Melancholic E Lydian Mode Backing Track (Longing)

Melancholic E Lydian Mode Backing Track (Longing) You can use ... ... the E Lydian-scale, ... ... the E Major Pentatonic-scale ... ... the B Ionian-scale (aka B Major), ... ... and the B Major Pentatonic-scale ... ... to solo over these chords. The progression I used ... ... from the perspective of E Lydian: I - iii - II - vii ... from the perspective of B Major: IV - vi - V - iii The “flavor“-note of the Lydian mode is the raised 4th scale degree (in this case the A#). This is what differentiates the E Major-scale from the E Lydian-scale. In the E Major-scale the 4th note would be the A natural. Because of this raised 4th, we get different chords in E Lydian: In the progression that I used, both the F# Major-chord and the D# Minor-chord, are what give the progression the Lydian flavor. If we were in E Major, we would instead have the chords F# Minor and D#°. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------