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You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Diminished Scales & When To Use Them

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Peter Martin

Musicians React, Video Podcast, Tutorials, Album, Vocal Stems, Song Breakdown, Album Breakdown, Jazz Musicians React, Song Stems, Music, Musical Life, Reaction, Live Music, Fresh Spin Fridays, Peter Martin, Isolated Stems, Jazz, 194861, Album Analysis, Adam Maness, Kid A Harmony Analysis, Music Commentary, Jazz Tutorials, Music Theory, Jazz Lessons, Track-by-track, Album Deep Dive, Best New Jazz, Chords, Jazz Courses, Music Analysis, Music Advice, Jazz Education, Music Education

4.9770 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Peter and Adam take questions on diminished scale usage, what to do when you get fired, and how to learn to play what you're thinking.

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0:00.0

Okay, Brian says, diminished scale usage. It's the same scale if you use it over a dominant seventh versus a diminished court, right? I hear you refer to it as whole half versus half half. Does it matter? It does matter a little bit, but it is all the same notes, Brian. So Peter, can I use you as my guinea pig here? Because I don't have to working. I still don't. I tried to, can you hear that? Come on it.

0:38.4

You got to get that right,

0:38.6

you gotta get it going

0:39.2

to that right channel,

0:40.0

Broski.

0:41.1

Oh my gosh. How do I do this? No, just tell me what to play. I got you, man. We're partners. Okay, so play in your left hand, play F, A, A, F, A, and E.

0:36.4

My left hand?

0:38.4

In your left hand,

0:39.1

F, below, middle C, F, A, F, A, B, and E. F. My left hand?

0:55.0

In your left hand,

0:55.8

F, below, middle C, F, A, A, flat, B, and E.

0:59.8

F, A, A, flat, B, and E.

1:02.7

There you go.

1:03.9

I can hear that.

1:05.2

Okay.

1:05.8

Now play an F whole half to minute's scale over that.

1:12.7

Right, so Brian... an F whole half-diminish scale over that. Right.

1:13.1

So Brian, here's the whole half.

1:15.9

It's F, G, A, B, flat, B, C, sharp, D, E, right?

1:20.6

And as you notice, if you plays that voicing in the left hand of F, A, flat, B, and E,

1:26.1

that's an F diminished voicing, and you would use the F whole half. So the whole half, diminished scale, from the root, can be used over a diminished chord. Right? So the whole half diminished scale, so again, if you have, oh, look, he's got the cordy. Oh, my gosh, the cat. I didn't want to show off, but, you know.

1:45.7

Okay, so play, yeah, so there you go.

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