Rob Garland: Diminished Arpeggio-Scale On The Blues Melodic Minor Scale TrueFire

Edited version of a guitar lesson from TrueFire Instructor Rob Garland's online classroom Guitar Babylon. http://www.robgarland/net


Lesson notes: Finding diminished arpeggios from the 3rd, 5th, b7th or b9th of a dominant chord (which also makes the dominant chord 7b9). As every note is a minor 3rd apart equal distance this gives you 4 fully diminished arpeggios. If you put a half step below each note of the diminished arpeggio you get a diminished scale from each root note! Try this with a G7 chord, play the diminished arpeggio from the b9th starting at Ab on the D string, play Ab-B-D-F-Ab then go back and start on the note G on the D string (5th fret) play half-whole (1/2 step below each note in the arpeggio) and you have the diminished scale. Applications on a 12 bat blues. Also using the melodic minor scale to achieve an altered sound and add tension.

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Rob Garland Guitar Lesson: Diminished Arpeggio-Scale On The Blues Melodic Minor Scale TrueFire