Anyway I thought it was a very good description of how to make up a dim scale as long as you are familiar with the dim 7th arpeggio. Instead of the whole step half step that is easy to forget in the early stages. Also the dim chord within a dim chord was interesting and news to me.
I think the point of the ex. was to be able to play the dim scale without the notes, as long as you know the dim arpeggios.Or you could just play and learn the 3 diminished scales from music notation, memorise them, put them into arpeggios, patterns, play some diminished scale studies and soon they become second nature just like any other scale
Yeah I watched that, very useful if you are talking how to use the dim scale in jazz. But I don't think the thread was aimed at the dim scale in a jazz context. You could tell by the language he uses, very simple step by step. Probably aimed at the student who needs to learn his scales for an exam.
Well I am looking at this as how a teacher could help his student for an up coming exam.I lost interest pretty quickly I must admit... personally I feel it's better to learn the scale then the arpeggios then work them into patterns to learn them inside out and upside down
Yes great that he has shared it if it helps people but I was wondering how likely it is that people learn an arpeggio before they learn a scale?
Very likely. When you talk about the whole tone scale. Talking from a classical point of view.
PS. Or even the diminished scale.LOL
PS. In fact I've never practiced the diminished scale,as a classical musician, but I can zoom up and down the broken dim arpeggios, as quick a a gypsy czardas. On the Clarinet.
Ah I think I know where you are coming from now - most of the classical syllabus' (syllabi?!!) have diminished arpeggios but not the scales...... I find diminished scales just as natural as a major scale, but then I've always played them
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