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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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Lydian - Spiritual, contemplative, peaceful
Ionian - Happy-go-lucky, bubbly, vanilla
Mixo - As above, but with a streetwise edge
Dorian - Grown-up, in control of my emotions, but melancholic
Aeolian - Emo, dramatic suffering like Romantic era classic music and overall cheesy music
Phrygian - Eastern edge but not really committed to that edge! Poser!
To be honest what I know about their uses colours my opinion. Like for Phrygian where if you really want to go eastern you really need an m2 followed by an m3 interval for that sound... but you can't be bothered learning a new fingering.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
And this is why theory is so much easier to understand on the instrument and in the ear rather than on paper!
C, Eb, F, G, Bb, C etc.
Hard to believe that actual music can be wrung out of those notes.
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Play C minor pentatonic in the root position, then stay around the 8th fret and play the F minor pentatonic without sliding up or down the fretboard.
The play the G pentatonic minor.
This gives you a I IV V in one section of the fretboard.
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Minor: C Eb F G Bb
Major: C D E G A
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
That's what great about the pentatonic, you've got the big hitters in there (minor 3rd, 5th, 7th), which are all very cool, especially played as double stops, but you're only a couple of passing notes away from the entire scale.
So an alternative way of thinking about this is, when you want to shift to the IV sharpen the G to Ab, and when you want the V flatten the Eb to D, keeping all the other notes the same.
Then you can do really clever stuff like using B instead of Bb over the V which sounds major but gives an even stronger feeling of resolution when you move back to the I.