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Welcome to guitarlessons.com. In this lesson, we’re going to learn about the Ionian mode and how it sounds, and how it’s going to bring that sound out in our playing. So for the key of G major, the Ionian mode, all it is really is a G major scale. So we have this scale right here, we’re going to emphasize a couple of notes just to bring out the flavor of that mode and we’re going to stay away or not we’re necessary will stay away, but kind of handle with care one particular note.
First of all, we’re going to want to bring out the notes that are in the G major, 7 arpeggio and that would be G, B, D, and F #. That’s the 1, 3, 5, and 7 of a G major 7th chord when we relate it to a G major scale. And those are really the notes that we want to emphasize to bring out the Ionian sound. Now the note you want to handle with care, not avoid, but handle with care is the 4th. So it would be G, A, E, C. C is cool to play occasionally if you want to express the Ionian mode but usually, if you hit the 4th it’s sliding up to the 5 or slide it down, or point it off to the 3. So just handle the 4th scale with you with a little bit of care and don’t dwell on it too much.
So a good thing to practice for this would be to take a progression that just goes 1, 4, 5 in the key of G.
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So those are some good chords to use when you’re practicing your Ionian mode or major scale, is the 1, 4, 5. That chord progression kind of hints at the Ionian mode because you have 1, a major 1, major 4, and a major 5. So take that and try to learn how to express that particular sound of the Ionian mode.
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