Ionian - Cadences, Major Keys and the Natural 4th

Ionian is the major scale. You've known it since your first lesson, and that's the problem. It's the scale everyone knows and the one most players use worst.

Run the pattern over a major chord and sooner or later you'll land on the 4th. In A, that's D, and it rubs against the C# in the A chord. It's the one note in the major scale that clashes with its own home chord, and nobody tells you which one it is. This book is about that note and the one that pulls the other way: the 7th, which leads you home.

What's inside:

- The two notes that pull, and why E7 to A is the strongest way home there is

- The two-note test for when a song is Ionian, Lydian or Mixolydian, and why it only works for the key you're in

- The four major-key families behind most songs, and how to move them to any key

- The 4th as a suspension: turning the clashing note into a feature

- Four one-octave patterns that run root to root, not boxes

- Where the 4th goes over every chord in the key

- Ten rules for soloing without licks

- Pop and songwriting, country and folk, and the ii-V-I

- Twelve vamps to play over, plus a template for writing your own

- The major scale in all twelve keys

Everything is in A, the same key as the other books in the series. No licks to copy, no full-neck charts. Diagrams throughout.

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