Economy picking is a very effective way to play fast without overdoing it. Every movement in economy picking is calculated so that all the superfluous is eliminated. The rule is to play alternate picking always except when playing two notes on adjacent strings. Whenever this happens, we will use sweeping to continue the movement started. In other words, if you are playing a note down and need to play the next string, you will continue to play down...

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.

Soloing in the style of Joe Satriani's "Flying In A Blue Dream" using the Lydian Mode.

Five Lydian mode licks!

Here we are with a track from my album "For A Brother". Allan Holdsworth influences.

The Lydian mode is a great way to open up your leads over a Major chord. Let's explore the possibilities of that scale.

Improvising over different chords in the lydian mode can be tricky. This should help!

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.

Lydian mode is almost the same thing as major scale/ionian mode. The only difference is sharp 4th in Lydian mode. This lesson is riffing only, using downstrokes only most of the time to get that powerful metal like sound.