Yes, each position corresponds to a mode of major. In fact, which of these is “position 1″ versus “position 5″ or “position whatever” is entirely relative to the mode you’re in.

That said, you have the mode names a little mixed up in relation to my examples. They are in diatonic order.

pos 1: ionian
pos 2: dorian
pos3: phrygian
pos4: lydian
pos5: mixolydian
po6: aeolian

I did not develop a method for Position 7 because there’s only 6 possible combinations. Instead, read right below Figure 10. There I talk about what to do for locrean.

Thank you for sharing that lesson, it’s a very clever and great way to move around the neck not having to bother so much about those “P.I.T.A finger combinations” .

I got a kick out of it, and I am trying to understand the different positions in relation to the modes, but I have no music education and although I’ve played for 20yrs I’ve never bothered about the theory until a couple of months ago. So I might be totally wrong here (probably)

would it be something like this?

pos 1: ionian ?
pos 2: aeolian ?
pos3: phrygian ?
pos4: mixolydian ?
pos5: lydian ?
po6: locrian ?

whatabout the dorian mode?

hehe well I might be way off on this
//Ken1