Noel Johnston | Modal Etude Lydian#2#6 @nohjoh08 | Uploaded October 2019 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Here’s a most fascinating mode. Lydian#2#6 (6th mode of Hungarian Minor). It can be voiced SO MANY WAYS because all of the upper extensions are enharmonically equivalent to intervals of simple chords. It’s a sound that you can voice as a: major triad, minor triad, diminished triad, maj7, dom7, min7, min7b5, minM7, dimM7, maj7#11, dom7#11, dom7#9 and even dom7maj7. I like to call it the “smartass blues scale” because it sounds bluesy, and technically (sorta) “works” over “all the chords in the real book.” I can imagine a smartass teenager using this scale in middle-school band rehearsal and when accused of not making the changes says “Yes I am. See!?”
The rules are, roll the dice and write the first thing that comes to mind. This happened today. #Lydian#2#6 “HungarianMinor aka #DoubleHarmonicMinor #VoicingModes #EasyModaletudesBook #ComingSoon #ModalDice noeljohnston.com/voicingmodes.php
Here’s a most fascinating mode. Lydian#2#6 (6th mode of Hungarian Minor). It can be voiced SO MANY WAYS because all of the upper extensions are enharmonically equivalent to intervals of simple chords. It’s a sound that you can voice as a: major triad, minor triad, diminished triad, maj7, dom7, min7, min7b5, minM7, dimM7, maj7#11, dom7#11, dom7#9 and even dom7maj7. I like to call it the “smartass blues scale” because it sounds bluesy, and technically (sorta) “works” over “all the chords in the real book.” I can imagine a smartass teenager using this scale in middle-school band rehearsal and when accused of not making the changes says “Yes I am. See!?”
The rules are, roll the dice and write the first thing that comes to mind. This happened today. #Lydian#2#6 “HungarianMinor aka #DoubleHarmonicMinor #VoicingModes #EasyModaletudesBook #ComingSoon #ModalDice noeljohnston.com/voicingmodes.php
