More Modes

Once again I was messing around with modes. This time I chose mixolydian. The scale is really close to the major scale stepwise. But with a few steps from the minor scale. To aid this sound I added chords with a good mixture of major and minor intervals.

In a Phrygian Mood

I set out today to write something in a particular mode. So on the piano I was messing around trying to choose which one I wanted to pick. I didn't want to use something too common so Ionian, Aeolian, and Dorian were out. (Hope that those were the right ones, I meant because I suck at remembering these) I settled on Phrygian because it had a sort of sentimental sound to it that I kind of liked.

Composing this was stranger than normal. Both the chords and the harmony seemed to come to me at the same time. It was weird.



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