The Modal Scale Workout (45 Pages)

The Modal Scale Workout 2.0:
An Introduction to Modes and Modal Scale Theory for Guitarists

This ‘Modal Workout’ started off as a hand written scribble on some music paper that I handed out to my guitar students as a challenging exercise. The ‘workout’ provided the additional benefit of memorizing sequences and shapes in a key. Very useful for building improvisational skills and a strong technical foundation.

I finally got around to organizing it in to a full-size book.
I've tried to keep this book concise. You should expect the following results:

 When I started my website, one of the first things I offered to the wonderful guitarists who joined my email list was this Guitar Modal Workout. A simple 2 page PDF. No instructions, no explanation, no text; just the same exercise I was handing out to students over 25 years ago.

The funny thing was, guitarists loved it!

I finally got around to organizing it a bit better and with more explanation and thoughts on Guitar Modal Scales in general. I took a few excerpts from my online guitar lessons and included them here as accompaniment to fill things out.

There is much to explore down the modal theory rabbit-hole. I offer only the tip of the iceberg in this little guide. As always, I encourage you to take your own studies deeper and beyond what you can get from any one source.

Here's what you can get in the new Guitar Modal Workout:

• Expanded and Revised Edition for 2020.
• Explanation of the Major Scale.
• Circle of Keys Explained.
• What a mode is and how to build them in any key.
• How modes and chords relate to each other on the guitar fretboard.
• All 7 Mode Shapes (block shapes).
• All 7 Mode shapes (3 note-per-string shapes)
• All 7 Melodic Minor Mode shapes.
• All 7 Harmonic Minor Mode shapes.
• How modes overlap on the guitar neck.
• How to build sequences across modal scales.
• The original Modal Scale Workout.
• The updated 2020 Modal Scale 2.0 Workout.
• TAB and Standard Notation.
• Also available in paperback from Amazon.