I made this for a post about Sindrel Song I've yet to actually post: [LINK]
Essentially, scales are made of 7 notes, each spaced either next to each other or skipping a note. For example, the notes in bold here make up the C major scale:
C Db D Eb EF Gb G Ab A Bb BC
These spaces are either 'tone' (T; skip one) or 'semitone' (S; adjacent), in this case: TTSTTTS
Changing the arrangement of these gives different modes. Mixolydian swaps the final TS to ST, so C Mixolydian is:
C Db D Eb EF Gb G Ab ABb B C
Or at least that's the technical theory stuff. In practice, it just means that C major uses all the white piano notes and uses the C chord as its base (tonic; the chord that 'feels like home'), while C Mixolydian uses the same tonic but uses Bb instead of just B.
Simple, right?? It took me years to understand this stuff, but apparently I just did it naturally before the intellectual understanding crystallised.
Essentially, scales are made of 7 notes, each spaced either next to each other or skipping a note. For example, the notes in bold here make up the C major scale:
C Db D Eb E F Gb G Ab A Bb B C
These spaces are either 'tone' (T; skip one) or 'semitone' (S; adjacent), in this case: TTSTTTS
Changing the arrangement of these gives different modes. Mixolydian swaps the final TS to ST, so C Mixolydian is:
C Db D Eb E F Gb G Ab A Bb B C
Or at least that's the technical theory stuff. In practice, it just means that C major uses all the white piano notes and uses the C chord as its base (tonic; the chord that 'feels like home'), while C Mixolydian uses the same tonic but uses Bb instead of just B.
Simple, right?? It took me years to understand this stuff, but apparently I just did it naturally before the intellectual understanding crystallised.