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Guitar players sometimes get themselves in a knot about modes. Maybe the name throws them. A simple way of getting aquainted with modes is to think of them as a major or minor scale with a few changes. The Phrygian Mode is the minor scale with a flattened second. The Locrian is a minor scale with flattened second and fifth. The Lydian is a major scale with a sharp fourth. The Mixolydian Mode is a major scale with a flattened seventh.

And here is Joe Satriani explaining modes . . .

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