Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
Guitar backing track in E major and F Lydian mode (Steve Vai Style) with extra tips and lesson for scales, arpeggios and licks. This high quality Lydian guitar jam track in the style of guitarist Steve Vai modulates over E major and F Lydian. Excellent for improvising, learning modes, scales, chords, Steve Vai licks and arpeggios. This Q JAM TRACKS *LEARN & PLAY* backing track provides a visual representation of the chords and scales in diagrams as they appear in the backing track. Extra theory about the Lydian mode is shown in this video. It is a backing track and tutorial (or lesson) at the same time.
Learn:
- 0:22 The E major key
- 0:32 Building the pentatonic scale
- 0:54 The Lydian Mode
- 1:06 The F Lydian scale
- 1:24 The pentatonic scale – the easy solution
- 1:55 The E major diatonic scale
- 2:10 Lydian scale patterns
- 2:40 Emaj7 arpeggio over 12 frets
- 3:02 G# minor pentatonic
- 3:19 F Lydian scale patterns (CAGED)
- 3:38 B7(add11) arpeggio
- 3:46 major7 arpeggios over 2 strings (Steve Vai habbit)
- 4:32 Fmaj13 arpeggio (Steve Vai Signature lick)
- 5:20 Fast 3 note per string legato
- 5:37 Leading note
(It's also a play along video for learning beautiful chords)
Guitar backing track in E major and F Lydian mode (Steve Vai Style) with extra tips and lesson for scales, arpeggios and licks. This high quality Lydian guitar jam track in the style of guitarist Steve Vai modulates over E major and F Lydian. Excellent for improvising, learning modes, scales, chords, Steve Vai licks and arpeggios. This Q JAM TRACKS *LEARN & PLAY* backing track provides a visual representation of the chords and scales in diagrams as they appear in the backing track. Extra theory about the Lydian mode is shown in this video. It is a backing track and tutorial (or lesson) at the same time.
Learn:
- 0:22 The E major key
- 0:32 Building the pentatonic scale
- 0:54 The Lydian Mode
- 1:06 The F Lydian scale
- 1:24 The pentatonic scale – the easy solution
- 1:55 The E major diatonic scale
- 2:10 Lydian scale patterns
- 2:40 Emaj7 arpeggio over 12 frets
- 3:02 G# minor pentatonic
- 3:19 F Lydian scale patterns (CAGED)
- 3:38 B7(add11) arpeggio
- 3:46 major7 arpeggios over 2 strings (Steve Vai habbit)
- 4:32 Fmaj13 arpeggio (Steve Vai Signature lick)
- 5:20 Fast 3 note per string legato
- 5:37 Leading note
(It's also a play along video for learning beautiful chords)






![STEVE VAI Trademark licks using WIDE intervals
Learn all about the typical Steve Vai licks that are build around wide intervals like fifths, sixths, sevenths and octave. In this enhanced visual guitar tutorial I explain everything you need to know about these Trademark licks and arpeggios and arpeggios of master guitarist Steve Vai, so you can incorporate it in your improvisation the easy way.
Copyright attribution:
Child with guitar: Pixabay.com / Pexels.com (CCO license)
Monkey: Pixabay.com / Pexels.com (CCO license)
Steve Vai with Frank Zappa: By Eddie Berman - Frank Zappa, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4612527
Steve Vai in Milano: Vento di Grecale [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]
Steve Vai and band: By Vento di Grecale - originally posted to Flickr as [1], CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4052542
Steve Vai with Triple Neck Ibanez Guitar: AlbertoCarrasco [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]
All audio recorded and played by me (Rob van Hal)
Chapters:
0:00 About Steve Vai
0:40 Major 13th lick in Fifths
2:31 Double Octave Lick
4:01 6th interval lick
I use:
Ibanez JEM 7v (www.Ibanez.com)
Ibanez SD GR Bass (www.Ibanez.com)
Takamine GD930 (www.takamine.com)
Castilla Classical Guitars
Rode Microphone
Axe FX II (www.fractalaudio.com)
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