Scale Lesson

• Music Theory
• Piano Chords
• Piano Chords in the Key of C
• Piano Chords in the Key of D
• Piano Chords in the Key of E
• Piano Chords in the Key of F
• Piano Chords in the Key of G
• Piano Chords in the Key of A
• Piano Chords in the Key of B
• Guitar Chords
• Guitar Chords in the Key of C
• Guitar Chords in the Key of D
• Guitar Chords in the Key of E
• Guitar Chords in the Key of F
• Guitar Chords in the Key of G
• Guitar Chords in the Key of A
• Guitar Chords in the Key of B
• Scale Lessons
• Chinese scale (Major Pentatonic scale)
• Oriental (Arabic) scale
• Indian scale
• Spanish scale
• Gypsy scale
• Natural minor scale (Aeorian Mode)
• Harmonic minor scale
• Melodic minor scale
• Major scale (Ionian Mode)
• Dorian scale
• Phrygian scale
• Lydian scale
• Mixolydian scale
• Locrian scale

Mixolydian scale

This lecture is the Mixolydian scale which is one of the Church mode.

Mixolydian scale is the Major scale with a lowered 7th. That means leading-tone is lost.

Mixolydian scale

	C		D		E	F		G		A		B
C Mixolydian scale	♪		♪		♪	♪		♪		♪	♪
C Major scale	♪		♪		♪	♪		♪		♪		♪

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Mixolydian scale

Mixolydian scale has the following triads and 7th chords.

Triad in the C Mixolydian scale

Triad	C	Dm	Em(b5)	F	Gm	Am	Bb
Degree Names	I	IIm	IIIm(b5)	IV	Vm	VIm	bVII

Seventh Chord in the C Mixolydian scale

7th Chord	C7	Dm7	Em7(b5)	FM7	Gm7	Am7	BbM7
Degree Names	IM7	IIm7	IIIm7(b5)	IVM7	Vm7	VIm7	bVIIM7

Let's listen to the sample song using the Mixolydian scale.

I cherish the feeling, so the sample song on the pages of scale lectures are made roughly. Beacuse of lack of the leading-tone, as I mentioned above, the cadence which is formed by mixolydian has little power.