C Mixolydian Scale on Guitalele

Play the C Mixolydian scale on Guitalele with fretboard diagrams that map the pattern across the neck. The Mixolydian scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the modes family.

Guitalele's tuning sits inside this one: all 5 open strings are scale tones and one of them is C itself — A (the 6th), D (the 2nd), G (the 5th), C (the root), E (the 3rd). Open-string drones cost nothing here. Open, the strings cover A2 to A4.

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.

Guitalele is tuned A–D–G–C–E–A, with 15 frets to work with. Guitar shapes work unchanged on guitalele — finger them exactly as charted; every shape sounds a perfect fourth higher than on guitar.

Each position shows the scale notes and their intervals from the root so you can connect the shape to its sound, hear it with audio playback, and practice it in any register. Movable patterns let you transpose the same fingering to other keys once it is learned.

Once a position is under your fingers, link the C Mixolydian scale to the chords it harmonizes and to progressions in the key of C to start improvising and writing with it. Working a scale alongside its chords is the fastest way to make it stick and to hear how it colors a progression.