What's up, everybody, Adam Anus here.

I think it's my last solo episode, which I'm stoked about.

Can't wait to get Peter back in town and back in the studio so we can do some real live, you'll hear it's my last solo episode, which I'm stoked about. Can't wait to get Peter back in town

and back in the studio so we can do some real live, you'll hear it. But I'm doing Method Monday,

which is actually a Peter Martin idea, but I'm going to take this torch and run with it,

because I think I can make a cool exercise here out of what we've been working on, which are the

Barry Harris Sixth Corps. This is a great exercise for comping. Whether you play piano or not, you can sit down to the piano and figure this out and it will make you understand what pianists are doing a lot better. But if you do play any piano, this is so handy what we're going to cover today. And by the way, this is a little bit part of my new course, Bebop Chords for Beginners, which dropped just last Friday. I just want to say, shout out everyone who sent me nice messages and DMs and notes about the course. If you're an Open Studio member, it's already on your dashboard. You can check that out. If you're not and you want to check the course out, you can click the link below to save $30 for our you'll hear it folks. That's special for you, so check that out. Okay, so today I want to talk

a little bit about the sixth diminished scale. We've been talking about sixth chords, but this is

kind of a different animal here, and it's related to six chords, but because we can make six

chords out of it. But really, it's a scale of chords. It's what Barry calls the scale of chords.

What does that mean? So you likely know all about the six diminished. It's like one of the most

popular concepts in modern jazz education. But the way that I want to practice it today

flips it a little bit. And just a brief tutorial here on what it is. If we're in C,

the sixth diminishes just a C major scale. But there's an extra half step between the fifth

and six notes. So between G and A, there's a G sharp. Or an A flat, depending on how we look at it.

And that's important because sometimes we'll look at it differently, right? So that's the six

diminished scale, just a major scale with a half step between the fifth and six tones. Now, if we

skip a note of this scale, starting from C, we get C, E, G, A, and C. I'm going to do the

locked hands voicing, so the five-note voicing where there's octaves on the outside. That's what we're

going to do all day today. It's what we did all day on Friday. And it's super easy. Four notes in

your right hand, one note in your left. Again, four notes in your right.

One note in your left. And your left hand is basically just mirroring what your right hand is doing on the very top note.

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