 Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel in this lesson We are going to look at how you can build a very very famous iconic Mixolydian chord progression derived from what we call as the Mixolydian mode or the Mixolydian scale So what we are going to do in this lesson is we are first going to form the scale Then we are going to look at how we build a very Mixolydian sounding chord progression We look at a few examples. We'll try and get as creative as possible and that's pretty much the lesson So let's get cracking right away. And if you haven't already do head over to part one where we look at plagal cadences Where we try to build the structure of what we are trying to do in today's class Okay, and also revise the circle of fifths which was also talked about earlier And we've also done a lot of circle of fifths videos if you are not so sure of the circle There are a lot of videos to teach you the circle. Let's get started right away So the first thing I want to do is build the Mixolydian scale Let's do it on the key of C. C Mixolydian is this You see it's very similar to the major scale. The only difference being it has the 7th flat Which in this case is B flat B flat is called as the minor 7th or the dominant 7th And this is a great chord which goes Which demonstrates that more C dominant 7th or C 7th Okay So that's about the Mixolydian. Why don't we just for clarity sake build it on a couple of other scales? Maybe G Mixolydian All your white notes F sharp comes down to F flattens, okay F F Mixo Okay B flat Mixo Okay A Right, and it's a nice habit to kind of formulate your scales on all the keys and all the roots because on the keyboard on the piano What tends to happen is every scale has a certain feeling for your fingers your fingers attached to the notes in a very very Different manner, you know as you play from key to key or scale to scale So the music you end up constructing on C Mixolydian might be very very radically different than what you compose Maybe on an A flat Mixolydian or a B flat Mixolydian and I have observed this with a lot of my music Which I've worked on over the years, you know Whenever you just change the scale or change the mode you just get different ideas So that's a quick point. I wanted to bring across so coming back to the domain of C C Mixolydian Okay Now when we harmonize this scale to build chord progressions We will find that there are three major chords three minor chords and one diminished chord The reason being that the Mixolydian mode or scale if you will comes from a major scale It's just a major scale starting from another degree. For example the C Mixo Has pretty much the same chords as F major Right, so if you start F from C You get the C Mixo Mixolydian scale, right? But right now I'm not looking at it as deriving it as such I'm just saying that you can get the chords of any Mixolydian scale By figuring out which major scale it is derived from so in this case The C Mixolydian is derived from the F scale. How do we do that F major 1 2 3 4 5 F G A B flat C Okay, or go up a fourth C D E F when you get the major scale So that's one way of doing it and then you realize. Oh, yeah, the major chords happen to be C major F major B flat major F major and C major because those are all the major chords of F major, right? Another way of doing it is the usual triad approach where you write down the entire scale in a neat round circle and then you get triads C major D minor 3 diminished E diminished 4 major which is F major 5 minor 6 minor 7 major rather 7 flat major You look at it with respect to the major D flat is the 7 flat, right? 7 flat and then you end with the 1 which is just a repeat. So 1 major 2 minor 3 diminished 4 major 5 minor 6 minor 7 major and back to 1 major, okay? So we are not going to use all of those chords in this exercise We're just going to take the major chords and a great Mixolydian chord progression which you could start off with or pretty much use for a lot of years because it's very cool Would be you start with the 7 flat major. Now. What is the 7 flat with respect to C? That right B flat That's 7 flat and then you do 1 2 3 4 the 4 major remember in the Mixolydian world The 1 the 4 and the 7 flat our major. It's not 1 4 and 5 that would have been in the major scale So in the mix, so it's 1 the 4 F major The 7 flat B flat major. So the progression is 7 flat 4 major 1 major Okay, so you go Let's keep that going What we do is we could play that one chord a bit longer That's kind of a nice way to Ensure the tonality or to give the listener the sense that hey you are in C something you're in C mixolydian So we play that last chord a little longer very common in a chord progression to do that even in a 2 5 1 Jazz cadence you make the 1 a bit longer, right? So 7 flat F major which is 4 major 1 major played a little longer So This is 2 counts for this chord 2 counts for that 4 counts for that or you could spread it out for 4 of the F and 2 bars of the C major Or make it a bit quicker 2 beats And I'm forced to also sing From my friends I'm gonna try That's the same chord progression for the Beatles hit with a little help from my friends So it's a very kind of brave epic brotherhood Kind of scale where you're like part of this community and you're trying to take over the world or something You know is just a very epic sounding scale So it's used not necessarily not generally at least for like a one-to-one communication like a love song It's more you know like something to do with the group You know like with a little help from my friends, which is a kind of a group kind of perspective Okay, so you go 7 flat for major and then one major So let's build this on a few more Scales to to get more clear with everything. So if I'm on the F scale E flat will be the mixolydian, right? So how do I do the 7 flat for one? E flat major B flat and then F Sing your favorite songs I get by I get by with a little help from my friends Let's try it on the key of G. That'll also be nice G mixo So your entire progression is gonna have white notes now 7 flat of G will be F major F major C major G This is a nice way to practice it just to play the chords However as a piano player, there's something really cool. You could try I'm gonna go back to the C mixo and Develop the chords only in my bass hand or in my left hand and play it Just keep that, you know And look at some improv for so I'm holding The C chord for a bit longer, so maybe you could start your improvisation by Jamming on something in the right hand while your left hand just chills out by landing on that C chord. So Something like that Your right hand's free You could even jam when you're playing on the mixo Lydian another nice scale to work into could be Is the major blues scale Which is major pentatonic With that three flat making it very bluesy So that's your mixo Lydian progression or cadence if you will 7 flat 4 1 you need to practice this on all keys and a great way to help you do this or achieve this would be Write down the circle of fifths and then you're going to look at three Chord groupings in that circle. So the circle when you write it C, G, D, A, E, B, F sharp, D flat, A flat, E flat, B flat, F C You write it like that and as you move clockwise you move clock clockwise with three elements or three points or three Cords, right? So if I take C, which is at 12 o'clock in the circle You can do B flat going to F going to C and that's your mixo Lydian progression right there So just staring at the circle of fifths more often than not can really help you compose Very very unique chord progressions which very few people use these days, you know Since the Beatles and maybe since the 90s really chord progressions have ended up being very diatonic or in some instances Very much one five six four like which is pretty much all the pop songs out there So this might spice things up and add a new flavor to your audience who you're performing your music for So how do we build the progression either seven flat four one of the mixo Lydian scale? Write that down or we can just build it from the circle of fifths. So if I take B flat climb One more clockwise F one more clockwise C and you have the entire mixo Lydian progression right there, right guys again This is Jason here from Nathaniel. 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