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You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Dominate Your Lydian Dominants

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Peter Martin

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4.9770 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is all about the Lydian dominant scale: what it sounds like, how to play it, and when to use it.Coming soon - a new course from Open Studio! It's the long-awaited sequel to our Rhythm Section Fundamentals course, where you'll learn how to get the piano, bass, and drums to play as one well-oiled jazz machine. Stay tuned for more details, and check out the original Rhythm Section Fundamentals to prepare for part two.Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.Let us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel and leave a comment for this episode.Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Lydideon Dominance.

0:03.0

Bam, Dopeo.

0:20.0

BAM, dope yo.

0:35.2

I'm Adam Manus.

1:44.6

And you're listening to the You'll Hear Podcast. Daily music advice coming at you. Coming at you today, sponsored by Open Studio. Go to Open Studio Jazz to check out all of our courses, including our piano courses and our piano access pass. That's every piano course we make. Yes. Do that. Also, if you're watching on YouTube, because we are on YouTube, we're back on YouTube, make sure to like and subscribe this video right now. Right now. Maybe even hit the little bell. A little bell. It looks like a little hand, you know, like a little fist. So when we go live, which we, as it were, we are live jazz musicians. It could happen at any time. That's right. Today, we are dominating our Lydian dominance. That's right. Well, I know about this because we've done this already, this episode. So this is going to be take two, as we say. We did it several weeks ago. We had a little technical issue with the MIDI. I know I wasn't supposed to talk about that, but that was fun. We did a whole episode and then we lost the MIDI and we almost put put it out but we know how much folks have been loving the beautiful screen below that you will see so we're redoing it man that's how we roll here but it's all right i could talk about lydia dominance you know at least once a week for several weeks in a row we can be doing this once a week for several weeks god i, I hope not. Well, let's get into it, though.

1:46.9

So are we staying in the key of D-flat?

1:47.8

Because that could be fun.

1:48.3

Well, I don't know.

1:49.9

I actually shifted back and forth.

1:45.3

Yeah, let's do D-flat. I think it's always good to look at things in sort of different ways. That's awesome. Yeah. Okay, so the Lydian dominant is a scale based off of the melodic minor sound.

1:46.7

It is.

1:47.1

Is it?

1:47.5

Okay, good.

2:01.0

This is going to be another one, sort of like the alter. a scale based off of the melodic minor sound. It is.

2:01.4

Is it?

2:01.9

Okay, good.

2:02.9

This is going to be another one.

2:07.7

Sort of like the altered scale, or award-winning altered scale, where we have two different ways of looking at it, but that might help some people.

2:09.6

It's the fourth mode of melodic minor.

2:11.3

So if we have our D-flat, Melidian.

2:13.8

Melidian.

2:14.3

Oh.

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