Mechanics
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Course Overview
ScaleModePro courses are built as staged paths. Each stage focuses on a musical goal, then uses the right mix of mechanics, scales, arpeggios, chords, progressions, and jam activities to make that idea playable.
Stage activities
Courses break into stages, and each stage is built from the activities that serve the musical goal: hand preparation, fretboard mapping, chord-tone connection, rhythm, and applied playing.
Scales
Scale practice connects patterns, position shifts, and lead-guitar phrasing across the fretboard.
Arpeggios
Arpeggio practice connects chord tones, position shifts, and lead-guitar phrasing across the fretboard.
Chords
Guided chord practice teaches chord shapes, cleaner changes, and stronger rhythm playing.
Progressions
Progression practice builds rhythmic chord changes and common song movement through real chord sequences.
Jams
Jam practice turns scale, arpeggio, and chord work into soloing ideas over a groove.
Current courses
Open a course map to see how its stages organize the activities above into playable goals.
Major Pentatonic Foundations
Learn all five major-pentatonic positions while turning movable power, major-barre, and minor-barre chords into practical major-key progressions and solo practice.
- Stages
- 5
- Lessons
- 24
Minor Pentatonic Foundations
Learn all five minor-pentatonic positions while turning movable power, minor-barre, and major-barre chords into native natural-minor progressions and solo practice.
- Stages
- 5
- Lessons
- 24
Major Blues Foundations
Learn all five major-blues positions, resolve the flat 3 into the major 3rd, and use movable power, major-barre, and minor-barre chords in blues-ready major-key forms.
- Stages
- 5
- Lessons
- 24
Minor Blues Foundations
Learn all five minor-blues positions, control the flat 5 between the 4th and 5th, and use movable power, minor-barre, and major-barre chords in natural-minor blues forms.
- Stages
- 5
- Lessons
- 24
Major Ionian Foundations
Learn the major/Ionian diatonic fretboard as one parent map, then connect mechanics, scales, arpeggios, chords, progressions, and jams across shifting harmonic centers.
- Stages
- 7
- Lessons
- 41
Natural Minor Foundations
Learn the natural-minor/Aeolian fretboard as one parent map, connect all seven diatonic chord functions to their native positions, and build minor-key progressions without silently replacing the minor v with a borrowed dominant V.
- Stages
- 7
- Lessons
- 41
Mixolydian Foundations
Build a dominant-centered major fretboard around Mixolydian's flat seventh, connect its native VII and IV colors across all seven positions, and create major-key vamps without restoring the Ionian leading tone.
- Stages
- 7
- Lessons
- 41
Locrian Foundations
Learn to hear Locrian's half-diminished center through its flat second and flat fifth, connect every native chord across all seven positions, and build pedal-based modal movement without disguising the mode as ordinary minor.
- Stages
- 7
- Lessons
- 41
Lydian Foundations
Build a bright major fretboard around Lydian's sharp fourth, connect the defining I-II dominant color across all seven positions, and create spacious modal progressions without smoothing the mode back into Ionian.
- Stages
- 7
- Lessons
- 41
Dorian Foundations
Build a minor-centered fretboard around Dorian's natural sixth, connect the defining i-IV dominant movement across all seven positions, and create minor grooves without collapsing the sound into Aeolian.
- Stages
- 7
- Lessons
- 41
Phrygian Foundations
Build a dark minor fretboard around Phrygian's flat second, connect the defining i-II movement across all seven positions, and create modal vamps without importing Phrygian dominant's raised third.
- Stages
- 7
- Lessons
- 41
Harmonic Minor Foundations
Build harmonic minor as one tonic-centered seven-position map, then connect its leading-tone cadence to i through V7, iiø7, vii°7, and the characteristic augmented-major sound.
- Stages
- 7
- Lessons
- 41
Melodic Minor Foundations
Learn classical melodic minor across seven positions: raised 6 and 7 ascending, natural-minor flat 6 and flat 7 descending, with harmony that connects both directions around a stable minor tonic.
- Stages
- 7
- Lessons
- 41
Bebop Foundations
Build Ionian Bebop across seven positions, keep its flat-six passing tone melodic, and land steady eighth-note lines on functional major-key chord tones.
- Stages
- 7
- Lessons
- 41
Symmetric Dominant Foundations
Learn Half–Whole Diminished through five authored symmetric positions, then apply its flat-nine, diminished, and thirteen colors to dominant resolution.
- Stages
- 5
- Lessons
- 30