Mixoydian: Progressions, Dominant Chords and the Flat 7th

If you play blues or rock, you already play Mixolydian. You just don’t know when you’re doing it. You slide a C up to C# over an A7 and it sounds right. Then you play the same thing over an E chord and it doesn’t, and you’re not sure why.

Most mode books won’t help. They’ll tell you A Mixolydian is the D major scale starting on A. It’s correct, and it’s no use when you’re holding a guitar.

This book starts somewhere else. Mixolydian is the major scale with one note changed. In A, that’s G instead of G#. That one note is what makes A7 an A7, what turns A to G to D into a rock song, and what makes a major key sound like the blues. The book is about knowing when that note fits, when it clashes, and doing something deliberate with it.

What’s inside:

• A one-note test that tells you whether Mixolydian fits any progression
• The rock cadence: why A, G, D, A gets home without the V chord, and how to move it to any key
• Triads over an open string, the trick behind a lot of classic rock rhythm parts
• Dominant chords that stay interesting: A7, A7sus4, A13 and A9, and the one-note moves that keep sixteen bars of one chord alive
• Four one-octave patterns that run from root to root, so you always know where home and the G are
• The 3rd mix: when the minor 3rd works over a dominant chord, when it clashes, and why the same note is home over the next chord
• Ten soloing rules in place of licks, each one built to fix a specific habit
• Mixolydian and Dorian: the one note that separates them, and how to switch
• Blues, rock, and country and folk: the chords, the comping and the soloing for each
• Twelve vamps to play over, with tempos and feels, plus a template for writing your own
• Mixolydian in all twelve keys

What isn’t inside: licks, transcriptions, full-neck box charts, or a lecture on how modes are derived.

Everything is in A, the same key as the Dorian book, so the open A string gives you a free drone. Every diagram uses the same colour code, with the root in black and the Mixolydian note outlined, so you can see what matters before you read a word.

49-page PDF, US Letter, with drawn tab, chord boxes, fretboard diagrams and chord charts throughout. Download it straight away after purchase.