The Lydian Chromatic Concept

George Russell wrote a scholarly academic treatise on a harmonic system that many jazz improvisers chose to use. While it was rather cumbersome in structure, the premise can be broken down into the "modes" of the ascending lydian-augmented scale. (These can also be inharmonic equivolents to the ascending melodic minor scale) If you use a major scale with a sharped fourth AND fifth degree (while the Lydian scale suffices to provide two equal tetrachords unlike the major scale) all of the necessary "altered" scales for use in jazz improvisation are generated. (There is no longer any guesswork in which notes to use) Peace Out!