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Modes can be understood in theory, which is often overly complicated. But if you want to be able to improvise and accompany 90% of music out there, modal ear training is the way to go.
Most songs and compositions are, whether intentionally or not, part of a modal system (or a combination of modes - we'll look more at modal interchange later).
By training your ear to pick out movements of harmony that invoke a mode's flavour, you'll know where to put your fingers to play along. Plus, you'll discover new sounds that can inspire more interesting major and minor key songwriting.
In this lesson, I take you through a very simple (and fun) way of exploring each of these modal flavours, starting with modes of the major scale - the most common keys in music.
By playing modes in parallel (that is, on the same root), you can really hear their distinctive sounds. Each mode has its own unique feel, and the process I show you in this lesson is the best way of internalising that.
Get the complete lesson, including backing tracks and tabbed examples here:
https://www.fretjam.com/ear-training-modes.html