1 Resist the "pull" of the major scale: a Avoid playing the natural 4 chord b Avoid the V chord and the 5th note (for a long time) 2 You can use the 1 note as a pedal chord to establish the root 3 4th minor chard flat 5 works well 4 It's better to limit yourself to just a few notes - it sounds better and more characteristic Typical Lydian Chord Progressions: 1. I-II 2. IV-III/bIIV-II with I as the base Scales You can use: 1 VII minor penta: 7-2-3-4-6 2 VII Hirajoshi: 7-1-3-4-5
This is hands down the best lesson on lydian mode. i was just thinking what chord progression makes the lydian mode sound 'lydian'. So extra thanks for the lesson
Yeah I been working on music theory with rhythms. My issue I created a lydian scale come to find out it was a g#m chord set. E f# d#m and g#m7 thought I was getting better. I put a lydian arpeggio to it and it sounded weird but this is a huge progression. Lydian is meant to keep base tone in it. Simple very informative for the mode.
The best lesson I ever heard about this scale, most of the people just explain the scale, but never the posible armonies that you can get with it, which is the really important. Congratulations!
Music theory can be so complex. Amazing how 12 notes can provide all these different concepts and feelings. I wish my music teacher could have been as enthusiastic in presenting these concepts in a straight forward style. Thank you for a great lesson helping me in my preparation of an upcoming Lydian guitar scale and solo lesson.
Every time I watch one of these videos I go away and end up writing a new song, the way you teach is just make s it so easy to assimilate into my playing- thank you
Is it just me or does anyone else feel you learn more this way.. as opposed to someone looking at the camera teaching through conversation and a guitar where you either gotta look where their fingers are you they gotta explain where they are.. (3rd finger G string 4th fret) Its wasting more time beating around the Bush. These visuals answer your questions pretty much as soon as you have one and he demonstrates the sound straight away rather than waffle on. Very good. Sadly it doesnt get more subscribers like the rest.
This was a great lesson. Doing this for each of the church modes would be awesome. Perhaps even branching into the modes of the double harmonic would be interesting too. I love Rick Beato's videos but they can get... dense. Your approach is a great augmentation to his work. You are clear, your information is practical and your style is enjoyable to follow.
I loved Beato's videos, but he never explained things quite as clearly, and he's a dick for banning people for the most absurd reasons. One guy got banned for typing the word _Thicc_ in a "weird text" (referring to the tone in an appreciative way). Another was when he banned one subscriber and threatened to ban a few more of us just for talking to each other in a live stream chat, instead of *only* asking him questions. This was while he was playing the guitar for like 4 - 5 minutes and ignoring the chat. That was the day I unsubscribed. Too bad, because Rick knows a lot of great stuff, but I refuse to support anyone who through their utter lack of self awareness mistreats others so badly, especially when those they mistreat are their own fans.
This video shows what I've been searching for in countless other videos for years! This is the thing! Why don't they all just tell you this first! Straight to the point, no fluff, and it tells you the all-important WHY!!! Thank you so much!
I love the pace that this guy moves at. I might be backing that red bar up a few times during the 10 minute video, but it’s much better than super slow talk where I have to keep sliding the red bar AHEAD all the time!
Nice and helpful video. particularly about the tips on which chords and chord progressions, and the G#min pentatonic that can be used. thank you! I will look forward to similar videos on other modes (of the major, harmonic and melodic minor scales).
I am so happy you mention Hirajoshi. My favorite alternative to western pentatonic. Where minor pentatonic left out some notes, hirajoshi is all the missing ones. Love ya Tomasso 🤘🤘
Earlier I used to follow the sequence of modes like in A I would have played the lydian scale...then in b I would have played the mixolydian scale....n so on...this makes a lot of sense now... youtube has made life easy for sure 👍👍..thanks
8:21 ! Such a Wonderful advice, I was working a lydian chord progression and I didn't think about doing a pentatonic shape on the Major 7th degree, thanks you so much !
Such an illuminating lesson! Grazie molto, Maestro. You have fully explained the nature of the black hole which has been unsettling my Lydian progressions, the E major or E major7 chord. And you have inspired me to sign up for your Master of Modes course.
This lesson is very useful. I always have difficulties with unlocking the sound of the lydian mode and other modes without sounding like I was playing in a major key.
Excellent video! I’ve always didn’t engage with Lydian because it’s complicated Harmony, but now to made it easier at least for me, and you showed me some brilliant beautiful ways to use it. Thank you!
Ok this was awesome it kind of answered a question I have had for a very long time. Not on the Lydian scale while that was good too, but the Minor Pentatonic use. For years I have wondered and asked several people about the Minor Pentatonic fits over the major scale in 3 places. Dorian, Phrygian and of course Aeolian. But I have never figured out on my own and never found anyone else that could tell me uses for it going over Dorian and Phrygian. Which this makes perfect sense as a use for it in Phrygian to go over over Lydian as you avoid the E Major sound. You know if you're looking for another topic, Minor Pentatonic over the Major Scale in Dorian and Phrygian would not make me upset in any way. Many of your videos unlock different gaps or holes in my music theory knowledge, which is why I love your channel so much and this was one that I have given a lot of through too for couple years actually but never found a real answer to. Thanks for doing what you do.
Tommaso! I'm actually working on a tune that floats between lydian and natural minor. Love these lessons, sir! Show these folks why lydian is one of the coolest sounds in music.
Nice that you mentioned using G# pentatonic scale. I like to shift back and forth between the G# pentatonic and the C# pentatonic when playing A lydian.
Yea. I've been basically _targeting_ the sharp four a bit more aggressively to get around that. This explanation of how the harmony works is a great help.
Instead of targeting the sharp 4, target the tonic note (C) to keep the sound of the mode and make it clear where "home" is. Also, keep the tonic note as a pedal tone in your chord progressions and focusing on the I-II progression
I always love your suggestions for progression and leads. I don't know of another Rabbi that consistently points out the chords and notes that either squeeze the juice from the various modes or are problematic. Would love an overview of the modes that does that, if you are looking for suggestions.
I want to take your master of the modes course and I'm not even a guitar player. I wish there was such a course for keyboard players. Of course I could take up guitar, but really I'm too old and just about to go buy a new keyboard. Thank you so much for your great videos
You can consider my other course, complete chord mastery. Write me at tommaso@musictheoryforguitar.com so we can make sure it's the right course for you (it really depends what you want to learn)
PERFECT! Accurately displayed... Nothing to add. I have a somewhat interesting request for Tomasso. We do have some scales which are equivalent to 'Thaats' and some 'Ragas' in India. However there is one Raga to which I don't think there is any scale in western, and I guarantee you a super exciting sound. I will just state the notes with C as root: C C# E F# G G# B . Plz reply me Tomasso if u like this sound and will do a video on this. So far I have found no one which has treated this scale in the Western approach. ;-)
echo what so many other comments said: I could have done the math on the Lydian scale, but after this, I can go compose and play something that SOUNDS Lydian. Starting with F, because I'm barely beginning at the keyboard and white notes are easier, but once I'm Lydian-ing all over the keyboard, perhaps I'll find your videos on the other modes (you DID make videos for the other modes, yes?)
Nice..in Indian music this scale is known as mecha Kalyani..various modes are there like,Kalyani,yamuna Kalyani,poorvaKalyan,hameer Kalyan,yaman...etc...just listen some Indian music based on Kalyani raaga..you get all the exotic colours of the lydian scale more than western.
Great lesson. If you were to start adding upper extensions to the chords should we always stay clear from Dominant 7 so B7 in your example ? Will that break the Lydian as it will always want to resolve back to its parent scale? Are there any other extensions we should avoid?
Always know it’s going to be good when I see you post a new video! Could you do a video on 6th chords? And 6/9, etc. I’m curious how many different 6th chords there are (like is there minor/major?) and their uses (like I know the m6 chord gets used on the IV)
Great content here! So if you make a modal chord progression in lydian, is it true that the less chords the better? I've seen a couple modal harmony videos if I remember right saying that you don't want to add too many chords to the progression. I feel like I need at least 3 chords to make a good chord progression, otherwise it will be either boring or drony? Maybe 2 chords is enough for lydian?
Bravo Tommaso! Always good content and easy to follow. Is this the same scale used in chanson ballade by guillaume de machaut? (l'almanacco del giorno dopo)
Do you still avoid the 5th where it appears in other chords? So for example if I did Gmaj7 F#min7 C#min7 Bmin7 Gmaj7 F#min7 C#min7 Emin6/7 ( i think i wrote that last chord wrong? )
You can use it, but you have to pay attention not to put much emphasis on it. If you do a pedal note with E, for instance, then likely it will sound like E major.
The progression "A, B, C#m, G#m7" is in the key of A Lydian or E major? There is no E chord in this progression, but this progression resolves way better in A.
Solo tips at the end are pure fire
1 Resist the "pull" of the major scale:
a Avoid playing the natural 4 chord
b Avoid the V chord and the 5th note (for a long time)
2 You can use the 1 note as a pedal chord to establish the root
3 4th minor chard flat 5 works well
4 It's better to limit yourself to just a few notes - it sounds better and more characteristic
Typical Lydian Chord Progressions:
1. I-II
2. IV-III/bIIV-II with I as the base
Scales You can use:
1 VII minor penta: 7-2-3-4-6
2 VII Hirajoshi: 7-1-3-4-5
Tomasso! You drop so much knowledge that I hurt my back picking it all up! Your work here is priceless.
Always stretch before doing any heavy lifting, lols.
so true! 🍀👍🏻🍀
This is hands down the best lesson on lydian mode. i was just thinking what chord progression makes the lydian mode sound 'lydian'. So extra thanks for the lesson
He's definitely one of the best on the Internet with his theory.
Yeah I been working on music theory with rhythms. My issue I created a lydian scale come to find out it was a g#m chord set. E f# d#m and g#m7 thought I was getting better. I put a lydian arpeggio to it and it sounded weird but this is a huge progression. Lydian is meant to keep base tone in it. Simple very informative for the mode.
Great lesson. I really appreciate the blend of practical application and supporting theory. The whiteboard explanations are remarkably clear. Cheers!
The best lesson I ever heard about this scale, most of the people just explain the scale, but never the posible armonies that you can get with it, which is the really important. Congratulations!
Music theory can be so complex. Amazing how 12 notes can provide all these different concepts and feelings. I wish my music teacher could have been as enthusiastic in presenting these concepts in a straight forward style. Thank you for a great lesson helping me in my preparation of an upcoming Lydian guitar scale and solo lesson.
Thank for explaining so well how the harmony works. Knowing why not to play the Major V chord in lydian alone is invaluable.
Every time I watch one of these videos I go away and end up writing a new song, the way you teach is just make s it so easy to assimilate into my playing- thank you
Violinist not guitarist but completely understood and took two pages of notes thank you so much
Is it just me or does anyone else feel you learn more this way.. as opposed to someone looking at the camera teaching through conversation and a guitar where you either gotta look where their fingers are you they gotta explain where they are.. (3rd finger G string 4th fret)
Its wasting more time beating around the Bush. These visuals answer your questions pretty much as soon as you have one and he demonstrates the sound straight away rather than waffle on.
Very good. Sadly it doesnt get more subscribers like the rest.
This was a great lesson. Doing this for each of the church modes would be awesome. Perhaps even branching into the modes of the double harmonic would be interesting too. I love Rick Beato's videos but they can get... dense. Your approach is a great augmentation to his work. You are clear, your information is practical and your style is enjoyable to follow.
I loved Beato's videos, but he never explained things quite as clearly, and he's a dick for banning people for the most absurd reasons. One guy got banned for typing the word _Thicc_ in a "weird text" (referring to the tone in an appreciative way). Another was when he banned one subscriber and threatened to ban a few more of us just for talking to each other in a live stream chat, instead of *only* asking him questions. This was while he was playing the guitar for like 4 - 5 minutes and ignoring the chat. That was the day I unsubscribed. Too bad, because Rick knows a lot of great stuff, but I refuse to support anyone who through their utter lack of self awareness mistreats others so badly, especially when those they mistreat are their own fans.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 wow, for real? I love Rick's stuff and never knew he acted in this manner. Bummer man.
This video shows what I've been searching for in countless other videos for years! This is the thing! Why don't they all just tell you this first! Straight to the point, no fluff, and it tells you the all-important WHY!!! Thank you so much!
I love the pace that this guy moves at. I might be backing that red bar up a few times during the 10 minute video, but it’s much better than super slow talk where I have to keep sliding the red bar AHEAD all the time!
Nice and helpful video. particularly about the tips on which chords and chord progressions, and the G#min pentatonic that can be used. thank you! I will look forward to similar videos on other modes (of the major, harmonic and melodic minor scales).
Thank you so much dude!! I don't see people covering the chords within modes. This helped my writing alot!!
I am so happy you mention Hirajoshi. My favorite alternative to western pentatonic.
Where minor pentatonic left out some notes, hirajoshi is all the missing ones. Love ya Tomasso 🤘🤘
How many of you noticed the subtle pun introduced at 7:07?
I learned and laughed at the same time. You sir, are a genius!!
Earlier I used to follow the sequence of modes like in A I would have played the lydian scale...then in b I would have played the mixolydian scale....n so on...this makes a lot of sense now... youtube has made life easy for sure 👍👍..thanks
DAMN!!!! DUDE!!!!! As a keyboard player former guitarist this is a gem. Thank you!!! So much!!!!
8:21 ! Such a Wonderful advice, I was working a lydian chord progression and I didn't think about doing a pentatonic shape on the Major 7th degree, thanks you so much !
Such an illuminating lesson! Grazie molto, Maestro. You have fully explained the nature of the black hole which has been unsettling my Lydian progressions, the E major or E major7 chord. And you have inspired me to sign up for your Master of Modes course.
This lesson is very useful. I always have difficulties with unlocking the sound of the lydian mode and other modes without sounding like I was playing in a major key.
Best tutorial - what I struggled with for years is now clear thanks to this video. You are incredible please keep up the amazing work.
Maaan, I´ve been digging your lessons on using the modes and so far this has been more helpful than a lot of my theory classes. Thank you a lot!!!
Excellent video!
I’ve always didn’t engage with Lydian because it’s complicated Harmony, but now to made it easier at least for me, and you showed me some brilliant beautiful ways to use it. Thank you!
Ok this was awesome it kind of answered a question I have had for a very long time. Not on the Lydian scale while that was good too, but the Minor Pentatonic use. For years I have wondered and asked several people about the Minor Pentatonic fits over the major scale in 3 places. Dorian, Phrygian and of course Aeolian. But I have never figured out on my own and never found anyone else that could tell me uses for it going over Dorian and Phrygian. Which this makes perfect sense as a use for it in Phrygian to go over over Lydian as you avoid the E Major sound. You know if you're looking for another topic, Minor Pentatonic over the Major Scale in Dorian and Phrygian would not make me upset in any way. Many of your videos unlock different gaps or holes in my music theory knowledge, which is why I love your channel so much and this was one that I have given a lot of through too for couple years actually but never found a real answer to. Thanks for doing what you do.
Love how the lessons wind up with a simple way of applying the scale to a couple of triads. SUBSCRIBED!
Best video I've watched in ages!! Please do one video for every mode!!!
He's done a few modes already. ruclips.net/user/MusicTheoryForGuitarvideos
Very well done. Thank you for the clear and concise lesson. The practical application is incredibly helpful. Looking forward to the next video!
Fantastic, Tomasso. We owe you so much
best lesson ever. You are great sir. I was facing this issue for a very long time. Thank you so much!
Tommaso! I'm actually working on a tune that floats between lydian and natural minor. Love these lessons, sir!
Show these folks why lydian is one of the coolest sounds in music.
You are experimenting with light and darkness... I'm sure it must be beautiful
You might like dorian 4#
@@TedBoyRomarino I'll check it out. I haven't played with that yet. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@frenchiesfrankieandhenry If you ask, Tommaso might do a video on that scale. 8-)
Dorian #4 is on the list, yes :)
Nice that you mentioned using G# pentatonic scale. I like to shift back and forth between the G# pentatonic and the C# pentatonic when playing A lydian.
That works too :)
Oh my! Such a wonderfull lesson filled with important information. Tested, it works. Thank you so much.
Again, Great video! I really enjoy listening to how you explain things. So interesting and easy to follow.
Great lesson, beautiful sound.
This is exactly what I needed, thanks you
The intros to the verse on "Don't Tell Me You Love Me" by Nightranger.
"Pull of the major scale"
That's exactly why I always feel like I'm in G while playing in C Lydian.
Yea. I've been basically _targeting_ the sharp four a bit more aggressively to get around that. This explanation of how the harmony works is a great help.
Instead of targeting the sharp 4, target the tonic note (C) to keep the sound of the mode and make it clear where "home" is. Also, keep the tonic note as a pedal tone in your chord progressions and focusing on the I-II progression
Listen to the beginning of "Here Comes My Girl" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Crazy that this is free. Thank you so much!
Incredible lesson! This was super helpful, I can’t wait to give it a try!!
Awesome as always!
Awesome,
Harmonised lydian chords ala John Schofield tuition video pushes the lydian sound immensely! Please show us Master!
Very good note with hiraioshi over lydian. Hadnt though of that idea even though i knew both lyd and hira. Sounds very nice indeed!
Impossible not to sound magically beautiful with the Lydian mode.
I think the most known example among rock guitar players is Flying in a Blue Dream.
Definitely Flying in a Blue Dream!
Thank youfor this great and pleasant video😊
Amazing lesson! Thank you.
Thank you Tomasso for all your clear videos! For the reccord: the Hirajoshi scale was in C#, not in G#
It has these notes: 1 2 b3 5 b6
You're right! I was thinking of 1 b2 4 5 b6...
A video just for me! Thanks!
NO WAY! :) Great name!
This is a truly great tutorial, thanks!
Man, I really love the Lydian scale!
A very helpful info. Thank you.
thats what i want to learn! thank you!
Thank you, Tommaso. This is fascinating. Truely fascinating. But it makes my head hurt. I have to think about this. . .
your content is amazing
Excellent explanation. Thank you.
I always love your suggestions for progression and leads. I don't know of another Rabbi that consistently points out the chords and notes that either squeeze the juice from the various modes or are problematic. Would love an overview of the modes that does that, if you are looking for suggestions.
Very interesting and good explained. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
VERY INTERESTING thanks, long time ago looking for an explanation like this: how to make music out of major/minor (Ionian/aeolian modes)
I guess that applies to any other mode, subtract the difference and proceed to have fun, thanks sir !
Very informative video.....Plz Make for other modes too❤️
Hey, thanks for this❤
sounds deeply! thanks
Very dreamy scale
I love the trick of using the G# minor pentatonic scale to solo over A Lydian. Reusable shapes ftw.
I want to take your master of the modes course and I'm not even a guitar player. I wish there was such a course for keyboard players. Of course I could take up guitar, but really I'm too old and just about to go buy a new keyboard. Thank you so much for your great videos
You can consider my other course, complete chord mastery. Write me at tommaso@musictheoryforguitar.com so we can make sure it's the right course for you (it really depends what you want to learn)
Thanks Master, such a Metal Heads info 🤘
PERFECT! Accurately displayed... Nothing to add.
I have a somewhat interesting request for Tomasso. We do have some scales which are equivalent to 'Thaats' and some 'Ragas' in India. However there is one Raga to which I don't think there is any scale in western, and I guarantee you a super exciting sound. I will just state the notes with C as root: C C# E F# G G# B . Plz reply me Tomasso if u like this sound and will do a video on this. So far I have found no one which has treated this scale in the Western approach. ;-)
Cool scale. Let me see what I can do with that :)
MusicTheoryForGuitar great! Thank u... :-) This scale is called 'Puriya Dhanashree' in Hindustani Classical...
echo what so many other comments said: I could have done the math on the Lydian scale, but after this, I can go compose and play something that SOUNDS Lydian. Starting with F, because I'm barely beginning at the keyboard and white notes are easier, but once I'm Lydian-ing all over the keyboard, perhaps I'll find your videos on the other modes (you DID make videos for the other modes, yes?)
Thank you very much!
Grazie amico!
Ottima lezione come sempre. Il jazz modale quindi utilizza note e’ accordi costruiti con i soliti intervalli dalla scala di partenza?
Nice..in Indian music this scale is known as mecha Kalyani..various modes are there like,Kalyani,yamuna Kalyani,poorvaKalyan,hameer Kalyan,yaman...etc...just listen some Indian music based on Kalyani raaga..you get all the exotic colours of the lydian scale more than western.
That A major chord into D#m7b5 sounds like Radiohead! 😍
Great lesson. If you were to start adding upper extensions to the chords should we always stay clear from Dominant 7 so B7 in your example ? Will that break the Lydian as it will always want to resolve back to its parent scale? Are there any other extensions we should avoid?
I enjoyed it very much
Always know it’s going to be good when I see you post a new video! Could you do a video on 6th chords? And 6/9, etc. I’m curious how many different 6th chords there are (like is there minor/major?) and their uses (like I know the m6 chord gets used on the IV)
Great content here! So if you make a modal chord progression in lydian, is it true that the less chords the better? I've seen a couple modal harmony videos if I remember right saying that you don't want to add too many chords to the progression. I feel like I need at least 3 chords to make a good chord progression, otherwise it will be either boring or drony? Maybe 2 chords is enough for lydian?
Thank you.
I love this channel so much! Bellissimo:) The A, D#m7b5/A combination (can I steal that?!) was enough for me to start writing a new song! Thank you.
Sure, you can use that chord progression :) Steal away!
Hi, Professor Tomasso! In the minute 7 of this video, the tablature for the chord D#7b5/A is it well written the way you did it?
I think it's correct, yeah. Do you see a mistake I am not noticing?
Bravo Tommaso! Always good content and easy to follow. Is this the same scale used in chanson ballade by guillaume de machaut? (l'almanacco del giorno dopo)
Dang, he even pulled out the Hirojoshi!
it is the Polish highlanders' scale - check out traditional Highlanders' folk tunes like "Zbójnicki (W Murowanej Piwnicy)", it is hilarious
Waltz #1!
Hello..A little confusion.. Hirjoshi scale has a major second, resulting G# A# B D# E..Please explain this.Thank you.
This was amazing can you do mixolydian and phrygian next?
Maestro... would the song “Sara” by Fleetwood Mac use this scale?
In the verse, yes. In the chorus it sounds like a major scale, not Lydian. (By ear - I did not transcribe the whole thing)
Amigo tendrá usted la posibilidad de subir esos videos en Español?
First lydian chord progression: I-II
Me: Hey, this is the little mermaid progression XD
Sicccckkkk I actually understand
Do you still avoid the 5th where it appears in other chords? So for example if I did Gmaj7 F#min7 C#min7 Bmin7 Gmaj7 F#min7 C#min7 Emin6/7 ( i think i wrote that last chord wrong? )
You can use it, but you have to pay attention not to put much emphasis on it. If you do a pedal note with E, for instance, then likely it will sound like E major.
Omg u just read my mind.
Is CF#G a lydian triad? And can u explain different triads like E locrian.etc
buona roba ! (good stuf)
Would the progression Amaj7/B7/G#m7/f#m7 work?
Would you make us the same analysis about the Phrygian scale?
I just put that in the list of videos to shoot :)
Thank you, man!
The progression "A, B, C#m, G#m7" is in the key of A Lydian or E major? There is no E chord in this progression, but this progression resolves way better in A.