The diminished scale is this crazy interesting scale.
I really want to learn from the best so I choose Michael Brecker to learn from.
What mr. Brecker can tell us about this scale is pure gold!
The diminished scale unraveled!
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LESSON TRANSCRIPTION CONTENT:
50+ pages full exercises and licks
-diminished scale exercises – chromatics, whole tone leading tones – triad pairs
-Dominant licks using scale, diminished triads, major triads
-all exercises and licks are transposed to all 12 keys
+ all lesson examples are transposed to the Tenor, Alto and Concert keys.
In this tutorial
00:00 Unlock The Brecker Dominant Secret
00:35 What is the Diminished scale
01:07 Learn by composing lines
02:03 Natural Chromatic Passing Tone
02:32 Diminished Triads
03:01 4 Amazing Major Triads
04:09 Triad Inversions
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