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Guitar Soloing: From Pentatonic Scales to Modes: Use Major & Minor Pentatonic Scales to Play Exciting Modal Solos (Learn Guitar Theory and Technique) Paperback – February 13, 2023
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Move From Pentatonics to Modes – Instantly
- Are you ready to expand your palette of musical sounds?
- Are you stuck playing pentatonics and looking for something new?
- Are you daunted by the prospect of learning modes and complicated theory?
“Learn your modes” is one of the most common pieces of advice given to aspiring guitarists… but the question of how best to learn and play them them is rarely addressed.
All too often, students are given big grids of scale shapes and taught to run up and down boring patterns without much success. What’s worse is that your phrasing often becomes dull and “un-guitar-like” when you learn modes in this way.
A Better Way to Play Modes on Guitar
But there’s a much better way to learn modes, especially when you can already play pentatonic scales.
In fact, there’s a “secret” trick that the world’s greatest guitarists have been using for years to bring modal notes into their solos without losing their beautiful pentatonic phrasing.
In From Pentatonic Scales to Modes, you’ll learn how pentatonic shapes form the “skeletons” of literally any mode, and how by adding just two notes you can quickly bring modal colours into your playing while retaining classic pentatonic phrasing.
This book teaches you the most important modes of Dorian, Aeolian, Mixolydian and Major anywhere on the neck and you’ll learn hundreds of gorgeous licks along the way.
The best thing is that by learning your modes in this way, you are fully in control of which colours you add to your solos, so you can avoid clichéd patterns and mindless runs.
By the end of From Pentatonic Scales to Modes you will be playing modes with musical pentatonic phrasing and be highly selective about which notes you use in your solos.
And when you get right down to it, being choosy about your notes is what makes you a better soloist!
Learn Perfect Modal Phrasing from a Seasoned tutor
Joseph Alexander is one of the most prolific writers of modern guitar tuition methods and has sold over 1,000,000 books that have inspired a generation of upcoming musicians. His uncomplicated tuition style is based around breaking down the barriers between theory and performance, making music accessible to all.
With Joseph’s expert guidance, you’ll learn the following skills:
- How modes are formed (the easy way!)
- How every mode is a pentatonic scale with two added notes
- How to learn the sounds of the modes (and the fretboard) by adding one note at a time
- How to transition smoothly from pentatonic soloing to modes with great phrasing
- How to use the four most important modes– Dorian, Aeolian, Mixolydian and Major
- How to play any mode, in any position on the guitar, in any key
Bonus: Hundreds of organic, musical licks that add modal colours to your playing naturally
Learn to Play Modes on Guitar the Right Way, From Day One!
From Pentatonic Scales to Modes draws on years of distilled teaching experience to bring you a detailed, step-by-step guide on the art of playing modes with pentatonic guitar phrasing, from total zero to guitar hero. The skills you learn here will form the backbone of everything you play and allow you to solo in any style of music.
Take the first step on your path to total guitar mastery today!
Hear it and See it!
From Pentatonic Scales to Modes includes over 200 free audio tracks, along with clear guitar TAB, musical notation and scale diagrams.
- Print length110 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateFebruary 13, 2023
- Dimensions8.5 x 0.25 x 11 inches
- ISBN-101789334012
- ISBN-13978-1789334012
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- Publisher : www.fundamental-changes.com (February 13, 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 110 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1789334012
- ISBN-13 : 978-1789334012
- Item Weight : 10.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.25 x 11 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #122,252 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #115 in Music Techniques (Books)
- #202 in Guitars (Books)
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About the author

Joseph Alexander has been a guitarist and expert music tutor for over 20 years. His tuition books are published in four languages and have sold over 1,000,000 copies to widespread critical acclaim.
Currently Joseph is co-writing groundbreaking music methods with Martin Taylor, John Patitucci, Jens Larsen, Levi Clay, Ulf Wakenius, Mark Lettieri Les Wise and many more...
He is a publisher of over 200 music books and his label, Fundamental Changes is currently accepting manuscripts from a new talented generation of musicians and offers 3x the standard royalty rates to educators.
www.fundamental-changes.com for over 350 free HD video lessons or to get signed as an author.
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highly recommended for it's simplistic approach to a complex subject
the free audio examples are the icing on the cake!
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