Very nice piece, I enjoyed this piece the most out of all the pieces I've heard in the jam so far and it is likely my favorite piece that I have heard in this jam.
However, the point of the jam was to get outside of your comfort zone and try modes other than the typical major or minor modes, and the modes you used were a bit too close to what I would consider major and minor scales/major and minor pentatonic scales, which are exactly what you used for a good chunk of the piece. I would've liked to see more experimentation with some other modes here.
It's a shame, because this is a really good composition, and would have my highest recommendation, if it weren't for the fact that it just doesn't seem to capture the spirit of what the jam was going for.
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I'm glad you liked it.
About the mode thing, the constraint was avoiding the use of Ionian, aeolian, dorian or pentatonic. That's why I chose lydian and I tried to explore it at its fullest. The piece modulates between different lydian tonics. There's also some other modes used in the track but for specific passages, so they're not explored, is just a one chord thing to create some tensión, like melodic minor at 1:09, mixolydian b6 at 1:41 and altered scale at 2:28.
While it's true lydian is very similar to plain major because there's just a one note difference, the feeling it's brighter and the mood is different.I think it meets the requirements but maybe I should have gone with a spicier mode like a mode from the melodic minor scale as a main mode. But I felt lydian al lake go really well together.
So I took a second listen to the piece, and I do hear lydian, but your use of it was so subtle it could be easily mistaken for one of the other modes. Like it's like you were trying to hide it in the harmony/bass and not really bring it forward, that's why I was having a hard time really convincing myself that you were using lydian upon the first listen. It may be a good idea to be less subtle about it so it's clear what mode you're in.