Now, I would like to show you the diminished scale which sounds quite a bit different than any thing we have worked on so far. [piano playing]
The diminished scale sounds like this [piano playing]. Basic triad, three notes diminished chord is C, E, flat G flat. It is often used in a slow blues [piano playing]. This is C# diminished [piano playing]. Here is comes. This is C# diminished and so on.
Anyway for the basic chord C, E flat, G flat, C, E flat, G flat and you can stick the A and you can find the diminished chord in any key by playing the root note, the minor third interval diminished fifth which is a perfect fifth lower one half step, so if you are in B flat major, you would count up the scale and flat the third note [piano playing]
D to D flat and you flat the fifth F to E [piano playing]. So from B flat regular chord, flat the third note and flat the fifth note [piano playing]. That sounds B flat diminished. Here is a diagram of the basic C diminished chord. We are going to play the C diminished chord in the left hand and the C diminished scale to go with it which is a C, D, E flat, F, G flat, A flat, A, B and C [piano playing].
Okay here is a chart for the C diminished on the step pattern for the diminished is a whole half, a whole step half, a whole step half step, whole and half again [piano playing].
So just play that for a while mess around with playing the diminished chord with your left hand and the scale with your right [piano playing].
When you get time, try working the diminished scale out in other keys.
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