Can someone show me the diminished scale??? I cant seem to find it.

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Half step whole step. It's that easy.

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but i mean is there like an actual scale that i can print out and memorize???.......

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------------7-8--10-11---------------
----------6-7--9-10-----------------------------
------4-5--7-8----------------------------------
----3-4--6-7------------------------------------
--2-3--5-6-----------------------------------------
1-2--4-5---------------------------------------

--------7---9-----------
------6---8---------------
---4---7----------------
--3---6-----------------
-2---5-------------------
1---4----------------------

simply draw these out on paper, and ul have it

its basical y this step that keept repeating itsself
-1-4-7-10-etc

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Just goto www.looknohands.com Click on the advanced room. It has every scale and chord in any key printed out in a fretboard diagram.

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those are 3rds 5ths/ arps

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thanks guys

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Or you can look at it like a diminished arpeggio. . .that was Kirk Hammett's big thing in guitar world on his "Betcha Can't Play This."

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well shit now youve gone and confused the hell outa me!!! is that correct or not????

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It is correct Angry Hobbit, just stacked minor 3rds or as one guy said whole half whole half, or half whole half whole, up to the octave. There are really only three diminished scales because it is a symmetrical scale and functions in two different positions, sorry. You have it right I am sure.

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gee i wonder what arp means?

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thanks

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Oh, sorry, I guess because Arpeggio doesn't have an abbreviation I didn't know what you were talking about. . . :P. but other than that oh well. I apologize.

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did u know the dim scale is IN the harmonic minor scale??
its probaly in moer scales, but i dont know anyother than harmonicminor and dim.

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E-------------------5-8
B----------------4-7
G-------------5-8
D----------4-7
A------3-6
E---2-5

That's how i play it. Dunno if it's right.

yeah thats right, thing is the 8 and the 4 with the ** behind em are the same notes

E---------------------5-8
B----------------4**7
G-------------5-8**
D----------4-7
A------3-6
E---2-5

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yep thats true the seventh of the scale is a tritone

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Yeah i know. But you can get a nice three string sweep from that scales though:
E---------5-8----
B-------7----7---
G---5-8-------8-5

Only the 5-6-#7-8 degrees of the scale make up part of the diminshed scale. There are, however, diminished triads at 2nd, 4th, and 7th degrees of the scale.

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i dont understand all that complicated talk

dont bother explaining though, i wont understand anyway

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i have a very limited knowledge of guitar but i like this scale, what i like about it is you can do this chord, like a power chord but your ring finger is on the third string down instead of the second. if that makes sense. that chord goes thru out the scale and makes kinda like a middle eastern type sound

If I'm reading this right. Would be like...

D---9
A----
E---7

which would be a octave. Hey, what is this actually called? Octave power chord?

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Davie,

Wouldn't you have to mute the "A" for it to be a power chord?

Manx

the pattern for diminished is easy, its whole step, then half step then it repeats that pattern for a while

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yea, the A would be muted for that octave type chord. tech seems to describe this octave type chord, so that's what I was trying to explain.

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