pegleg60
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01/26/26
On Location: Diminished Scale Unboxed
Very musical, on a subject that can be a bit tedious.
On Location: Diminished Scale Unboxed
Unlock The Symmetrical Diminished Scale For Powerful Guitar Solos
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About this course
Massimo Varini’s Diminished Scale Unboxed reveals 30 powerful concepts encompassing harmonization possibilities, diminished chords, dominant chords with minor 9 and 13, analogies, and substitutions. He’ll present dozens of examples, licks, phrases, and musical ideas that will help you immediately insert the diminished scale in your music.
“When we talk about scales and their interpretation, the harmonic aspects are very important – in this case, perhaps even more important because the diminished scale is octophonic and symmetrical, a simple structure built on the repetition of a tone, semitone cell, or whole step, half step.
This structure, if harmonized, allows you to build many kinds of chords, allows you to have four dominant chords distant from each other’s minor thirds, and opens the door to substitutions based on analogies and harmonic interpretations. When the harmonic part is clear, it will become easier to understand how to use the symmetry and patterns that I suggest.”
Massimo will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches as you play your way through the 30 lessons. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the key examples and performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson.
You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are also included to work with on your own.
Grab your guitar and let’s dig in with Massimo Varini!
“When we talk about scales and their interpretation, the harmonic aspects are very important – in this case, perhaps even more important because the diminished scale is octophonic and symmetrical, a simple structure built on the repetition of a tone, semitone cell, or whole step, half step.
This structure, if harmonized, allows you to build many kinds of chords, allows you to have four dominant chords distant from each other’s minor thirds, and opens the door to substitutions based on analogies and harmonic interpretations. When the harmonic part is clear, it will become easier to understand how to use the symmetry and patterns that I suggest.”
Massimo will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches as you play your way through the 30 lessons. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the key examples and performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson.
You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are also included to work with on your own.
Grab your guitar and let’s dig in with Massimo Varini!
What you'll learn
- Execute diminished scales using alternate picking, economy picking, and legato
- Create melodic lines using sixth interval jumps from diminished scale
- Apply dominant diminished scale to blues I-IV progressions
- Memorize the 1-3-4-1-2-4 fingering pattern for diminished scales
- Understand the geometric relationship of diminished scale positions on the fretboard
Release date: 06/28/2022 • 3h 17m runtime
Sample lessons
Diminished Scale Concept 1
Analysis & Breakdown
Diminished Scale Concept 9
Analysis & Breakdown
Diminished Scale Concept 9
Performance Demo 1
Diminished Scale Concept 9
Review
What's included
45 lessons • 41 charts • 6 Jam Tracks
On Location: Diminished Scale Unboxed
Welcome: 30 musical ideas (concepts) based on diminished scales to vertically expand your musical language. Thirty ideas that I will play for you slowly and that you'll find transcribed in notation and tab. I'm going to show you each idea in 3-4 different musical contexts, on the same backing tracks you can download. In the thirty lessons we will deeply explore the basic concept behind each idea; not only to play them on different chords, keys, modes and genres, but above all to allow you to modify them until you get your own personal phrases! Ready? Grab your guitar and let’s get started
Getting Started: Primer
Ciao and welcome! You are about to start a beautiful journey into diminished scales, a journey that we'll take together. You will notice that I wanted to give each idea (concept) a very specific melodic connotation so that we're not going to play just exercises but musical ideas, musical concepts. Each Idea is divided into two parts: The first involves the Performance: I make you listen to the idea slowly to allow you to understand and learn it with the help of transcription, then I'll play the idea on 3-4 backing tracks using various genre, speed, metric and mode Major or minor. In the second part I will help you "disassemble" and reassemble the idea so that you can make it yours. Obviously, if you want you can perform them as I propose them, to do this you just need to use the backing tracks that you'll download for each idea and follow the transcription. So the key to this course is to “steal” these ideas of mine and modify them looking for your style, phrasing and solos. Ready? Grab your guitar and let's get started! Have fun.
Diminished Scale Concept 1
Let's know better the scale, its structure, the homophonies, the enharmonic possibilities.
Diminished Scale Concept 2
Fingerings: we'll discover the most used fingerings of the Diminished Scale and the Dominant Diminished scale.
Diminished Scale Concept 3
Arpeggio fingerings: diminished chords and dominant 7 flat 9
Diminished Scale Concept 4
Chord fingerings: diminished chord
Diminished Scale Concept 5
The symmetry of the diminished scale: we observe how, given the symmetry of the scale structure, we have only three diminished chord.
+ 38 more lessons
Reviews
4 results
Addahia
Verified buyer
01/12/25
Deep dive into diminished
This is the most complete course on diminished in all of truefire. I found it after going through Jeff macerlain´s Diminished blues and wanting to get a better understanding of it. I also tried carlton's two part course on the same subject which i did not like nor found practical value. Here you have the full spectrum: scale, arpegios, chords, aplications, movement throug the freatboard, and all is done with MUSICALITY, not with bare theory. I higly recomend this course if you want to expand your musical sensitivity as well as your playing.
Ohio5665
Verified buyer
06/03/23
On Location: Diminished Scale Unboxed
I purchased this course and several others by Massimo, love the way he teaches the concepts and ideas.
rick77836
Verified buyer
07/21/22
Fun course that allows for a workout through the diminish scale to help produce new ideas on how to incorporate a unique sound into my playing.
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