E Mixolydian on Guitarrón

E Mixolydian runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is mapped onto this instrument's A–D–G–C–E–A fingerboard with every E marked, because what a player needs mid-number is not the pattern but where the root is when the harmony moves under it.

Major with a flatted 7th (b7) — bright and bluesy. The dominant chord turned into a tonal center with a rock/folk edge.

Heard in: "Sweet Home Chicago", "Norwegian Wood" (Beatles), Celtic and folk music — anywhere a major sound needs a darker, looser edge.

The bass takes almost no melodic line, and that is precisely why these matter: the notes between one root and the next come out of a scale, and an approach that lands wrong is the loudest wrong note in the ensemble.

Take it slowly against the playback until the geometry stops being geometry, then put it under a number in E and let the written line pick its own notes out of it.