Chords for Diminished Tricks & Tips Lesson Demo with Rich Severson

_ _ [Gb] _ [F] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
I want to talk to you about using some diminished, I like to call them just tricks, that you
can do to _ spice up your soloing over dominant chords.
Remember, even a one [Bb] chord can have a dominant chord reference to [Bm] it.
In other words, if I'm playing a D [B] major 7, if the chord is D major [D] 7, I can throw some
[B] A dominant licks in there and then resolve it.
Attention to resolution.
[Bm] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
[Eb] _ _ [F] _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Em] You hear it?
Now, [D] because the diminished scale is symmetrical, in other words, all parts are _ not equal, but
[Gb] for instance, a diminished _ arpeggio is [F] all minor thirds, [Gb] therefore it's symmetrical [Bm] in
the fact that the distance between every _ _ _ chord factor is a minor third.
Here, [N] _
it lends itself to some finger patterns, and the diminished scale, because it's also
whole step, half step, whole step, [Bbm] half step, whole step, half [Bm] step, we could just play
finger patterns and [Bb] get some cool sounds out of it.
Alright, [G] let me just start [Bb] with the first one I want to show you right [E] now over a dominant 7th chord.
_ [Ab] _ Alright, let me show you an example [A] here.
Here's an A dominant chord, and this chord [B] is going to move to some kind of D [Gb] chord.
_ _ _ [A] A7 [B] to D.
Now, [Bb] I can build a diminished scale off the [G] flat 7th, which would be G, and you
can [A] kind of see how it fits in the palm of my hand right [G] here, this grip, off that [E] or
the _ 5th, the 3rd, or the flat 9th.
[A] Here I am on the 5th [E] fret.
Now since the scale [Bb] is symmetrical, I could go, [A] here's the first three notes of the scale. _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ Alright, now here's what I'm [B] going to play.
I'm going to play this little motif.
_ [G] _ _ Now, [Cm] all I have to do now is [Bb] to move it up four frets and do the [Gb] same thing.
_ [Am] _
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [B] Up another [Dbm] five.
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _
[G] _ _ [G] And you hear how that's [Bm] going to result in some kind of, [Gb] right into the 3rd of D.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [F] Here's A7.
_ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [Dbm] _
Okay, [B] so, whenever I can play any kind of [E] shape around anything [B] on the diminished scale,
I can move it up in minor thirds.
I can start here on C [Em] sharp, _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
[Bbm] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [E] _ _ against the dominant [F] chord.
I could do it [G] here, even here's the [Bb] scale, _ _ _ _
_ [Ebm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [D] some kind of D.
[G] So that's the [Bm] first little idea with _ [E] the scale.
I could go, [Em] _
_ [Bb] _ _ [E] now _ _ resolve it to [B] D.
So you can see how I [A] can kind of milk these three little [D] notes, this little [E] pattern.
_ Just moving it down [G] in thirds.
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Db] _
_ [B] _ _ [N] So that's the first little trick. _
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