The Mixolydian Mode | THE SOUND OF ROCK

[@Yllohyllod]

I started watching your videos with my husband, continued on my own because they're so interesting. I'm not musical at all, don't play an instrument, know nothing about music theory, can't sing. Your talent and knowledge is beyond incredible. I don't listen to the music the same way.

[@darkpitcher5242]

Frankly, I'd watch Rick tune his guitar. As a non musician I appreciate Rick's output more than I can say Thanks Rick

[@mysticmelon2009]

Same.

[@danield7449]

Mixolydian is the mullet chord. Major in the front. Minor in back. Party on dudes!

[@Andrew_M_Ward]

This post deserves recognition... I did my part

[@BountyHunterBootcamp]

Hahahahahaha spot on

[@trevorwesterdahl6245]

Love that observation. Don’t know enough to if it’s true, but like it anyway.

[@cosasDEguitarra]

Yes, true, and that is why it fix great with major pentatonic and minor pentatonic the same time!

[@arethosemmsinyourpocket9809]

Lmfao!

[@kbrinson85]

“Lips Like Sugar” - Echo and the Bunnymen has killer mixolydian vibes...would love a WMTSG on that one!

[@alexraphael6534]

Great call!

[@ryan82scott]

Won’t happen. It’s not in Ricks preferred styles.

[@Jill-ih9dq]

the mixolydian sound overwhelmingly feels to me like a sunny forest

[@andrewring9999]

Amen brother

[@dogdriver70]

Rick, you're making me feel like I've never been born!

[@joerobinson2538]

When I was barely out of diapers I remember hearing “Let It Rain” by Eric Clapton and getting a certain feeling from it. Little did I know at the time it was the power of the Mixolydian mode. I got the same feeling from - “Don’t Come Easy” by Ringo Starr (which is basically the same chords).

[@billys3400]

Equal parts talking, playing, singing and chord examples, I like this informative video very much. More like this please.

[@calansvc]

The song "1984" (intro to "Jump") off of VH's 1984 album suddenly makes perfect sense now.

[@benpowersguitar]

The wealth of information, experience and stories is an amazing asset to all of us musicians. Thanks for sharing.

[@keithmitchell94]

How convenient for me. In the midst of scoring a film for my spouse. Thanks for opening my ears to this concept Rick

[@dalsegno1251]

I've been watching you videos for a while but this is the first time I see you play the guitar like that. You're great.

[@freddiecrumb77]

Rick you are awesome. Iv’e been following you for about 1 - 2 year now and I love your channel. I’m guitarist first and foremost but I also do multi-instrumentalist just like you and just like you, I also produce and thus a studio guy - the difference is that I’m not as successful. Anyway, the reason I’m writing is that I got a lot from your channel and you have something for everyone - from beginner to advance. You breakdown songs and got awesome interviews. I never have anything in KZbin as informative and enlightening as your channel. Keep up the good work!!!!

[@DangKhoaGuitarist]

thank you sir, amazing video, it opened my mind.

[@gweedomurray9923]

I love the electronic keyboard segments best. Rick is a real treasure.

[@nathanbell6962]

I don't know what your talking about Rick but I listen to everyone of your videos, I love just hearing you play!

[@robranney-blake8731]

Lots of Mixolydian in Garcia and the Grateful Dead, of course.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Rob Ranney-Blake yes !

[@tomblaze2]

That is my favorite example - their best tunes are HEAVILY mixolydian

[@HyzersGR]

Rick unfortunately never gives Garcia or the Dead their due.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Hyzer's Pro Disc Golf and Smoke Shop well he did mention Jerry in the most important guitarists vid. But that’s it.

[@HyzersGR]

Hartlor Tayley for like 3 seconds

[@mononoaware1960]

You are an incredible musician and very much the real deal sir. I cannot thank you enough for your content, you have a unique way of explaining very complex things in a very applicable way. One of the very few to be able to do so in my opinion, when Steve Vai says so it is absolute truth haha! You have truly helped me becoming a better guitar player, and most importantly musician in a short amount of time. KZbin needs more people like you.

[@swimgc]

Moby Porcelein comes to mind as well. Great lesson. Thank you sir.

[@williamlowe7718]

I'm always wanting to hit the shed after watching these vids...my playing and knowledge are jumping exponentially after every one! Thanks Rick!! Wish i could afford the Beato club and have you review a short symphonic piece i've done after watching these great tutorials, but alas...thats some serious cheddar....

[@valvenator]

Some of the examples at the end remind me of Polish composer Henryk M. Gorecki. Some of his compositions included embellished native folk songs many of which were in Mixolydian/Aeolian modes which I happen to be a huge fan of so much so the standard major scale actually sounds off key to me :)

[@sbolfing]

Wow! I took music theory in school (50 years ago!), but never learned about the different modes. I heard so many songs in the samples you played. I've watched a few of your videos before, but I hit subscribe with this one! Thanks!!!

[@guitar_mann8322]

My first actual awareness playing in Mixolydian is when I started playing some keys on songs years ago and we learned "Roll With The Changes" by REO. I never understood where the Bb came from in C major...now I do.

[@jordynmelancon2286]

These chord changes sound so complex yet you play and explain it so easily. I would cry if you stopped making videos

[@mindfield7]

I Love mixo- always have gravitated to it and use it often to the point where I have to deliberately move away from it. Great video Rick. Now I need a keyboard 🎹. 🙂

[@paulhester8086]

Yeah, now (again) I too want a keyboard! My 1st cousin invented the Prophet synth yet sadly he never offered to sell me one at a family discount. I can't afford Sequential's retail cost. Back in 81 Phil Collins told me "the Prophet is probably the best synthesizer ever made". Possibly, at the time. Great sounds (now referred to as tones, or tonality) from those. Boy, have I gotten old! Thanks, Rick for this post.

[@wernervannuffel2608]

This is a very good and nice exploration of this mode made by fluid and transparant made chordprogressions. In this way I learn a lot simultanously with my autodidact course about intervals that you made live a few minutes ago. Thanks a lot, Rick.

[@burgler2112]

When you were playing you’re examples on guitar I was getting a “cliffs of Dover” vibe from Eric Johnson.

[@pimvanharten6935]

Rick, one episode a day is like I live locked up on a campus of higher music learning :) Thank you ! As a pianist specifically interested in obtaining rich voicing choices from any scale, I was very happy to see you explain WHAT you were exactly doing mid video, in this mode - what chord progression within the mode, and which voicings /voicing tricks. Could you do such an explanatory video, outlining chords and voicings you opted for, about your dorian mode video (with the gorgeous film music you came up with) as well ? That way you open the application of the knowledge that you share to applications in piano voicings, synth arrangements, and orchestral writing.

[@Dayepipes]

On a 90's tv retrospective Paul McCartney said the Beatles were history's most successful Irish band. All 4 have Irish last names, and they grew up in Liverpool which had an Irish-immigrant community. Irish trad music is heavy with mixolydian mode. I was a teen in the Beatles era but I was also learning Scottish and Irish trad, and Beatles melodies used mixolydian mode comfortably in the same ways these old trad forms did --except for the modern twists they added on top of the framework.

[@francistaylor5097]

Every one of your videos has taught me something new, Rick. Wish you'd tutored me at college. Thank you

[@VoodooDewey69]

Rick is living the dream, awesome studio by the way !

[@andrewwhitaker2238]

Rick you are so talented. Clearly. I'm inspired watching this. Cheers

[@musicmuncher6689]

I learned the Mixolydian mode without even knowing about 25 years ago with the pull-of riff of Thunderstruck by AC/DC (after the intro), it's all there except the 2nd degree. Great video as always, great sounds in it.

[@grobannoel]

I don't always know exactly what you are talking about, but you sure make it interesting. And it makes me wonder why the heck didn't I learn how to play an instrument since I love music so much.

[@chzzyg2698]

It's finally starting to click! I've been hard studying modes for roughly a week now, and they're finally beginning to make sense. I had to use several sources and hours of mindless noodling to put the pieces together and I've just had that eureka moment. I always knew of four of the shapes but never knew they were called modes, so that solved part of the problem, and then when I tried traveling my usual blues scales up the fretboard I realized that the modes are given numbers because that's literally where they fall on the major scale when traversing a monotone key. To someone that still doesn't get what I'm saying, it's because I'm not a teacher of the scale's, but if you want to learn the modes it's really not that hard to do if you follow the mode shapes in order, like a ladder, going up the fretboard with a made up bluesy-like major tune starting with Ionian(the major scale shape). Thank you Rick! Now I need to figure out how to use them in songwriting, and their triads, and the many other things that connect to them, like jazz.

[@donaldhenley3661]

Gotta learn your modes...all 7. Master them once you learn them. Improve,improv.

[@MagruderSpoots]

I was just thinking of the Lennon song this morning.

[@gerriepansegrouw4377]

Love it and I love your channel. Thank you so much Rick. God bless

[@m1k3g3tz]

Rick, i think i just learned more about music theory in 12 minutes than i have forgotten or ignored in the last 35ish years ... and i see other comments saying that they heard simple minds, verve, zappa, dead, etc in what you were playing. i kept hearing tears for fears ...

[@quadrogong1111]

More of these,please... learn so much from these tutorials

[@playandsinger]

This is probably the coolest video you've done to date

[@larryroberts9431]

Wow - great stuff! Your way of explaining mixolydian scales works!

[@Peterrayson]

You're wearing the same type of lightweight full zip hoodie I wear every day :). Love your lessons! Best I've found.

[@bjornfsteen]

That guitar part at 5:15 is really good.

[@quadrogong1111]

5:08 what a gorgeous little solo, just beautiful.. I can spend a day working on that one piece,and learn more cool licks than your typical Black Sabbath Record. Thank you so much, your google ad sense checks are well earned, Rick, you’ve taught me more great things w these vids, Skype lessons would be a really tall order, I’m sure u are busy as hell.. I’d love someone to watch a few videos of me soloing and playing, and be able to criticize me,and show me what I need to work on... I tend to stay on the same scales, and need to expand my vocabulary.. u rock. Thanks again.

[@sofiaj5612]

Great video, Rick. I wish we could see the keyboard at the bottom of the screen as your playing

[@makozma]

Mixolydian mode has A triumphant sound like going through trouble times in life and overcoming those obstacles that's why we love Rock music and Mixolydian mode or at least that's how I feel about it. cheers

[@onemediuminmotion]

Thanks Rick. If only I'd seen this thirty years ago...

[@philippe.meyohas]

Here is a curiousity. In Brazil, the mixolydian mode is directly associated to the northeastern music of the country due to it's folk music being commonly in this scale. In mixolydian and also in dorian, both "greek" and gregorian modes. Lot of researches points that it's an effect of the catechism of the native tribes during the 17th and 18th centuries by portuguese monks. But there are controversies.

[@jnucko51]

Thank you so much for posting this. Great info

[@sciexp]

Thanks for sharing. I like your videos. You have a lot of knowledge. Have you talked about the harmony/chords of the modes? For instance the mixolydian mode.

[@avielkharrat5788]

This was a fantastic lesson. I really love mixolydian mode!

[@thedondeluxe6941]

The beard continuity assistant was on holiday during the filming of this video.

[@nixonkutz3018]

I keep wanting the I in Mixolydian to resolve to its IV - which if course becomes the Ionian mode. I guess it's the combined tension of both the sus 4 and flat 7 that drive me back to the "real" tonic - not the I Mixolydian but the IV Ionian!

[@paulbillingham6769]

In reference to those who are mystified by modes. It is all in how you look at it. Rick takes a certain amount of theory for granted in this video. If you don't have that, there are other approaches and ways to understand what he is demonstrating here. Don't give up, you can do it but it takes effort for some of us who are late to class.

[@bertgetner9397]

I enjoy hearing the notes individually broken into parts as in the Lennon songs more than hearing the notes as a sum.

[@ivorytower5847]

Thanks Rick! I've been waiting for this one.

[@lairdherron8202]

tons of grateful dead jams in mixolydian - e.g. franklins tower, fire on the mountain, china cat sunflower

[@stevef4010]

Steely Dan too?

[@steveelliott5643]

Lol the new Vincent Price,how about some voice overs on them fancy myxo chords baby..

[@PaulMeUnder]

Thomas Newman uses mixolydian in a lot of his scores and for me, they are just beautiful for it.

[@HBSuccess]

Rick I love all the theory but IMO the rise of Mixolydian in popular music is easily explained by the fact it occurs naturally for non-reading guitar players just noodling around...moving a chord shape up and down the neck over an open bass string or playing the various Sus4 chords that are right under your fingers on a guitar in std tuning...and the b7 sus4 just sounds good/cool to us so we kept doing it LOL. Celtic, Indian... Presto... the sound of rock!! By comparison there wasn’t a ‘Whole Lotta Mixolydian’ prior to the ‘50s and ‘60s... it was the rise of the electric guitar (and freaked-out parents) that made it happen. 😂

[@rafaelgadbem3335]

There's a style called "Baião" here in Brazil that's mainly based on Mixolydian melodies, there's a song called "Asa Branca" from a singer called Luiz Gonzaga, that's pretty famous arround here and it can give you a good idea about this melody style, go and check it out, I think that you'll enjoy it.

[@Weloz92]

If modes were people, Mixo would be the charismatic, older brother who guides the family, while Lydian would be the quiet, melancholic younger brother with a sensitive soul. Together, they form an unstoppable force, the dom and the sub. Wait, that came out wrong.

[@statueofliberty1132]

That escalated quickly

[@Neboviews]

dude the things you unlock are priceless!!!!!!!!! Really could've used this info when I was 18! I think you were only 13 then ...dagnabbit

[@kleebgaming5209]

Your guitar parts very much remind me of Vai's outro from "Answers" from the g3 1996 live video.

[@bverde123]

Very subtle edit at 1:32!

[@humboldthammer]

Where was KZbin when I was 19? Wow. Never before have so many educated people lived so freely and abundantly. And for 15 years, we have been connected to THIS shared, worldwide experience with near-instant communication . . . it is GUARANTEED to wake THIS generation up! Epochal Eclipse a CROSS the US April 8th 2024. Jubilee to forgive ALL THAT DEBT 09/23/26 or SOONER. Exercise FAITH to get in shape for THIS awakening.

[@jeremeymcdude]

when you play the keys with the violin sound I can hear a lot of scores from games and movies I recognise. One specific one is probably the score for Halo. It's got a lot of that same sort of feel which also really holds up to the style of the game itself. Another thing i sort of recognised was possibly Finding Nemo but i could be wrong with that. It seems as though Mixolydian is really a nice mode for use with a lot of spacey or open feelings. very interesting video none the less.

[@sdxn2400134]

Starting at 3:50, the keyboard chords sound very similar to the harmonies of Sigur Rós.

[@moncyn1]

Thank you musical Rick from dimension Mixolydian-D

[@Randyolsson]

Haha nice edit at 1:32, almost didn't notice it!

[@pierheadjump]

Thanks Rick ⚓️

[@bj.bruner]

E Mixolydian reminds me of a song by Yes, but I can't remember which one. It might have been Heart of the Sunrise, but it was definitely on the album Fragile

[@jimyoung9262]

Here showing support after the ridiculous copyright claim. Love your work Rick. Sorry the greasy, greedy corporate scumbags are giving you a hard time.

[@FlorenceGrin]

Wonderful

[@superfly2449]

I wish I’d seen all the Beato videos 50 years ago (which would’ve been impossible, of course).

[@unclebozo9845]

Coldplay's "Clocks" is another very well-known mixolydian song (except for the bridge).

[@iamroberty]

As you play things in Mixolydian all I can hear is Marquee Moon by Television.

[@christopherrippel2463]

Mixolydian, Midi-chlorians. What's the difference?

[@svalchemy]

One is fictional, the other one's Bittersweet Symphony.

[@darkwinter6028]

You need an adapter to plug Midi-chlorians into a USB port?

[@lucapettinari1500]

Myxolidian sounds like a mixture of hope and optimism.

[@frankjuggaloheathen1035]

Honorable mentions: "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. And "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot.

[@TheLLORNKCOR]

Fuckin awesome. This is the start of the change I needed to happen. Thank you.

[@samuelandrade3117]

Here in Brasil the mixolydian mode its very used in the music of noerthest region, o Baião...de Luiz Gonzaga...rsrsrs mravilhoso. Baião uses mixo a lot...like Hermeto Pascoal. In Brasil, mixo its the sound of Baião...

[@swaffy101]

Reminds me of the intro to that The Verve song

[@LalisasToxicHusband]

Hey Rick. Is the song “Discovery” by Rush (part of the 2112 suite) mixolydian? That’s the part of the song where the narrator discovers a guitar and teaches himself to play it.

[@guilhermetonon7267]

Imagine when this guy knows Asa Branca, a brazilian song.

[@joaoassumpcao3347]

Or a bunch of Caetano Veloso songs. Also a bunch of other northeast classics. They love mixolydian

[@salvadorcastanos5834]

Or the three firsts albums by Secs & Mojadhous... kudos from Guadalajara, México ✌🏻😎

[@rosannatufts855]

"Awake, My Heart, and Render" by Jane Marshall is a good example from the church-music repertory

[@drfeelgordo]

Figure I better watch this before it gets taken down

[@glenncenter6579]

Absolutely fascinating! Am I correct that this was used a lot in 80's synth music? It reminds me of Mr. Mister "Kyrie" (sp?). Keep making great videos and I'll keep watching!

[@MusicMotivator]

Great stuff Rick as always. However lol, referring to any modal tune, for example Norwegian Wood as in the "key" of E mixo is a misnomer. No such thing, it is "in" the key of A but starting on fifth note, giving us E Mixo. In Guitar World etc, modal tunes transcripts are often referred to as in the key of---, transposed to - mode (say Reeling in The Years for example- Key of D, transposed A Mixo) Saves writing it in A and naturalizing all G#'s LOL!

[@jairlaiter6679]

Hey this is fantastic. The celtic feeling. So glad you get into that. When youre on the synth i was hearing that incredible celtic melody developed into Simple Minds' Belfast Child. Check it out its a jewel. Man your guitar over those synths is really wonderful. Ever recorded it?

[@fritzb.3978]

Awesome as usual! Wait... Why is the 1 chord followed by a 5minor classic Mixolydian? [thinking cap, 5 mins] Oh yeah! Because its C not C# in the Mixolydian scale so building a chord on the 5th is Aminor not A/Adom7. Will Music Theory EVER end???? Ahhhh! :)

[@slowfinger2]

A seasoned pro told me to study the solo's in "Sweet Home Alabama" if I wanted to to get a handle on Mixo in blues/rock.

[@Hodenkat]

Bittersweet Symphony ;)

[@SkokingProductions]

Makes me think of my Uncle. Old fart was a Beatles fan

[@misterschubert3242]

Give them a try. Your uncle may have been on to something...

[@louispower2374]

Excellent!!

[@MTBVelocirapt]

I want to see a movie soundtrack , scored by Rick and with 7 songs, and one in every mode . (Except maybe the Corinthian mode.. ;) Yeah!

[@tonyleach5614]

I can’t understand why mixolydian isn’t used in film scores. It sounds awesome!

[@gafanhotorosa1685]

my favorite use of this scale is for the Layla outro on piano

[@twoarrows2543]

I wish more country musicians would go back to using the mixolydian chord, and the pentatonic scale for that matter. I miss the more dramatic, ethereal country, southern rock and blues music you heard mostly in the 70's and 80's. Even as a Southerner, I prefer country/western to be more "western".

[@misterknightowlandco]

So just flat the 7 in the major scale and thats it?

[@GerraValadez]

Easy right?

[@misterknightowlandco]

@@GerraValadez yeah seems like it 😆 deceptively easy

[@guitarkidd9840]

In essence yes. G Mixolydian is basically the same notes in the C major scale. Instead of playing C to C, start on G, and play all the notes in the C major scale from G to G. Modes create tonal moods. What’s also important is the pedal tone under your melody or scale. Take the C major scale and play the scale from C-C with a different pedal/bass tone from each note of the scale. Notice how the mood of the scale changes when you change the pedal/bass tone.

[@misterknightowlandco]

@@guitarkidd9840 thanks for the explanation! I'm kinda new to all this info. I really only know my major and minor scales and the "nashville number system" and caged systems. Lol i know all the work around over simplification systems and figured that I should probably just learn the real thing at this point. Thanks for the info!

[@misterknightowlandco]

@@baconbenjidestroyer thanks!