You have already met them? Men in Red, unshaved and with big bags on their back? Reindeers with bells. Jingle here, jingle there. The whole town is like a ship, ready for travel. Believe it or not, in Sweden it´s something of tradition to watch Donald Duck & co in the afternoon of the 24th of december. It´s since the days of only one TV-channel.
Guitarplayers, anyway, often wait for other pleasureable moments. Something new, beyond that usual germanian round-the-christmastree-dancing with midgets.
Why not a new scale? Take any cheap keyboard, you find the whites. Hey! That´s the old C major scale, c d e f g a b (c)... Once again, do a little change, instead of f, take f#, with a little movement of your index-finger. Find it on the fretboard of your well tuned guitar also.
If your guitar is in the pawn-shop, get it.
The inhaltung of the scale, with f#, is identical with the G-major scale, but in "wrong" order.
It doesn´t matter, in the front of the mirror you now can be Carlos Santana. Or should I say; Mandrake.
Suitable background chords are for example Am and D7. Let your combo repeat the background with steady beat...., and your neighbors dance around the christmas tree like under hypnosis
They jump like rabbits, screamin for more!
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Hello Mikael!
It's nice to see you and our friend, the Lydian mode, on the net during the Christmas season.
Reindeer love the modes, in part because of the interesting names that they have!
Merry Christmas-
:) Sarah
Merry Christmas for you too...! I´m still (always will be) working with my english. Talking about modes, more are coming, but not the ordinary way I think...
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