Lesson - by Brooks

[Guest pirateflynn]

Hiya HFC brethren.

Continuing w/ the idea of symmetrical fingerings,

we have the daddy of them all, diminished.

The easiest fingering (to me) is this dim7 arpeggio;

-------------------------------11-14

-----------------------10-13-------

-----------------8-11---------------

----------7-10---------------------

-----6-9---------------------------

5-8--------------------------------

try it legato (w/ hammer ons/pull offs),

it' easy to fly on.

also try a sequence

(up 3 strings, down one, up three, down one, etc);

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---------------------------------------------10-13- etc.

---------------------------8-11-------8-11--------

----------7-10------7-10-------7-10--------------

-----6-9--------6-9--------------------------------

5-8-------------------------------------------------

the nature of a fully diminished chord is it's symetry of intervals

(it's all minor thirds). so, the patern shifts positions (minor thirds)nicely;

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-----------------8-11-------------------11-14----------------------14-17 etc.

----------7-10------------------10-13-----------------------13-16--------

-----6-9-------------------9-12-----------------------12-15---------------

5-8-------------------8-11----------------------11-14----------------------

again, try it legato, mix it up w/ trills etc

it' easy to move across the neck. make up some licks;

5-8-5--------8-11-8----------11-14-11------------14-17-14---

-------4-7-4----------7-10-7-----------10-13-10------------13

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i know this was short, but i'm freakin' beat

(and this shit takes longer to type than it looks, ha).

next we'll do hole/half & half/hole diminished scale fingerings.

-Brooks

[Feynman]

Thanks for this. Are you typing out all those hyphens?!

There has to be a better way.

Brooks, you inspire me. I don't know nothing about nothing, but I would like to. I have a good teacher, but he's not as cool as you are.

[mathman]

it would be cool to have recorded samples of these. I have plenty of space on my dot mac site for audio files if an online place to link them is needed.

[Punkavenger]

Ill work on these tomorrow ... thanks!

[Brooks]

yeah, it would be easier and clearer if i could just record a short vid.

my camera doesn't load right to youtube, i hadda get my geek buddy to edit/convert it.

anyone know a cheap camera that will upload direct to youtube?

i you saw a vid of this stuff,

the main thing you'd get out of it would be

seeing how these are symetrical fingerings,

the same finger motion just shifted around the neck.

[Guest pirateflynn]

I can play these and I've already mix them up with some other stuff that I do and it sounds cool. But, I have no idea what I'm doing! haha