I'm Adam Manus, and you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast.

Jazz Explained.

Welcome back, everybody.

Peter's still out on the road with Inside Straight.

And so I'm doing another solo episode.

We're dealing with the Six Diminished all week this week.

And today I have a very cool concept for you.

It's all about delayed gratification today. It's all about adding more

tension to your tonic chord tones. What does that mean? We're going to explain it. So if you

don't know about the six diminished, we have tons of episodes here on the six diminished. There's a

lot of resources on the basics of the six diminished, but just real quick here, the six diminished

is a scale of chords, right?

It is a octatonic scale here in C.

It's C, D, E, F, G, G, Sharp, A, B, C.

So it's like a C major scale,

but with the half step between the fifth and the six,

between the G and the A, there's a G sharp.

And of course, what this does, if we make chords out of this, in other words, if we skip a note,

that gives us a C major six chord, right?

Because we have that G sharp in there, right?

Now we have a C6.

And then if we move those up, we have a D diminished. If we move those up, a core, a, sorry, a scale tone, we have a C6, D diminished, C6, diminished, six, diminish. That's how it gets its name. We've, we've been over this a million times. But if you don't know it, you should check out our YouTube channel. You could even search here in the podcast for Six Diminished. And I know we've done episodes on it before. But that's the basics of it, is that with this octatonic scale, this eight-note scale, with that half step between the fifth and the six tones, you get these major six chords, move each one of those up a scale tone, a diminished.

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