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Guitar modes lesson 1: The Ionian mode is the same as the major scale – here’s what makes it work
The A Ionian mode (that's the same as the A major scale, remember ... against a repeating open-string root note (known as a ...
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It's one of Joe Satriani and Steve Vai's favorite scales, and holds the most mysterious-sounding note combinations – here's how the Lydian mode works
Built from the fourth degree of the major scale, this mysterious-sounding mode ... with the chord a tone above – the B7. This emphasizes the uplifting sound of the Lydian mode as the B7 contains ...
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Notation - major and minor keys, and chord symbols
The pattern of a melodic minor key is: tone - semitone - tone ... Harmonic minors use the relative major key signature and raise the seventh note of the scale. For example, in A harmonic minor ...
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Melody and harmony: keys, scales, modes and ornaments
Listen to this audio extract to hear C Major modulating to A Minor ... each note in the sequence is a whole tone different from the next. Each tonal scale starts on a different note.