{"id":7898,"date":"2020-01-22T19:51:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T03:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7898"},"modified":"2020-01-22T17:47:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T01:47:49","slug":"the-lydian-dominant-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-lydian-dominant-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lydian Dominant Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly to many blues players, the minor pentatonic and blues scales aren&#8217;t actually the best fit for a lot of chords we play&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In general, the minor pentatonic works everywhere (over all of the chords in a 12 bar blues) because it&#8217;s not perfect anywhere!<\/p>\n<p>But modern blues players incorporate less traditional sounds like this one, the Lydian Dominant scale, to more closely follow the chords and really get the sound of each chord change.<\/p>\n<p>This is just one of the topics in my new &#8220;Modern Blues Soloing&#8221; course, which is here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobgu.com\/getmbsbl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/gobgu.com\/getmbsbl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But for now, let&#8217;s take a peek at this fun new sound!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u-AvpSk4fpo?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/pdf\/mbs-lydian-dom-sound.pdf\">Download The TAB Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly to many blues players, the minor pentatonic and blues scales aren&#8217;t actually the best fit for a lot of chords we play&#8230; In general, the minor pentatonic works everywhere (over all of the chords in a 12 bar blues) because it&#8217;s not perfect anywhere! But modern blues players incorporate less traditional sounds like this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7903,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions\/7903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}