The Diminished Scale - What the Hell Is It?

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Peter Martin

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🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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It's another edition of our series "What the Hell Is It?" Today, Peter and Adam break down the diminished scale - what it sounds like, how to play it, and when to use it.Calling all pianists - get the Piano Access Pass today! Save money with this bundle featuring every piano course ever from Open Studio, including teachers such as Peter Martin, Geoffrey Keezer, and Helio Alves.Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.Let us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel and leave a comment for this episode.Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	What?
0:03.0	What? I'm Adam Annis.
0:33.6	And you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast.
0:36.2	Daily music advice coming at you. Coming at you today, we are super diminished. I think we just invented a new scale. Have we ever done a musical banter before that? Was that the first time? That was the very first one. We're so excited to be in the new pod suite with the Flying V keyboards here. So we can have a little musical conversation every now and then.
0:56.2	That's nice.
0:56.5	The diminished scale really lends itself to musical conversation.
1:01.2	It's all open-ended.
1:02.3	You know what I'm saying?
1:02.9	Don't diminish the value of the diminished scale.
1:05.2	I would never.
1:05.9	Yeah, yeah.
1:06.7	I mean, if you do, you're going to find diminishing returns for sure.
1:10.0	So we're talking about the diminished scale because we want to know what the hell is it?
1:14.0	Yeah, what the hell is the main scale?
1:15.5	This is part of our series.
1:16.6	You know what?
1:17.0	What the hell is that?
1:17.8	And I'm an expert in this because for many years, not intuitively, I knew could play and could hear a diminished scale, yet I didn't know what the hell it was.
1:29.5	So maybe did I know what the hell it was?
1:31.2	I don't know.
1:31.7	But I didn't know how the hell to talk about it.
1:34.0	But now I've come full circle.
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