This is a classical alteration of the natural minor scale, raising the 7th in order to make the V chord major.Ī further alteration of harmonic minor. In klezmer music, locrian mode is known as "Jewish Minor". However, it is fairly common in middle-eastern and Jewish music. In my mind, I think of Locrian as 'altered Phrygian' (flat the 5th). The only song I can think of based upon it is accordionist John Kirkpatrick's "Dust To Dust" (on his first album JUMP AT THE SUN). This is a fairly uncommon mode in the west. Locrian Mode - Natural minor altered with a flatted 2nd and flatted 5th. Phrygian Mode - Natural minor altered with a flatted 2nd. A characteristic of a tune in dorian is a IV(major) chord. The Aeolian mode is the NATURAL MINOR SCALE.ĭorian Mode - Natural Minor altered with a raised 6th.ĭorian mode is often used interchangeably with the minor scale at the musician's discretion. (Example in key of A: || A | A D | A | G (subtonic) | ) When you have a tune that has the I chord and a flat-VII chord (also known as the "subtonic"), you're in the mixolydian mode. Common mixolydian tunes include "Red Haired Boy", "Old Joe Clark", "June Apple" etc. You are using this mode every time you lower the leading tone (7th) to play it as blues note. This can be thought of as the dominant scale. Mixolydian - Major scale with the flatted 7th. There's the new Maytag commercial with the flying saucer and aliens - the intro music is typical of lydian mode. Often you'll hear it as film background music - someone is remembering their childhood, etc. Lydian has a moody recognizable sound due to the raised 4th. Lydian - Major scale with raised 4th degree. It is much easier to think of the modes as being alterations of either a Major or Minor Scale. This demonstrates the derivation of the common modes, but this is an unwieldy way of thinking about them in an improvisational setting.
(d) (e) (f#) (g) (a) B C# D E F# G A B (B minor/B Aeolian)
(d) (e) (f#) (g) A B C# D E F# G A (A Mixolydian)Īeolian (Natural Minor scale) - 6th degree: (d) (e) (f#) G A B C# D E F# G (G Lydian) The other modes are formed by starting on The MAJOR scale is also called the IONIAN mode it is built on the first scale degree. Let's examine the common modes, using the D major scale as our starting point.
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