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    Dec 11, 2020 4 minutes

    Demystifying The Modes Part 1: The Ionian Mode

    Tutor: Robbie Calvo | Gear used: Yamaha Revstar 502TFM, Line 6 Helix & Powercab 212 Plus Difficulty KKKKK | 15 mins per example

    SECRET SOCIETIES HAVE kept deep within their vaults a sacred manuscript said to impart musical eloquence to the reader… the major scale modes, a guitar system so complex that only immortal rock gods with an intelligence quotient of 180 can apply and comprehend.

    Unfortunately, this is the kind of rhetoric that’s been spun and proliferated among the guitar community for way too long. The major scale modes are super easy to understand and I’m

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