Folky Fridays #36 - What are the modes and what chords do they use?

Happy new year and welcome back to Folky Fridays! In this week’s free Irish guitar lesson from Folk Friend, I’ll be going over a topic which I have covered many times, but which I still get a lot of questions about- what are the modes and how can I recognise them and pick the right chords on guitar? I’ll be showing you how the ionian, dorian, phrygian and mixolydian modes came into being and several approaches to finding the best chords for each!

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