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Lydian Mode – Nate Bosch

Hi, I’m Nate Bosch and in this lesson I want to talk about the fourth mode of the major
scale, now this mode is called the Lydian mode. So we’re going to take our C major scale
and we’re going to start on the fourth note of that scale, but we’re only going to play the
notes found in the C major scale.

So here we go, we start on F so we’re using all the notes in the C major scale but starting
on the fourth note the Phrygian mode. Now from these modes we build seventh chords,
we use it by every other note in that scale builds us a seventh chord. So let’s start on the F
and skip a note, skip another note to play the C skip another note to play the E.

So the seventh chord we build from the fourth mode of the major scale gives us a major
seventh chord and this one is called F major seventh. So that is the Lydian mode in the
key of C.

But now let’s move that into a different key let’s say the key of F. So F, that’s our F
major scale, the Lydian mode would be based on the fourth note of that scale so we play
all the notes found in the F major scale but starting on the fourth note, the B flat. So let’s
play that and there you have it, there’s the Lydian mode of the F major scale.

Now let’s build the seventh chord that comes out of that. We have our B flat our D an F
and an A, so there you have the B flat major seventh chord. And there you have the
Lydian mode.