title: Modes: No More Confusion: Guitar Master Manual
author:  Brett Miller 
description: Brett Miller is a professional guitarist, composer, and guitar instructor. He's released five solo albums of instrumental Progressive Metal as well as numerous side projects ranging from Electronica to Death Metal. Brett is an active composer of original soundtracks in the video game industry, and is the author of the Metal Guitar Academy series of instructional books and audio courses - including the popular "Metal Mailing", available free at MetalGuitarAcademy.com When not doing something guitar related (which is rare!), Brett enjoys the weird fiction of, and anything related to, H.P. Lovecraft. He's entertained by Garbage Pail Kids, MST3k, and Sumo wrestling, and is fascinated by the philosophies of Zen Buddhism.
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  Dedicated to my younger self, who struggled to understand Modes.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2019 by Daniel Shepard
  
  
  
  
  
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  _**What are music modes?**_
  
  
  **A Mode is a type of scale.**
  
  
  
  
  
  A mode has different spacings between its notes than a normal Major Scale
  does. These spacings are cal ed intervals and describe the distance from one
  note to another.
  
  
  
  
  
  **Each mode has a unique sound** when it is played all the way through, just
  as a Major scale has a specific sound to it. (If you listen, you can probably
  hear “Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-