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A Jazz RESPONSE TO THE LYDIAN MODE TRANSPOSED TO C [As Parent Key]

Posted on January 4, 2022January 20, 2022 by Modern Music Theory and Application

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The Lydian Mode transposed to C as the Parent Key for Composition and Improvisation

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Moving on from my last post on the Dorian Mode, I now look at how the Lydian Mode actually sounds.

Here’s how to transpose it to C as the parent key.

If F is a perfect 4th up from C:

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Then what is C a perfect 4th up from: This would be G.

So we have a G Major scale starting on the note C:

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You will hear straight away that the C Lydian has a Sharpened 4th and this is what gives it its distinctive flavour.

Chord ii is now Major,

Chord II now resolves nicely into chord Vb,

Another beautiful sound is the sharpened 4th which now becomes F#m7b5

Lydian Line with Chords

FOR GUITARISTS:

C Lydian Two Octaves

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Chordal Flavour:

Lydian Guitar Lick:

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A JAZZ RESPONSE to the Modes of the MAJOR SCALE: DORIAN MODE: Part 1

Posted on December 31, 2021January 20, 2022 by Modern Music Theory and Application

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Clifford Martin My response to the Modes of the major Scale: The Dorian Mode: How it Sounds

Today it’s just a short video as a response to the Modes of the Major Scale.

Many on the internet teach the modes as just learning the C major scale and starting on a different degree of that scale.

They NEVER show/play the Chords,Slash Chords, Harmony, Pentatonic’s, Arepggio’s, Superimpositions, Transpositions to Parent key, Sequences of Tonal Flavour, etc.

This is really bad and wrong teaching, and, for a beginning improviser or composer this is harmonically devastating when put into a “Real” situation with Pro Improvisers or Composition Expectations.

Without transposing the modes you have nothing with which to compose or improvise with. It’s no good just playing a C major scale over C major. That’s not what it is.

The video above has a brief look at what an improviser or composer should do or will do instinctively.

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