I absolutely love the sound of the Lydian mode it's definitely my favourite mode! I can't wait to really sit down with these licks and try and expand upon them with some Lydian progressions. Very cool stuff.
EDIT: I finally got to sit and try these licks out with a backing track and playing around with them and they were awesome. So, I have to ask - please sir can I have some more :) My favourite was the first lick.
Excellent lesson. I have been playing modes for about thirty years and gravitated towards Dorian, Phrygian, Mixolydian and Aeolian modes. Occasionally I use Ionian while playing over a major chord progression, but I find that most often it’s more interesting to use the major pentatonic and make sparse use of the 4th and the major 7th when outlining certain chords and/or using arpeggios. For some reason I never really made use of the Lydian until recently. Now, I find that it’s the most interesting and fun to play of the major sounding modes (Ionian, Lydian and Mixolydian). For fans of Joe Satriani, it is one of the key elements of his style. Personally, I find that when making use of 3 plus notes per string in Lydian (for which shapes are almost irrelevant once you know the major scale all over the neck because it’s no more complicated that playing over a song where the 4th note of the Major scale is the Key Center of the song. So in the key of G Major with a C Key center the appropriate scale would be Lydian. For example, if you go from a C Major chord voicing to a D Major or D Dominant you are in the key of G Major with a key center of C. Therefore, the C Lydian scale and the licks in this video will sound great.
Great lesson dude. I always found when teaching with modes it’s a good base to start with c major. Really drill it so you can play it up and down the neck then start changing your root notes. so for Lydian you would take your c major shape and use F as your root note. This obviously gives you F Lydian and now you’ve drilled all of c major up and down the neck you have access to all of F Lydian up and down the neck to. This applies to every mode of C major as well. For example a natural minor, or e Phrygian. They all used the same notes as c major they just start on different root notes. And finally once you have drilled your c major scale enough you can use the shapes as a reference for say E major. As the shapes don’t change only the root note. Sorry for the long winded comment hope this helps 🤘
Correct. Another useful thing to do when teaching is getting your students to play licks using each mode over a drone (static pitch). This gets the sound of the mode into their ears.
DUDE... okay, that tip of putting in the tone that makes the mode what it is into the backing chords to train your ear to hear the mode is genius. I know that word gets thrown around a lot, but that is pure genius!
Thank you for going into detail how to apply this, as well as mentioning how you adapt the chords to make the lick fit better, this is something I have been missing. Cool lesson, would like to see more on other modes and/or exotic scales and their modes!
absolutely brilliant lesson, breaking down the concepts around the shapes is super helpful. I've had so much fun with these; using them as scaffolding to build other licks out of. Would love you for you to share more Lydian stuff!
This lesson is an excellent and a real bonus for me, because I have been working on the Lydian mode for a while. Your mentoring is nothing less than incredible, and extra lessons like this compliment the strategy you have created for me. Thank you Tom Hess. Sincerely - Andrew Bamford
Happy I found your channel today! Will be combing through everything you’ve posted. Your videos are put together well, concise, [usually] easy to follow and obviously informative. Your ZW-like vibrato is a bit distracting, though 😜 (I mean no disrespect!)
LOVE the sound of Lydian! I particularly liked the lick that targeted the major 7th in addition to the #4... I'll definitely be playing with that one later. ;)
Boa tarde! Apesar deu não entender muito o inglês. Mas gostei muito da sua explicação, colocando no tradutor de legendas. Você é um ótimo professor e tem uma tocabilidade muito boa. Parabéns por sua aula. Grande abraço
Very useful; will finish watching tomorrow, very late on west coast. What I like is that you play compelling, 'rich' licks in the Lydian so our ears hear how it works. The context. (Would work great in horror films, for one!) Best regards
What makes the playing compelling is 1: hearing the licks in context (over the backing track) and 2. the phrasing (emphasizing the #4 note in the licks to hear it fit the track)
