The guys put on their teaching hat and try to understand modes in a shotgun wedding of necessity and invention. Kalimar drops his guide to modes. Brian has some serious questions. It's a barn burner. Grab a soda and strap in.

Kalimar sums up his thoughts in this post.

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Links:

• Modes: What are they and how do I use them? - Classic FM
• Guitar Lab: Chord Scales Vol. 1 - Chord Scale Principles - Brad Carlton - YouTube
• Typical Major Modal Explanation
• Modes Chart
• The NA Scale Building System — An interesting way to visualize a guitar or bass fretboard
• Build a better scale — In case you want to explore how to build these scales, this can be useful.
• Music Theory for Guitar
• The Jazz Piano Book
• Why Modes Are Confusing
• The Cursed TRS/MIDI Cable
• Maybe Don't Buy This Brand — While it's very inexpensive, the trs side was too long. I guess you get what you pay for.
• The Spark Product Line
• The World's Greatest Super Computer — Admittedly, it's from a time when we just added the adjective "super" to something to make it awesome.
• Over the Top — Two Words: Lincoln Hawk
• Music theory - Wikipedia
• Josh Smith, playing through chord changes