{"id":14461,"date":"2016-09-20T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/?p=14461"},"modified":"2024-10-07T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T01:12:00","slug":"the-lydian-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/the-lydian-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Love The Major Scale, You’ll Also Love The Lydian Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apart from the natural major scale, another major scale every musician should learn is the lydian scale.<\/p>\n

The lydian scale is just like the natural major scale<\/a>, and can serve as its substitute in ways more than one, especially in improvisation, chord formation and other musical situations.<\/p>\n

There’s something unique about the lydian scale that jazz musicians have discovered and I’m going to share them with you in this lesson.<\/p>\n

Let’s get started by flipping through the natural major and lydian scales.<\/p>\n

A Note On Major Scales (Ionian and Lydian)<\/h2>\n

Let’s get started in this lesson by defining the terms major <\/em>and scale<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There are so many definitions of a scale out there, however, we’ll go with a basic definition that everyone can understand.<\/p>\n

A scale is a regular succession\u00a0(aka – “melodic progression<\/a>“)\u00a0 of notes\u00a0 in ascending or descending order.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From a practical standpoint, playing all white notes on the keyboard in ascending direction from C:
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\n…to C:
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\n…or in descending direction from C:
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\n…to C:
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\n…produces a scale.<\/p>\n

The term major<\/em> is one of the regular adjectives that is used to qualify a musical idea, be it a scale, interval, chord, or chord progression.<\/p>\n

In today’s lesson, we’re using the term major<\/em> to qualify a scale. A scale can only be qualified as a major scale<\/em> if the interval between its first and third tones is a major third. For example, in the C natural major scale:
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\n…the interval between its first and third tones –\u00a0 which are C and E:
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\n…respectively is a major third.<\/p>\n

In today’s lesson, we’ll be focusing on the following scales:<\/p>\n