How To Make Music With The LYDIAN DOMINANT Scale On Your Guitar

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Is it really a surprise that one of the favorite scales of prog metallers is also a favorite scale of jazz players?

Well, it was surprising for me when I met this scale for the first time.

At the time I was obsessed by prog metal - and I quite disliked jazz.

(Hold your horses - I was a teenager. At least I wasn't listening to trance music...)

The fact that both styles used the same scale was... quite unsettling for me. Maybe there was more in common between jazz and prog than I suspected?

Back to the scale... as usual in music theory, this scale takes several names, one more ridiculous that the other :-)

Lydian b7, Lydian Dominant, Mixolydian #4, 4th mode of Melodic Minor...

... but despite the complex names, the basic idea is simple, and the scale sounds great.

In this video we see a few easy (and immediately applicable) ideas to make music with this scale on your guitar. If you've never used it before... don't worry, just play through the examples and you'll discover a completely new sound.

And if you knew it already... maybe I can still give you some new ideas.

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