- Intro
Minor Pentatonic Modes
Use the Minor Pentatonic to build a minor mode!Go to Minor Pentatonic Modes.
- Aeolian
Aeolian
Learn how to play the Aeolian mode!Go to Aeolian.
- Dorian
Dorian
Learn how to play the Dorian mode!Go to Dorian.
- Phrygian
Phrygian
Learn how to play the Phrygian mode!Go to Phrygian.
- Phrygian Dominant
Phrygian Dominant
Learn how to play the Phrygian Dominant mode!Go to Phrygian Dominant.
- Maj Pentatonic Modes
Major Pentatonic Modes
Start with a Pentatonic Scale to build any mode!Go to Major Pentatonic Modes Intro.
Start with a pentatonic scale to build any mode!
The concept of the pentatonic modes is unique to Spy Tunes.
It is to our knowledge the quickest, easiest and most comprehensive way to understand harmony on the guitar.
The minor modes have this relationship with the minor pentatonic:
| Minor Pent |
1 |
m3 | 4 | 5 | b7 | ||||
| Aeolian | 2 | b6 |
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| Dorian | 2 | 6 | |||||||
| Phrygian | b2 | b6 |
Practice The Minor Pentatonic Modes
The S-E P R takes this idea and turns it into a practice routine.
Your hands need to know where these added notes are inside all 5 minor pentatonic shapes:
- Chord shape
- Minor Pentatonic
- add b2nd/2nd
- Minor Pentatonic
- add b6th/6th
- Minor Pentatonic
- Full mode
- Chord shape
