Practicing makes perfect???

This is a follow up to the following prior post made a few months ago...below you will find suggesting practice methods to mastering scales with some added material to help you understand it better...

Interestingly enough, scales are played over and over in a very repetitious way.  How to change that?  Well, figure out the way you want to play your modes and also figure out a way to connect these across the neck. 

Once you do that, DO NOT do what everyone else does (unless you really want to spend the time!). 

Here is what you do in a step by step format.  Let's suppose that the first mode you are starting with is not the Ionian but the Dorian since you might be practicing the key of Eb major, and their is no Eb below the open 6th string (which is low E already).  Therefore, lets keep thinking about the idea that you may feel forced to start on your lowest sounding note, which in the case of the Eb major key, it will be F dorian (6th string 1st fret).

So, here are the practicing steps (these are practical too):

#1 -- Play the F Dorian mode ascending
#2 --Play the G Phrygian mode descending
#3 --Play the Ab Lydian mode ascending again

And, continue to do the same by "connecting" the last notes you play on each mode (whether on the first or sixth string) to the following mode...then, you would have ended up playing all the modes in Eb or whatever the key in half the time you would have spent in the traditional mode. 

Traditionally you would have played the modes up and down, up and down, up and down, etc., etc.,...here, you just cut the time in half while playing all you had to play efficiently. 

Another benefit is that you really got a more continuous sonic (ear training) sense of the scale, and you also built dexterity across the neck...so you could turn the scale exercises into meaningful practice in way less time and more mastery.

The idea is to bring all of the concepts that have made guitarists sometimes give up, to a science or a closed system.  This leaves no room for learning mistakes. And, learning something well, in a closed systematic manner, will make you remember it forever.  Most importantly, you will be able to pass the knowledge on!