How To Sound Like Steve Vai - Lydian Mode Unlocked - Easy Guitar Lesson To Get Going In Minutes!

today on the channel we're going to talk about lydian mode and how to sound like Steve Vai [Music] [Applause] [Music] ah yes hey everybody welcome back today we're going to talk about lydian mode and how to sound like Steve Vai in your soloing so it's no secret that Steve Vai loves lydian mode and I can't show you every trick in the book how to sound like Steve I I'm not sure Steve Vai could do that himself but one of the the many secrets and things that he uses are modes and lydian mode is by far one of his favorite modes out there and it's it's very vi-esque so let's take a look at it before we get started I want to let you know I'm tuned to E flat because I didn't feel like setting this guitar up to standard it's already tuned to E flat and I I just didn't I feel like setting it up to e so without further delay everything that I'm going to show you I'm going to speak as if we're in standard tuning so we're going to learn lydian mode in a so so we're going to take uh an a major chord okay and let's think about it this way back when you were in grade school uh pretty much all of us took music class and we sang in chorus or we sang Do Re Mi Faso latido right and that is a major scale and a major scale consists of a series of whole steps and half steps it's all whole steps except between step three and four is a half a step in between step seven and eight it's a half step and that's where we get Doremi Faso latido which is in a okay guitar players uh soloists love to play three notes per string a lot of the times because it just feels it's easy to play right and you can do a lot of Legato runs so I'm going to show you an a major scale that is in the middle of the fretboard that's three notes per string and it sounds like this now I didn't end on an A but that's three notes per string [Music] then down [Music] all right so there's a major now if we take that same pattern this is our a on the low E if we go up to this e on the 12th fret and we play that same exact shape that same geometrical shape foreign foreign [Applause] [Music] okay so you can move that pattern anywhere you can play an A major scale a b a g a d a c e flat that pattern will anywhere that you play it on the scale will be the whatever note that you start on that's your major scale so the way that lydian works is it takes a major scale just like we did and it takes the the fourth note of that scale which in the a major scale it's this D but it's sharp it makes it a sharp so it makes it a D sharp so an a lydian sounds like this [Music] hear that all right so we aren't going to read music and we're not going to think about it that way we're just going to learn we're going to learn these shapes that I'm showing you so what the way that it works out mathematically is an E major scale has the same notes as an a lydian scale so when you play this e major pattern up here it's got the same notes as a lydian and pretty much you can apply that theory anywhere on the fretboard so you just have to think of it this way if you're in the key of A if you want to play a lydian you go up five steps a b c d e and that fifth that fifth note E you play that major scale and there's your lydian okay so if you're in C the key is c c lydian would be c d e f g you play a G Major scale over C so now you're automatically in playing C lydian it's because those notes in A G Major scale equate to C lydian so back to a we're just going to play an E major scale over a two things I want to point out that are very important is there are there are many different places on the fretboard in positions to play in E Major scale or any scale so I'm going to show you at the end of this video I'm going to put up a screenshot that's got all the positions for E major if you memorize those positions you can play this a lydian all over the fretboard or E major all over the fretboard all right and you can apply that to any key that you want you just have to memorize those shapes and then wherever you move it you can change to a different key let's think back to to a lydian okay the other thing that I want you to think about is um when you're if you're going to write a song in lydian you want to avoid the fourth note or the fourth chord so if you're an a you don't want the chord the chord the D chord in your song Because if you're playing a d chord and you're playing a Lydia and you're going to be hitting a C sharp when you're playing a lydian and an M1 gel with that D chord so you're gonna stick away from playing the four chord in your songs so a lot of times in Lydia and you'll hear you'll hear stuff like they'll play A's and they'll go up to a five then maybe a two like a b okay and then they they made they may do different chords but they will not they won't stick around it they'll never play that four chord because that four chord has it won't gel with that sharp four so a lot of times in Lydia and you'll hear them just grooving around the tonic note of whatever lydian mode that you're in so to demonstrate this I've got an audio track and I'm going to play a drone with a little bit of a percussion beat behind it and it's an A so I'm going to play an A major scale over this drone first I'm going to let your ears get used to what it sounds like in a major just standard Doremi Faso latido right and then I'm going to play the E major scale over this same drone pattern and it's the same pattern but I want you to hear how it sounds like lydian towards the end I'll start improvising and doing other things in E Major throughout the fretboard to give you an idea of some of the things that you can do the possibilities are almost endless they pretty much are endless and it's a lot of fun so I encourage you to work with a drone uh and and if you've got a synthesizer or if you've got a Looper and work with work with this scale and you'll be surprised at some of the things that you can come up with it's it's pretty fun and it'll make you sound like you're super Advanced and perk up a lot of people's ears so let's check out these these patterns first a major and then I'm gonna do a lydian and so let's check it out [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] so as you can tell from those audio examples a major and a lydian have a completely different sound and feel and the cool thing about it is it's the same pattern that we're playing just in a different location on the fretboard so take a look at some of those scale patterns that I put on the prior slide those are E major scales but played over an a drone sounds like a lydian because those are the same notes found in an a lydian scale so I hope this video was informative I hope that it was easy to understand and you enjoyed it and it unlocks some of your hidden potential and inspires you to play more so please comment below if you like this kind of content consider subscribing and as always have a great day peace out [Music] foreign [Music]

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Length: 11min 45sec (705 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 10 2022