The Major Scale has been the foundation of music across Europe for centuries, if not millenia. Early church music and folk music may have been leaning to a modal preference, but that is still based upon the modes of the Major scale, namely: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian. If we turn further back through the pages of musical thought even further, all the way to the Greece of Plato, it is still the Major scale that dominates the musical vocab

This is the first in a series of posts that looks at the music of ex-Beatle George Harrison. Often, his music has an ethereal quality, no doubt influenced by his passion for spirituality and his never ending quest for answers. It is rare indeed that a musician continues in this vein throughout his career, but that he did. The first piece we are going to look at, is his classic from his triple album All Things Must Pass. Released 55 years ago this month, it contains the song B

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