Diminished Musical Scales: Root of C

Video Transcript

"Now we are going to go over our basic diminished scale with the root of C. So if we start on C, the diminished scale is actually an 8 note scale itself and it is composed of a half step, whole step pattern. So if we start on C, we go up a half step to C sharp and then we go up a whole step to D sharp and then a half step to E and then a whole step to F sharp and half step to G, whole step to A, half step to B flat and then we are back at C. So we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. I am not even going to number them as flat 2, flat 3 because it doesn't even resemble a C major scale and I will look at it. And the great thing about diminished scales is they are very mathematical scales and even though th3ere is 12 keys, there are really only 3 diminished scales because you see it starts itself again half step. So C, E flat, A flat or G flat and A can all start as the root because it is a half step and whole step. So go through and get your 3 diminished patterns down and figure out the roots. And that is a nice cool scale and you will see diminished chords all over the place in popular music, classical music, jazz music so really dig in and get those diminished scales down. "