I joined Salisbury as their keyboardist this past summer. The band had just completed their debut album and were looking to replicate the album sound in a live setting. Ed, the drummer, recorded piano tracks on the majority of the album’s songs. Some of these parts were simply reinforcing the songs’ harmony while in other songs they provided a prominent instrumental melody. As a band member I have been able to not only replicate the album, but also add some new parts. The song “Missouri” is in D major however it ends on the dominant (A). I added a little sequence of harmonic thirds to the end of the song travelling an octave from A3 to A4. Everyone in the band thought it sounded cool so it stayed. Soon Wil, the bassist began playing it with me. However he screwed it up every time playing a G sharp instead of a G natural. When I explained to him at practice before the show that because the scale originated on the dominant note it was a Mixolydian scale rather than a major scale he looked at me as if I was speaking in Latin – which I might have been. However, during the show he nailed it. Then he turned to me and said “Mixolydian, huh?”
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