The Cult's Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy. If you’ve ever found the major scale annoyingly happy but the minor scale too moody, do we ever have something for you. Technically, the Mixolydian scale is the ...

Like its Lydian cousin, the Mixolydian mode deviates from the major scale by just one note – the major 7th, which is lowered by a semitone to become a minor 7th. It's a crucial difference that gives ...