From Pentatonics To Modes - Tabs 1.0.0

Nearly 100% of the guitar players who are interested to start working with modes come from the pentatonic. Here you find an easy way to convert your pentatonic patterns into the mode of your selection. You need to know the minor and the major pentatonic and then you are ready to go.

Here you can learn about intervals in specific :

Once you know the intervals the trick is that you know your pentatonic patterns by heart and also the intervals which are played in the patterns. To move from the pentatonic patterns to modes you just need to add 2 more notes.

Which are those notes ?

Major scales :

All major scales contain the intervals of the major pentatonic which are : 1 2 3 5 6

Now you just need to add 2 more notes which define which mode you are playing. On the tabs those notes are displayed in green. The red notes are the root notes ( 1 )

Ionian Mode additional notes : 4 7
Lydian Mode additional notes : #4 7
Mixolydian Mode additional notes : 4 b7

Minor scales :

All minor scales contain the intervals of the minor pentatonic which are : 1 b3 4 5 b7

Now you just need to add 2 more notes which define which mode you are playing. On the tabs those notes are displayed in green. The red notes are the root notes ( 1 )

Aeolian Mode additional notes : 2 b6
Lydian Mode additional notes : 2 6
Mixolydian Mode additional notes : b2 b6

This file is associated to this tutorial :

If you want to move on to move mode patterns you find the 2 main and basic patterns here :