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Lydian dominant scale, Lydian ♭7 scale, Mixolydian ♯4 scale Neapolitan major scale, Dorian ♭2 ♯7 scale Neapolitan major scale, (Dorian ♭2 ♯7 scale) leading whole tone scale, Lydian augmented ♯6 scale: Lydian augmented dominant scale: Lydian dominant ♭6: major Locrian scale: half-diminished ♭4 scale, altered dominant ♯2 scale
The Lydian scale can be described as a major scale with the fourth scale degree raised a semitone, making it an augmented fourth above the tonic; e.g., an F-major scale with a B ♮ rather than B ♭. That is, the Lydian mode has the following formula:
This is often interpreted as a quartal hexachord consisting of an augmented fourth, diminished fourth, augmented fourth, and two perfect fourths.The chord is related to other pitch collections, such as being a hexatonic subset of the overtone scale, also known in jazz circles as the Lydian dominant scale, lacking the perfect fifth.
Lydian chords may function as subdominants or substitutes for the tonic in major keys. [3] The compound interval of the augmented eleventh (enharmonically equivalent to ♯ 4, the characteristic interval of the Lydian mode) is used since the simple fourth usually only appears in suspended chords (which replace the third with a natural fourth, for example C sus4).
Acoustic scale or Lydian dominant scale t-t-t-s-t-s-t So-called because it is close to the scale built on natural overtones and combines Lydian raised fourth with Mixolydian (Dominant) flat seventh; Aeolian dominant scale or Mixolydian ♭ 6 scale t-t-s-t-s-t-t Like natural minor (aeolian) but with a major third; Half diminished scale on C Play ⓘ
Its tonic chord is a diminished triad (B dim = B dim 5 min 3 = B D F, in the Locrian mode using the white-key diatonic scale with starting note B, corresponding to a C major scale starting on its 7th tone). This mode's diminished fifth and the Lydian mode's augmented fourth are the only modes that contain a tritone as a note in their modal scale.
In contrast, in the chord-scale system, a different scale is used for each chord in the progression (for example mixolydian scales on A, E, and D for chords A 7, E 7, and D 7, respectively). [5] Improvisation approaches may be mixed, such as using "the blues approach" for a section of a progression and using the chord-scale system for the rest. [6]