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Uncle Bob's Guitar Lessons
Lesson 3 - Elementary Chords And Theory
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Guitar and Music Theory

Chords found in Modal Scales

(Please see the" Chords Found in a Major Scale" page first.)

I don't want to get into modes too heavily here, but here is a list of chords that you would find in each of the several most-used modal scales:

Degree/Mode	Ionian	Dorian	Phrygian	Lydian	Mixolydian	Aeolian	Locrian
Tonic	Maj	min	min	Maj	Maj	min	dim
Supertonic	min	min	Maj	Maj	min	dim	Maj
Mediant	min	Maj	Maj	min	dim	Maj	min
Subdominant	Maj	Maj	min	dim	Maj	min	min
Dominant	Maj	min	dim	Maj	min	min	Maj
Submediant	min	dim	Maj	min	min	Maj	Maj
Subtonic	dim	Maj	min	min	Maj	Maj	min

As stated above, I don't want to get into modes too heavily, but suffice it to say that the Ionian mode is the same as a major scale, and the Aeolian mode is the same as a minor scale.