You're going to. Oh, Welcome to the guitar music theory

podcast. I'm Desi Cerna, author of Frontboard Theory, Guitar Picking Mechanics, Guitar Theory for Dummies, and more.

This podcast features free guitar lessons that focus on music theory for guitar, including guitar scales, chords,

progressions, modes, composition techniques,

improvisation, and more.

The lessons are geared toward intermediate level players on up.

You can follow along on either an acoustic or electric guitar.

Bass players can take away a lot from the lessons too. Today's podcast episode is a previous recording in which you learn what

modes are and how to play modal scales.

modes are more important than most musicians realize

because everything is in a mode.

This lesson is based on my book fretboard Theory Chapter 8. And the Oh, I'm going to Oh, The Hi this is Desi Cerna, and in today's free guitar lesson, I'm going to introduce you to the concept of guitar modes or modal scales.

Now this information is suitable for intermediate and advanced level guitar

players and you'll need to have some experience with major scale patterns

and chord progressions in order to understand this material. All right, guitar modes, or modal scales or church modes are the seven different ways that the major scale can function in music.

You know, the major scale has seven notes,

one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

and any one of the notes can function as the root.

Each root or each mode has its own tonality and sound characteristics. And since all music is either based directly in a

major scale or thought of in relation to a major scale, everything is actually

in a mode or sometimes a song might be in multiple modes.

So understanding modes is critical to not only developing a strong knowledge of you know guitar music theory but also

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