Chords for HOW TO SOUND DREAMY IN LYDIAN

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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] Hello again.
Thank you for checking out today's vlog.
I'm gonna get right to it
We're talking about Lydian today.
So some of you may already know but for those of you who don't
_ Lydian is the dream mode
[N] _ It just sounds so dreamy
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_ _ So some of you have asked me to do different lessons on how the major scale actually works
That's kind of a big topic
And if you want to get a super in-depth look at how I approach the major scale
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Apply what you learn with that said I can tell you that every mode of the major scale has a distinct note or a couple
of notes that
distinguish it from the other modes, so
With Lydian it is the sharp four note that really gives it that dreamy quality
So for this lesson, we're gonna be in C Lydian _
_ Which is the key of G major?
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_ The sharp four note [G#m] is going to [F#] be this F sharp
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_ _ _ _ of mysterious [N] not really dreamy there right as I explained in the Dorian lesson that I did yesterday
_ _ _ You don't want to hang on these
_ Distinguishing notes too long or else it can get overbearing and take away from what makes the note so special
So with Lydian, you definitely want to hit on the sharp four from time to time
But like I mentioned don't hang on that note
You want to use it as a bridge to get to the more natural sounding diatonic notes?
So here's what it would sound like if I totally ignored what I just said and _
[C] Really embellished the sharp four in a given phrase. _
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[F#] _ _ [N] _ I don't really like landing on those notes or
Starting on the note unless I am immediately leaving it or coming to it
So here's an example of me using the sharp four as more of a supplement or an aid to reach the more comfortable
sounding notes in the Lydian mode
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [N] can see how it kind of feels a little bit more complete and
That is not to say that you can't harp on that sharp four to really really bring out that eerie tonality
depending on the musical situation you're in but
Generally, it's best to use these notes
tactfully instead of just kind of
Vamping on them over and over because like I said the mode might lose a little bit of what makes it so special
Another thing I like to do and this is just kind of a general tip not necessarily
Only Lydian, but anytime I have a scale where I have notes on the 12th fret
these notes are also accessible as _
open strings, right [G] so _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ So here's my [C] Lydian scale and C
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_ [F] _ _ really [N] all of these open strings are fair game in a given melody that I want to play
You can really emote that dreamy quality by using these open strings and one of my favorite guitar players Joe Satriani
He does this all the [C] time
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[N] And if you think that sounds dreamy
Just wait until you have some chords in the background to lay these riffs over now
I have the master Lydian backing track.
It's actually flying in a blue dream by Joe Satriani
So I'm gonna riff over that a little bit and show you how I like to use Lydian
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