Learning Modes is something that has been a common practice for today’s guitarists, as getting to know them provides lots of creative input that can help your practice more interesting and exciting. Picking up from many interests in practicing this scale, Rock-Expert provides an interesting study about the Mixolydian scale, which is part of the Modes derived from the basic Major Scale progression, where the fifth note is used as the root.
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Understanding the Mixolydian Scale
Just as I explained above, the Mixolydian scale is one of the ways to play the Major scale in a different root, thus creating a new scale that can be used in improvising your guitar playing, albeit playing the scale in its basic root is also applicable. Making this explanation much more simple, I’ll take the C Major chord as the basic root, a Mixolydian mode from the C Major means playing the fifth note(the G note) as the root.
So a G Mixolydian is playing the C Major scale from the G note, which won’t sound that different if you are playing C Major as the basic chord; however, should you try to play the G Mixolydian in a G Major chord, it would sound much more interesting. Surely the Mixolydian part can be derived from any basic Major keys, as the basic is making the fifth not as the root, but if some of you are still confused, basically the interval for playing a Mixolydian scale is 1—1—½–1–1–½–1.
As samples of the Scale’s usage, here are some video lessons that I just picked up from the net with samples from Gary Hoey, Vinnie Moore, etc, that will provide you with some basic usage of the Mixolydian scale or explain Modes. Check the videos out for more in-depth knowledge about applying this scale to any of your playing, solos, or whatever you feel like doing.
Gary Hoey Mixolydian Scale Lesson:
Here is also a good lesson from Andrew Watson of Creative Guitar Channel:
Here’s also an interesting lesson from Vinnie Moore about Modes, including the Myxolidian scale:
We hope you can get a bit of knowledge and understanding of the Mixolydian Scale, check out Rock-Expert for more interesting lessons in the future.
