Like its Lydian cousin, the Mixolydian mode deviates from the major scale by just one note – the major 7th, which is lowered by a semitone to become a minor 7th. It's a crucial difference that gives ...

The Cult's Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy. If you’ve ever found the major scale annoyingly happy but the minor scale too moody, do we ever have something for you. Technically, the Mixolydian scale is the ...

Rob Chapman has put his metaphorical teaching hat on in a new video teaching the Mixolydian mode – namely how to use it to your advantage for soloing. It comes as a response to requests from viewers ...

The subject of modes crops up time and again among guitarists wishing to inject new flavours into their solos. The main challenge is learning a bunch of new scale shapes. However, this can be made ...