How Melody & Harmony Interact part 3 – creating modal progressions

  1. Pick a mode and a key
  2. Write out notes in scale
  3. Write notes of the I chord to the 7th (Start on mode, every other for 1, 3, 5, 7)
  4. Write notes of II chord to the 7th (Start on and build 1, 3, 5, 7)
  5. Write notes of the VII chord to the 7th (Start on 7 and build 1, 3, 5, 7)
  6. Name I chord
  7. Name II chord
  8. Name VII chord
  9. Play all 3 chords in this fashion |  I  |  II  VII  |  or |  I  |  %  |  II  |  VII  |  (any time signature or tempo)