The notes
- G1
- A2
- B3
- C4
- D5
- E6
- F♭7
The G mixolydian scale is G, A, B, C, D, E, F.
You may also see it called 1 2 3 4 5 6 ♭7.
On the staff
On a treble staff, the G mixolydian scale is written G A B C D E F.
This is one octave of the G mixolydian scale, written on the treble clef. Ukulele music is written where it sounds, so the clef has no 8 under it.
Why the G mixolydian scale has no sharps or flats
- G1
- T
- A2
- T
- B3
- S
- C4
- T
- D5
- T
- E6
- S
- F♭7
- T
- G8
A scale is a pattern of steps, and this one is T T S T T S T: a tone, a tone, a semitone, and so on. S stands for a semitone, the distance of one fret or one key. T stands for a tone, which is two semitones. The pattern is what gives G mixolydian its sound, and it stays the same whichever note you start on.
The second rule is that a seven-note scale uses each letter name once, from A to G, so its seven notes take seven different letters. That is why G mixolydian is spelled the way it is, rather than with whichever accidental looks tidier.
Every letter already falls where the pattern needs it, so G mixolydian is written with no sharps or flats at all.
The G mixolydian scale needs no sharps or flats, because every letter already falls where the T T S T T S T pattern of steps needs it.
The pattern of steps is the part of a scale that never changes. The letter names take sharps or flats to fit that pattern, and a key signature is a record of those sharps or flats.
On the piano
The keyboard shows the same seven notes as a shape you can see. The colored keys are the G mixolydian scale.
G mixolydian scale on the whole neck
38 notes of the G mixolydian scale are marked across four strings.
This is every place the notes of the G mixolydian scale fall on the ukulele, with each note's name and its scale degree. The roots are marked so you can find your bearings.
Position by position
The G mixolydian scale has six playable positions, at frets 2–6, 4–8, 5–9, 7–11, 9–13 and 10–14.
Each shape starts on a different degree of the scale and fits inside five frets, so your hand can play all of it without moving.
One climb up the neck
The climb runs from fret 0 to fret 12 and plays sixteen notes.
This is one path from the lowest root to the top of the neck, and it plays each note once, never on two strings. It takes four notes on every string. The widest stretch on any one string is five frets.
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