The diminished scale is famous – but just in case you don’t know it, here’s the notes of the C diminished scale:
C Db Eb E F# G A Bb
- Yes, it is the H-W diminished scale, the scale that alternates a half-step with a full step
- Yes, there are both E and Eb in there. It’s not a mistake, I explain why in the video.
Well, it’s called the diminished scale, so you would expect that the first chord of that scale is a diminished chord.
Right?
And look… if I take every other note in the scale, I get C Eb F#… that must be (enharmonoc to) the diminished chord…
And yet.
And yet no, everything I wrote so far is mostly wrong.
For the right thing, you have to see the video. Sorry ;-)
In this video we also answer:
- Is my forearm supposed to burn while doing this?
- Tommaso, stop projecting human consciousness and volition onto sound frequencies!
- Are cadences like V-I discovered or invented?
- “Didn’t understand anything” (that was not a question)
- Modes from a Physics point of view? (nerdy answer alert)
Have fun!
