Dobro Fills With C Mixolydian

C Mixolydian runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's GBDGBD neck with every C marked, because what a fill needs mid-song is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes 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 dobro slides into notes rather than fretting them cleanly, so a scale here is a target list for the bar more than a set of stops — the slide finds the pitch, the scale says which pitch to find.

Play it slowly against the audio until the shape stops being a shape, then take it to a song in C and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.