Rock Guitar Solo in C Mixolydian Scale

Hi everyone, here's a rock guitar solo example that will help you to practice using the C Mixolydian scale. If you're familiar with your C Major scale the good news is this scale is only one note different! Namely, the C Mixolydian scale has a B flat whereas the C Major scale has no accidentals.
If you want to relate this to something more familiar you can even think of this scale as sharing a lot of notes with the A minor pentatonic scale starting on the 5th fret of the low E string - the only difference here is we are of course treating C as our root or 'home' note and we also have F and B flat notes added in within some of the phrases.
I'll make a separate video with the backing track for this which will include a scrolling grid-view tab of the solo here and the backing track which will then loop for you to practice improvising in the C Mixolydian scale - you can find that here: • Guitar Jam Track - Roc...
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[@juanmanuelortegacantin2001]

Beautiful

[@daveshannonguitaracademy]

Thank you 🙂

[@alejandroborda9243]

nice

[@daveshannonguitaracademy]

Thanks for watching! 🙂

[@ringi1970]

"C-mixolydian" or "F-Major" scale?
For me, those are the same! Anyway both has the same notes! 😄
"Mixolydian" called scales, are the same as the major scales with one "b flat" more (or one sharp less).
That's why I don't see any difference for myself.
Nice solo BTW!

[@daveshannonguitaracademy]

Thank you! And yes you're absolutely right, C Mixolydian shares all the same notes as the F major scale. In this case the only difference is what we feel as the tonal centre and this is very much dictated by the chord sequence. As such, a lot of our solo phrases will land on C or feel like C is our root or 'home' note - or at least this is what we should be aiming for to match the chord sequence going on behind us! In terms of the scale shapes, we can either think that C Mixolydian is just C major with a flattened 7th note (in this case Bb) or we can think of it as the notes of the F major scale but treating C as our root note. For me, both ways of looking at it are useful!

[@RaithWilson]

Did you learn all that at rock school?

[@daveshannonguitaracademy]

Haha I'm not sure the modal scales are much on the curriculum at rock school 😂 in my case it was my dad who showed me modal scales when I was about 14 or 15 - at the time I'm pretty sure I thought 'well I know the pentatonic scale, why do I need to know any others?!'