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Mixolydian is like any other scale. But as a mode it also offers a unique and rich harmonic system that has been used in countless songs and can be used in your own songs.
This lesson will help you to understand what Mixolydian is, where it comes from and how it is typically used.
Modes needn't be confusing. And they certainly are a useful tool in any musicians repertoire. By using the ear training exercises in this lesson, you'll be able to relate what's being played to the fretboard.
More here: https://www.fretjam.com/mixolydian-mode-guitar.html
@franksallie91126 years agoI’ve struggled with modes for years. Then I discovered your explanation of Dorian. Understood it immediately and within minutes was ripping it up with every suitable backing track I could find. Now I’m back for the rest of them. Your coaching method is first class. Thanks. ...16
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@paulandlesson9 years agoBTW. It is so GREAT to see so many enthusiastic comments. You have inspired many guitarists. You should be very proud as people who watch this are very lucky. Rock On! 32
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@jamesjackson51992 years agoNo face, no EGO, no pointless waffle, just straight t point with song refrences, graphs and illuminating written a drummer you are one guitarist I dont find annoying . Brilliant teacher. Thank you. Subbed. ...
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@SeanArmitageMusic8 years agoExcellent presentation. It can be hard to explain how pitch is relative to less advanced players and you do it clearly and simply. 22
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@gaiasgift3 years agoI'm learning more from these videos than I ever have from any other guitar teacher. Your way of explaining in all ways but simply, and then demonstrating is hugely beneficial. For learning music, this channel is my favourite. Many thanks. ...2
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@KleversonRoyther5 years agoMost insightful video on this subject I've seen! Most channels I've seen show this straight on the neck running down the scale like crazy and, for some reason, they insist on beginning the scale on any finger but the index. Don't get me wrong, I can do that myself, but for someone who's trying to understand what you're doing and saying, you have to get some things out of the way for an easier understanding. All I wanted was to learn the applications of this mode and this video explained it very well! ...13
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@jaxxonad6194 years agoBest mixolodian lesson I've found... Subbed with much appreciation 😁👍 1
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@mirageandmidasfunksouldisc41407 years agoThis is an excellent demonstration of how modes work within a chord sequence. Subscribed.
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@krisniemczuk34526 years agoBest lessons that I've found on utube so far. Thank you Sir. 1
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@John_Doe6573 years agoVery explanatory and insightful video. Thank you!
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@FirstLast-vl5ri4 years ago"I wouldn't advise you purposefully write songs in a mode as this would be creatively quite limiting..." Miles Davis purposefully wrote the whole album Kind of Blue modally, he said the opposite: that it liberated the music from the constraints of chord progression. Sorry to quibble, this is really a great teaching video. ...22
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@GuitarguyRichard562 years agoFantastic explanation. Many great take aways! Thanks
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@CharlesBusada4 years agoThank you so much. This will take some time to digest, but it is so well presented. Thanks!! 2
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@paulandlesson9 years agoOutstanding job! In the late 70's, early 80's it was a very allusive idea. Once you understand it, one has the thought "this is easy". However, as you show there are so many ways to think about it. When playing over C7, I view F diatonic over the entire instrument. Many great guitarists however will learn it as C with b7th. Great job. Don Mock, Frank Gambale are a great place to start. Peace ...4
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@thebicyclechronicles56205 years agoBest instruction on Youtube .Keep up the great work.
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@sega62s9 years agoIt all makes sense "now" Your way of teaching is really what a jazz musician needs. I haved played mostly rock, which is cool, lots of variations, but modal music can be very creative. Thx for taking the time for sharing all these vids ...1
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@AncientGranules3 weeks agoThank you, just found you and I will get back to it very soon.
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@vernal69447 years agoVery easy to understand teaching. Thanks. Subbed.
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@brandonse1677 years agoI make a lot of music and I've been getting good enough at it that I figured I should learn what the hell I'm actually doing. So I started to learn some scales and the second I started playing this one I recognized my favorite out of everything I ever wrote and it was amazing to see how almost every note fits onto this scale and all the ideas I had for it which I ended up not using (alternate progressions/layers) fit onto this scale and I even used the "transition" note that you were saying relates to jazz. Which felt really cool to learn considering I always felt a strange connection to jazz. Now I understand how powerful learning scales is because if I had known this stuff, I probably could have figured out how to play what's in my head in a few days rather than 7 months! These videos and scales literally have been making sense out of my entire life and it's so fucking exciting all I wanna do is talk about it! ...17
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@TheSqeelalast yearQuite simply, the clearest explanation I have ever seen.
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@eloy096 years agoGreat explanation. This will enhance my improvisation
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@ultramother7 years agoYou really have a gift! Thank you so much
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@slickwillie33766 years agoBest mixo modal video I've seen. Very good🙂 1
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@mccloysong2 years agoFINALLY!! The best explanation of how the key of the mode relates to the key of the scale. That was the missing link for me.
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@jonesr2279 years agoAnother excellent lesson, with probably the clearest statement of how modal scales differ from the underlying major scale. 9
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@mattsmusicacademy51893 years agoThis guy is the best on YouTube...period...
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@down8139 years agoThe chord sequence at can also be seen as i IV (Dorian Mode) when you switch it around. 5
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@alexhurt28826 years agoHoly shit this video is amazing. I've always wondered how to recognize mixolydian given the chord progression versus say a major pentatonic. Thank you 1
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@maroofali21425 years agoMy favorite mixolydian song is "Oh sweet nuthin" by the Velvet underground...n that live version especially where those two solos are just mind blowing... 1
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@johannese.7135 years agoA very difficult topic easily explained, thanks :)
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@pawnhearts87854 years agoBehold! The Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd's favorite scale 4
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@mccloysonglast yearFinally the question I always asked if is finally answered
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@patrickcoyne32118 years agoI've always viewed this as the Grateful dead scale, seems a lot of their songs are in Mixolydian. I play in it often but never really had a name to it, I just considered in a Major scale with a few minor-scale notes added in. Now I know, Thanks! ...
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@saidhilali48247 years agoThanks a lot, coz now understand that, mixolydian also can be refers as dominant 7th chord, this is bcoz as mixolydian characterized by minor 7th as well as dominant 7th chord. So the keything here is to play mixolydian over dominant 7th chords progression. Nice lesson keep it up! ...
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@WickBeavers4 years agoa Most EXCELLENT lesson, thanks! I'm gonna support you when I get paid. 1
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@robertkennedy57533 years agoThis is BRILLIANT!! I couldn't figure out why I was able to get away with playing an E minor Pentatonic over a Santana like Am7-D7 song. My 3 string per D Mixolydian starting on the 10th fret is like an extended E Pentatonic, which explained here is a BeeBop Dominant Pattern. I accidentally taped into my inner Dizzy Gillespie! At least sort of. :) ...2
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@redbully71467 years agoFrank Zappa used mixolydian alot w other blues scales n he had nice tone n style..checked out for ideas,early mother's used alot this type scales..thnx for lesson.
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@davelackey59432 years agoI agree,it’s a life long study, ur every time I get something down something else jumps up. Seems to get the Pentatonix scale the blue scale down cold then mixelodian
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@sttarch51507 years agoI just found you. the holy grail of modes. Where were you 30 years ago? thx! 4
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@slickwillie33766 years agoI like the fact that you went beyond simply the 1 - b7 combination, and included the 1 - 5 and the 1 - b7 - 4. Nobody else had the gonads for that.🤣
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@aquilarossa51914 years agoI think lots of self taught players struggle with modes because plenty of players do not learn the major scale first. We learn minor pentatonic and then add the natural minor notes, so we think in minor scales instead of major. I am like that and so is every rock or blues player I know. I have been learning modes since the late 1980s, but it never sticks because I relate everything to the minor scale shapes. It is like those minor scales are my native language. I found a hack for modes and Mixolydian is the easiest one. I know its root is tone below Aeolian's root and it uses the same notes, e.g., if I want A Mixolydian I play the B Aeolian, but with the root on A. Down side is it does not lead to a proper understanding of harmony and chords of a key etc. No worries, because I am guitar hack anyway. ...1
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@David-df4vt9 years agoHow do you go about building triads or "progressions" from the notes of the scale? I understand it theoretically but I'm confused on its application. Great lesson btw (best guitar instructor on YT). 2
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@123ubuntu6667 years agoMixolydian mode always sounds very uplifting and triumphant to me. Think Beethoven's Ode to Joy (in Ionian - Major mode - apparently). It's a magnificent and magnanimous scale. It's certainly not a down or introspective mode. It's extrovert and bold. Of course you can go deeper, and find out its corresponding Hindustani parallels. It's also used in Irish music. What you will find with any scale, is, that it has been used, re-used, re-hashed and re-appropriated more times than a fly's dinner! There really isn't any one scale/mode that is used only for one thing, across all cultures times. There are only so many notes on the fretboard/piano keyboard. I know that the Major (Ionian mode) scale is supposed to be uplifting and happy, but the Mixolydian just has that edge of extra 'God', 'Hairs on the back of your neck standing up', kind of thing to it. It doesn't matter. It's what it means to YOU. And it's how you utilize it in YOUR music, so it makes sense. No wrong or right. I just find it interesting the very common parallels between different musics, and also the very different ones too that totally contradict. Modes rock! ...2
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@joaoalex9 years agoAmazing lesson, once again, thank you so much! Over the years I've accustomed myself with relating modal chord progressions to the parent major scale. For example, when thinking about G mixolydian, and chord progressions, instead of laying out the chords, starting from G -> ii diii IV v vi VII (like you did in this lesson), I always think in C major terms, but write the fifth degree 1st -> div iii IV. and work my way from there. So a simple Mixolydian progression would be a IV V, instead of the I bVII I Example, simple Dorian progression (thinking from C major): ii V This is essentially a notation issue, because what people hear is sound and not roman numerals. But for the sake of "getting my sh-" together, should I learn each mode and the order of the chords relative to that mode? I hope that I'm not too confusing, cheers :) ...7
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@kramerberbon18045 years agoMan, your channel is so great for learning guitar! Thanks! I have a question though: Do I need to follow the tone of every chord during my improvisation, or can I stick to A mixolidyan during the whole thing? (For a blues in A7) ...
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@carylgylefiel82659 years agoif youre playing A7 and Ç7 what its root note?
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@dustinsprague50833 years agoI still want to hear c. What are the main benefits of playing modal? Is it worth taking the effort to really understand it?
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@diogocarneiro20166 years agoGreat video! The V of G mixolydian is Dm or Dm7? Cheers. 1
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@carylgylefiel82659 years agoif youre playing A7 and Ç7 so what its root note?
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@hadifelani7 years ago Sweet Home Alabama xD 4
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@prismsedits23208 years agoFor example when i try to improvise at the part where it shifts from A7 to C7 i have a hard time defining the mode i am playing sound-wise. Working it theoritically and in practice is so much different, i just can't seem to make the mode sound good because i don't know the target notes that sounds good on the mixolydian mode. This is difficult ...
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@joslte3 years agoyou can watch this video or take my course. its called if you hit a wrong note, you are only a half step away from the right one.
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@97warlock7 years agoIf you had a basic rock backingtrack ....and demonstrated this stuff so we could see it,it would help tremendously.
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@nicoross11337 years agoWho else still has no idea what is going on 180
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@peterward94466 years agoI am both transfixed & discombobulated in my mute & absolute incomprehension tinged with envious awe,,,,4
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@DrMcFly289 years agoI always thought Sweet Home Alabama was in G Ionian... In fact, while the voice seems to be focusing on D as a "home", the main guitar riff (to me) still kinda sounds it reaches home when it hits G. Maybe I just can't make my brain think in mixolydian... :) ...1
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@blackorpheouslast yearIs modes and positions the same thing, like....mixolydian is the 5 position of a major scale?
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@Greglnt9 years agoHm I think ACDC likes this I-bVII-IV progression 13
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@noahrubio29396 years agoin your example of a change from G Mixo to Dm how is the Dm a 5 chord ? i know the tonal center is coming from the 5th degree of its parent Cmaj scale making it Mixo but i dont see where this 5 minor chord is coming from. and last question for modal progressions,all the chords when used in a modal context are the same chords minor and major as the parent scale? ...
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@13blackcats335 years agoHow do I incorporate this into black metal? 1
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@paula8055 years ago@ - "Two major chords, one whole step apart, is a strong clue of Mixolydian". Couldn'it also imply a movement between 4th and 5th in plain vanilla major? I suppose you also need to know that one of those two major chords is the tonal center, is that right? ...
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@djangobass77536 years agoDo you have to change mixolydian scale for each chord Change in the blues?
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@mediastarguest6 years agoDon't understand it either but very interesting and grasping this must improve your playing big time. However, all this theory and putting-into-practice must take years to study, learn and perfect so I don't suppose the guy's gonna give it away cheaply. ...
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@GRockBlues6 years agoWith the Sweet Home Alabama example: I bVII IV D7 CMaj G Maj isnt this IV I in Gmajor? Or are they the same thing?
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@michaelsteven10906 years agoWhat determines the flat 7th? Was that just thought up? I don’t understand why it’s been flatted..
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@AlejandroGonzalez-wo5fk6 years ago you blew my fucking mind
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@FredHerrman7 years agoWould that mean that "Won't Get Fooled Again" is an "A" Mixolydian mode build on a "D" major root scale?
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@davidtrindle64734 years ago“Mix-o-lid-ian” —also used by highland pipes
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@jonchand7 years agoPerhaps I tend to oversimplify, but if the key is G, I play the C scale, which has F natural. It gives the bluesy sound. If I'm playing in the key of E, I play the A scale etc...
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@potatochicko5 years agoSo basically you can use the mixolydian over this 1,4,5 chord progression because it begins on an A7 (dominant chord), and a dominant A7 is the 5th chord in the key of C, right? But if that means that the key of the song is actually in c major (as g mixolydian has no sharps or flats, just like c major) why are the chords notated as 1,4,5 with the dominant A7 as the ‘1 chord’, rather than the tonic C major chord being notated as the ‘1 chord?’, which in turn would have to make the A7 as the ‘5 chord’? (TL;DR, why is the A7 the ‘1 chord’ instead of the ‘5 chord’?) ...
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@m00nchildblues8 years agomix this mode with a pentatonic scale and you have instant Eric Johnson! 6
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@GanjaGoth4 years agoAh, yes, now I will only listen for Sweet Home Alabama to guide me in navigating the Mixolydian mode
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@tomascaminos46914 years agoHoly shit, I was trying to understand what I've been doing the last 3 years playing guitar and... I still don't know :( 2
مقاطع الفيديو ذات الصلة على The Mixolydian Mode Explained on Guitar:
Miles Davis purposefully wrote the whole album Kind of Blue modally, he said the opposite: that it liberated the music from the constraints of chord progression. Sorry to quibble, this is really a great teaching video. ... 22
Your way of teaching is really what a jazz musician needs.
I haved played mostly rock, which is cool, lots of variations, but modal music can be very creative.
Thx for taking the time for sharing all these vids ... 1
Now I understand how powerful learning scales is because if I had known this stuff, I probably could have figured out how to play what's in my head in a few days rather than 7 months! These videos and scales literally have been making sense out of my entire life and it's so fucking exciting all I wanna do is talk about it! ... 17
Nice lesson
keep it up! ...
I understand it theoretically but I'm confused on its application. Great lesson btw (best guitar instructor on YT). 2
It's a magnificent and magnanimous scale. It's certainly not a down or introspective mode. It's extrovert and bold.
Of course you can go deeper, and find out its corresponding Hindustani parallels. It's also used in Irish music. What you will find with any scale, is, that it has been used, re-used, re-hashed and re-appropriated more times than a fly's dinner! There really isn't any one scale/mode that is used only for one thing, across all cultures times. There are only so many notes on the fretboard/piano keyboard.
I know that the Major (Ionian mode) scale is supposed to be uplifting and happy, but the Mixolydian just has that edge of extra 'God', 'Hairs on the back of your neck standing up', kind of thing to it. It doesn't matter. It's what it means to YOU. And it's how you utilize it in YOUR music, so it makes sense. No wrong or right. I just find it interesting the very common parallels between different musics, and also the very different ones too that totally contradict.
Modes rock! ... 2
Over the years I've accustomed myself with relating modal chord progressions to the parent major scale.
For example, when thinking about G mixolydian, and chord progressions, instead of laying out the chords, starting from G -> ii diii IV v vi VII (like you did in this lesson), I always think in C major terms, but write the fifth degree 1st -> div iii IV. and work my way from there. So a simple Mixolydian progression would be a IV V, instead of the I bVII I
Example, simple Dorian progression (thinking from C major): ii V
This is essentially a notation issue, because what people hear is sound and not roman numerals. But for the sake of "getting my sh-" together, should I learn each mode and the order of the chords relative to that mode?
I hope that I'm not too confusing, cheers :) ... 7
I have a question though:
Do I need to follow the tone of every chord during my improvisation, or can I stick to A mixolidyan during the whole thing? (For a blues in A7) ...
The V of G mixolydian is Dm or Dm7? Cheers. 1
D7 CMaj G Maj
isnt this IV I in Gmajor?
Or are they the same thing?