5 Mixolydian mode chord progressions (Mixolydian explained)

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[@jello-tarzan]

Great approach, very helpful video and fun to watch. Thank you!

[@LearningMusicSkills]

Thanks! I'm glad you like the approach. Have you tried it out already on your music?

[@Rome.Monroe]

People say Mixolydian is darker than major but to me it's always been brighter. Maybe because most songs that use it only feature major chords, but when I hear it I feel like I'm in a dreamy state.

[@LearningMusicSkills]

Nicely spoken!

[@Pheonix8877]

I believe the legend of Zelda theme is mixolydian, which makes sense considering your characterization.

[@WhitePaintbrush]

Somehow to me mixolydian feels _warmer_ that major, but not brighter It has a bittersweetness to it but a sense of comfort at the same time

[@richardchin2633]

Beautifully explained. The examples are all great and really demonstrate that one scale can be used to create very different feelings. Thanks.

[@LearningMusicSkills]

Thank you Richard! I'm happy that I managed to show a few of the different emotions Mixolydian can have. Have you tried playing around with it already?

[@UncleEti]

I am a very uneducated musician (and I am not Django Reinhardt in terms of intuition). So I was looking for a diaconic arpeggions of D7b ( a long story with G7alt) and I landed there. And I got quite a short but packed with infos tuto. So thank you very much.

[@LearningMusicSkills]

That is great to hear and I'm happy that all the info was good to understand. I hope it will leed to some nice music :D What do you play yourself?

[@TwentyMinuteGuitarPlayer]

This is really good stuff! Seems like this will get you out of the typical box we tend to write out of! Thanks again!! Keep em coming!

[@LearningMusicSkills]

I'm glad you liked it. And great that you feel that it will get you out of the typical writing box. That's exactly the idea! As a guitarist what is your experience with modes?

[@goobagooba831]

Really great video. I'm loving this mode series because of the emphasis on chords and chord progressions built from the mode.

[@LearningMusicSkills]

Hey thanks a lot Alex, I appreciate you checking out this one as well. Are you going to write some of your own?

[@goobagooba831]

@@LearningMusicSkills yeah dude, I stumbled across I | VII | ii IV | I as a chorus progression and am developing that. Doesn't use the v, but still has the mixo sound

[@LearningMusicSkills]

Sounds good. Like a variation in the I - VII - IV progression. You'll have some nice melodic options there.

[@jamesd2220]

Phrygian = boldness, exuberance, passion, courage, leadership, but in excess pride, rashness, irascibility, violent anger. Lydian = good cheer, optimism, sublimity, friendliness, laughter, love and song. Dorian = sleepiness, lethargy, laziness, slowness, mental dullness, forgetfulness, calmness, internal equanimity, well being. Mixolydian = solidity, firmness, steadfastness, rhythm, but with a certain indolent tenacity.

[@LearningMusicSkills]

When you play and write music do you keep these terms in mind? Or do you have this feeling when you listen to the final result.

[@tonyrapa-tonyrapa]

Really well-explained video. I'll definitely check out the others in this series.

[@LearningMusicSkills]

Thanks Tony! Currently I am making the video for the Aeolian mode 😁

[@tonyrapa-tonyrapa]

@@LearningMusicSkills Looking forward to it.

[@koenslabbekoorn6219]

This is amazing. Thank you so much for making these series!

[@LearningMusicSkills]

Hey Koen you're most welcome! (of graag gedaan😁)

[@meis18mofo77]

Thanks for showing all your examples in a pianotoll, this is super helpfull.

[@LearningMusicSkills]

Cheers! You're welcome.

[@PavelLitkinBorisovich]

Thanks, helped me a lot.

[@LearningMusicSkills]

You're welcome. Enjoy the mixolydian mode!

[@honigtamara]

Thanks so much, Xaver :)

[@LearningMusicSkills]

My pleasure!

[@miguelgarciaortegon]

Wow. Such good and practical advice. If you give us a few more tips like the ones at the end of this video, writing music will feel like cheating because it will become so easy! As for the example progressions, they could be songs of their own right.

[@LearningMusicSkills]

Thanks Miguel! I really like that you said that about the examples. That's how I feel about them also. It took quite some time to make all the examples for this episode. I think I will use some of them for making a song or maybe theme track or something :D

[@bassbuzzmusic6681]

Love your tutorials it really helpful

[@LearningMusicSkills]

Thank you and you're welcome!

[@valteraugusto6617]

Thanks.I like modal music very much.

[@LearningMusicSkills]

You are most welcome. I hope you will enjoy writing some progressions!

[@scotty1498]

Thanks for this great video, really useful

[@LearningMusicSkills]

Hey Scotty, you're welcome. I curious what music will come from it! Will you use it to write something?

[@SaucyVideoSalamander]

Thanks

[@LearningMusicSkills]

Cheers and you're welcome! 😁

[@bigdambluesband6295]

Okay so it's basically just the major scale with a flat 7th which is how you usually play a major scale. I had already been playing for awhile and thought this "modal" stuff was supposed to be some exotic sounding scales but the best exotic scale I know is harmonic minor which isn't even a mode. Who needs all these strange names which I can never remember. It's all either a major or a minor scale that's been modified in some way, that's my music theory. Tell me to play in phyrigian or mixolydian and you might as well be talking in Greek. Isn't "Aeolian" just natural minor? Why don't you just say natural minor? That I can understand.

[@LearningMusicSkills]

Exactly, don't think to difficult about it. All the modal scales can be derived from either the natural minor scale or major scale. It becomes especially interesting when you use this scale as for forming your harmony/ chord progressions. Then you really get the modal sound. But I'm general don't think too difficult!

[@hazevans]

Until recently I never realised how much I actually use it by accident

[@LearningMusicSkills]

That's the best right? When you find out that you already have been applying some theory concept in a natural way.