The most beautiful use of lydian mode
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Topic: The most beautiful use of lydian mode
Posted By: Lydianlover
Subject: The most beautiful use of lydian mode
Date Posted: April 05 2019 at 10:34
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Tony Patterson - cast away is probably the most beautiful use of the Lydian mode. I know a few threads was opened by magnificent minds before about this mode and also similar modes that can toy with your whole mind, note here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=91823&PN=1" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=91823&PN=1 To me the Lydian mode is still the most nostalgic and all encompassing glorious mode. |
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: April 05 2019 at 11:55
My favorite Lydian melody... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Lydianlover
Date Posted: April 05 2019 at 15:00
| Hahahahaha, strange one you are. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 05 2019 at 15:18
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Strange indeed, as he usually jokes in the Phyrigian mode. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Lydianlover
Date Posted: April 05 2019 at 15:24
| Joke's on you for not comprehending the status quo. After 2 attempts, none the richer. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: April 05 2019 at 16:22
| I also love the Lydian mode, is quite suited for nostalgic, emotional music. |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: April 05 2019 at 16:43
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John Lennon was fond of the Lydian scale, but surprise, surprise, here is Olivia Newton John: ------------- Help the victims of the russian invasion: http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28523&PID=130446&title=various-ways-you-can-help-ukraine#130446 |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: April 05 2019 at 16:47
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After the opening climb ups using the whole tone scale, Fripp delivers this Lydian guitar riff: ------------- Help the victims of the russian invasion: http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28523&PID=130446&title=various-ways-you-can-help-ukraine#130446 |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: April 05 2019 at 16:47
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Mixolydian leads.... ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: April 05 2019 at 16:58
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The end of Fracture uses Lydian riffs moving in whole tone patterns. ------------- Help the victims of the russian invasion: http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28523&PID=130446&title=various-ways-you-can-help-ukraine#130446 |
Posted By: grimpiter
Date Posted: April 07 2019 at 21:28
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Every little thing she does is magic - The Police (The verses) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENX1Sf3fgQ" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENX1Sf3fgQ
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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: April 08 2019 at 01:09
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"Here Comes My Girl" The verses. ------------- Help the victims of the russian invasion: http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28523&PID=130446&title=various-ways-you-can-help-ukraine#130446 |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: April 08 2019 at 01:20
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Outside of The Lonesome Days of Winter underneath (which is a favorite) I have no idea: |
Posted By: Magog2112
Date Posted: August 05 2023 at 09:08
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I think "Sacred Sound" by IQ is in lydian, and that song is one of my favorites. |
Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: August 05 2023 at 09:24
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I'd like to mention "Moss Garden" from David Bowie's Heroes album. There is also "Headphones" by Björk. |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: August 05 2023 at 15:32
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Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream |
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: August 05 2023 at 23:28
| Lydian is a common mode in prog. It's used all the time in neo, Incommunicado being one of many obvious examples. Zappa was also very fond of the mode, using the upper structures of a chord in lydian mode to superimpose an implied major chord a whole step over the major tonic. Many of his more modernist compositions use the lydian mode constantly. And of course, who could forget "nah nah nah naaaaah nananaaaaaaaah" after the guitar solo of the version of Inca Roads that appears on the studio album, itself actually a reused melody from Holiday in Berlin (AKA Return of the Hunchback Duke when it had lyrics with them Turtle doods). The beginning of that melody hovers around the augmented fourth of the first tonic chord of the two-chord pattern of the solo before resolving. The augmented fourth is what separates this scale from a simple vanilla diatonic major scale, and it is what creates the tension (often leading to a resolution, but not always), and, depending on its usage, different feelings. It could sound nostalgic, or maybe airy. Maybe very ethereal, maybe more child-like (which is what I think of when I hear it used in The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles off of A Passion Play). |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: August 07 2023 at 13:06
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Rush "Freewill" ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: August 07 2023 at 15:56
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: August 08 2023 at 00:28
As well as Entre Nous from the same album.
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miamiscot wrote:Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: August 08 2023 at 03:38
Yes, to me this scale/mode sounds dreamy and mysterious but it can also create some tension. Dream Theater - Strange Deja Vu |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 08 2023 at 05:33
Damn, that sucks. They waste no time. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: August 08 2023 at 07:21
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This is the mode that obliterates all thoughts of the sub-dominant IV. It creates the unconscious desire to arrive at V instead of I. I've always loved this scale. ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: August 09 2023 at 01:28
| ^Well that would make sense considering it's the fifth mode of a major scale. The key signature is based on the V (as I'm sure you know, but I like to have music theory discussions). |