Why can a two-chord riff sound Spanish, Celtic or unsettling? Because behind every climate hides a mode - a scale and a center of gravity. This book retraces their history, from ancient Greece to modal jazz and rock, lays down the vocabulary of chords on piano and guitar, then details twenty modes and scales in practical reference sheets: staff notation, chords, fretboard diagrams in the seven natural tonics, reference tracks and three licks written in notation and tablature. With dedicated chapters on improvisation, modal progressions, finding your way on the neck, reading key signatures and training the ear.
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