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In this bluesy, jazz guitar lesson. I’ll explain what Mixolydian mode is and how you can easily find the Mixolydian scale and use it in any key. I’ll also show you how to play this slow, easy bluesy, jazz lead in the key of B. You could do this on acoustic or electric guitar.
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Bonus Video on Mixolydian Mode
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Slow Walk-through Video
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Thanks for continuing with the modes and the bonus video Brian. Really appreciate your teachings.
I’m real exited , it is a better way to study,thank’s —–Tony
Well you are keeping us busy again piling on the goodies . thanks
I just need to be able to learn five time faster to keep up let alone catch up! JohnStrat
G/day Brian,
Wow! What a great groove. Gunna nail this for sure. Thanks mate.
M.J.
love it Brian….keep the modes coming…….
Thx
Roberto
Love it, Brain !!!
Brian you are the Man! This lesson has that good old Duke Robillard style and sound…..I love it!
John V. I love Duke’s style also. One of my favorites.
A very underestimated versatile player indeed, Duke’s blues at times have that old time swing and jazz that ring clear as a bell.
I suppose we are very lucky to have a host such as Brian with a golden ear and the gift to teach.
Another great lesson thanks Brian. Love how you don’t just show the notes in the lick, but rather explain how the lick was crafted, using notes from the underlying chord and notes from the mixolydian mode – so we can take this away and apply it to our own improvising. Great stuff.
Rick
I’m just into your prevoius Allman Bros mixolydian lesson. This will be a great follow up! Thanks for all your hard work each week putting out these lessons. My playing has improved a ton. Cheers! Justin
This is good….
Thanks Rip
I really appreciate the inclusion of the thinking you do behind the structure…This really helps my learning curve.
You have a real knack for explaining what most leave you mystified about.
Thanks Brian….
play hard….Blessings happy thanksgiving and Christmas
Jim RiverInnElkton.com
Fantastic piece Brian. I do so agree with Johnstrat, in that I, like him , need to speed up my learning . However, in my case I probably need to increase my speed by x 10 !! Currently I have at least 6 of your lessons, on the go, and trying to perfect, but enjoying every minute of it . Very grateful for all the work you put into your lessons Brian. Many thanks.
Just renewed by Active Melody account. This is a test to see if it went through. Great lesson, by the way.
always something fresh and exciting here.
.I never thought I could ever play anything like carlos santana and……. arguably I can……..-albeit in slo-mo compared to him-
but I used it in a jam yesterday and there were some raised eyebrows-..laid down some latin riffs over a song —good fun
thanks
yes easiest way is knowing to flatten the 7th in any key of a major scale.. the fifth modes 5) Mixolydian is a major scale
Hi Great lesson matey . Just a idea .. is it possible to include the tab of the Cords you use in each lesson thus when we look at the download tab of the lesson we can visualize the cord in TAB form that you are using. EG if you are using a D9 then by seeing the Cord in TAB Form , maybe next to the cord . Just an idea to see the cord we are working with. Cheers Dennis
Hey Dennis, I wasn’t sure if you saw but I do put the chords in the PDF file so that you can see where you are in the lead.
Hi Dennis, I guess you mean to show the chords as an chorddiagram, right?
Brian, recent lesson you mentioned how to build 7th and sus chords like 9th 11ths 13 th chords.. learning this inside out would certainly help .. I think it was John Mc Laughlin ” know your scales and you will know your chords” if it isn’t too much to ask.. if you could show in the pdf maybe before or after the diagrams/boxes to know where on the fret board/positions..this will help us focus more on building chords using the scales in the tab! tia,, enjoy this lesson lots!
chord generator for every chord played in lesson ,diagrams either right below the lesson subtitle or after the tab at the very bottom would be help ..not sure if it is too much work but visualizing chord structure and positions on the fret board will benefit . Great work all the same,, I think you your tutorials are amazing either way too!
I’m digging it! Thanks
I was working through this one and it kind of hit me……reminiscent of Walking After Midnight. Anyone else hear it?
Great job….love learning the modes and you break it down so I can understand it. Thanks again Brian.
Brad
Great lesson, I like the single fingering help’s in exercising to the mode’s,just like lesson ep171 awesome, is their any way you can teach “Still got the blues” by Gary Moore?
Wow! another great lesson Brian. Just like the Dorian lesson- really opening up my understanding of what was always a mystery to me for years. Thanks soooo much! Keep ’em coming!
Bill
Well, great lesson, clearly! But for me it´s very hard to follow, because you explain that much in between the common theme. Sorry, but can you show first how exactly to play and after that you intensify the theory of harmony in your lessons?
Hi Brian.
Another great lesson and one that seems to captures (based on some the great posts) the various levels many of my fellow activemelody members currently find themselves.
As someone who has played for many years, I’m very attracted to the THEORY behind what I’m learning. Often I’ll play similar phrases shown in this lesson, but as you mention, I’m not sure why. So placing the notes within the chords and understanding their relationship is extremely beneficial to me. It helps me realize how much I still have to learn…and that’s GREAT. Never stop learning, right?
All the best,
Trey
Brian you looked like you was enjoying that lesson more than us think you was in need of a cup of tea (U.K drink try it you will love it very refreshing ) after filming the first part , great enthusiasm and intensity and a fantastic grove .
Would like to suggest a lesson on “Watermelon man” in the key of F (that’s the key of Herbie Hancock and countless others). It’s a 16 bar simple blues with a great hook. Can’t get it out of my head!
Burt M.
I absolutely love this lesson, arrangement, solo….everything. I really struggle with taking something like this and improvising off of it. I can pretty smoothly play it just the way you laid it out, and I can vary a few thingsaround these licks and runs, but it all seems very close to what you’ve written and I’m not hearing/feeling/seeing how to stay in the style of this tune and make something up as I go along. I know where I am relative to the major and minor and pentatonic scale, but that’s about it. Any chance of a follow-up lesson to this one that goes into how you could improvise off of this wonderful tune?
Mike M
There should be chord diagrams.
The chords are all listed in the tab PDF file.
I know this is an old video, but this is a great lesson— maybe include a bonus rhythm like EP103 or “slow walkthrough” video for lessons similar to this one? It would be very beneficial to be able to follow along with just the chords after learning all the licks and how/where they fit. Anyway, thanks for putting out these lessons!
I just watched the bonus video on Dorian mode followed by this bonus video on Mixolydian mode back to back. I only have one question!
Could you hear it?
The sound the penny made when it finally dropped? I can’t believe I didn’t realize this before.. Thank you Brian for unlocking all seven modes for me. It took two theory walk throughs for my brain to be able to find the mindbogglingly simple system, and the key that unlocked it was to compare two different modes.
Briepiphany received! Thank you man!
It took me forever to get my head around the modes as well but when you get it, you wonder why it was ever difficult to begin with.
This one is really fun.
it seems for me that the onscreen cord diagram is wrong from 17? or is it just me? must say i am a really beginner. but it just do not sound right.
You had me up to the point in bar 6 where you started explaining Emyxo. Trying to learn to add more notes And playing the chord changes is hard enough, but learning two myxo scales in one song is beyond my level. Still want to play like Jerry though and love the way you create original content in the style of guitar players but not note for note songs. Thanks for your efforts creating these lessons
Hi Brian,
Thank you for the Mixolydian lesson – I am still a little confused as to the whole Mixo scale and all the notes within. Is there a chart anywhere on the site? Also do you use the Mixolydian in A if you are playing a progession in A? or do you need to use another key for an A progressions for example?
cheers
Pete D from Down Under
A mixolydain is d major scale
Mixolydian is really just maj min pent ?