title: Lydian augmented scale
text: # Lydian augmented scale
  
  In music, the Lydian augmented scale (Lydian ♯5 scale) is the third mode of the ascending melodic minor scale.
  
  Starting on C, the notes would be as follows:
  
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  Generically the whole and half steps are:
  
  The scale may be thought of as a major scale with an augmented fourth and fifth, or as the relative to the melodic minor ascending scale (C Lydian augmented and A melodic minor ascending share the same notes).
  
  