The Locrian Mode is the seventh mode of the Diatonic Major Scale. Let’s look and listen to it with a bit more detail.
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Aeolian Mode: Everything You Need To Know About Aeolian
The Aeolian Mode is the sixth mode of the Diatonic Major Scale. Let’s look and listen to it with a bit more detail.
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Lydian Mode: Everything You Need to Know About Lydian
The Lydian Mode is the fourth mode of the Diatonic Major Scale. Let’s look and listen to it with a bit more detail.
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Modal Harmony: An In-Depth How-To Guide
How to write and play with modal harmony? That’s a good question! Once we grasp the sounds of the modes, how do we actually use them in our compositions and improvisations?
Over certain chords in a functional, tonal chord progression? Sure, that works. “The Dorian mode goes over the ii chord and the Mixolydian mode goes over the V7 chord.”
But we can tap into a mode’s true sound by playing modally or playing within modal harmony. This article is an in-depth How To Guide to writing and playing with modal harmony!
Phrygian Mode: Everything You Need to Know About Phrygian
The Phrygian Mode is the third mode of the Diatonic Major Scale. Let’s look and listen to it with a bit more detail.
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Dorian Mode: Everything You Need to Know About Dorian
The Dorian Mode is the second mode of the Diatonic Major Scale. Let’s look and listen to it with a bit more detail.
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Ionian Mode: Everything You Need to Know About Ionian
The Ionian Mode is the first mode of the Diatonic Major Scale. Let’s look and listen to it with a bit more detail.
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Play and Produce The Music You Sing
This article is inspired by the old Jazz adage “play what you sing.” Singing along with what you play helps build a stronger connection between you and your instrument, particularly while improvising. Although producing music in a DAW may not be as intimate as improvising on an instrument, there are still great improvements to be made when you begin to produce the music you sing.
This article will discuss some reasons why you should produce the music you sing. Both from a musical education perspective and from a musical product perspective. Let’s get into it!
Palindromic Scales and Mirror Modes
A Man. A Plan. A Canal. Panama. This is one of my favourite palindromes (and one of my favourite The Fall Of Troy songs). But there are other palindromes in music as well. In this article, we will discuss palindromic scales and mirror modes.
Try reversing or “mirroring” the order of intervals in any given scale. Reversing the order of intervals in a palindromic scale will produce the same scale. Otherwise, we will end up with a new ‘mirror scale‘ that is on the opposite side of the brightness/darkness spectrum.
This idea of the bright/dark spectrum of scales adds another layer of thinking in the way we write and improvise with these scales.
With that brief primer out of the way, let’s get into the article on palindromic scales and mirror modes!
Slash Chords And Their Scales
A Slash Chord is a type of chord symbol in music that indicates a chord played with a specific root/bass note on the bottom. In this article, we’ll discuss the practical applications of slash chords in our writing and the scales that go with each of the slash chords!
The Dorian Brightness Quotient
This is an article inspired by a great musician and YouTuber named Adam Neely. In the linked video, the discussion turns to the idea of brightness and darkness in chords and scales and introduces the idea of the Dorian Brightness Quotient.
Simply put, the Dorian Brightness Quotient describes a scale’s brightness (or darkness) compared to the Dorian mode. Of course, there’s more to it than that, and more to discuss, so let’s get into it!
