The library

Lessons

Scales, modes and chords — each one with every position playable on an interactive fretboard.

Mode

D Phrygian

The darkest of the everyday minor modes.

Mode

D Dorian

The minor mode with a secret brightness.

Mode

G Mixolydian

Major, but with a bluesy flat seventh.

Mode

A Natural Minor

The pure minor sound — Aeolian.

Mode

F Lydian

Major, lifted — the dreamy sharp fourth.

Scale

A Minor Pentatonic

Five notes. Every solo starts here.

Chord

Cmaj7

The warm, floating major-seventh sound.

Chord

Am7

The smooth, mellow minor-seventh.

Chord

G7

The dominant chord that pulls home.

Chord

Dm7

The classic ii chord.

Chord

E7#9

The Hendrix chord.

Chord

Fmaj7

Warm major seven, built on F.

Scale

C Major

The scale every other scale is measured against.

Mode

E Dorian

The go-to minor mode for a rock or funk groove.

Mode

D Mixolydian

The dominant sound, rooted on D.

Mode

B Locrian

The darkest, most unstable mode of all.

Scale

A Harmonic Minor

Minor with a raised 7th — and an exotic edge.

Scale

C Melodic Minor

A minor scale with a major-scale top.

Scale

C Major Pentatonic

Five notes that always sound sweet.

Scale

E Minor Pentatonic

The first scale every rock guitarist learns.

Scale

A Blues

Minor pentatonic plus one dirty note.

Chord

C

The first chord — the pure major triad.

Chord

Am

The first minor chord — sad in three notes.

Chord

Bm7♭5

The half-diminished chord that sets up a minor key.

Chord

Bdim7

Four notes, all tension, endlessly movable.

Chord

Dsus4

The 3rd swapped for a 4th — suspended and waiting.

Chord

Asus2

The 3rd swapped for a 2nd — open and ringing.

Chord

C9

A dominant 7 with a funky 9th on top.

Chord

Em9

A minor 7 with a lush 9th on top.

Chord

Cadd9

A plain major chord with a sparkle on top.

Scale

G Major

The scale every other scale is measured against.

Chord

E5

Two notes, and no opinion about major or minor.

Scale

E Natural Minor

The most guitar-shaped minor there is.

Chord

Cmaj9

Major seven, with one more note of daylight.

Scale

A Dorian

Minor with a lift, in the key that sits best under the hand.

Chord

Am6

A whole mode compressed into one grip.

Scale

G Minor Pentatonic

Five notes with nowhere to hide — no open strings.

Chord

G6

Major, softened — a chord that never demands resolution.

Scale

E Blues

The home key of guitar blues.

Chord

A7sus4

A dominant chord that refuses to say whether it is happy.

Scale

A Mixolydian

The dominant sound, in the key where rock actually lives.

Chord

C6/9

The ending chord, for when maj7 is too sweet.

Scale

C Lydian

The major scale with one note raised into daylight.

Chord

Amadd9

Minor, opened up — no 7th, just air.

Scale

E Harmonic Minor

Minor with a raised 7th — and the gap that comes with it.

Chord

AmMaj7

Minor triad, major seventh — the spy-film chord.

Scale

E Phrygian Dominant

The flamenco scale, and the one metal borrowed.

Chord

A7♭9

The dominant that pulls toward minor.

Scale

C Bebop Dominant

Mixolydian plus one passing note that fixes your timing.

Chord

G13

The full dominant — and the four notes you actually play.

Scale

G Altered

Every tension a dominant chord can hold, in one scale.

Chord

G7#5

A dominant with the fifth pushed up — and harder to resist.

Scale

C Diminished

Eight notes, one shape, and only three of them exist.

Chord

E13♭9

The most tension one dominant grip can carry.

Scale

A Hungarian Minor

Harmonic minor with a second raised note, and two wide gaps.

Chord

Dm11

Six notes that sound like one wide, open colour.

Scale

C Lydian Augmented

The 4th raised, the 5th raised — the brightest scale there is.

Chord

G11

A dominant whose 11th swallows its own 3rd.

Scale

D Persian

Two half-steps, two wide leaps, and nowhere familiar to stand.

Chord

Caug

A triad with no home — three roots in one shape.

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