Ideas for soloing: On *D* chord: use *Bm pentatonic* scale On *Am* and *C* chord: use *Am pentatonic* scale on *G* chord: use *Em pentatonic* scale The reason this works is because the notes from the Bm pentatonic, Am pentatonic, and Em pentatonic scales all exist within the D mixolydian mode's notes (write them down or look them up and see for yourself), so all those notes should be safe at any time, at least theoretically. In fact, you can even play any of those pentatonic scales anywhere during the progression and still not be out of key. Remember that every diatonic key contains three minor pentatonic scales (or to put it another way three major pentatonic scales [the relative minors of each major and vice versa])
It's beautiful how everyone hears different songs in this. I hear Tom Petty - Swingin'. Great stuff!!!! I'm locked down in my home jamming along tonight. Cheers everyone!
That is definitely the song I hear as well. It's not one of Tom's most known songs, which is probably why most people aren't hearing it. What a shame, too, because it's a great song. But to anybody who has heard it, it is uncanny how similar they sound.
I agree that the chords in this progression are all found in the key of G, but that understanding of it is limiting. D is the tonal center of the progression, not G. The D Mixolydian scale is often thought of as a variation of the G Major scale. There's no danger to society in doing so, and we all go through that in the process of learning the modes - but it isn't. The mixolydian scale is 1-2-3-4-5-6-b7: D-E-F#-G-A-B-C. The D Dorian also works. The Dorian is 1-2-b3-4-5-6-b7: D-E-F-G-A-B-C. One can think of it as a variation of C major, but...taking the above caveats into account...it isn't. The D minor pentatonic also works (whereas the G minor pentatonic does not work). The G major pentatonic (G-A-B-D-E) could be said to work, but in this context it's really just behaving as the D Dorian with its balls cut off. Without the C and F, it's a eunuch. Of the three scales I've mentioned, only one can be derived from viewing this as a G major progression. By recognizing the tonal center as D, one can consider which of the various D modes might work over the changes, and three D scales/modes I've mentioned immediately present themselves. So, "Mixolydian Backing in D" seems to accurately convey that D Mixolydian is a good mode to use, and presumably Michael Wagner's purpose was to post a good track for practicing the D Mixolydian mode. Other D modes work, too, but to have titled this "Backing Track for in D Mixolydian, D Dorian and D Minor Pentatonic" would have been even more confusing (especially if one is viewing this as G Major progression). Calling this a "Backing Track in G Major" would simply be incorrect.
I love the fact that this academic discussion has unspun about the nature of that simple four chord backing track 😃 You’re making great points! The only thing I‘d slightly disagree with is that D Dorian works over the track. You could play Dorian only if the first chord was a D minor or could interpreted as such. But since there’s an F# in the bass line it’s clear that it’s a D Major. So it simply clashes with the F of D Dorian. Of course you CAN play an F, but only if you interpret it as a bluesy third and bend it up a little to the F#. Playing a pure minor third probably won’t sound good!
@@MichaelWagnerGuitar I appreciate your reply! I don't want to over-represent myself as a modes expert, so I could be wrong! But, yeah, I'm definitely hearing the F as a pure minor 3rd that can stand on its own (so to speak!) in this progression. I think that's why a number of folks in the thread are hearing the progression as "dorian." The F# also works well, of course, which is why others are hearing it a mixolydian. It lends itself well to either mode. I hear what you're saying about the bass, but if the bass and the lead were both playing the F note, the chord would become minor. The thing that gives the flat 3rd its bluesy sound against the major chord is that major/minor dissonance, which would be lost if the bass stopped representing the major nature of the chord. The D Dorian and D minor pentatonic both have that F, which is why they also work well over the progression. Anyway, those are my reflections! Thanks for a civilized conversation!
Thank you, this is a beautiful track. I keep listening to it over and over. Also played along with it on guitar even though I suck haha it's good practice. ❤
Wow this one's fab, thank you! Not only for Mixolydian, you can also play Dorian and blues, switching between those and Mixolydian... and in turn that means that rolling major 3rds into the blues/Dorian stuff is going to sound fab. I can see this becoming one of my favourites, cheers!
This track sounds so incredibly similar to a popular non-mainstream adult contemporary song from the 90s that I just can't put my finger on. I can think of the vocal Melody, but no words. Very frustrating because I love that song
I had to think about that for a bit, but by Jebus, you are right. Ringo's song does have that droning guitar line thing going on. My initial immediate take was The Byrds playing Cinnamon Girl.
Yup... "It Don't Come Easy"... and it's even closer to that song if you play it at 1.5x speed. "Cinnamon Girl" as the other person commented and also "If It Makes You Happy" by Sheryl Crow. Quite a number of other familiar songs too if you start to think about it more.
i wanna put up my walls.. you wanna knock em down.. your looking for a heartbreak! and I'm still spinning out.. anything is better knowing that forever isn't real.. but both of us still try anything is better then knowing that soon enough one of us is gonna say goodbye,.. dre
This is just great, thank you, get the looper app and you jam all day. I really like the Lydian scale, happy sound and this jam track is full of beans!
Great song to jam along! Thanks so much. I would like to point that it would be a good idea to call it a Dorian rock, instead of a Mixolidyan one. D Dorian Rock. :) Thanks again for the backing track!
Well, D mixolydian is the fifth mode of the G Ionian. If you'll try to improvise with the track, you'll definitely find that the root is D.. G doesn't sound right. ;-)
@@viking2304 I still think that the tune is in G major, and that the G major scale fits perfectly all chords because all of them are diatonic to the key -- i.e. it's a V - ii - IV - I progression. Actually, the whole progression is V - ii - VI - I - V - ii - I - I, which reinforces G as the tonal center. One can play G major scale patterns that start on the D note, but it doesn't turn the tune into the D mixolydian mode (nor will using a shape that starts in F# make it a tune in locrian mode). Do the following experiment: let the tune play for a while; at the last beat of the last measure of the aforementioned progression (V - ii - VI - I - V - ii - I - I), hit the stop button and then play a D chord and let it ring. Now ask yourself: did it sounded right as the point of final rest or did it claim for a resolution going back to G? The latter is what I hear, but if you hear differently and feels like D would be the best resolution, I'm OK with that. But it's important to be sure about what a tune in D mixolydian means: a major key with the 7th degree of the scale (i.e. the major seventh) lowered a half step (i.e replaced with a flat 7th), so that the tonic tetrad will be a major triad plus a flat (minor) 7th (also, it's the flat 7th that will appear in some other diatonic chords that use the 7th note of the mixolydian scale).
@@caradogas i dig what you are saying, and i see that you know your theory better than I do. For my ear, the G tune fits as a root, but the D fits much better (in the same scale shape) which automatically makes the 7th flat (correct me if I'm wrong).
Hi all, I'm having trouble figuring out why I can play licks containing an F Note and still sound good over this. I'm not too strong on my theory, but as far as I can tell none of the chords contain an F?
because we are all trained to love and play d minor pentatonic over a rock progression like this. Our ears love the f note over this, especially with a bend to G.
Michael I made a guitar solo using your song I would like to present it on my UA-cam channel, would you allow me to mention your authorship and your channel. Please
Very nice work, can I use this backtrack for create a guitar solo and then publish videos on youtube? In the comments of the video I would insert references to your work.
Now, that's the attitude I like to see, exactly. If I'd done this I'd love to see what it inspired out of others. One of the other background track guys was all kinds of bent out of shape about copyright infringement. First, I'm not sure how you can copyright a basic chord progression, without melody or leads or something unique, but whatever. His track was lovely and inspired the hell out of my best minor lead work, but no one's ever gonna hear it, but me. Why'd he even put it out there? Your attitude is "right" with me.
Did I hear Neil Young in there? Pretty sure I did, but he was playing Roger McGuinn's 12 string.. LOL This sounds amazing, (really AMAZING) but couldn't you have laid out the scale and positions for us trying to break out of the pentatonic crutch? Finding this was like dating Hollywood women. The promise and appearance are there, but in the end, there was no substance. LOL
@@kriscolvin8377 Go ahead and play Am Pentatonic over this (c Maj) it'll sound rich compared to D Pentatonic. If you know C maj scale, then play it up and down the neck. ;)
Hooverphonic - Anger never dies Grateful Dead - Morning Dew And so many more, best happy/melancholic scale Grateful dead uses this scale D-C-G-D progression and goes to D ionian scale F-C-Em-D.
Because if you solo while thinking in G major your lines are going to constantly pull toward G, which is the 4th tone in this key center and a relatively weak note to hang out on. This is the main problem with trying to tie everything back to the major scale. Take the time and do the work to learn the 7 modes as unique scale sounds - you will not regret it!
The modes are simply playing a major scale, but starting on a different note of the scale than the root. Combine this with a chord of the same note you choose to start on, and you are now playing the major scale in a different way, or "mode". They go in order: 1)Major (Ionian) 2)Dorian 3)Phrygian 4)Lydian 5)Mixolydian 6)Minor (Aeolian) 7)Locrian. Each number corresponds to the note of the major scale you start on. For example, D Mixolydian is the fifth mode, so you would start on the fifth note of the G Major scale, the D. If you play G Major (Ionian, same thing) you think of the note G as "home". Your first chord will usually be G as well. If you swap out that G chord for an Am chord of some type, you can play the G major scale over it. The difference here is that now A sounds like "home", so instead of starting your G major scale on G, start playing at the second note, the A instead. This makes your G major scale take on a different sound, Dorian mode. And so on down the line. Signals Music Studio has a fantastic video on the modes. He puts on a C5 power chord vamp and then plays each mode in C so you can hear the difference. Note that these are all in C, meaning C major, C Dorian, C Phrygian etc. They won't be all the same notes, besides the root C. Still, it's helpful to hear the differences.
You can look at it as g Ionian or d mixolydian. Same scale. If you look at it in the key of D the Amin is the 5min which would be that b7 sound of mixolydian.
@@gabecrockett No, man. Mixolydian is a mode, and this track has a cadence, so it is not modal, it is tonal. Maybe with emphasis on its 5th degree. But modes are modes and they are very different from the degrees in a tonal harmonic context.
@@gabecrockett Let’s take Sweet Home Alabama as an example. Would you call it D mixolydian or G major (remember, G major and G ionian are NOT the same thing)
This track is finally available on Bandcamp! Download link: mwguitar.bandcamp.com/track/melodic-mixolydian-rock-backing-track-in-d
Thank you, I already bought it, could you put up for sale only the drums? I need to lower it half a tone, thank you.
Wow, the melodies just seem to flow over this one. Great job.
Ideas for soloing:
On *D* chord: use *Bm pentatonic* scale
On *Am* and *C* chord: use *Am pentatonic* scale
on *G* chord: use *Em pentatonic* scale
The reason this works is because the notes from the Bm pentatonic, Am pentatonic, and Em pentatonic scales all exist within the D mixolydian mode's notes (write them down or look them up and see for yourself), so all those notes should be safe at any time, at least theoretically.
In fact, you can even play any of those pentatonic scales anywhere during the progression and still not be out of key. Remember that every diatonic key contains three minor pentatonic scales (or to put it another way three major pentatonic scales [the relative minors of each major and vice versa])
Amazing backing track to learn improvisation in mixolydian mode!!! 🎸🎶
One of the best progressions for playing mixolydian!l over. Thanks!
It's beautiful how everyone hears different songs in this. I hear Tom Petty - Swingin'. Great stuff!!!! I'm locked down in my home jamming along tonight. Cheers everyone!
That is definitely the song I hear as well. It's not one of Tom's most known songs, which is probably why most people aren't hearing it. What a shame, too, because it's a great song. But to anybody who has heard it, it is uncanny how similar they sound.
and he went down....jammin’!
Reminds me of cinnamon girl by neil young
GROOVY !! 😉🤘
"Mixolydian Scale" 👍😎
This is one of my favorite ones to jam along with. THANKS !!
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Gotta love mixolydian, such a happy mode. This backing track is perfect!
I agree that the chords in this progression are all found in the key of G, but that understanding of it is limiting.
D is the tonal center of the progression, not G. The D Mixolydian scale is often thought of as a variation of the G Major scale. There's no danger to society in doing so, and we all go through that in the process of learning the modes - but it isn't. The mixolydian scale is 1-2-3-4-5-6-b7: D-E-F#-G-A-B-C.
The D Dorian also works. The Dorian is 1-2-b3-4-5-6-b7: D-E-F-G-A-B-C. One can think of it as a variation of C major, but...taking the above caveats into account...it isn't.
The D minor pentatonic also works (whereas the G minor pentatonic does not work). The G major pentatonic (G-A-B-D-E) could be said to work, but in this context it's really just behaving as the D Dorian with its balls cut off. Without the C and F, it's a eunuch.
Of the three scales I've mentioned, only one can be derived from viewing this as a G major progression. By recognizing the tonal center as D, one can consider which of the various D modes might work over the changes, and three D scales/modes I've mentioned immediately present themselves.
So, "Mixolydian Backing in D" seems to accurately convey that D Mixolydian is a good mode to use, and presumably Michael Wagner's purpose was to post a good track for practicing the D Mixolydian mode. Other D modes work, too, but to have titled this "Backing Track for in D Mixolydian, D Dorian and D Minor Pentatonic" would have been even more confusing (especially if one is viewing this as G Major progression).
Calling this a "Backing Track in G Major" would simply be incorrect.
I love the fact that this academic discussion has unspun about the nature of that simple four chord backing track 😃 You’re making great points! The only thing I‘d slightly disagree with is that D Dorian works over the track. You could play Dorian only if the first chord was a D minor or could interpreted as such. But since there’s an F# in the bass line it’s clear that it’s a D Major. So it simply clashes with the F of D Dorian. Of course you CAN play an F, but only if you interpret it as a bluesy third and bend it up a little to the F#. Playing a pure minor third probably won’t sound good!
@@MichaelWagnerGuitar I appreciate your reply! I don't want to over-represent myself as a modes expert, so I could be wrong! But, yeah, I'm definitely hearing the F as a pure minor 3rd that can stand on its own (so to speak!) in this progression. I think that's why a number of folks in the thread are hearing the progression as "dorian." The F# also works well, of course, which is why others are hearing it a mixolydian. It lends itself well to either mode.
I hear what you're saying about the bass, but if the bass and the lead were both playing the F note, the chord would become minor. The thing that gives the flat 3rd its bluesy sound against the major chord is that major/minor dissonance, which would be lost if the bass stopped representing the major nature of the chord. The D Dorian and D minor pentatonic both have that F, which is why they also work well over the progression.
Anyway, those are my reflections! Thanks for a civilized conversation!
Thank you, this is a beautiful track. I keep listening to it over and over.
Also played along with it on guitar even though I suck haha it's good practice. ❤
Just plain beautiful...thanks for posting
base runs are great, ,,, . thank you.
Reminds me of Ordinary World by Duran Duran!
Lots of fun!
Swingin by Tom Petty
Let it be said that the soul has taste buds.
Have a good day all ... Hi Mike your track is for me to practice ..Nice track thanks for sharing :)
Excellent! Thanks for this!
Wow this one's fab, thank you! Not only for Mixolydian, you can also play Dorian and blues, switching between those and Mixolydian... and in turn that means that rolling major 3rds into the blues/Dorian stuff is going to sound fab. I can see this becoming one of my favourites, cheers!
Wow! this track is great! Thanks a lot man
Great stuff. Well done. Great fun to play along to.
thank you, over this progression I am practicing a word I learned yesterday: superimposition! ya lo he suscribido
Cool backing track!
If we play d mixolydian 2notes per string it gives full melody 🎶 nice track
This track sounds so incredibly similar to a popular non-mainstream adult contemporary song from the 90s that I just can't put my finger on. I can think of the vocal Melody, but no words. Very frustrating because I love that song
Foo fighters - learning to fly?
Could also be Neil Young. Sounds a little bit like Cinnamon Girl.
Clocks by Coldplay is also similiar
im thinkin Swingin from Tom Petty
So heautiful! Oh why can't it be a two hour backing track? Love it!
Always leave 'em wanting more ;-) Just kidding! Glad you like it!
Assuming you more of the same, you can use "Looper for UA-cam" (or equivalent extensions) to either loop parts or the entire song!
@@gorimus You just need to right-click on the video and select "loop"!
@@davebrasil1964 Thanks. I use that now; this was before this feature was available.
Reminds me of "It Don't Come Easy" by Ringo Star.
I had to think about that for a bit, but by Jebus, you are right. Ringo's song does have that droning guitar line thing going on. My initial immediate take was The Byrds playing Cinnamon Girl.
Yup... "It Don't Come Easy"... and it's even closer to that song if you play it at 1.5x speed. "Cinnamon Girl" as the other person commented and also "If It Makes You Happy" by Sheryl Crow. Quite a number of other familiar songs too if you start to think about it more.
It definitely has the vibe for Ringo's era.
That was my first thought. Then alot others after contplating.
Neil Young - Cinnamon girl ;) Good choice, beatiful back track🎸
LOLOL See my comment. That will explain why I'm laughing when I read yours.
i wanna put up my walls..
you wanna knock em down..
your looking for a heartbreak!
and I'm still spinning out..
anything is better
knowing that forever
isn't real..
but both of us still try
anything is better then knowing
that soon enough one of us is gonna say goodbye,..
dre
Wow, this is fantastic!
Very Nice Smooth Track!
Love to play my harmonica to this ! Keep on rocking in the free world!👍🏻🎸
This is really fun to improvise over, thank you for making this!
no it's not
best backing ever!
Thanks so much bro!
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A great track ❤️
This is just great, thank you, get the looper app and you jam all day. I really like the Lydian scale, happy sound and this jam track is full of beans!
*mixolydian
Fantastic track! Thanks!!!
Thank you, I already bought it, could you put up for sale only the drums? I need to lower it half a tone, thank you.
Borrowing b3 from D-dorian works here too. Try it out, it sounds cool!
Let It Rain
It Don't Come Easy
yep my thoughts . nice groove though.
lovely progression and nice production friend!
Cool, love to jam with this one.
nice changes
Genio!! Gracias por crear esta pista.. me gusta
Who is king of Mixolydian in the world of rock guitar? I would like to nominate Uli Roth!
Can I buy or download the track, what kind of license or rights does it have? thank you, it is a surprise and good recording quality.
Nice work!!
Very nice, thanks.
Can I use it to compose on top of a track?
Cinnamon girl by Neil Young.
I also hear it don't come easy. Ringo
Great song to jam along! Thanks so much. I would like to point that it would be a good idea to call it a Dorian rock, instead of a Mixolidyan one. D Dorian Rock. :) Thanks again for the backing track!
Very nice!!!!
A 0,75 speed it sounded awesome!
Really? Nobody noticed the resemblance with Tom petty's "Swingin'" from the 1999 album "ECHO"?
Within a few bars 👍🏼
to me, this works much better at 1.25 playback speed. Might be the original.
I get an early foo fighters/me myself and irene vibe from this
And Neil Young cinnamon girl
Times Like These by Foo Fighters. Same key.
Frampton-esque!
progression D-am-C-G..D-am-G-G :/ repeat.
It's a nice BT, but I can't avoid hearing G as the I chord in this progression.
I like the track too and yeah, that's true. Mixolydian tracks try to focus on the V chord more which gives it a brighter and lively sounding feel.
You're right.. it is not Mixolidian chord progression .
Well, D mixolydian is the fifth mode of the G Ionian.
If you'll try to improvise with the track, you'll definitely find that the root is D.. G doesn't sound right. ;-)
@@viking2304 I still think that the tune is in G major, and that the G major scale fits perfectly all chords because all of them are diatonic to the key -- i.e. it's a V - ii - IV - I progression. Actually, the whole progression is V - ii - VI - I - V - ii - I - I, which reinforces G as the tonal center. One can play G major scale patterns that start on the D note, but it doesn't turn the tune into the D mixolydian mode (nor will using a shape that starts in F# make it a tune in locrian mode). Do the following experiment: let the tune play for a while; at the last beat of the last measure of the aforementioned progression (V - ii - VI - I - V - ii - I - I), hit the stop button and then play a D chord and let it ring. Now ask yourself: did it sounded right as the point of final rest or did it claim for a resolution going back to G? The latter is what I hear, but if you hear differently and feels like D would be the best resolution, I'm OK with that. But it's important to be sure about what a tune in D mixolydian means: a major key with the 7th degree of the scale (i.e. the major seventh) lowered a half step (i.e replaced with a flat 7th), so that the tonic tetrad will be a major triad plus a flat (minor) 7th (also, it's the flat 7th that will appear in some other diatonic chords that use the 7th note of the mixolydian scale).
@@caradogas i dig what you are saying, and i see that you know your theory better than I do.
For my ear, the G tune fits as a root, but the D fits much better (in the same scale shape) which automatically makes the 7th flat (correct me if I'm wrong).
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I am more comfortable using Em pentatonic pattern on this backing track. So basically D mixolydian has the same notes with Em scale
Sorry to say, I'll be one of those saying the tonal center doesn't feel like it's D.
swingin track
Nutmeg Girl
Hahahaha!😂
G major scale does the trick for me
G major = D Mixolydian, so you're right on the money :)
same scale!!!
D natural minor scale : scalescheatsheet.com/scales/naturalminor/D
🌔Awesomeness🌖
cool
Hi all, I'm having trouble figuring out why I can play licks containing an F Note and still sound good over this. I'm not too strong on my theory, but as far as I can tell none of the chords contain an F?
because we are all trained to love and play d minor pentatonic over a rock progression like this. Our ears love the f note over this, especially with a bend to G.
@@andrewwheelerguitar ok thanks, so thats the cultural explanation, is there a theoretical basis for this as well?
It is in G
Michael I made a guitar solo using your song I would like to present it on my UA-cam channel, would you allow me to mention your authorship and your channel. Please
@@sidneicordeiro3956 sure man! Don’t have to ask
Very nice work, can I use this backtrack for create a guitar solo and then publish videos on youtube? In the comments of the video I would insert references to your work.
Sure, I’d be happy to see the result! :) Just put in the link to the original
Now, that's the attitude I like to see, exactly. If I'd done this I'd love to see what it inspired out of others.
One of the other background track guys was all kinds of bent out of shape about copyright infringement. First, I'm not sure how you can copyright a basic chord progression, without melody or leads or something unique, but whatever. His track was lovely and inspired the hell out of my best minor lead work, but no one's ever gonna hear it, but me. Why'd he even put it out there?
Your attitude is "right" with me.
Wich scale should I use over this chord progression?
Just go up a D Major scale and flatten the seventh note
D mixolydian works best, D mixolydian pentatonic is good and some blues notes in D.
Also G major scale works well because of its the 1st so you can go all over the fretboard. :)
THE TONAL CENTER IN THIS PROGRESION IS G MAYOR-.. IT IS NOT D MIXOLIDIAN..
G Major = D Mixolydian, tonal center is D here
@@MichaelWagnerGuitar nop.. tonal center is G maj in this chord progression.. not D Mixolidian.. try resolve un D.. SORRY..
Just play anything in the E pentatonic/D major pentatonic and you're set
Did I hear Neil Young in there? Pretty sure I did, but he was playing Roger McGuinn's 12 string.. LOL
This sounds amazing, (really AMAZING) but couldn't you have laid out the scale and positions for us trying to break out of the pentatonic crutch?
Finding this was like dating Hollywood women. The promise and appearance are there, but in the end, there was no substance. LOL
jstnxprsn To me, it sounds almost exactly like the Tom Petty song Swingin.
@@kriscolvin8377 Go ahead and play Am Pentatonic over this (c Maj) it'll sound rich compared to D Pentatonic. If you know C maj scale, then play it up and down the neck. ;)
Thank you, if you want to listen the melody the link of the song is ua-cam.com/video/meoilN1HZRQ/v-deo.html
5,2,4,1
Kinda sounds like REM for some reason.
foo fighters aswell
Cool ! Voici une playlist avec des backing track :
ua-cam.com/play/PLX0Djdw8WHSTgpeoz4i5r37Y2r4l3Xf__.html
A bientôt !!
Hooverphonic - Anger never dies
Grateful Dead - Morning Dew
And so many more, best happy/melancholic scale
Grateful dead uses this scale D-C-G-D progression and goes to D ionian scale F-C-Em-D.
So D Mixolydian mode= G Mayor scale...why?
this is basiclly a Gmajor track.. but once u on the Dchord the gmajor scale becomes ''d mixo'' :)
Because if you solo while thinking in G major your lines are going to constantly pull toward G, which is the 4th tone in this key center and a relatively weak note to hang out on. This is the main problem with trying to tie everything back to the major scale. Take the time and do the work to learn the 7 modes as unique scale sounds - you will not regret it!
The modes are simply playing a major scale, but starting on a different note of the scale than the root. Combine this with a chord of the same note you choose to start on, and you are now playing the major scale in a different way, or "mode". They go in order: 1)Major (Ionian) 2)Dorian 3)Phrygian 4)Lydian 5)Mixolydian 6)Minor (Aeolian) 7)Locrian. Each number corresponds to the note of the major scale you start on. For example, D Mixolydian is the fifth mode, so you would start on the fifth note of the G Major scale, the D.
If you play G Major (Ionian, same thing) you think of the note G as "home". Your first chord will usually be G as well.
If you swap out that G chord for an Am chord of some type, you can play the G major scale over it. The difference here is that now A sounds like "home", so instead of starting your G major scale on G, start playing at the second note, the A instead. This makes your G major scale take on a different sound, Dorian mode. And so on down the line.
Signals Music Studio has a fantastic video on the modes. He puts on a C5 power chord vamp and then plays each mode in C so you can hear the difference. Note that these are all in C, meaning C major, C Dorian, C Phrygian etc. They won't be all the same notes, besides the root C. Still, it's helpful to hear the differences.
@@rafetizer Thanks!!
personally I don't see how this is different to D major
@@SweetBerryVibes Minor 5th Am instead of Major 5th A
How can I play your backing tracks from my iPad Pro and record over them with my guitar
sounds like ionian
If you transpose this track to Em you have Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer" pretty much nailed. Remember to tune to a dropped D tuning. Cheers
It's Cinammon Girl too. It's every song ever written by Neil Young lol
@@luvpants2012 lol same here. Neil Young is Neil Young. Same sound but still so good
@@superdog797 my thoughts exact
@@superdog797 and it's a minor 7
It doesn’t sound anything like Cortez the Killer
This is basically just learn to fly haha
Almost 😏
Reminds me of The Vines
this ain't mixolydian. in first 15 seconds this track has 4 different tonal centers.
in case you're wondering what a Mixolydian backing track is then, I found one… ua-cam.com/video/pjzuLt9s8-0/v-deo.html
Also, Let It Rain . . .
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Thanks for the backing track. But it is not in D mixolydian. It is in G major.
This is D Dorian.
D mixolydian would have a C diminished, but the track uses C major instead.
I wouldn't call this mixolydian
Still a cool backing to play along with G ionian
You can look at it as g Ionian or d mixolydian. Same scale. If you look at it in the key of D the Amin is the 5min which would be that b7 sound of mixolydian.
@@gabecrockett No, man. Mixolydian is a mode, and this track has a cadence, so it is not modal, it is tonal. Maybe with emphasis on its 5th degree. But modes are modes and they are very different from the degrees in a tonal harmonic context.
agree to disagree i guess my man. I was just pointing out d mixolydian and g ionian share the exact same notes in their scales@@TedBoyRomarino
@@gabecrockett Let’s take Sweet Home Alabama as an example. Would you call it D mixolydian or G major (remember, G major and G ionian are NOT the same thing)
this tune is in G major....not D
Joe Waye G Major = D Mixolydian 😉
Joe Waye the tonic chord is clearly D; the G is functioning as the IV chord
@@MichaelWagnerGuitar my point exactly the key of Gmajor and not D
@@daddyzhoam the tonic is G the v is D
all 4 chords are in the key of G major ....D mixolydian is not the key of D
Almost fits “IT DON’T COME EASY “ by Ringo
Very nice!!!!!!