The Cis Lydian Dominant scale contains 7 notes: Cis, Dis, Eis, F♯♯, Gis, Ais, H.
Lydian dominant is the fourth mode of melodic minor — a major scale with a raised fourth and a lowered seventh. It is the standard choice over an unresolved dominant seventh sharp eleven chord, and it is sometimes called the acoustic or overtone scale.
Cis Lydian Dominant uses the same notes as Gis Melodic Minor, started from degree 4 instead of the first. The notes are shared; the tonic, and therefore the sound, is not.
Cis Lydian Dominant is a scale, not a key. It has no key signature of its own — music that uses it is normally written in the key signature of its parent scale, with any extra accidentals added as they occur.
| Fok | Hang | Hangköz | Semitones |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cis | P1 | 0 |
| 2 | Dis | M2 | 2 |
| 3 | Eis | M3 | 4 |
| 4 | F♯♯ | TT | 6 |
| 5 | Gis | P5 | 7 |
| 6 | Ais | M6 | 9 |
| 7 | H | m7 | 10 |
These are the triads built on each degree of Cis Lydian Dominant using only notes from the scale.
Every scale type that starts on Cis, for comparison.
The Cis Lydian Dominant scale has 7 notes: Cis, Dis, Eis, F♯♯, Gis, Ais, H.
The Cis Lydian Dominant scale follows the step pattern W–W–W–H–W–H–W, where H is a half step and W is a whole step.
Cis Lydian Dominant is the mode of Gis Melodic Minor that starts on its 4 degree. Both scales use the same notes but resolve to a different tonic.
The triads built from the Cis Lydian Dominant scale are Cis, Dis, Eisdim, F♯♯dim, Gism, Aism, Haug.