Scale Spy
Hi everyone.

Is it just me, or do some of you fail to see the point of Scale Spy?

I get that it's teaching us the sound of individual scales, but how is this any use in the music world?

For example, if you play me major scale and a mixolydian scale, I'll probably be able to tell you which is which. However, if you play me a song written in a major key and another written in a mixolydian mode, I seriously doubt I'd know the difference. So what then, is the point of Scale Spy?

Thanks.
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Adam Deering
Nov 01
Thank you all for your replies.

@Dima G that was a bit advanced for me, I'm afraid, but I appreciate the time you took to provide an answer.
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Dima G
Nov 01
@Adam Deering If simplified, the main point I was trying to make is that for most of the music it's more beneficial to see all the melody and chord changes coming from the major scale (with alterations where needed) instead of switching scales per chord. So if a song is arpeggiating through I-vi-VI-V progression you'd hear: do-mi-sol la-do-mi fa-la-do sol-ti-re. You will not move where do is on every chord.

And so with scale spy if you hear a mixolydian scale, you'll likely hear it (within the exercise) as do-re-mi-fa-sol-te-do, but instead you should be hearing it like sol-la-ti-do-re-mi-fa-sol. with a resolution to do-mi-sol as your tonic chord. Does it make more sense?
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Adam Deering
Nov 06, 17:58
@Dima G Hi! Just the bit about the mixolydian scale starting on sol. Is that because it naturally starts in G?
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