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Aeolian Mode

Lesson 27 from: Music Theory Essentials: Chords, Scales and Modes

Tomas George

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27. Aeolian Mode

<b>In this lesson, you will learn about the Aeolian mode.</b>
Next Lesson: Locrian Mode

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Aeolian Mode

OK. So Olean, this is the same as the natural minor scale or it's the six note degree of the major scale. So if we just think of the natural minor scale, the Olean's really just kind of the old fashioned modal way of saying a natural minor scale. However, if we have a major scale, for example, here, I've written out c major scale, we can change this to a minor scale or an Aeolian scale by flattening the third, flattening the sixth and flattening the seventh. So if we wanted to change C major to C minor or to C A mode, we flatten the third. So we change this E to an E flat, we flatten the six which would be this A to an A flat and then the seven which is this B to a B flat and this will create AC AOL scale also known as AC minus scale. So that's the Olean, it's just another way really of saying a natural minor scale. Next, we're gonna have a look at Locrian...

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