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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The Mixolydian Mode: Everything You Need To Know!
The Mixolydian Mode is the fifth 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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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!
Composing With Modal Arpeggios
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about modes, modal composition, and modal arpeggios. Studying modes and modal composition has been fulfilling and inspiring in my musical journey. And I’d like to share a concept I’ve been using in my music. What I call modal arpeggios!
What Is a Modal Arpeggio?
The Only Musical Scale You Need To Know
Learning every musical scale is a daunting and tedious task. Learning the notes; what chords they form; and how they sound are all part of the process. Learning to play those notes in all octaves is another challenge for the producers among us who play instruments.
But what if there was a single scale you could learn that you could then build all the other scales around?
Well, it turns out there is, and chances are you already know of it!
