Lydian Dominant Scale

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Give any scale a major 3rd and a minor 7th, you'll get the dominant version of that scale. Today we'll talk about the Lydian Dominant scale. Because of the nature of its notes, it will best be used over a 7th chord.

Here are the notes of a Lydian dominant scale:

Root-Maj2nd-Maj3rd-Augmented 4th-5th-Maj6th-min7th

Today's lesson will be in the key of A Lydian Dominant.

Make sure you are comfortable with the suggested pattern and the construction of the sale, then memorize the examples and use them over your own creations.

Have fun!

Lesson Questions, Feedback & Comments

Kristofer Dahl	17th April 2008
GMC Founder & Rocker	Thanks David - love this sound!

Trond Vold	17th April 2008
Instructor	Interesting and coolsounding

Joe Kataldo	17th April 2008
Instructor	Cool Jazzy/Fusion Lesson

at lights end	17th April 2008
Member	cool sound, it's like it's forever building up tension but it doesn't drop it on you.

Vinod Saranga	17th April 2008
Acoustic Instructor	It has a unique sound.. very cool

Juan M. Valero	17th April 2008
Instructor	cool sound !! really interesting scale

David Wallimann	17th April 2008
Instructor	Thanks guys! at lights end, you resumed the feel of the scale very well! "forever building up tension but it doesn't drop it on you" :-)

Dejan Farkas	17th April 2008
Instructor	Cool lesson, sounds like Satch

Nemanja Filipovic	17th April 2008
Singing Instructor	great lesson David.

Marcus Siepen	17th April 2008
Instructor (Blind Guardian)	Very cool lesson David

Carlos Carrillo	17th April 2008
Instructor	Thanks David,love this sound! really interesting !!

Muris Varajic	17th April 2008
Instructor	Great scale David,thanks!

Danilo Capezzuto	17th April 2008
Instructor	Nice lesson David!

Pitch_Black	17th April 2008
Member	Good job David:)

Nick325	17th April 2008
Member	nice david

Hisham Al-Sanea	17th April 2008
Instructor	nice one David ..good lesson

kyldeee	17th April 2008
Member	Nice lesson David

Ivan Milenkovic	17th April 2008
Instructor	Good job man!

Gerardo Siere	17th April 2008
Instructor	Nice lesson, I love that scale, but I hasn´t to be exotic at all It´s a standart choice for tritonic dominant sustitution (need an english teacher here) for example Dm G7 Cmaj7 goes into Dm Db7(+11) Cmaj7 in the Db7 goes a Db lydian dominant scale and the (+11) after the name of the chord is a ussualy common courtesy by the composer. I liked it very much, has a lot of Satch sound there.

Zizi Top	17th April 2008
Member	cool sounding man, cool sounding i love it

Jerry Arcidiacono	18th April 2008
Instructor	Really cool lesson David!

Nick Kellie	18th April 2008
Instructor	one of my favorites - i use this scale a lot

EGMONT 1963	19th April 2008
Member	bonjour david perfecto .. je n'arrive quand même pas à regler mon ampli de facon d'obtenir +/- le son que tu utilises. J'ai eu une idée de t'envoyer un plan du spiderII se serait une super idée de joindre ce petit plan "settings" à tes cours,je crois qu'il y a beaucoup de guitaristes qui utilisent le spiderII et même pour les autres amplis les règlages devraient être pareils. salut et a+ udo

Bogdan Radovic	19th April 2008
Bass Instructor	Very cool scale lesson!

Pablo Vazquez	20th April 2008
Instructor	Nice lesson!

David Wallimann	20th April 2008
Instructor	Thanks everyone... For the settings of my amp, I'll try to remember what I used. However I recently upgraded and use a Boss GT8 for my lessons now. It's wonderful! :-)

Alejandro Piñero	28th April 2008
Instructor	good work!! thanks for this lesson!