- 6 lessons
- All quizzes
- Review
- Final exam
The Melodic and The Exotic — The Next Level of Lead Guitar Playing
The knowledge and skill you mastered in Lead Guitar: Phase 1 has unlocked your self expression. Now it’s time to unchain knowledge that frees more melodic, more exciting — even exotic — improvisation. This course releases you to play in any key, exposing you to a set of exotic, but often misunderstood, scales and ideas known as modes. Think of modes as ice cream flavors that go beyond vanilla and chocolate. Ever heard of a Phrygian or Lydian Scale? If not, you’ll know them after this course!
By the Time You're Done, You'll Be Able To:
- Grasp the principles of modes — what they are and what they aren’t. We’ll debunk common misconceptions and explain why they confuse so many guitarists. We’ll examine the critical errors most guitar players and teachers — even schools — make, as well as examine common alternatives to applied modes such as chord scale theory as championed by institutions such as Berklee.
- Learn to play all modes — Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian — in all keys and all directions, using the skills learned in Lead Guitar: Phase 1.
- Choose at will any of several improvisational approaches to playing the modes, using intervals and integrating pentatonics within a modal progression. These establish and maintain correct tonal harmony, the basis for modes.
The only Course that has a fixed price is “Notes on the Neck.” If someone wants to continue, after that course, it becomes a monthly enrollment/tuition of $60.00 per month. As soon as they complete one course, or lecture, they are moved on to the next. Under this arrangement, once their tuition is paid, a student can complete 1 0r 12 lessons a month, it all depends upon them.
