Harp-like scale of the week: C lydian one note per string

mellowsun

C lydian. With harp-like scales you want to play one note per string and maximise the use of open strings. You'll need to use more of a classical left hand technique for this: nice, open left hand, fingers as perpendicular to the fretboard as possible, fretting with just the fingertips, thumb behind the neck.

Keep notes ringing for as long as possible - you should be able to hear at least 3 notes at any one time. End on a low E for a nice Em9 sound.

E-									0		3
B-						0		3		7	
G-				0			5				
D-	0		4		7						
A-		9									
E-10-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

bigjon

Bump, so I see it when I'm not on mobile with the formatting up the spout

mellowsun

Thanks, sorry about the format. Should have posted an image of the tab, rather than trying to format it in the browser!

frankus

Cool, have you tried using harmonics at the 12th fret instead of open strings? That's an old country/Ted Green trick

mellowsun

frankus said:

Cool, have you tried using harmonics at the 12th fret instead of open strings? That's an old country/Ted Green trick

Good idea - you could probably play the whole scale with a combination of harmonics for the open strings and artificial harmonics for the fretted notes, would be tricky to do though!

Deijavoo

Nice. Quite a stretch on the F#.

GuyBoden

Yeah, Lydian has a nice sound. The #4