Ionian

To play in A Major, start this pattern in P5.

Suggested fingerings below the tab. Play the scale ascending and descending.

These 3 tone per string scales are movable. 12 for 1.

You can train straight alternate picking [down-up], or directional picking.

Directional would be down-up-down through the 6-2 strings, then the 'flip' would be only using the B and C# on the first string [down-up], then switching to up-down-up descending.

With this type of picking, the last down or up [of a d-u-d or u-d-u] would be a rest stroke, where rest stroke means that you let your pick land on the next string to be articulated.

Mode Article

Scale Inventory

Jam Audio

by Joseph Harrison

Two ways of Thinking

1. Play in A Major. The modes happen naturally. Listen for color tones.
2. Every time the chord changes, it's a new mode; consider A Ionian over A, F# Aeolian over the F#m, E Mixolydian over the E, and D Lydian over the D.