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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. Hey, what's everybody? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode here of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast. I'm here answering your questions five days a week to help you have more fun than ever playing music and to shorten the learning curve playing jazz. This is another great week here of the podcast. We're going to kick it off with a great

question from Keith Kramlinger. Let's give it a listen. Hi, Brent. I understand where the Lydian

and Lidian dominant scales come from, but I am not sure how to apply them when soloing.

Can you please provide an explanation and some examples? Thanks a lot, Keith.

Yes, we can absolutely do that for you, Keith. Let's first talk quickly about the Lydian scale and what it is because

while Keith may know what it is, it's important that just anyone listen to this show knows what this is

before we start talking about it. So the Lydian scale,

also known as the Lydian mode, is a mode of the major scale. Modes are, they sound a little bit

intimidating, but ultimately they're very simple at their base core concept. And that is if we have

a scale, a major scale, such as the C major

scale, right, I'll play that for you. Right? That's our C major scale. If we were to start and end

that scale on any different scale degree, whether it be the second or the third or the fourth. That's what we call

a mode, right? We talked about this a little bit last week. We talked about the Phrygian mode, the

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