GuitarLuminary - Diminished Scale Phrasing Part 2 - PDF
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Here is Part 2 of my Diminished Scale Phrasing practice routine. I’m working on diminished phrasing while I wait for all the legal questions around the Jobim/Rabello project to get sorted out, so this has become a nice little side project in the meantime.
In Part 1 we worked with two patterns: Skip 2 and Rows of 4. Now we’re adding two more ingredients: an enclosure and some chromatic movement.
Whenever I add chromatic movement, I tend to think about Barry Harris’s half-step rules and the logic behind his chromatic scale. It’s such a useful way of making chromatic notes sound connected rather than random.
That actually gives me an idea for a future phrasing PDF: combining Barry’s chromatic scale with the diminished scale. Let me know if that sounds interesting to you. For now, we’re keeping things simple and just adding a little half-step movement around the typical enclosure. Even by itself it already sounds great, but once you start mixing it with last week’s Skip 2 and Rows of 4 patterns, things get much more interesting.
I hope you find these ideas useful and can turn them into some phrases of your own.
Have fun practising,
Alex
Here is Part 2 of my Diminished Scale Phrasing practice routine. I’m working on diminished phrasing while I wait for all the legal questions around the Jobim/Rabello project to get sorted out, so this has become a nice little side project in the meantime.
In Part 1 we worked with two patterns: Skip 2 and Rows of 4. Now we’re adding two more ingredients: an enclosure and some chromatic movement.
Whenever I add chromatic movement, I tend to think about Barry Harris’s half-step rules and the logic behind his chromatic scale. It’s such a useful way of making chromatic notes sound connected rather than random.
That actually gives me an idea for a future phrasing PDF: combining Barry’s chromatic scale with the diminished scale. Let me know if that sounds interesting to you. For now, we’re keeping things simple and just adding a little half-step movement around the typical enclosure. Even by itself it already sounds great, but once you start mixing it with last week’s Skip 2 and Rows of 4 patterns, things get much more interesting.
I hope you find these ideas useful and can turn them into some phrases of your own.
Have fun practising,
Alex
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