5 Awesome (Lydian) Guitar Licks You Should Know
Vložit
- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- In this video you'll learn 5 awesome guitar licks using the lydian mode that you should know. Here’s what you’ll learn:
First, I’ll explain what the Lydian scale is and how to get that awesome floating and dreamy sound by showing you what to focus on when soloing using the lydian scale.
Next, I’ll show you how to maximize the #4th note in a way that always sounds great; it works every time.
Third, I’ll show you 5 cool licks you should know that are based on the lydian mode. These licks range from easy to kind of hard. I give you all the tab and go through each lick slowly so that it’s easy to understand, easy to learn and easy to master.
The first lick helps you to draw out maximum emotion from the lydian scale by hanging on the raised 4th scale degree.
The second lydian lick shows you how to combine a simple arpeggio with the awesome sounding #11th.
The third lick is a more expression version of the second lick and will give you many cool ideas you can use when learning how to solo in the lydian mode.
The fourth lydian lick expands these concepts further and you’ll see how the raised 4th note changes its feeling when the chords change in the backing track.
The fifth lick is maybe the most fun to play and is based on highly expressive lydian phrasing.
These 5 licks are ones you should know because they create a fantastic basis to create your own licks and guitar solos using the lydian scale and helps you to advance your lead guitar playing and phrasing
Is your guitar playing stuck in a rut? It doesn't have to be... finally play guitar the way you want: tomhess.net/Guitar
Get more daily tips by following me on Facebook:
/ tomhessguitar - Hudba
![[Guitar Licks Lesson] How To Make Any Lick Better](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mk0F88SPzrA/mqdefault.jpg)
![[Guitar Licks Lesson] How To Make Any Lick Better](/img/tr.png)
Tom is definitely one of those guitar teachers that motivate you to work all week so you don't disappoint at the next lesson
There are teachers and there are “The Teachers” Fantastic lessons, I am hooked in, cheers, you are legendary.
Rob Halford is a great guitar player!
The Licks sound amazing...and love the way you break down the details...makes it so easy to understand and apply...Thank you Tom Hess... Great lesson
My pleasure Dhanesh. Glad it was helpful!
Best teacher in the whole internet.
Thanks for your videos
Greetings from Spain!
Best teacher👍
Fantastic lesson...!!
DUDE... okay, that tip of putting in the tone that makes the mode what it is into the backing chords to train your ear to hear the mode is genius. I know that word gets thrown around a lot, but that is pure genius!
Excellent ideas. And easily one of the best guitar video formats on all of CZcams!
Excellent lesson. Thank you very much.
That was incredible. I've been working with ways of really outlining a Lydian progression, and you just got straight to it. Thank you.
My pleasure, glad it was helpful!
I absolutely love the sound of the Lydian mode it's definitely my favourite mode! I can't wait to really sit down with these licks and try and expand upon them with some Lydian progressions. Very cool stuff.
EDIT: I finally got to sit and try these licks out with a backing track and playing around with them and they were awesome. So, I have to ask - please sir can I have some more :) My favourite was the first lick.
Good job Tom.. 👏Thanks.. 🙏Warm cheers.. 😊(Like the 4th lick.. 👌🎼)
Beautiful. #4. I have a lot of work ahead of me. Thanks.
Awesome licks and explanation. Thank you!
My pleasure, Jan! :)
absolutely brilliant lesson, breaking down the concepts around the shapes is super helpful. I've had so much fun with these; using them as scaffolding to build other licks out of. Would love you for you to share more Lydian stuff!
Awesome video idea and great licks! Lick #3 is my favorite :)
Thanks Mike!
Cool, so I liked this video. Very cool sounding video.
I loved this lesson Tom Hess! I'm excited to experiment with what you've taught us :)
Awesome Michael!
Awesome!!!!
Thank you for going into detail how to apply this, as well as mentioning how you adapt the chords to make the lick fit better, this is something I have been missing. Cool lesson, would like to see more on other modes and/or exotic scales and their modes!
I'm glad you liked the video Niklas! You will also enjoy this one with more exotic licks: tomhess.net/LearnExoticGuitarLicks.aspx
Beautiful sounding licks. Number 4 is my favorite .
Glad you like them Paul! :)
great phrasing for sure.
Fantastic lesson on moving from exercises into actual music, thanks
LOVE the sound of Lydian! I particularly liked the lick that targeted the major 7th in addition to the #4... I'll definitely be playing with that one later. ;)
Your lesson are fabulous. So Inspiring. Thank you.!!!
Thanks Paul! My pleasure!
Thanks for the licks Tom!
My pleasure! :)
Awesome stuff.keep it up
All of the licks are cool, but what makes them really come alive is the ornamentation. Thanks for another awesome lesson Tom Hess.
My pleasure Kwote! :)
This sounds so epic 😳 that tone is amazing 😳
Thank you love all the Licks''when it's lylien wow... Very' Haunting and beautiful.... 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
I liked all of the licks, great lesson..Cheers
Awesome Ian! :)
Sounds so cool!
:)
Man, you just verbalized some stuff I've been messing around with lately and just made that light bulb go off. Thanks, Tom!
Awesome! Glad it helped!
Beautiful!
Lydian is a beautiful sound! Glad you like it! :)
Excellent lesson. I have been playing modes for about thirty years and gravitated towards Dorian, Phrygian, Mixolydian and Aeolian modes. Occasionally I use Ionian while playing over a major chord progression, but I find that most often it’s more interesting to use the major pentatonic and make sparse use of the 4th and the major 7th when outlining certain chords and/or using arpeggios. For some reason I never really made use of the Lydian until recently. Now, I find that it’s the most interesting and fun to play of the major sounding modes (Ionian, Lydian and Mixolydian). For fans of Joe Satriani, it is one of the key elements of his style. Personally, I find that when making use of 3 plus notes per string in Lydian (for which shapes are almost irrelevant once you know the major scale all over the neck because it’s no more complicated that playing over a song where the 4th note of the Major scale is the Key Center of the song. So in the key of G Major with a C Key center the appropriate scale would be Lydian. For example, if you go from a C Major chord voicing to a D Major or D Dominant you are in the key of G Major with a key center of C. Therefore, the C Lydian scale and the licks in this video will sound great.
This lesson is an excellent and a real bonus for me, because I have been working on the Lydian mode for a while. Your mentoring is nothing less than incredible, and extra lessons like this compliment the strategy you have created for me. Thank you Tom Hess. Sincerely - Andrew Bamford
Thanks Andrew! It's a pleasure working with you in Breakthrough Guitar Lessons.
great lesson on lydian notes
Glad you like it, Hunter! :)
This gave me great ideas on how to better use Lydian in my soloing and improvising.
Glad it was helpful Dan! :)
Great lesson dude. I always found when teaching with modes it’s a good base to start with c major. Really drill it so you can play it up and down the neck then start changing your root notes. so for Lydian you would take your c major shape and use F as your root note. This obviously gives you F Lydian and now you’ve drilled all of c major up and down the neck you have access to all of F Lydian up and down the neck to.
This applies to every mode of C major as well. For example a natural minor, or e Phrygian. They all used the same notes as c major they just start on different root notes.
And finally once you have drilled your c major scale enough you can use the shapes as a reference for say E major. As the shapes don’t change only the root note. Sorry for the long winded comment hope this helps 🤘
Correct. Another useful thing to do when teaching is getting your students to play licks using each mode over a drone (static pitch). This gets the sound of the mode into their ears.
Awsome licks! Can i make a song with them? Or are from another song?, Thanks your lessons are the best
Awesome really like the approach of coming from a step below or above. What kind of guitar you playing there
I'm glad you liked the video. The guitar is "Svet" custom model (see guitar #25 in this list): tomhess.net/TomHessGuitars.aspx
Boa tarde!
Apesar deu não entender muito o inglês. Mas gostei muito da sua explicação, colocando no tradutor de legendas. Você é um ótimo professor e tem uma tocabilidade muito boa. Parabéns por sua aula.
Grande abraço
Nice!
Thanks Alfredo!
You are the best.
Thanks Eren! :)
This is excellent Tom - it would be nice if you put the chords for each bar on your TABS
Happy I found your channel today! Will be combing through everything you’ve posted. Your videos are put together well, concise, [usually] easy to follow and obviously informative. Your ZW-like vibrato is a bit distracting, though 😜 (I mean no disrespect!)
Cool...I need backing track.. pls!!
For those of us who studied jazz, this called the "Lydian Chromatic Concept", and nice to hear it on Rock music. Thanks.
The 1st one
Please do a lesson on locrian mr Hess .... make it as evil as possible lol
what are other possible chord progression great for lydian?
Any progression that emphasizes the IV chord in the key, and "de-emphathizes" (uses less) the I chord. So for example: IV ii IV iii IV vi IV
Reminds me of joe satriani flying in a blue dream album
Very useful; will finish watching tomorrow, very late on west coast. What I like is that you play compelling, 'rich' licks in the Lydian so our ears hear how it works. The context. (Would work great in horror films, for one!)
Best regards
What makes the playing compelling is 1: hearing the licks in context (over the backing track) and 2. the phrasing (emphasizing the #4 note in the licks to hear it fit the track)
liked all. wish you would have gone quickly through the chord progression.
Sounds like Joe Satriani..Flying in a Blue Dream
Where have you been all my life?
:)
Joe satriani uses this a ton
It sounds like... Star Trek?
Little licks say a lot.
totally stealing these licks