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Article: Devising synthetic modes. (new music scales)(guitar lesson; includes musical notation examples)
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- Guitar Player
- Article date:
- July 1, 1995
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SOMETIMES I SOLO AROUND A SYNTHETIC mode--something like John McLaughlin might play--which isn't derived from the major scale like the typical modes. Lydian, for instance, starts on the fourth degree of the major scale. If you're in the key of G [G, A B, C, D, E, F[sharp], G] and you start on the fourth note, you'll still have G's key signature, but it's called C Lydian [C, D, E, F[sharp], G, A, B, C].
A synthetic mode, on the other hand, isn't derived from the basic diatonic major-scale system. You make up ...