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The subject of modes crops up time and again among guitarists wishing to inject new flavours into their solos. The main challenge is learning a bunch of new scale shapes. However, this can be made ...

As we’ve said before, in recent issues, the easiest way to understand modes is to think of them as re-workings of the major scale, simply starting on a note that isn’t the root. The Aeolian mode is no ...