Did you know? Just as the augmented chord can be repeated every two or four frets on a guitar because of its note makeup (stacked major 3rds), so the diminished can be repeated every three frets since ...

Diminished scale ideas This lick uses the diminished scale (aka the half-whole scale due to its semitone-tone structure). This means that ‘outside’ notes such as the b9 (6th fret, first string) and b5 ...

The Arabian scale is our final minor offering, although it is actually a diminished scale. The Arabian scale consists of eight notes (R-2-b3-4-#4-#5-6-7), and is the same as the diminished whole ...