Lydian Shred

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The Lydian mode is one of my favorites. It brings a mysterious kind of feel to a major 7th chord and is often used to "open up" a musical piece. Today we will study a little lead using that scale. Before starting, I strongly recommend that you get comfortable with the scale diagram.

Technically speaking, we'll try to blend melodic ideas with shred-like passages. Work on these fast passages slowly and don't get discouraged if the speed is too high. Speed is the easy part as it only requires time.

Your focus should be on how these notes work together. Once you are comfortable/bored with this piece (whichever comes first), make up your own lead over the backing track provided.

Have fun!

Lesson Questions, Feedback & Comments

Kristofer Dahl	2nd May 2008
GMC Founder & Rocker	Thanks for this lesson David!

OrganisedConfusion	2nd May 2008
Member	Great lesson as always David

Pitch_Black	2nd May 2008
Member	Very good lesson David!

kyldeee	2nd May 2008
Member	Cool lesson!

Danilo Capezzuto	2nd May 2008
Instructor	Good lesson David

Pi38	2nd May 2008
Member	Very nice, and melodic!

Nick325	2nd May 2008
Member	nice david

Alex87	2nd May 2008
Member	Very nice solo David

Bogdan Radovic	2nd May 2008
Bass Instructor	Great lesson David ! I'm getting Satriani vibes from this one

Muris Varajic	2nd May 2008
Instructor	Great chops David!

at lights end	2nd May 2008
Member	awesome

krudtaa	2nd May 2008
Member	Cool lesson David. I always dig your backingtrack Love doing solos on it. Thanks.

David Wallimann	2nd May 2008
Instructor	Thanks a lot everyone! Yes, it is Satriani sounding indead. :-)

Ivan Milenkovic	2nd May 2008
Instructor	Great lesson man!

Carlos Carrillo	2nd May 2008
Instructor	great lesson David!!! nice job!!!!!!

Juan M. Valero	2nd May 2008
Instructor	cool lesson my friend, lydian is a really interesting mode

Joe Kataldo	2nd May 2008
Instructor	So Dreamy I like lydian cool lesson

Capt.Z	2nd May 2008
Member	insane!! I love the way you interperate the modes!

Jerry Arcidiacono	3rd May 2008
Instructor	Very cool lesson David! I also love this mode.

Marcus Siepen	3rd May 2008
Instructor (Blind Guardian)	Awesome David

Nemanja Filipovic	3rd May 2008
Singing Instructor	Great lesson David.

Zizi Top	3rd May 2008
Member	great lesson

Nick Kellie	3rd May 2008
Instructor	nice lesson

Dejan Farkas	3rd May 2008
Instructor	Nice one Dave

Pablo Vazquez	7th May 2008
Instructor	Nice lesson man!!