Four lessons explore diminished scales and arpeggios. A must for the jazz guitarist.
1. DIMINISHED SCALES discover diminished and dominant diminished scales and how to use them over dominant chords to create an altered dominant sound for jazz improv.
2. ONE OCTAVE DIMINISHED SCALES 10 PATTERNS Very helpful for generating new soling ideas. Being familiar with one octave diminished scales makes it easier to learn two and three octave diminished scales. Drills on how one octave diminished scales will work over four different dominant chords. Learn how to react to a dominant chord with a diminished scale to improvise.
3. DIMINISHED ARPEGGIOS study diminished arpeggios, very cool sounding and used primarily in jazz. This is a valuable lesson on soloing over dominant chords.
4. DIMINISHED TRICKS since the diminished scale is symetrical on the fretboard there are many tricks to easily play altered sounds by transposing the finger patterns.
82 minute DVD close up demonstrations with link for printable PDF in tab, notation and grids.
Also available as downloads. Click on the blue lesson titles above.
