This month, we take the Lydian mode and sharpen its fifth. Shaun Baxter shows you how. Mixolyatan fat 6: owe cD CMocydenss 91-29 4 5 (Cmetoic mina ast month, we looked at the‘change In perspective should force You into inter- pretng the same body of notes in a slightly aitferent way ‘ydian sharp 5 scale This month we'e loking a the ed made of C lode minor: Es Lydian sharp ive: 8 F Be AN Bed Buin 1 2.3 HH GT yan sharp fve also known a Lydian augmented. Furthermore, because is the hid mode of the melodie minor (which also known as ozz minor tis alo sometimes referred 1 a8 Je minor thre (or JMG). This month, ve given you five scale pater for B ydian shap five, ach containing an 5 maj7#5 chord form as a framework on which to build the scale, Ive also fiven you the same shapes aga, each using 5, maj745 ampeggo as framework. Remember, as Tpointe out lst month, these pattems are meant MELODIC MINOR SCALE @ 4) SHAPE #1 SHAPE #2 SHAPE #1 SHAPE #2 to act as visual aids rather than practical ones — so don't worry if you find something avrhward to Finger. e's important that you have a clear ext set of visual reference points in place 10 guide you when soloing. Once you have leamed to recognise these chord-based shapes youl find that you can start to re-finger things without getting los routine As you may have noticed, 1 have deliberately started to adopt a particular format foreach of these articles devoted to the melodic minor modes so that you can easly get into a familiar routine =a routine which you ean adopt and subsequently apply to any scale flavours In previous months, when studying some of the ‘other modes of C melodic minor, I have described hhow its possible fot you to extract various distinct flavours from a scale by exploiting the following formula: (2) asa (a SHAPE #3, SHAPE #4 0) SHAPE #3 - Jargon buster Ame ew the sme boy ot notes rom terre perspec thas nlereng the may we interpret he rates. ar example, when the note DVER..Aand Bare seen at « sale (Conan model the nates of C major ta ate eowleged as being the Svargest notes wheres when ue view te Same notes 3620 see (0 Doran = wen 2 mde of € lnian) te nates of 2 min tid ae the stones. I FENEWBER tems A sie Spied or page 90 SHAPE #5 ‘february 2000 | guitar teehmiques | 59jazz waltz lydian sharp five scale stinto ‘eons! Pentatonies Wands 1,3,5md7 1.3,4.5an07 further listening tdand5 — 1,3,5ad9 1,5,4,5and6 Tithe fein sy abun by om 1,3,5and11 tute The Bees sas of wt Below, Ive listed just some of the possible {acho an Be ut sounds that exist within E> Lydian sharp five that you should try. As usual, | suggest that you take Some neck diagrams and plot out the shape of cach device within all of the various scale sh Be 8 Bay 1 345 Be B80 Bmais 1 345 7 a6 Bma7A6 pertaoic 13 BBO mj 13 5 eoBTDNA as 13 5 8 BoB Dc Gat 13 5 11 From D: Doro Dm 1 Deg Dust 1 4 5 Der TAnC ow 1 8 Ww DoF) Guyane Dinorpenttric 1 4 AS DF Gas Dre peniatnic 1 3S ‘the progression This month’s progression comprises chords that are diatonic to C melodic minor that resolve to an augmented chord. Fs Lydian sharp five provides tas with an ideal perspective: it enables us to see the notes of € melodie minor as an Es scale = where the notes ofan Fy augmented triad are the strongest notes within the seale uezzwalte= 120) ug | GAS | aug | GAS ie ee Gag | G3 | 878K 1 Dm Ds ‘The improvised solo on this month's @CD has something of a haunting quality due to the restless nature of the scale. ve never heard Lydian sharp five used as the tonal ceatte of an entire progression lik this before, Usually its used over specific maj7#5 chords. This type of chord Is qute rare, but you'l hear it used in som ‘modem jazz arrangements and by various modern composers, An obvious example ofthis, on guitar, is John Scofield ~ especially in his eaaier weting (that i, the fist four or five albums that he recorded after leaving Miles Davis’ band). The ‘most common use for thls scale Isto use it in conjunction with Lydian asa form of tension over rmai7-type chords (maj7, maip, maj5, mals5 and 50 00 Net month we're going to be looking a¢ the sixth mode of melodic minor, Locrian nat2, See Eee eee ea nicer Vol Gain Bass Mid Te 420 Sd nese Pret enn gece ntl aan nace wre ”