This Round Is Done!

Sorry I was away for a couple weeks. Had other pressing things to deal with, but we're back. And we're going to go through the rounds people proposed during Round 21 in this order:

• Low Hanging Fruit
• Open Minded
• Riffs or Transcribe
• Slide
• Six Layer Finger Take
• Simple Major Pentatonic Over Two Keys
• Alter Chords For Pentatonic Goodness

That's the initial order, and we'll say the winner of the next round can change the order, remove one, or add one to the list.

Without further ado, here's Hank's round.

Low Hanging Fruit

Make my own round? I took the easy way out, I picked the 1 major mode we haven’t done a round on Mixolydian.

Mixolydian is distinguishable by it’s flat 7th from the major scale, thus giving the tonic a dominant tonality.

I think of it as Major Dark.

Wikipedia Mixolydian Mode

Pretty simple backing track, verses are all D Mixo, working over variants of a 3rd inversion D 7. Bridge is BbMaj7 to A, then B C G D Chorus.

Melody leans heavy on the flat 7 … that’s kinda the point :)

Pretty straight forward. I'll give you a few more pointers on this one:

1. First, work out chords that Mixolydian fits over by doing some research online for good mixolydian modal vamps or riffs.
2. Next, record your chords and just play the mixolydian mode over it, making sure to pause on the flat 7th.
3. Do this in a few keys to figure out what one works best.
4. Finally, record the one you like best and send it in.

Experimental Part

Alright, I'm curious to see if we can get people to do this by tomorrow at midnight. I want to see if giving less lead time will make the game more interesting.

So, let's see if we can get this round in the bag Monday, to add to the challenge, and then we'll post the next round Friday so that we give only a few days lead time on rounds from now on.

Of course, if there's no submissions, we'll go back to doing it by next Sunday at midnight.

Go!