#7 modes

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It’s be really cool if there was a device that read your mood and translated it to music in real time

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Songwriting Tips: How to use the 7 Modes in your Songwriting!

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In this lesson I introduce you to the 7 modes and how they range from bright to dark. A mode is a scale like Major and Minor. However, there are different gradations of Major and Minor that create different moods. Songwriters can write songs in different modes.

The modes are Lydian, Ionian, Mixolydian, Dorian, Aeolian, Phrygian, and Locrian.

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Studying for my Music Theory test and just straight up allowed my selective memory banish these two modes out of existence.