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Is There Any Mode In This Composition?

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Started by rbarata, Feb 03 2012 08:37 PM

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Posted 03 February 2012 - 08:37 PM

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I'm learning modes and I ould like to know what you think about this tentative for a C Lydian.

What do you think? Sugestions for improvement?

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 04:34 AM

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Thats G Ionian
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View PostDominus Vobiscum, on 04 February 2012 - 04:34 AM, said:

Thats G Ionian

What do you base that on? As far as I can tell, there's no D major in any form, and it doesn't end or start with a G major.

I was gonna say A dorian, because it ends with an Am9, but I don't know how relevant it is when judging modes.
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It just looks like G major to me, beginning on the subdominant and ending on a V/V.
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View PostDominus Vobiscum, on 04 February 2012 - 05:44 AM, said:

It just looks like G major to me, beginning on the subdominant and ending on a V/V.

i can understand why it looks like G major, since it shares sharps with both C lydian and A dorian, but the lack of Tonic chords, especially at the beginning and the end, would normally suggest it's one of the other two possibilities.
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Yeah, I can agree with that.
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 06:51 PM

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It happened what I was thinking...the root is not clear in the chord progression. It is suposed to be C.
I don't know if you ear it the same way as me which is, although the final chord is an Am9, if you put next to it a CMaj you'll notice that it is fells as a natural move. But I agree that the root can be not clear...I felt the same when I was writting it.

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View Postrbarata, on 04 February 2012 - 06:51 PM, said:

It happened what I was thinking...the root is not clear in the chord progression. It is suposed to be C.
I don't know if you ear it the same way as me which is, although the final chord is an Am9, if you put next to it a CMaj you'll notice that it is fells as a natural move. But I agree that the root can be not clear...I felt the same when I was writting it.

There's no problem in not ending on the tonic chord. It just makes it a bit harder to tell which mode it's in, but that's no necessarily a bad thing. You could try and surprise the listener by sticking to C lydian and then slowly transitioning to A dorian, or G major, as a progress in the piece. So it's not necessarily a bad thing, you just need to consider what it does to the piece and use it in a meaningful way.
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If you think the root is C, then it is C with a sharp 4, or C lydian.

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