Chords for 50 Modal Licks - #30 D Mixolydian - Guitar Lesson - Robbie Calvo

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_ Lick number 30 is D [Am] _
Mixolydian as well, and what I've decided to do is show you
some [E] arpeggio ideas and some scale bass runs _ incorporated into the same idea.
Now of course we can use our arpeggios, the arpeggios of the D7 chord, to outline
that chord, but also they sound great sometimes when it's playing over the
other parts of the progression as well.
And you're probably going to hear that
in a couple of these [C#] licks [D#] I've put [C#m] together [E] for you.
Let's pull up the track
and I'm going to [D#] show you this great idea.
[N] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
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Here's _ _ [C] _ _ [E] _ _ _
another D Mixolydian [F#m] lick, and I'm [F] basing this one squarely [B] around a [E] _ D7 or
D9 _ arpeggio, and as you [A#] guys out there know I'm [D#] a big fan of the arpeggios
and the chord tones.
So no different [N] here, but I'm sliding in initially from
a B, which is not a chord tone, into a C, the flat 7.
[F#] _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [A]
It's my first [C] lick, so _ I'm
[F#m] _ _ _ pulling, _ hammering and pulling off from the C, the B, back to the [C] A, _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ [A#] F sharp, _ [C] D, _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ to my
C, the flat [A#] 7, and I'm kind of putting [B] an implied bend on there, a very bluesy kind
[C] _ of approach, _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[C#] _ [B] a real slow kind of bend before I go to the next note.
So here's
that again.
[C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [F#] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [A] _ [G#] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ What I'm doing here is I'm playing from the A _ chromatically down to
[G#] G, _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [A#] _ [A] _
and then I slide [N] back into A, _ to the F sharp, our third chord tone there, _ _ _ [G] _ _ [G#] _ [F#] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ and then
I slide twice from the C to the D.
Alright, so chord tone stuff [G] all the way
through here.
[C] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ And then I'm playing a scale-based run _ _ over, [G] _
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_ _ [N] _ _ basically starting
our scale-based run _ from the G.
Alright, so our D mixer Lydian is coming from the
scale of G major, and I started the run [G] from the [B] G.
_ [D] _ [F#] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] Okay, so here's the whole lick.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ [G#] _ [G] _ _ [A] _
[F#] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [D#] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ And again.
_ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ [G] _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [D#] _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ Okay, so I'm _ incorporating _ _ [E] arpeggio ideas with [B] scale runs as well,
and of course [D#] targeting those sweet [D] notes as well along the [N] way.