Musical Scales - How To Use The Mixo-Lydian Mode In Blues Guitar Solos (part 2)

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http://AdvancingGuitaristProgram.com For more creative ways to learn music theory. http://www.GuitarCoaching.com Adult Guitar Lessons - learn guitar fast and easy. Musical Scales - How To Use The Mixo-Lydian Mode And improve Your Blues Guitar Soloing (part 2) Hello, this is Mike Hayes and we're talking about musical scales: and on this video we'll be looking at two scales in particular the G blues scale and the G Mixo-Lydian scale. Now, some of you will be familiar with both of these musical scales; I'm sure most of you will be familiar with the G blues scale; so what I want to do here is to start this video off by presenting the idea of musical contrast; the equivalent to a musical "sweet and sour" if you will, with the G blues scale providing the 'sour' , and the G Mixo-lydian providing the contrasting 'sweet' effect. Now, of course as most of us know we can just about play the blues scale over any chord, ah, what I want to do here is play the notes straight, no slides, no bends, no guitar effects; I want you to have a listen to how the notes in the blues scale sound when played against a G7th chord; I'm going to play the notes very slowly and when I do this you'll will notice that two notes in particular, that's the B flat and the D flat note; you'll hear when we play these two notes against the G7th background it will create a musical dissonance and this can be a great effect because it creates a musical tension that, provided that we can resolve that tension will sound very cool in a solo. Whereas, when we hear the G Mixo-Lydian mode played against the G7th chord you will hear that all these notes in the Mixo-Lydian mode fit very nicely over the G7th chord. So, let's go and have a listen to how these two musical scales sound when there are played against the exact same G 7th background. In this next example I'll be playing a G7th chord as a background and we'll be comparing the sound of a G blues scale, the sound of the notes in the G blues scale when there are played slowly over this G7th chord, we'll be comparing the sound of each of the notes in the blues scale to that of the notes in a G Mixo-Lydian mode; so here's the background and we'll have a listen to firstly the G blues scale: one, two, three, four ... Ok, let's use exactly the same G7th background only this time we'll play a G mixo-Lydian mode over the G7th chord: one, two, three, four ... Up to this point in the video we've been comparing the sound of the blues scale with that of the mixo-Lydian mode, and now I'd like to dig a little bit further and go deeper into our discussion on musical scales. The next concept I'd like to present is that each musical scale creates it's own harmonic environment, it has it's own unique sound and creates it's own atmosphere; and when I'm doing musical theory I like to make the subject come alive. So far we've had a look at the notes that go to make up the Mixo-Lydian mode, we've had a look at the underlying structure and we've discussed how the Mixo-Lydian mode relates to the dominant seventh chord; and while all this information is very important, what we really need to know is how does the Mixo-Lydian mode 'sound' ... how do we 'feel' when we hear the mixo-Lydian mode. Now, essentially when I hear the Mixo-Lydian mode I immediately think of a 'swamp " sound; now, of course, trying to describe musical sound is like trying to describe color to somebody everyone is going to hear slightly and use their own words to describe what they are hearing or seeing. I hope you have enjoyed this video and learnt a little bit more about how to use musical scales. Other Helpful Keywords: music theory, musictheory, musical scales, what is music theory, reading music, music notation, read music, music theory online, music worksheets, basic music theory, how to read music, learn to read music, guitar lesson, music theory, guitar music theory, guitar, music, theory, musictheory for guitar, intervals, scales, learn, free, music, theory, lesson, tutorial, teacher, online, mode, mixo-lydian, mixo-lydian mode, http://youtu.be/b6TJzq27pv0 Video URL to share: Related Videos: http://youtu.be/b6TJzq27pv0 http://youtu.be/kkmax-wo1EI http://youtu.be/lWGFrYXOtDM http://youtu.be/BwU2-037hM0 http://youtu.be/m_RGBlxNGt8 http://youtu.be/qnfBXCf7RjM http://youtu.be/MPEndmhEdjs Don't forget to subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/mrguitarmadeeasy