How To Make Music With The LYDIAN Scale [Chords, Progressions, Lead]

hello international nice to see you you requested it in the comments and here it is how to make music with the lydian scale the lydian scale is super bright and it's an optimist scale and it's used in movie soundtracks to indicate heroism and sense of wonder here's an example now the a lydian scale is a b c sharp d sharp e f sharp g sharp the only difference with a major scale with an a major scale is the fourth note in an a major scale you will have a natural d so here you have a sharp fourth note as usual to really hear the sound of a scale is not enough to just play it it's best to harmonize it so let's see what are the triads in the scale on the first note i can build an a major triad ac sharp e on the second note i can build another major triad b d sharp f sharp b major triad on the third note c sharp i can build a minor triad c sharp e g sharp on the fourth note i have a diminished triad d sharp f sharp a and if i wanted to add the seventh i would have a d sharp minor seventh flat five d sharp f sharp a c sharp we're gonna see this later it's interesting on the fifth note i have an e major triad e g sharp b on the sixth i have an f sharp minor triad of sharp a c sharp and on the last one i have a g sharp minor triad g sharp b d sharp now the most important thing to do when you play the lydian scale and also the reason why some people find it hard to use is that you have to avoid the pull of the major scale the major scale is a much more stable sound and we are much more accustomed to hear major scale than lydian scales and since there is a little difference between major and lydian you have to make sure that you hear lydian and not major and this happens with two major scales not one so first you want to avoid playing a natural d note anywhere you are playing the a lydian scale because the natural d will make your ear think that you are actually listening to an a major scale completely spoiling the effect and this happened typically by mistake so make sure you don't make this specific mistake don't play a natural d otherwise it completely spoils the effect of the a lydian scale but that's not all because you see the alien scale has the same notes as the e major scale e f sharp g sharp a b c sharp the only difference is that in the a lydian scale you make sure that a is the root of our scale by playing either an a major chord or an a note prominently in our music while in the e major scale e is the root so what we need to do here is to make sure that there is no way that your ear could lock in the e note as the root as such it's best to avoid playing the e chord completely and to avoid repeating the e naught in the solo or hold the e note for a long time don't do those two things i mean you can get away doing this this is not an absolute rule but it's very easy to overdo it and then your ear starts to interpret your music as if it's in image or not in a lydian again completely spoiling the effects now here are a couple of super typical chord progression in a lydian the first chord progression is just a and b and i'm gonna hold the a naught at the base to make sure you hear that as the root now this chord progression sound in a lydian because i'm starting with the first triad and the second chord i play contains my sharp fourth if the other chords i played did not contain this d-sharp there would be no way to distinguish your chord progression from a chord progression in a major so you want to make sure that the other chords you're playing around the a chord at least one of them must contain d sharp there are only three chords that contain the sharp and those are b and we just play the chord progression with that another one is g sharp minor so i could play a g sharp minor [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the other code that contains the d-sharp is the d-sharp diminished triad in this case though it typically sounds best if you play the d-sharp minor 7 flat 5 chord rather than just playing the d-sharp triad again personal taste you guys can do whatever you want here is a and then d-sharp minor seventh flat five [Music] so now so far we've seen the a chord the big hoe the g sharp minor chord d sharp minor seventh fly chord and we also said that it's better to not play the e chord at all the other two chords f sharp minor and c sharp minor are very close in sound to a and that's because they share two notes with it a is ac sharp e f sharp minor is f sharp a c sharp so as you see two notes in common and c sharp minor is c sharp e g sharp so you see two notes in common too so so we could use those two chords to substitute every now and then for the a chord a longer chord progression for instance could be that a d sharp minor 7 flat 5 c sharp minor b all of them with the base of a [Music] if you want to play a lead with the a lydian scale again i recommend you try to avoid as much as you can at least the e arpeggio so try to avoid playing the notes e g sharp and b together because this may make the whole solo sound in e major as opposed to a lydian now of course you'll always have the option to play the full scale so the full a lydian scale but i find more interesting if you limit yourself to just a few nodes it tends to sound better and be more characteristic so here's a couple of trick trick number one is over an alien progression or just the a chord play a g sharp minor pentatonic if you look at the note of the g sharp minor pentatonic you see that it has the notes g sharp b c sharp d sharp and f sharp so essentially you have all the lydian scale except the first and the fifth the a and e since the root triad is a major a c sharp e the only rest node that you are left with is c sharp and then you have all the tension nodes of the lydian scale these tend to sound quite good and quintessentially lydian but it may be strange on your hands the first time you try because all the function of the notes are different than the one you're used to when you play the minor pentatonic so the minor pentatonic will sound strange and surprising at first so give it some time and it will work another option for the a lydian scale or the a chord is to use the g sharp higher joshi scale the ira josh's scale has notes g-sharp a c-sharp d-sharp e or if you prefer that's just the a major arpeggio a c-sharp e with the major 7 g-sharp and the sharp fourth d sharp those are just a few basic trick about the lydian scale if you want to know more about it like how to play it all over your fretboard how to remember it and identify it on the spot how to use it in your music and in an improvisation then i recommend that you have a look at the master of the mods guitar course this is not a book it's a complete video course made by guitar players for guitar players about scales and mods on your guitar these courses teaches you practically how to play the scale how to remember them how to find them all over your fretboard where to use them how to use them to sound great if you want to learn to write or improvise a solo over any kind of chord progression then master of the mods is the course for you you can check out the master of the mods course on the link on the top right if you like this video smash on that like button don't forget to subscribe and do click on notification otherwise youtube will never let you know when i put up a new video and if you have any suggestions feedback comments write them down in the comments i'm loving eating from you and hey this video was made because of a request in the comments so ask me what you want and i'll try to make a video on it this is the master zillio of musityforguitar.com and until next time enjoy

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Keywords: lydian scale, lydian mode, lydian chords, lydian mode guitar, lydian mode example, music theory for guitar, tommaso zillio

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Length: 10min 44sec (644 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 14 2020