Niles Hokkanen Niles Hokkanen is a talented mandolinist and journalist and publisher of the now defunct Mandocrucian Digest. Those weathered mandolin journals in newspaper format from a few years back are still a popular item around my house. He also has a wide variety of related publications of interest to mandolin players willing to expand their talents. Those are now available through the a web site hosted by John Baldry. The modes are really nothing mysterious.
Modes are to scales what inversions are to chords.