c# fully diminished scale has a c and c#. it’s a nine note scale. it’s a lot like a 7th#9.

@mayvin1975 I just started reading music (mainly just notes from the real book ). I feel like being able to read music is the missing link to becoming a better guitarist. It gives you a different perspective on note selection, almost global

@maigles
I think that’s done to maintain the tension created by the chromatic movement between C7 and C#dim7….
Cdim scale over a C#dim7 chord creates more tension than using the C#dim scale itself….
Not sure about this though….sorry if I’m wrong…..

Why does he play a C diminished scale over a C#diminished chord? Why doesn’t he play a C# diminished scale?

@boatynoh that is soooo true!!!

i found out i knew the dimishis scale when i was learning a lick from paul gilbert O.O wooow..

voice sounds like tom hanks

@sidwho123 lol D

“Hi my name is Billy Wilkie” -and I was laughting already xD

SILLY BILLY WILKIE

Thanks you!!!

loved the jam 

@mayvin1975 yeah.. but sax music is in Bb.. and piano usually needs to be transcribed to make playable on solo guitar. but reading music is still cool. oh yeah and good sheet music is usually not free.

@milanw learn to read music and you wont need tab EVER!!! tradition notation gives you more information than tab. and you also learn the notes on your guitar so you understand the context and relationship. also you can read music from other instruments like sax, flute piano. imagine note being able to read or write your native language, how much information you’ll miss out on? it is the same with music. music is a language!

This is a really good video because its something you can put to use.Forget the pedantics,the dim.scale is one using alternating whole and half tones.I beleive the only thing that matters is wether you start out with a whole or half.Thats where theres no substitute for plain old eartraining.I.e. practice some licks within that framework that sound good.Jazz would hardly be worth playing without the dim.scale.Where most of the dissonace and tension lie.I.e. its what makes a solo interesting.

@polaroidsky thats a gibson L5 i think

2:18 awesome.

A mandolin?

At 5:40 that phrase was done real smooth and quick. Something George Benson like. Great lesson!

tab? hahahaha

@nikooxmaster

What this dude is playing (half-whole dim scale) is commonly known in jazz as the (“true”) Diminished Scale. When you refer to the whole-half counterpart, you specify “Whole-Half Diminished Scale.”

They each have their own specific function: the Diminished Scale is used over a diminished chord or derivation while the whole-half plays well over a dominant seventh chord or derivation (typically going back into a minor tonic e.g. E7 b9 resolving into Am)

Guys, can anyones tell me:
There are 2 tipes of dimished scales (Half tone – Whole Tone and Whole Tone – Half Tone), or the unic tipe of dimished scale is the scale that the guy is playing ? :S

good lesson, his improvs were kinda lame

@sidwho123 lol