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Composing with Modes: Ionian

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Ionian is the mode most people already know — even if they don’t realize it yet. It’s the sound behind a huge amount of familiar music, and in this episode I start a mini-series looking at each mode and how it can be used when composing. Instead of treating it as theory on paper, I look at Ionian as something you can actually write with — how it behaves, how it feels under your fingers, and what happens when you start treating it as a creative tool rather than just a scale. This is the first of a seven part series where I break down each musical mode so you can use in your own composing. To get more help with the concept, here's an article that contains visuals, music examples, video explanations, and a pdf of all the Ionian scales: Click Here To learn more about the podcast, click here. To sign up to the newsletter, click here.

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