Topic: Modes, Modes, Modes
I hope someone can help out here with regard to modes.
I understand modes, I understand their sounds, I understand how to use them over a vamp etc but when it comes to applying them musically I struggle.
If we are in a major or minor key it would seem that we have all chords of the key at our disposal. However when trying to play in a modal key other than the above it seems that you can only use a couple of chords before losing the modes tonality.
So perhaps someone can explain to me how I can use more than one or two chords to maintain the modal sound. Here is an example.
C Lydian - a really lydian sounding vamp is C - D
It sounds lydian, it is easy to solo to lydian but chuck in another chord and it doesn't sounds lydian any longer - at least not to me.
Any mode experts out there?