Modes (Part 7)

If you start at any note of the piano and keep going up fifths until you’ve got a total of 7 notes, you get the Lydian mode. I explained this last time.

Above I show how it works starting with the note C. If we take these 7 notes and list them in increasing order starting with C, we get

C D E F♯ G A B

which is C Lydian. Great! But please remember that C is an arbitrary choice of starting note. If we’d started at any other note we’d still get a Lydian scale.

Lydian is mostly made from ...