eHow launches Android app: Get the best of eHow on the go.
Summary: Learn how to play the lydian guitar mode in the key of A in this free music lesson on video.
Casey Cormier has been playing both the guitar and bass for 10 years, performing in rock and roll clubs along the New Jersey Coast as well as in New York City. He studied jazz at the...read more
"O.k now let's take a look at our fourth mode, the Lydian Mode. The Lydian Mode is a nature mode so we are going to start in that same pattern. Say we're going to play A Lydian with our second finger starting for the Major. You're going to play A, B. A, that's B, C Sharp because we're Major. Now a D Sharp which is the difference between Major. Seventh fret, fourth fret, sixth fret, seventh fret. That's the first octave, the next octave. So it's going to be fifth fret, seventh fret, fourth fret, sixth fret, seventh fret. Fourth, sixth, seventh. Fourth, sixth, fourth, fifth, seventh, fourth and here. So these are our different notes, the notes that stand out. So practice your Lydian Mode and this will let you know that you are in the key of E Major."