F Lydian Scale on Loog

Play the F Lydian scale on Loog with fretboard diagrams that map the pattern across the neck. The Lydian scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the modes family.

All 3 of Loog's open strings fall inside F Lydian — G (the 2nd), B (the flat 5th), E (the 7th) — though F itself has to be stopped. Open, the strings cover G3 to E4.

Major with a raised 4th (#4) — dreamy, ethereal, and floating. Often called the brightest mode, with an otherworldly suspended quality.

Heard in: Film scores, progressive rock, jazz — Joe Satriani's "Flying in a Blue Dream", John Williams, Steve Vai.

Loog is tuned G–B–E, with 12 frets to work with. Loog strings are guitar strings 3-2-1 (G-B-E) — every shape here is the top of the matching guitar shape, so it all transfers when you move up to six strings.

Each position shows the scale notes and their intervals from the root so you can connect the shape to its sound, hear it with audio playback, and practice it in any register. Movable patterns let you transpose the same fingering to other keys once it is learned.

Once a position is under your fingers, link the F Lydian scale to the chords it harmonizes and to progressions in the key of F to start improvising and writing with it. Working a scale alongside its chords is the fastest way to make it stick and to hear how it colors a progression.