As you might have noticed before, the Minor Scale is a mode of the Major Scale and vica versa.
I am relating these modes to the MINOR SCALE because it's easier to teach you other scales if I teach it this way.
The Minor Scale and it's modes are used excessivly, almost predominately,
in western music today. Of all the scales on this website these are the most important that you will ever learn.
If you can play these scales well and have memorized them you have enough knowledge to write a song,
guitar solo, and understand a great deal of music that is written and played today!
Not to say that you should only learn these, not at all! But this should definetly be the first
seven note scale that you learn. Also, because it's a seven note scale, it is played with three notes per string
on every string. This means you economy pick everything! Start on a downstroke (towards the floor, remember?)
then play the next stroke as an upstroke, then play the last note as a downstroke so you can travel
to the next string in one movement (followed by another downstroke) Here they are...
Aoelian
First Mode
Minor
1st 2nd b3rd 4th 5th b6th b7th
Locrian
Second Mode
Half-Diminished
1st b2nd b3rd 4th b5th b6th b7th
Ionian
Third Mode
Major
1st 2nd 3nd 4th 5th 6th 7th
Dorian
Fourth Mode
Minor
1st 2nd b3rd 4th 5th 6th b7th
Phriggian
Fifth Mode
Minor
1st b2nd b3rd 4th 5th b6th b7th 
Lydian
Sixth Mode
Major
1st 2nd 3rd #4th 5th 6th 7th 
Mixolydian
Seventh Mode
Major
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th b7th 
