Year 2025, and you are STILL the only person on the planet that can teach modes to guitarists.

Scotty you are a hero. Nothing more

This is the breakthrough lesson!!

Looking forward to the day I sound halfway like Eric Clapton!

I wish every subject had a spokesperson with this much reverence for all those details that matter so much but can only be appreciated within a larger context. The order of these lessons lets our brains connect dots between different information, all on its own, without us consciously asking it to. That experience creates real comprehension. And it seems to enable this seemingly miraculous ability to "self-teach." To sit down with just yourself and a guitar and to somehow learn completely new musical concepts or pattern before you stand up without any external lesson. It might be a first-principles reasoning thing, where if you know the fundamental constraints of a system, you can start to infer with great probability how certain other things will behave without anyone having telling you. It lets you start to discover the instrument on your own. It's really cool, and it really affects how you relate to a subject—in this case, guitar and music. It's quite a gift. I finally understand in my body that suggestion that the greatest guitar teacher is the guitar itself. Thank you, Scotty.

I just want everyone to know that I have been playing (sucking) at guitar for 20 years, I decided to actually learn last year and about 6 months ago I started listening to these lessons, I have been grinding away, listening to them over and over until I understand, last night I was able to jam with a friend along with songs I'd never heard before. I never thought that would ever be a reachable goal for me and if so I figured it would take at least another decade. Scotty is the real deal and I have so much thanks to give to him.

You are one of the biggest influences on my life Mr. West, thank you.

Ymmv I listen to two to three a day for the past 3 months at least and I'm only up to this lesson, practice every day.

Major payoff in this lesson. Thank you again!

Scotty I love you. Thanks for being the foundation.

I listened to this lesson for a second time a few days later. Now it sinks in. It was overwhelming at first.

Oh this is huge. I'm glad I made it to Lesson 17 without skipping anything. The implications of a vast variety of chords emerging out of 1 scale simply because of 7 additional modes.

I’m 66, playing the guitar since 65.
This man is a genius.
I wish I would have started 50 years ago.
…Whatever, you’re great Scotty.

Slide rule printed... time to get cutting. This episode made me realize just how valuable that thing is for learning this stuff.

What i like best is that you don't edit out your mistakes. Easily the best course on guitar and music theory I've ever taken and by far the best teacher. Thank you so much

Jeez. I have the feeling my brain just doubled in size with this lesson... I can't thank you enough Scotty, for answering questions I didn't even knew I had.

No lie, this is genius level instructional technique. I am a lawyer and am inspired to explain concepts to laypeople in the same way. To quote The Wire, “All the pieces matter.”

Today, almost 30 years after I was originally taught them, I understand modes. Thank you, Scotty!

I love the RHŖ̵̜̰͇͚͖͔̫͚͖̲͕͚̂̎̕̕I̵̧̢̤̻͔̙̖̰̙̱̬̩̐͌̽̇̍̀͋̋̓͑̕ͅS̶̱̍̒I̴̡̨̭̼̬̗͚͓͖̹͈̬̝͑̊̏̽͗̎̈́̿̒̆̋̚͝GIAN mode. My favorite actually.

Oh god this is crazy! The feeling of actually understanding something is one of the best feelings ever!

Best lesson so far, it's just incredible how well and clearly you explain all this stuff! Thank you very much!

My mind has actually been blown 🤯