How To Make Music With The LYDIAN Scale [Chords, Progressions, Lead]
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Ah, the Lydian scale. So bright, so hopeful!
Used by Jazz cats, Prog metallers, and soundtrack composers.
And so full of pitfalls if you don't know how to use it!
No, seriously. The Lydian scale has a fragile and unstable sound, and it's so easy to spoil the effect, even if you use only the notes in the scale.
I've had a lot of requests to do a video on how to make music with the Lydian scale, so here it is :)
In this video you will find :
- How to write a chord progression in Lydian... that actually sounds Lydian!
- How to avoid the 'major scale' pitfall.
- How to play a lead on Lydian that does not sound like you are just playing the full scale up and down.
Watch the video here and have fun!
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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.
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
"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
VERY INTERESTING thanks, long time ago looking for an explanation like this: how to make music out of major/minor (Ionian/aeolian modes)
I love the trick of using the G# minor pentatonic scale to solo over A Lydian. Reusable shapes ftw.
@musictheoryforguitar do u teach how to make different n interesting chord progressions in your chord course ?!
Yes of course. Write me at tommaso@musictheoryforguitar.com for all course questions
@@MusicTheoryForGuitar Hi Tomasso, i want to know how long will it take to learn all concepts in complete chord mastery course , as it gives 1 or 2 session per month. How much is taught in one session. How many session it takes to teach all concepts of complete chord mastery course. Thank you.
Please write me at tommaso@musictheoryforguitar.com for all course questions so I can give you a detailed answer.
@@MusicTheoryForGuitar Its been 5 to 6 days I've been written to u but didn't get any reply from your side.
@@annupborrge6273 Just sent a reply, and thanks for your patience. Busy week!
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.
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 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.
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).
Hello..A little confusion.. Hirjoshi scale has a major second, resulting G# A# B D# E..Please explain this.Thank you.
Listen to the beginning of "Here Comes My Girl" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
buona roba ! (good stuf)
your content is amazing
FVCK YEAH LYDIAN GANG RISE UP (the 4th)
Thank for explaining so well how the harmony works. Knowing why not to play the Major V chord in lydian alone is invaluable.
Solo tips at the end are pure fire
Amazing lesson! Thank you.
Thank youfor this great and pleasant video😊
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.
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 🤘🤘
A video just for me! Thanks!
NO WAY! :) Great name!
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?
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!
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.
Sounds like Anathema at 6:40.
خیلی ببخشید شما پیج موسیقی باز کردید آنگاه به جای scale مینویسید مقیاس؟ بهتر نیست کمی با موسیقی آشنا شوید تا صحیح ترجمه کنید؟
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)
I enjoyed it very much
Thank you very much!
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?)
Violinist not guitarist but completely understood and took two pages of notes thank you so much
D#m7b5overA is beautiful
The intros to the verse on "Don't Tell Me You Love Me" by Nightranger.
Thank you so much dude!! I don't see people covering the chords within modes. This helped my writing alot!!
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.
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!
Grazie amico!
Suba esos videos en Español hermano Muchas gracias..
Very dreamy scale
Great video.
Of all the modes, it is the lydian and mixolydian that are the most confusing to me. Typical chords progression in lydian is I-II which is F- G in F lydian. Typical chords progression in mixolydian is I-VII which is G-F in F mixolydian... how can you really distinguish them?
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?
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
Would the progression Amaj7/B7/G#m7/f#m7 work?
Oh my! Such a wonderfull lesson filled with important information. Tested, it works. Thank you so much.
it is the Polish highlanders' scale - check out traditional Highlanders' folk tunes like "Zbójnicki (W Murowanej Piwnicy)", it is hilarious
Thank you.
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.
I always get confused on what differentiates A Lydian from E Major. All of the harmonies and notes of the scale are the same as E Major. Is it just emphasizing that #4 that gives it that lydian "Feel"? Do you always need to emphasize the A in the root note to achieve that feel? Asking because my ears always go to E Major..
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!!
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 just did on minuet in g major become g lydian then when it run into 5th degree chord (D) and it sound like major scale. Then bounce back to lydian haha. I enjoy this effect.
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 !
Waltz #1!
That first progression sounds like IV going to V42, a very idiomatic chord progression in many styles of music, except of course it is nver resolving here and just going on around and around
Amigo tendrá usted la posibilidad de subir esos videos en Español?
Wow
Very informative video.....Plz Make for other modes too❤️
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.
Ottima lezione come sempre. Il jazz modale quindi utilizza note e’ accordi costruiti con i soliti intervalli dalla scala di partenza?
Hey, thanks for this❤
Very well done. Thank you for the clear and concise lesson. The practical application is incredibly helpful. Looking forward to the next video!
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!
A very helpful info. Thank you.
Is CF#G a lydian triad? And can u explain different triads like E locrian.etc
First lydian chord progression: I-II
Me: Hey, this is the little mermaid progression XD
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!
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.
This is exactly what I needed, thanks you
Makam Huzzam scale :)
DAMN!!!! DUDE!!!!! As a keyboard player former guitarist this is a gem. Thank you!!! So much!!!!
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
Very interesting and good explained. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Great lesson, beautiful sound.
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!
The reason to avoid Emaj7 when playing A Lydian is because that chord causes tonicisation... Emaj7 9 11 13 is too strong
How about if it's in an inversion?
@@SoulStBlues I think the inversion won't change the chord function
The inversion is still risky. The problem here is that there are many variables - metrical position, dynamics, previous and following harmony, any other kind of accent, etc - that will determine if that Emaj is perceived as tonic and destroys the Lydian effect. In this case your ears are the best judge - I just recommend to avoid Emaj when you start writing in A Lydian to make your life easier while you find your way.
And you could always use G# or B as a replacement for the dominant as they are relative.
Gotcha. Thank you all for the replies.
Lydian has long baffled me, and now I see that attempting tonic-dominant harmony is the problem. What a paradox it is that (ignoring Locrian) the other mode for which this is true is the darkest, i.e. Phrygian, with its diminished dominant chord.
That A major chord into D#m7b5 sounds like Radiohead! 😍
How to use all modes for chords? Txy
Hirajoshi... Very Mr. Marty Friedman :)
All this modes stuff is actually great bullshit, imho. What you call "A Lydian" is nothing else than E major - you just dont resolve it to its root, and thats all about the effect youre talking about. None of the chord progressions you were playing sounded to me like being in A, like you claimed. They all wanted to be resolved to E.
thats like saying A minor is bullshit and chords always want to resolve to C.
Awesome as always!
Dang, he even pulled out the Hirojoshi!
G# Hirajoshi? I get an E Hirajoshi (G#, A, C#, D#, E) ???
Am I on the wrong path?
Call it the G# Miyako-bushi then :) The naming of these scales is a bit iffy. See: ruclips.net/video/7o8zKMrj9P0/видео.html
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. ;-)
Cool scale. Let me see what I can do with that :)
MusicTheoryForGuitar great! Thank u... :-) This scale is called 'Puriya Dhanashree' in Hindustani Classical...
Excellent explanation. Thank you.
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!
Thank you, Tommaso. This is fascinating. Truely fascinating. But it makes my head hurt. I have to think about this. . .
Omg u just read my mind.
The title is in spanish, brother.
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.
Again, Great video! I really enjoy listening to how you explain things. So interesting and easy to follow.
Best tutorial - what I struggled with for years is now clear thanks to this video. You are incredible please keep up the amazing work.
best lesson ever. You are great sir. I was facing this issue for a very long time. Thank you so much!
Incredible lesson! This was super helpful, I can’t wait to give it a try!!
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 :)
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!!!
Very good note with hiraioshi over lydian. Hadnt though of that idea even though i knew both lyd and hira. Sounds very nice indeed!
Crazy that this is free. Thank you so much!