MIXED INTERVALS

This current series of lessons has been devoted to employing different intervals within the Mixolydian scale. In this final instalment, we look at another study that combines simple (within one octave) and compound (beyond one octave) intervals.

Before we look at the solo it would make sense to revise the various concepts covered up until this point.

Basically, an interval is the distance between two notes. Diagram 1 provides useful information on the distance between a pair of notes within any mode of the Major scale (like Mixolydian). Each chosen interval will change as it moves through a scale. In other words, it adapts when shifted diatonically. In A Mixolydian, the interval of a scale 4th from an F# note is a perfect 4th