English

Scale

The A Lydian scale

All notes of the A Lydian scale: A, B, C#, D#, E, F#, G#. Major with a raised fourth. Floating and open; common in film music.

Lydian is one of the seven modes — what a mode is, with all seven to listen to.

The notes

  1. 1A
  2. 2B
  3. 3C#
  4. 4D#
  5. 5E
  6. 6F#
  7. 7G#

Steps in semitones: 2 – 2 – 2 – 1 – 2 – 2 – 1

On the keyboard

Guitar

Ukulele

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Every note on this page is computed, not typed in — following the rule that also makes F# major spell its seventh degree E#, not F.