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Title: Mixolydian mode
Post by: choucas09 on May 18, 2011, 03:41:16 PM

Came across this vid through TGP. Hope it's of interest to anyone wanting to jazz up their blues playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUspO9p5frI

Title: Re: Mixolydian mode
Post by: Bob Gnarly on May 18, 2011, 04:17:19 PM

"Coming to you from my summer home in Tokyo"

That's a sentence I'd love to be able to use.
Cool guy.

Title: Re: Mixolydian mode
Post by: fbloke on May 18, 2011, 10:27:53 PM

This is a great clip, this guy is a rare example of a guy with genuine undiluted cool and great teaching ability.

Title: Re: Mixolydian mode
Post by: 38thBeatle on May 18, 2011, 11:01:38 PM

Yeah I liked the clip too.

Title: Re: Mixolydian mode
Post by: Keven on May 19, 2011, 03:24:03 AM

chris is an awesome guy! i have his 2 blues cd's and books! reaaaaaly good stuff. his book the infinite guitar is a great theory rut breaker.

Title: Re: Mixolydian mode
Post by: gwEm on May 19, 2011, 08:28:20 AM

mixolydian is a cool mode, have written a few songs in it over the years.

nice clip :)

Title: Re: Mixolydian mode
Post by: HTH AMPS on May 19, 2011, 09:41:06 AM

I mostly solo in the 'hth' mode - theres a 50/50 balance of 'tension' notes and ones that sound in tune  :lol:

Title: Re: Mixolydian mode
Post by: fbloke on May 19, 2011, 10:17:55 AM

Quote from: HTH AMPS on May 19, 2011, 09:41:06 AM

I mostly solo in the 'hth' mode - theres a 50/50 balance of 'tension' notes and ones that sound in tune  :lol:

Ha ha!  I have a very similar mode - it's where you're playing the usual pentatonic, you worry that you're sounding samey, close your eyes and grab for something Mixolydian and hope there's not a train wreck.  It's usually followed by the bass player saying "Do you need to play that widdly stuff?".  Bass players - there's a whole new thread...

Title: Re: Mixolydian mode
Post by: Andrew W on May 19, 2011, 04:41:18 PM

That was a really good lesson thanks for sharing it.

And HTH, I think you and I must have studied at the same school of music theory though I think I manage a statistically improbably high percentage of tension notes.

Title: Re: Mixolydian mode
Post by: nfe on May 20, 2011, 03:37:52 PM

Communicates what he's trying to impart well, but I can't say I like his playing much :? All his "out the box" stuff if you like, and the moments when he's playing overtly modal stuff sounds really forced and for the sake of it rather than for the tune. Which totally spoils his excellent straightforward bluesier bits.


Actually, getting to the closing 30 seconds or so, it's terrible.