Robben Ford Guitar Lesson - Diminished Scale Blues - TrueFire

we're working with a scale here the half step whole step scale and uh and using this to move from the first chord of a blues to the four chord of the blues and even though it sounds confusing the logic is is correct that basically when you move from c to f that is basically a 5 1 chord progression again it really doesn't matter what you call it so always remember that you you listen to it and know that it sounds right you can call it anything you want to it does not change what's actually happening on a harmonic audio level right so don't be put off by what you call it you should be able to discern with your ear that something works and if it works great i knew this stuff before i knew what to call it so what we're going to do here again is move from c7 to f and as i mentioned uh before basically when you play a scale you're spelling out chords you know you're there's the third of c there's the fifth of c there's the seventh of c now we're at the tonic so i've played a c triad just by playing the scale there is a c triad within the context of that scale now one of the cool things about this half step post depth scale deal is that uh it has within it it's basically a diminished scale and diminished scale is basically a series of my minor third intervals it's this one which most people kind of have heard that before it's kind of a corny little uh harmonic deal you don't hear the modern music too much today but in any case that the diminished scale is this series of minor third intervals and this is called double diminished because when you go up a half step and play again that series of minor third intervals those are are within this scale as well so this scale is known as it's called double diminished because there are two diminished arpeggios within the context of the scale the first one starting on the root note the next one starting a half step up all in the same scale and all over a c7 chord which is bizarre to me but it totally works it's true so you can move in minor third intervals you can move it up you can move it down in minor third intervals so if i go right i can play that up and or down in minor thirds so um if i can play a c triad or let's play it here i can move that c triad in minor thirds so i see a an arpeggio of a major triad like that can be moved around in minor thirst you will hear things like that in classical music yeah metal players will do it a little bit too so i can play i'm doing this to get my f chord here i can play land on the f chord that way or like that now these are very straight up and down um things i'm playing in here and the way you play them is really important otherwise it just sounds like you know kind of a corny arpeggio so i kind of worked out a little bit of a a lick to sort of demonstrate a way to use this in the key of c to get to an f chord so if i'm in c i'm playing there's that arpeggio so if a blues was kind of like two we were playing a blues that kind of a tempo one two i won't do this so the important thing first of all i'm just playing kind of a little pickup thing now i'm playing the arc the uh the diminished arpeggio there starting a half step up from state and now i'm just going right down the c diminished scale i end on c but it's the flat is the fifth of the key of f which is where we're headed so very scalar but i'm just playing the arpeggio i play the scale i pagio going up scale going down and boom i land on a c which works very well on that f chord so uh this is the kind of thing that that basically it's a device to get you from one seventh chord to another in particular what i just played goes c to f you could also play the same thing on the g going back to c but you wouldn't have time to play the whole thing there's just not enough time in there but you've got licking two keys now you know you could use this on the five chord of c or um the c moving to f

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Length: 8min 5sec (485 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 24 2013