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EASY GUIDE Mixolydian mode

The Mixolydian mode - sounds very exotic, but what is a mode anyway? If you think of your average digital radio, it might have a DAB mode, an FM mode and an auxiliary input mode.

So you could say that each mode represents a different version of the radio - when you switch to a different mode, the radio alters its function. It's the same for musical major scale modes - a mode is simply a different version of a scale, most often just played from a different starting note. When you do this, it alters the interval pattern between the notes in the scale, transforming the way it sounds - in other words, you've shifted to a

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