Playing the Modes for Six and Seven-String Guitar: How to Build Modal Chords - 21 Modes of the Major, Melodic Minor and Harmonic Minor Scales, with 7-String Guitar Tabs
English | October 12, 2026 | ASIN: B0HMS81GQN | 147 pages | Epub | 13.00 MB
A mode is not a new scale to memorise. It is a parent scale with a different note treated as home - and it only exists while a chord holds that home note in place. This book teaches the modes that way: one mode at a time, through its characteristic note and the chords it produces.Each of the 21 chapters follows the same structure:The mode compared with the plain major or minor it resembles, so you hear the one note that changesThe mode harmonised on all seven degrees, with a chord diagram for every degreeA vamp that fixes the home note, built from the mode's own chordsThe scale in a fretboard box you already know, an original lick and a seven-string extensionPart 1: the seven modes of the major scale, from Ionian to Locrian.Part 2: the modes of the melodic minor, including Lydian dominant and the altered scale.Part 3: the modes of the harmonic minor, including Phrygian dominant.All tabs are written for seven-string guitar and can be read on a six-string: outside the seven-string sections, no note falls on the low B. No audio needed - every chapter tells you which chords to loop.A companion to From Reproducing to Creating, for intermediate players who know their chord tones and want to use modes over real chords.