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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Diatonic Thinking when Composing and Producing
When learning music theory, the term diatonic will undoubtedly come up. Let’s discuss what it means and how was can think about it when composing and producing our music!
What does diatonic mean exactly? When I was first told about diatonic playing, I thought it meant picking a scale and playing only the notes from that scale. Which it does, but you can only pick one scale when you’re playing diatonically. The diatonic scale.
The diatonic scale is defined as a heptatonic scale (having 7 notes) with 5 whole tone intervals and 2 halftone intervals, in which the halftone intervals are spaced as far apart as possible (three whole tones and two whole tones separated by half tones) . This doesn’t give us much choice in creating diatonic scales… We are left with only one scale with the following intervals:
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