Why Michael Brecker's Diminished Scale Strategy Is Amazing

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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[IlirianpaJazz]

Mulgrew Miller was also really good with diminished scales 😃 another great source to learn!

[Ezekio]

Agree! Michael Brecker is the best with out a doubt! Thank you for this post

[TheSlayerswe]

Dexter Gordon didn't really use it too often I think but whenever he did I think it sounds great. Always resolves perfectly.

[percyvolnar]

Steve Coleman, Jean Luc Ponty & Allan Holdsworth will change the way you even hear scales. All three of these musicians write tunes that STAY in very tense V chords. Listening to them is like learning from a 'Prepper' how to survive after the big one drops.

[lovepeaceblues]

Hi Soren, love what you are doing, mate, an interesting take on the melodic minor scale is that it really is built on two chords. eg: I'll use D harmonic minor: D E F G A Bb C# D.

Now, what I find interesting is the following: D F A C# becomes a D minor with a major 7, the C#, using the same approach, start the arpeggio on the E and you get the folowing: E, G, Bb, D becoming a Em7b5. Now this can be taken to another level as per Dexter and Henderson. Start the arpeggio : C#, E, G, Bb and end up with a warped version of a C# diminished seventh chord. So, begs the question, is the harmonic minor a scale or is it "2 chords"? I'll leave that for fellow theory geeks!!

[davidsheriff]

Chick was really big into it. Check out the recording of "Spain"'everytime it goes to the F #7 after the G major 7, he goes nuts with it. I am a guitar player and I hear the diminished scale a lot in John Scofield's Robben Ford's and Scott Henderson's playing, but with them, it's used more in a way to take it out a little on a one chord jam, not as much in a setting with a lot of changes.

[xj]

Joe Farrell's para-functional way of playing diminished scales was incredible.

[CosmoShinobi-hw]

Allan Holdsworth was the diminished god