Favourite Diatonic Mode

Vanilla ice cream is ok. Not more not less. Except if it's very good vanilla ice-cream, or very bad vanilla ice-cream.

Nobody said mixolydian?

I like Dorian a lot but then again i havent really messed around with modes too much yet, im really new to the piano. but i love it.

I played on the mixolydian yesterday though and it sounded cool

Nobody said mixolydian? ...I played on the mixolydian yesterday though and it sounded cool

I don't really like unaltered dominant sounds. :whistling:

I take it your favorite mode of melodic minor is diminished whole-tone?

I take it your favorite mode of melodic minor is diminished whole-tone?

That's a good one for sure...gets all those juicy notes in there: b9, #9, #11, b13...YUM!

Gotta say Dorian, Super Locrian, Lydian and Phygrian

Superlocrian wins :D (though I'm not sure if modes of the melodic minor count as 'diatonic' modes)

Lydian b2 ftw aswell ;)

*doesn't know any non-diatonic modes* :sadtears:

I would like to learn this "Super Locrian". It sounds powerful.

7th mode of the melodic minor, so same as the locrian mode, but with a diminished 4th.

I will have to be lame and boring and say....Ionian:(

Well, if we're talking modes of melodic minor, Lydian dominant is hard to beat. Altered dominant sound, best of both worlds between Lydian and Mixo, and the diminished fourth is in a nice spot in the scale. Delicious. Aeolian dominant would be a close second for me.

Lydian dominant is a fantastic sound. I've not heard of Aeolian Dominant, would that be the Aeolian mode with a major 3rd?

Yeah--fifth mode of MM. Same thing as Mixo b6, if you think about it. Nice 7b13 tonality.

Ah yeah, mixo b6 is what I learnt it as, 'spose most of the melodic minor modes can be named in several different ways like that.

Mixolydian!

I am ADDICTED to the Mixolydian mode. There isn't one time during a piano improv that I don't play anything in that mode, even if just for 3 seconds.

Definitely Phrygian. The badass mode :P

I tend to add a C-sharp into E minor, so whatever that mode is, its my favorite.

I just mean that Lydian - i.e. the raised 4th is more "natural", theoretically.

The interval of a 5th is the "strongest harmonic interval". Stacking 5ths, when placed in tertian order, results in the Lydian scale.

Also, the overtone series fails to produce a natural-4 even when carried out to 20 harmonics. (the 11th overtone is technically 1/100th of a semitone closer to F# ..to-may-toe, to-mah-toe)

;)

If you want to talk about the harmonic series, technicaly, lydian dominant is more natural than lydian, Bb is beore B in the harmnoic sseries. *starts playing The Simpsons theme song*

Ok, so if you play all the scale degrees of lydian at the same time, and you play ionian the same way, lydian is more connasant, however, harmonicaly, it is easier to mantain a tonic on the ionian mode than lydian. (unless you have information to prove otherwise)

I only briefly looked into the LCC, it seems like all information on it other than the basics dosen't come cheap. >.>

My favorite mode? hmm, I really do love all of them, but most recentley, I would have to say Mixolydian.

Mmm... v - I nice, soothing, carefree.

bVII - I Now we're getting a lil funky! =D

Dorian. Definitely Dorian.

The dorian mode/scale is one of those interesting little happenstances where the octave could theoretically divide symmetrically. If you look at the interval structure of Dorian, WhWWWhW, if you "could" divide that whole step in the center of the structure into halves, we'd have a symmetric, diatonic scale... sorta. So, I guess if we were to try to make a scale out of it, maybe it would look something like... D-E-F-G-G#-A-B-C-D, or WhWhhWhW or something, like some kind of twist on the octatonic/diminished scale (WhWhWhWh or hWhWhWhW). But I digress...

As far as diatonic mode sounds go, I love mixolydian.

The interaction of the major third with the flat seventh is so cool and you can do some neat things with it. Tritones tend to make things sound pretty cool in general.

For usefulness, I'd probably pick another. Lydian or dorian, and they don't sound bad either.

And for the record, vanilla ice cream rocks.

I don't really have a favourite because they're all so useful for different moods. I just love all of them, my composition technique is mainly based around them... but lydian has to be a favourite, it's so magical and floaty. Dreamlike even. I love dorian too because it has a very ancient feel to it, great for celtic music. I love mixolydian too, especially for that carefree piano-rock sound (see About to Crash by Dream Theater, just yummy), but it's also good for softer stuff. And as I'm also a big metalhead, phyrgian is a must for the heavyness ;)

Phrygian for me, It sounds well in many different associations, but when trying to create a dramatic piece, or moment - phrygian works best for me.

also it just sounds awesome.

btw, if you raise the third in the scale - you get a really cool ethnic feel.

Phrygian all the way! Its so unsettled, I love it! :D

Dorian is cool.