Modes with Friends: Lydian! 

Really love the dialog you guys insert. This "conversation lesson" format is really great. MOAR!!!!

I subbed around two weeks ago. Found Ian's channel around a week ago. Now a video with you two together discussing modes! This is truly great. Thanks guys.

Wow the videos are on another level. Thanks so much Sean. I've been in a band focused on releasing music and playing out and learning sometimes takes a back seat. These have reinvigorated me.

Genius way to tackle this concept, and the banter is too real. You subbed me hard, bro

I'm learning loads from yours and Ian's channels, and think they're inspiring and really approachable. I've learnt more theory in the last few weeks without falling asleep than I have done in years of playing, and has linked together lots of stuff that I've not understood how to use properly. Greetings from SE England, and cheers for the top work dudes!

LOL, nice one guys! As someone who makes video games for a living and being a thrash metal head I can't explain why I enjoy yours and the Stitch Methods vids so much. I'm not even a jam band fan and still I'm hooked. Thanks for making music theory so palatable.

"Heavy Lydian friendship" should totally be cut to vinyl, I'd buy that for a dollar! hahaha. Seriously though, your videos are so great.

Seriously, best vids out there! You two together, make it really fun to learn.

I love this channel SO MUCH! Keep up the great work! These videos always help me wind down and put me in a creative mood

I fell asleep with my iPhone and it was still going and I woke up, heard this lesson in my dream.... absolutely love it

thanks for putting this content out there; its helping my get better

Sean thank you so much...I had a lot of trouble understanding modes of major scale! Can't wait to see more of your modes with friends :')

Great idea! Looking forward to see the next part

Lydian has always been my favorite... Guys like Joe Satriani and Steve Vai use it a lot, as well as a lot of Mixolydian, Phygian Dominant etc etc... Some of my favorite scales

Great series. Looking forward to the other modes. TY. :)

Best lessons on the internet. I dont sub cuz theres advertisements anyways, but this guy is the shit!

these videos with Ian are so nice and relaxed, keep them up ! do you have some theory videos about these things u talk about ? im self-taught and i dont know anything about what is a scale etc.

Greetings from Bahrain guys! Awesome stuff you guys are doing. Makes it all so easy and relaxed.

Wow, you really have a nice strong channel here dude. Educational but so relaxed, not an overload of information and very practical. Oh, and cheers from Brazil!

Not since "Modes no more Mystery" with Frank Gambale has anything else I've found be clearer (and fun!). Thanks guys!.

You guys are awesome, keep em coming

Heck yea, bring on the mode series!!!

Best video yet!!! Keep Up the Good work

Sean you are a genius. Your videos have made music theory make sense to me! Thanks so much for doing these

A Sub is in danger? Have no fear Super Sean is here! Awesome video, looking forward for this series !

Very nice, guys. This is the first time I really, very clearly heard and understood the distinctive Lydian sound. Looking for to watching the Mixolydian one next. This is gonna make me late for work.

Amazing how just chilling and clowning around can lead to gold

Really like the more complex theory and application for it. More of this please!

From Vietnam. 🇻🇳 you are the best and most inspirational guitar player on youtube that I found so far. I cound not understand why people have more favor toward typical guitarists who only teach some basic chords and strumming pattern. You gave us viewers so much stuffs to have fun with and load of shits to practise and get good at our playing. Hope you'll do great!!! Please make cover videos of popular songs such as Sunday morning(maroon 5), I won't give up (Jason Marz) or perhaps some eminem songs. Thanks!

Theory lessons are my favourites...thx guys.

This was an awesome video, I was laughing at the unintentional comedy!

yes, its a sharp 4 not a flat 5

That intro from the Bbmaj7 to Fmaj7 is the same as David bowie's "Starman". Great vid!

Thank you for this video!! I had been searching StichMethod videos for a Lydian video and thankfully came across this clip; like you, my favorite mode is also Lydian. CANNOT get enough of that #4. Sort of along this same vein, would you guys please consider doing a Flamenco (or major Phrygian) mode video? Thank you guys for everything you do!!

Great lesson! I really like this kind of tutorial. It's seems much concrete for me. Thank's you !

you guys are great, good job greetings from italy

Great sync between you two :D!!!

If you want to hear perhaps the most obvious Lydian sound, go listen to Lost Woods Theme from Zelda Ocarina of Time

Your videos are awesome cause you are awesome dudes!

oh man i would love the mixolydian with friends, my favorite :) love the sound of that flat7 afraid of locrian though :o

AWEESOMME from Norway!!

This is great. Are you guys ever going to talk about the melodic or harmonic minor modes?

nice job guys, now i wanna see you jamming to a jazz standard xD

Next thing you know you two will be making Sonic Drive-In commercials.

Sean, I notice you chose to play a Fmaj7 for the I chord on the jam. That seems to be the perfect choice because it contains the E which is the sharp 4 of the B Lydian scale .Was that intentional to get the modal feel? Would it work just as well with a regular F Maj. I'm trying to work backwards and figure out when to go modal in a jam. Is it based on the chords? IE if we are jamming a maj7 then Lydian works best etc?

That bit about video game music loops blew my mind.

This video was very helpful. Will you be making more such videos on modes?

Great video! If you haven't done it, I would love to see a video on changing time signatures. I am having trouble flowing from 6/4 to 4/4. Thanks!

that was an awesome lesson , the lydian sounds happily unstable,but I have a question , isn't a flat five called tritone? and as you mentioned before a flat five is also a sharp four so in this case which notes do you play? and by that I mean do you play the 4 and the b5 and skip the 5 or you play 3, then #4 and after it 5 ? and thank you :)

Please correct me if I am wrong. Been having ups and downs with modes. Frustrated because I feel I should be understanding it. I believe it's starting to click. Other than the Ionian and maybe the Aeolian, if you avoid the tonic chord (G) in the parent major scale (G major) and start with the tonic chord (C) of the mode, then (C)Lydian sounds good. I only surmise this, because anytime I throw the parent tonic chord (G), the lead feels like it wants to resolve to that. Which would make it sound more Ionian than Lydian.

Hi Sean. Everytime I watch your videos, youtube plays that Yousician commercial. What do you think about that teaching method? Cheers!

Great lesson I love you guys. By the way what is tritone? Sure I'll look it up right now but your take on it is always appreciated

That's nice! Can't wait to see the coming scales in the next videos :) It's just hard to follow for me, cause I'm german and lacking at some spots with the translation :p Is there the possibility that you would fade in tabs or the chord progression while you're playing? Would be great and easier to follow :)

Since you are using the lydian mode would you make the 4 chord a #4?

You guys are like Cheech and Chong, Jägermeister and Red Bull, you guys go together!

Random question: Have there been any particular exercises you've done (or still do) that resulted in a substantial improvement in your overall speed/accuracy?

awesome

24 years (off and on) of playing guitar and I still have problems wrapping my head around modes. Some say only use the mode over corresponding chords. Others say you can use it over any chord within the chosen key. Then, there's the question of which chords within the key best fit the mode. For example, Fmaj vs F7. I seen another video using lydian by someone else. His sounded soulful, dreamy, and slightly haunting, while yours sounds upbeat. What makes the difference on how that mode affects your emotions?

Sean, when you said "if you play the Bb Lydian mode by itself, you're essentially just playing the Fmaj scale", is that something you happen to know, or did you make some kind of quick 'calculation' on the notes that are in F maj and how theyre simular to Bb Lydian. Thanks!

I subbed when you said most of you are subs and glared at the camera haha

If I play G lydian scale what chord progression should I use?bec it has a C#..if i follow your progression i would go from a G to a D..Also G to Amin to Bmin to D..should i use C#dim to encorporate the lydian effect?hope i make some sense Sean

Nice! Also, when will Ian do the rhythm? Some solo monopoly going on over here.

0:22 Me too! That's also why I clicked on this video! EDIT: 1:28 I just realized... ...That guitar says "Taylor"... ...My name is Taylor XD

Haha heard some Simpsons Theme teasing.. break into that Lydian Dominant!!

Sean daniel, I see you getting them subscribers, nicee

Waiting for next episodes of this series! Greetings from Poland ;) (BTW: Czechoslovakia doesnt exist anymore :P)

Sorry guys another little question the chords were from the major scale harmonization not from the lydian scale (The 4 th chord would have been diminished isn't it?) so it's a little clash with 5 and #5 note degrees between scale and chord... hope that's right

I was jamming along with the backing track but most of the time it just sounded I was in the F major scale... What can I do?

I can't wait till y'all cover my personal favorite mode, Locrian. I find that people over exaggerate it as being hard to use when it really isn't that hard. Staying in the key of F like y'all did and taking E as the new tonal center you can easily use an Em7b5 chord in 2nd inversion and remove the third to imply that locrian tone for a start. I Find that to be an easy and relatively simple approach to it. Maybe I'm using it wrong but that's how I view it and if I am I guess I'll find out how it's supposed to be used when y'all cover it.

Czechoslovakia doesn't exist anymore. And hasn't for over a decade. Otherwise ... love this content, guys!

Good stuff dudes, yeah the zelda games use a lot of lydian :)

when will the new vids be coming out?

Hi friends. I would love it if you could show me what's going on in White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane

I always explain lydian as playing the major scale of the 5 chord.

So you use a mode from the Cmaj scale but over the key you're in.....I'm confused. Aren't you just using the key's scale? Using your example, you're just playing an Fmaj scale over the key of Fmaj. Right?

Are those the new Martin strings Ian?

cool topics coming then :)

Sharp 4. Flat 5 would imply that there is a natural or flat 4th in the scale with it.

i think you guys need a manager .to connect you with your favorite guitarists. an be able to jam with them. an have them share the theory s behind songs .you guys rock . .id love to see you jam with your favorite icons..you are so worthy so worthy.

Very nice! I've not played with Lydian yet. This mode sounds like a girl-magnet mode! ;-)

is eyes of the world in lydian?

greetings from india ;)

Fantastic !! I missed a think why the I chird is F ? Isn't B flat sorry guys for sure I wasn't paying attention

I'ts hard to get greetings from Checoslovaquia because it doesn't exist since 1992 :p anyway great video, greetings from Spain :)

I love me a C#m or F# key! 🔑

you sound like Lawrence Welk!

Hey guys! I'm a big fan of you both and I have a complaint. It is incorrect to say there is a flat 5th if a perfect fifth also exists. Sharp 4th is the correct answer because lydian mode is the Ionian with a different 4th interval. Tl;dr 5b and 4# are not synonymous!

30 - 10 - 2016.

It sounded minor...but not Satriani or Vai...so yeah...I like it.

Wait so if you're calling F the 1 chord, how is this any different than playing in F major? Asking for a friend...

yeah i like Sean, but ain't too keen on Ian's sneaky smile!

Sorry friends, I choose modes

sounds like a zelda song

Giving up your perfect fourth for a tritone seems like a terrible deal to me.

Alway perplexing to hear guitarist stating a ''favorite key'', there is no difference between A major or B major or any major key , nor a minor or b minor keys etc. the ''intervals'' between notes, which is the heart and soul, and ''key '' to understanding western music are the same. A's B's and F sharps do not ''exist'' in the world, intervals do.They usually mean its just easier to play/finger.There are however substantial differences in sonic states conjured between major vs minor key progressions, which are sociocultural constructs, epigenic to music theory. So with all that rambling introspection out of the way , thank you, both, for these uploads and sharing you're love of this mysterious realm.

you guys should just make a channel together

#4, not b5 ... that is kinda important ...

hold music!

Hahahah!! it sucked, but the idea was right. Guys are awesome...

VERY informative, ,,,,,but I have to say .....a little bit gay....not that there is anything wrong with that. ..