F# Lydian Scale on Bass Ukulele

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

Not one of Bass Ukulele's open strings belongs to F# Lydian. Every note of it gets stopped, which at least means the pattern is fully movable — the same fingering carries to all twelve keys.

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.

It has a short scale near 21 inches strung with thick polymer strings, which is how a ukulele-sized body reaches bass pitches.

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.