I have been trying to increase my music
theory knowledge, and I can't figure out Flying in a Blue Dream. The first chord is a Csus2#4, which is easy enough -- C D F# G. Those notes all fit nicely into the C Lydian scale. The next chord, however, is where I get confused. It is an Absus2#4 chord, and
Satriani shifts to C Dorian during this section. My question is twofold:
How does going from a C chord to an Ab work? Ab is not in C Ionian, Lydian, or Dorian.
Also, the notes of Absus2#4 -- Ab Bb D Eb -- don't really fit into C Dorian (C D Eb F G A# Bb). How does this work?
Maybe I'm missing something fundamental or spelled out my scales and chords wrong, but this is all making little sense to me right now.
