MASTER The Symmetrical Diminished Scale (Whole Half & Half Whole)

Master the very sophisticated sound of the W/H & H/W Diminished!
In this video, I share everything you need to know to unlock the Symmetrical Diminished scale so that you can start using it within your playing and adding it to your improvisational language.
This Whole Half or Half Whole Diminished scale is often used as a way to play 'outside' in order to create tension within your lines, chord voicings, and harmonic movements. It's not only a sound used in Blues & Jazz but a sound found across all styles of music and different genres.
I get into the deep theory of this modern scale and cover the functions/applications, triad ideas, generating chords, scale shapes for the guitar, and some of my favourite lines/patterns (+ lots more!).
The examples in this video will give you all the knowledge to truly master this #diminishedscale so that you can call upon this sound whenever you want to bring out the #wholehalf or #halfwhole tension! You can also check out my Patreon page for further in-depth material related to this video and more ways on how to use this scale.
▬ Contents of video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 - Intro
01:10 - Whole Half
02:25 - Diminished 7th Chord
03:30 - Scale Harmonised 1
04:24 - Half Whole
05:37 - Scale Harmonised 2
06:38 - Scale Functions
07:00 - Performance 1
08:17 - Dom/Dim Relationship
09:55 - Diminished Major 7
14:13 - Performance 2
15:10 - biiio7
15:40 - Other Diminished Scales
16:17 - Phrasing
17:55 - Visualisation
18:27 - I, vi, ii, V
21:51 - Triads
25:03 - Chord Voicings
28:25 - Scale Shapes
31:30 - Lines & Patterns
41:04 - Arpeggios
41:58 - Patreon/Outro
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You're very welcome! Thanks for the kind words

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Diminished is a good study. Diminished , altered Dim and loc Dim are the main 3 but there are other "modal" Diminished. 4 in harmonic minor 4 in harmonic major 4 in hungarian major 4 in Romainian major Loc6, dor#4, lyd#2, altbb7 Dorb5, lydb3, lydaug#9, locbb7 Lyd dom#9, altbb6bb7, alt6, dor b2#4 Lyd aug#9#3, aeolb5bb7, Mel minb5, lyd augb3 (lyd dim aug) With the 2 modes of octatonic diminished that's all of them from what I remember. There always more though but these are the most useful from the most common parent scales. 18 all together.

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