Episode 139: “Eight Miles High” by the Byrds
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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The Seven Most Common Modes in Western Diatonic Music
On the Milestones album, we get some of the first examples of a form that became known as modal jazz. Oddly, it seems to be one of the first types of popular music to have existed in theory before existing in practice. Starting on La, we have the Aeolian mode, which is also known as the natural minor scale. And finally you have the Lachrian mode, Tito Vaimi Fasolatido.
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