half whole diminished scale
- essentially 3 of them
- ambiguous, transitional, suspension
- used as a system of tension
- mostly not on a dimished scale, on a dominant 7 chord with alteration (ex: C713b9#9#11)
C half whole diminished scale:
Db half whole diminished scale:
D half whole diminished scale:
Question: is it better to think about it in terms of:
1. spacing between the notes
2. numbers in the scale
3. just knowing what it sounds like w/o really thinking
I mean 3 is the best? 1 & 2 are a means to an end or a definition?
I feel like a piece of shit learning the same lesson over and over again
learning, forgetting, learning, forgetting
did I truly learn it if I forgot?
I haven’t forgotten my major and minor scales. I don’t think about them in terms of spacing between the notes. I can’t even say out by heart the spacing without reverse engineering it. I just know what it sounds like and can flash the mapping in my brain. #3.
I weirdly really know C half-whole diminished very well because I had to drill it for a piano test one time, but I didn’t practice the other two
Goal: be able to
- see the map of all three at once on the keys
Means to the end:
- drill keyboard map in mind when waiting in line or right before falling asleep
Tritone substitution
C7 chord > Gb
C7 (altered):
how do you identify the accidentals? how do you distinguish between a #11 and a b5 in an altered chord? is it just semantics, not really a functional difference
Gb7:
1 b7 3 7
FM7:
1 5 13 3. 5
Gb7: 1 b7 3 13 9
FM7:
1 5 13 3 13 9
my brain is burning
rawr
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