundreds of students all having the same goal to learn lead guitar. So many of them having similar issues and misunderstandings about guitar and music.