G Ionian Mode (Guitar, Intermediate)

A mode is just a certain way of expressing a scale. In this case, the G Ionian mode expresses the scale in the same way as the G major diatonic scale. Deeper theory aside, you can treat the Ionian mode and the major diatonic scale as one and the same.

With that stated, this larger pattern is basically an expansion of yesterday's simpler pattern. The hollow circles still represent the G note. This time, however, the orange circles merely represent the simple pentatonic pattern we discussed two days ago. The gray circles represent the fretboard-wide expansion of the scale - G's, A's, B's, C's, D's, E's, and F#'s.