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TheDirt
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TheDirt
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09/24/2003 5:37 pm
Don't try to overcomplicate things. As noticing said, the progression is in B Aeolian, so you shuold solo in B Aeolian. By switching to D Ionian and G Mixolydian, you're just using excess thought where it's not needed. The listener will not notice the difference, because it's the chord progression that determines key center, not the soloist.
What you could do is add flavor notes to B Aeolian. You can play the b9 (which implies using B Phyrgian over a B Aeolian progression), the b5 (implying B Locrian), the #7 (implying B Harmonic Minor), the natural 6 instead of Aeolian's b6 (implying B Dorian).
Hopefully you see the point I'm getting at. Every substitution of modes that I made was going from mode B [insert mode] to B [insert mode]. The tonal center of B is constant throughout the song. Going from B Aeolian to D Ionian is pointless. However, B Aeolian to B Dorian back to B Aeolian is not. Make sense?
Also, feel free to use the GuitarTricks search engine to look up more posts on modes. I just did a search of all the things I've written on modes. Go to this link to check it out. You should find some useful info in some of those posts.

http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/search.php?query=modes&forumchoice=3&booleanand=yes&searchin=all&searchdate=-1&searchuser=TheDirt&searchdateline=&exactname=yes&action=dosearch&getdaily=&pagenum=
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