Modes & Scales: EFFECTIVE Practice Routines – 3 Chords, 3 Arpeggios & 1 Scale run

Tabs in PDF, Guitar pro files and Audio examples: Choosing a scale, key or mode can only be done when you know how it sounds. Of some scales or modes you know exactly how they sound, because you have heard and used them many times. But other scales (like the melodic minor or Phrygian Dominant scale for instance) and modes of the major scale (like the Phrygian, Lydian or Locrian mode for instance) are not yet stored in your musical memory. You have to play a few licks and chords within that scale to refresh your memory and get a feel for the sound. In this tutorial I’ll show you a way to study scales and modes in a particular manner, that is very efficient to get the sound of that scale and at the same time you’ll practice dexterity and technique to outline the scale or mode in a compact sequence of chords and inversions, a scale run and triad arpeggios. Playing such a dense sequence will improve not only your hearing but it will enhance your t