The Diminished Scale Pattern That EVERY Jazz Player Needs To Know
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Here's a diminished scale pattern for you that every jazz musician should know how to play!
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In this video, I show you how to construct one of the most commonly heard diminished scale patterns. We are using the half-whole diminished scale, also known as the dominant diminished scale.
Diminished scales are symmetrical. This means that we can create some very interesting, repeating patterns. It also means that there are only 3 different diminished scales. It's worth getting familiar with the different families of diminished scales so you can make the most of this pattern!
You can use this pattern over diminished chords or dominant chords. It sounds great over dominant chords and adds a bit of tension whilst improvising. Practice incorporating it into your dominant improvisation :)
If you have any questions, just leave a comment below!
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Yeah, something I was looking for. That's the sound of jazz there, some diminished runs over 7th chords. Tasty
Cant wait to expand my musical repertoire,this is a very well put together professional video.
Great teaching it will aid people to get in the zone!
Think "half-whole diminished scale" as a blend of two different diminished seven chords. In this case, those two chords are A°7 (A, C, Eb, Gb) and E°7 (E, G, Bb, Db). Together, they form a scale, and the notes are C, Db, Eb, E, Gb, G, A, Bb, and higher C. Notice, you can see two different chords: A-C-Eb-Gb and E-G-Bb-Db.
Very helpful. I like your approach because you jump to the root's relative minor, trace its fully diminished 7th, then do the same with the 5th of that relative minor. It just makes identifying the notes easier.
This was EXCELLENT!!!!! Great job.........again.
This is an awesome tutorial, Simon! Thank You!
Thank you for the video! I'm working on it!😊
fantastic, thank you Simon!
Thanks simon......been searching for patterns for a while now,appreciate the help
I just love your videos, Simon, your didactics is fabulous. Your tempo exactly what I need, not too fast not too slow. And I find your lessons easy to grasp being totally logical. Thank you so much🙏💖
Just found this video on UA-cam, and I am amazed how good this video is - clear, simple, to the point, easy to grasp, with good visual demonstration - a great example, how things should be taught. Subscripting right away!
Great lesson on the diminish scale Thanks
Awesome video. Didn't knew this stuff about the diminished scale, thanks
Thank you so much!
Concise yet detailed, and even inspiring as always :)
Thanks! Appreciate it. Glad you enjoyed it 😁
this is very useful
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Thank you!
Thanks a lot Simon. Tutorials are great. I am really learning something. I am a moderate piano player and was always doing the same tricks over and over. Boring.. Your tips and lesson are opening a complete new pianoworld for me, how to approach my improvisation. I am improving ! I feel it. Its great. Even if you are not quite talented like me , practising over and over gets me somewhere. Keep up the good works. Greets from Amsterdam
I’m a bassist I love it
Excellent video. Thank you very much and thank you for the notation.
You're welcome! 😁
Wow, thank you, Simon. What another great video. When I first learned scales/chords, I'd play a scale, then the major, minor, seventh (Dom), diminished chords, then move to the next scale in the Circle. As a kid, the diminished was not a chord I gravitated to... not till I got into blues and jazz that is. BTW, no one ever taught me that half-diminished even existed; only [fully] diminished. Either I had less than comprehensive teachers or music and how it's taught has. Anyway, thanks again for everything you do.
Simon I just subscribed this morning and I would like to thank you. I’ve been looking for a channel like this and it’s just amazing so thank you 🙏
I'm glad you found the channel! Let's help you be the best player you can possibly be! 😊
Thanks Simon 🙏😊gonna practice now! Waiting for more videos like this.Also love the run at the beginning
My pleasure! Glad you liked it 😊
Very very informative. Thanks .
No worries, you're welcome 😊
Interesting! Really nice educative video!
Thanks Adrien! 🙏
I absolutely love the Melodic Major Scale!!
So cool!!!
Glad you like it 🙂
When playing the half whole c diminished do you use this right hand fingering 123 12 123? With that scale there is no way to break it into two groups of 1234 (right hand) as you can with B half whole diminished (right hand thumb on B and on F). Also, when you play Eb, Gb and A dim do you finger exactly like C so that there are only three fingerings to learn? Like if you start B dim half whole on thumb, do you always start D dim half whole on third finger (right hand)? Lastly, do you practice these scales in left hand or combined parallel or contrary?
Nice lick..
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You're welcome!
Wawu I love this ✊ thank you!
My pleasure!
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Welcome back bro
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Good to see you too friend! 🐷 😊
Wow great video! Really cool pattern
Thanks dude! Glad you like it 😊 (btw, did you see the new workshop I added in the Academy today? It's a solo analysis of one of Kiefer's solos and I think it will be right up your street!)
PianoPig no but I’ll go check that out rn!
PianoPig ok so I’ve only watched the first few minutes of it but I can already tell this is going to be really cool. That bebop type feel sounds great over the hip hop type of beat in the background. Really cool style! Thanks!
No worries man! Enjoy! :)
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Thx sir
Duke Ellington's version of Overture from the Nutcracker has a unison saxophone line that uses this lick
Simon..nice lick ..doing it about 70% speed. Been trying to incorporate it into my playing. C to Db to its 4th (Gb) go back a minor 3rd Eb.. Then go up to the 4 (Ab) back the minor 3rd to F.. F goes to itsn4 (Bb)..that goes to Eb..Eb falls back a min 3rd..which is a C. I am not looking at the sheet music, but I think that is correct. The best..
3:58 this exact pattern is used in liszt's valse impromptu. Maybe liszt was a jazz musician😁
Liszt used lots of diminished harmony so it's not surprising that he came across this pattern 😁
cheeky
That pattern reminds me of this one part in ELP-Tarkus
Jazz is related to late Romantic/early Impressionist Period music. There was a lot of crossover.
@@supergene256 if this is true it explains so much for me
Great pattern. Really easy to immediately start using. Play it as triplets, or eights/sixteenth, sounds cool with the 3 note groups displaced
Yeah exactly! It's fun to play around with the rhythm with patterns like this, great way to practice it too 😊
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Thanks dude! I use Keyscape for most of these vids :)
... I'm not a piano guy, but I found the musical ad lib "hack" useful. Thank you.
Nice description. Certain scales like C HW dim have stuck in my head. It was easier to go up a H then up a 4th.eg. CDb Gb then back to Eb to E then 4th to A.
then F# G up a 4th to.C. Back to A
up a H to Bb then up a 4th to Eb then back down to Eb..same as before. Should be the same notes as the sheet music. I just noticed another pattern as well as the HW diminished scale..we.continue going backwards a min 3rd..then forward.
Thank you! Is this chord C7(#9)? ah! I got it! Gb7 chord..!!
is there a video on how to use scales to improvise? do musicians switch between scales or do they stick to one? are the chords they move to and from in the same scale? I'm smol brain
they switch. Sometimes very little, sometimes a lot. Giant steps is one with lots of switches.
You're free to do whatever
Also, don't play scales outside the realm of practice
Please can do tutorial on very long phrase...using it as a turnaround
Sir do we have to sight read scales while playing along or its just a technical improvisation one?
Is a chicken or an egg
What do you mean sujeth?
HI....DO YOU MIND IF I CALL THE HALF-WHOLE DIMINISHED SCALE: AN ALTERED-MELODIC SCALE. IF NOT, I'LL BE GLAD TO HEAR WHY!!
Great pattern. You mind revealing which piano sample you're using? Sounds great!
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Hi, I'm looking for a method to improvise on all the scales without having to remember them. Could you recommend something? I have only found the solution of buying lots of roli lumi in parallel while leaving the scale keys lit. Thanks!
You will never be able to improvise proficiently without learning your scales. They are the alphabet of music
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Beautiful pattern! I just think it would've been better at the end with a emotional chord.
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I will probably mess around with some of these scales, but at some point you gotta question when to stop being a dictionary and when to make some music based on emotion and not internalized patterns.
U know some licks Simon
The piano into to this lesson sounds identical to the intro to "Til The Cops Come Knockin'" by R&B recording artist Maxwell
I THINK DIMINISHED IS ANOTHER WORD FOR DESTROYED
reminds me of an episode from tom and jerry
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You can't please everyone! I assume it's just people who don't understand the video?! Who knows, who cares 😂
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I lost concentration
Im a big fan love your channel. i was wondering what Diminished scale would you use over a g minor scale?
What I hate about these videos is you have to sit through several minutes of shit you've already known for years to get to the payoff. You could make shorter videos by assuming your audience already knows what a diminished scale is.