Its all well and good knowing the fingerings of modes, but do you truly understand what they are, how they work, how they are all intertwined and when and where to use them? If you don't you should look into that or all the time you spent learning the fingering is pretty usless.
Once the concept of modes is simple to you and you understand them entirely, try improvising over a backing switching through different modes, and experimenting with their sounds, If you have all the fingering of all the modes of say the key of F sorted, so that you can play them all the way up and down the neck, try making up some runs going through the various modes. Try composing a
chord progression that you have designed so that you can switch through modes via the chord changes in the backing, and keep the same lead (if you don't know what i mean by this, you soon will, but it means you need to read up more on modes).
Its important that when you start modes you finsh them , and don't just move on with a sloppy knowledge of them, even if you don't use modes later on, its very useful to know what theyre all about.
Hope this helps
Adam
