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The Lydian Mode The mode is created by playing the notes of a major scale starting from the fourth note. Here's an example of the mode starting from F, based on a C major scale.  Here's the formula of the Mode: How to use the Lydian mode?The mode could help us solving the tension created by the clash between the fourth note and the third note of the scale. 
Play AudioLet's play C major scale over a C chord for example. If we'll play the scale starting from C we're on the safe side since F is a passing note and therefore does not clash with the third note of C major (E).  Play Audio However if we play a melodic line which involves the F on one of the beats of the bar the F note will sound dissonant since the it will create of a b9 with the E note of the chord. 
Play AudioThe way to avoid this and in the same time to give our line a jazzy feel is to replace F with F# making it the raised 4th of the scale.
Here's An example of how the mode is being used when improvising: 
Play AudioIf you'd like to know more about the chord played in this example I suggest you click here to go to the Raised 11th chords. Compositions in the ModeThe theme for "The Simpsons" is sometimes cited as being in the Lydian mode, and this is certainly true for the first few bars. However, later passages in the theme include a minor 7th, along with other notes characteristic of the Lydian mode, and that thus places those passages in the Lydian Dominant Scale, which is sometimes thought wrongly to be another mode, or related to the modal system.The Kill by 30 Seconds to Marts Eden by Hooverphonic
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