Lydian: Major Sevenths, Floating Chords and the Sharp 4th

Lydian is the major scale with one note raised. In A, the 4th goes from D up to D#. That's the only change, and it's enough to make a plain major chord sound like it's floating.

Most lessons treat Lydian as an exotic flavour: play the scale, hit the sharp 4th, sound like a film score. That's half of it. The other half is that Lydian has its own chord, the major chord a whole step above home, and this book treats Lydian as a sound you build with chords first and a scale you solo with second.

What's inside:

- The one-note test for when Lydian fits and when it clashes, and why it only works for the key you're in

- The Lydian chord: four ways to use it, and how to move it to any key

- Triads over an open string: the film-score sound on one guitar

- Maj7#11 shapes, and endings that hang instead of stopping

- Four one-octave patterns that run root to root, not boxes

- The route in from the major pentatonic you already know

- Where the sharp 4th goes over every chord, and how to switch between Lydian and the major scale

- Ten rules for soloing without licks

- Film and TV, instrumental rock, and ballads: what each one takes from Lydian

- Twelve vamps to play over, plus a template for writing your own

- Lydian in all twelve keys

Everything is in A, the same key as the other books in the series. No licks to copy, no full-neck charts. Diagrams throughout.

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