Lydian Riffing

by Muris Varajic

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- Kristofer Dahl2nd June 2008
  Wonderful Muris - these riffs had something very fresh over them, great to see more of your metal side!
- DeepRoots2nd June 2008
  Awesome Muris! I have never riffed in lydian!
  I can't wait to see the rest of this serial- your mixolydian serial was epic!
  Thanks again
- kyldeee2nd June 2008
  Awesome riffing
- axelsson2nd June 2008
  splendid!
- at lights end2nd June 2008
  sounds awesome
- Joe Kataldo2nd June 2008
  Nice riff!
- timono2nd June 2008
  once again awesome
- Ivan Milenkovic2nd June 2008
  Nice idea Muris, tight riffing as well. Great job!
- eddiecat2nd June 2008
  Oh man! I remember asking you for this serial
  in your "suggestions" subforum, and here we are!
  Can't wait to have the whole modal serial
  to practice modes seperately and in different keys
  over exciting backing tracks!!!
  Thank you Muris, now I've got mixo and lydian...
  Oh, and I love the sound of that +4 chord!
  Super rock!
  Cheers, Eddie
- Bogdan Radovic2nd June 2008
  Lots of great riffin' ides here ! Cool lesson Muris !
- Juan M. Valero2nd June 2008
  Cool lesson Muris
- Alex872nd June 2008
  Great riffing Muris, great use of Lydian
- steve252nd June 2008
  Isn't sharp 4th and flat 5th the same? The flat 5th of E is A# as its 5th is a B?
- Danilo Capezzuto2nd June 2008
  Nice lesson and riff!
- Muris Varajic2nd June 2008
  Thanks guys!!!
  
  Steve,I was trying to explain that in text,
  those 2 notes sounds just the same
  but when you write it in notation
  it's totally different thing.
  And in Lydian we have sharp 4th
  and perfect 5th as degrees inside.
- chast2nd June 2008
  Sounds awesome
  Reminds me of Petrucci
- rmangini2nd June 2008
  you have the most amazing tone and your pinches are spot on. thanks for another great lesson muris!
- Harris Sopovic2nd June 2008
  Nice prog chops Muris. You can really get the dreamtheater feeling from this. Dobar si ! =)
- Trond Vold2nd June 2008
  Love it! Had a really neat prog-metal feel to it.
- Jad Diab2nd June 2008
  wow muris, you're amazing as always
  I love it man
- Nemanja Filipovic2nd June 2008
  Great lesson Muris.
- Jad Diab2nd June 2008
  By the way, I've forgotten to ask a question : Bb and A# are the same note (same sound) so what are the difference, when do we call it a A# and when do we call it a Bb ?
  
  Thx man
- inertia2nd June 2008
  Thanks sooo much Muris, I love the Lydian mode!!!
- Zsolt Galambos2nd June 2008
  Now this is awesome!
  I really like the sound of it, the Lydian scale always reminds me of Satriani!
- Toni Suominen2nd June 2008
  Great lesson Muris!
- TreyDeschamp2nd June 2008
  This mad the hair on my arms stand up it sounds so good!
- Nick3252nd June 2008
  nice riffage muris
- Muris Varajic2nd June 2008
  Thanks guys
  
  ZiZi ,
  you have to dive a bit more into theory,
  specially into diatonic world as Lydian is
  another diatonic scale.
  So,main notes are C D E F G A and B
  Notice that 4th from E is A
  and 5th from E is B.
  Notes in E Lydian are:
  E,F#,G#,A#,B,C# and D#.
  
  E-A# = sharp 4th
  E-B = perfect 5th
  E- Bb = that would be flat 5th tho.
- Hisham Al-Sanea2nd June 2008
  great riff Muris.wonderful bro
- Pi382nd June 2008
  Oh, man, this is just my style. Muris, I've got to say, lately your lessons have been especially awesome. I mean, your lessons are always great, but as of late, you've really stepped it up.
- Dejan Farkas2nd June 2008
  Me like it, cool riffs mate
- David Wallimann3rd June 2008
  Excellent work Muris, I love the Vai sound of this. Great!
- Pablo Vazquez3rd June 2008
  WOW!!! Awesome riffing lesson Muris!!!!
- Carlos Carrillo3rd June 2008
  very nice lesson Muris!!!
- Jerry Arcidiacono3rd June 2008
  Awesome riffing style Muris
- Antipolitik3rd June 2008
  Great lesson! Fun to play! Keep it up!
- Muris Varajic3rd June 2008
  Thanks everyone!
- Praetorian3rd June 2008
  How the heck do you get that Zakk Wylde sound F# at 19 seconds on the video...I can't duplicate it!!
- Nick Kellie3rd June 2008
  very enjoyable!
- Muris Varajic3rd June 2008
  Thanks Nick.
  
  Praetorian,it's just pinched harmonic,
  of course it requires hi-gain
  and a bit more highs in EQ.
- Lian Gerbino3rd June 2008
  really good, u r awesome muris!
- Gabriel Leopardi3rd June 2008
  wou! those are really fresh riffs! excelent stuff! Thanks Muris!
- Sergio Dorado3rd June 2008
  Awesome riffs, I really like this style. It sounds metal progresive.
- Sentenced1st October 2008
  Muris could you please post your presets on this one if possible? It sounds just really metal
- Muris Varajic1st October 2008
  I wish I could remember the settings.
  
  But it's probably something similar to this:
  SGL > HUM 10.0
  US HI-G Gain 6.3 Bass 2.0 Middle 0.7 Treble 5.0
  JAZ 1x15 8.0
  No Mod Effx
  PPDLY3 5.3
  PLATE 1 1.7
- Sentenced1st October 2008
  Muris thank you very much for your fast answer. I will try them out.
- Muris Varajic1st October 2008
  No problem.
- JamesT4th October 2008
  Hey Muris, when you do that slide in the beginning, do you slide to a particular fret?
  Looks and sounds like you slide up on the e string, and then back down on the a string. I like the way you scrape the pick on the start of the downslide. :-)
- Muris Varajic4th October 2008
  Hi
  
  This slide+scrap is typical add-on and I slide up to random fret,above 12th.
- Daniel Realpe23rd April 2010
  This sounds very good! surprising notes is where the emotion is at
- AstralkinG24th January 2013
  Really love the sound of this.
- RobertAtGmc29th April 2014
  Very very good riff! There is a big shortage of riffing lessons. Hope you will fill up this gab? :-)
- Gabriel Leopardi29th April 2014
  QUOTE (RobertAtGmc @ Apr 29 2014, 02:47 PM)
  Very very good riff! There is a big shortage of riffing lessons. Hope you will fill up this gab? :-)
  
  Hi Robert! Thanks for the comments. What type of riffing lessons are you looking for? What styles?

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