Mixo-bluesian

[Triple-o]

Superimposing the blues scale over the mixilydian mode is the most useful scale of them all according to the editors of Guitarplayer. info.https://www.guitarplayer.com/technique/the-mixolydian-blues-scalethe-most-useful-scale-of-all

[Wim VD1]

That's interesting. I need to dig deeper into this and try it out.

Thanks for sharing, @Triple-o.

Wim.

[adrienp]

You can say the same for other modes with a flat 7. Dorian you just add the 3 and flat 5. Aeolian also.

Edited March 2, 2019 by adrienp

[RNBACADEMY]

Hey all, new guy here! Interesting article.

So the way I think of most of this, is simply as a Blues scale with an added major 3rd, as a sweet note, passing note etc.  If you see each note in the scale as equal, I think something is lost. 

For example the notes, Intervals of the Minor Pentatonic scale:

1, b3, 4, 5, b7  - I'd consider them primary.  Your landing spots, etc.

b5 - our blues note - passing tone, adds that blues, flavor/vibe not great to stay on or resolve to.

if I add the major 3rd to this, its a sweet note, much like the b5 is, as a passing tone.

I get why they call it Mixolydian, but I think it just muddies the waters for me.  Mixolydian is a major scale, with a flat 7th I get that, but the b7 is already there in the Minor pentatonic.  So the only added note is the major 3rd to our blues scale.

I feel that if you look at it this way, and use it with the b3 or minor 3rd as color notes or passing tones, you get away from a "scale" and more into conceptualizing how they all go together, with something you already know, the blues scale.  If you merely play and practice this as a scale, I think many will miss the idea and it will start to sound like a string of chromatics when you get to the b3, 3, 4, b5, and 5.

I also get that the Mixolydian would have the 2, where the blues scale and pentatonic do not, which is essentially felt as the 9th in Blues, but again, that can be added to, later once you assimilate the idea and hierarchy of these other two ideas, in a playing context.

Best,

Sean 

RnB Academy

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Edited September 19, 2019 by RNBACADEMY