Cant wait to expand my musical repertoire,this is a very well put together professional video.

Think "half-whole diminished scale" as a blend of two different diminished seven chords. In this case, those two chords are A°7 (A, C, Eb, Gb) and E°7 (E, G, Bb, Db). Together, they form a scale, and the notes are C, Db, Eb, E, Gb, G, A, Bb, and higher C. Notice, you can see two different chords: A-C-Eb-Gb and E-G-Bb-Db.

Yeah, something I was looking for. That's the sound of jazz there, some diminished runs over 7th chords. Tasty

I just love your videos, Simon, your didactics is fabulous. Your tempo exactly what I need, not too fast not too slow. And I find your lessons easy to grasp being totally logical. Thank you so much🙏💖

Just found this video on KZfaq, and I am amazed how good this video is - clear, simple, to the point, easy to grasp, with good visual demonstration - a great example, how things should be taught. Subscripting right away!

Wow, thank you, Simon. What another great video. When I first learned scales/chords, I'd play a scale, then the major, minor, seventh (Dom), diminished chords, then move to the next scale in the Circle. As a kid, the diminished was not a chord I gravitated to... not till I got into blues and jazz that is. BTW, no one ever taught me that half-diminished even existed; only [fully] diminished. Either I had less than comprehensive teachers or music and how it's taught has. Anyway, thanks again for everything you do.

This was EXCELLENT!!!!! Great job.........again.

I’m a bassist I love it

Thank you so much for the free pdf!!!

Excellent video. Thank you very much and thank you for the notation.

Thanks a lot Simon. Tutorials are great. I am really learning something. I am a moderate piano player and was always doing the same tricks over and over. Boring.. Your tips and lesson are opening a complete new pianoworld for me, how to approach my improvisation. I am improving ! I feel it. Its great. Even if you are not quite talented like me , practising over and over gets me somewhere. Keep up the good works. Greets from Amsterdam

Great pattern. Really easy to immediately start using. Play it as triplets, or eights/sixteenth, sounds cool with the 3 note groups displaced

I absolutely love the Melodic Major Scale!!

Man, once I can afford your classes I will be joining. I think your awesome man

fantastic, thank you Simon!

Awesome video. Didn't knew this stuff about the diminished scale, thanks

When playing the half whole c diminished do you use this right hand fingering 123 12 123? With that scale there is no way to break it into two groups of 1234 (right hand) as you can with B half whole diminished (right hand thumb on B and on F). Also, when you play Eb, Gb and A dim do you finger exactly like C so that there are only three fingerings to learn? Like if you start B dim half whole on thumb, do you always start D dim half whole on third finger (right hand)? Lastly, do you practice these scales in left hand or combined parallel or contrary?

Concise yet detailed, and even inspiring as always :)

Great lesson on the diminish scale Thanks

Thanks simon......been searching for patterns for a while now,appreciate the help

Simon..nice lick ..doing it about 70% speed. Been trying to incorporate it into my playing. C to Db to its 4th (Gb) go back a minor 3rd Eb.. Then go up to the 4 (Ab) back the minor 3rd to F.. F goes to itsn4 (Bb)..that goes to Eb..Eb falls back a min 3rd..which is a C. I am not looking at the sheet music, but I think that is correct. The best..

Thank you!

SIMON! Good to see ya bro!

Simon I just subscribed this morning and I would like to thank you. I’ve been looking for a channel like this and it’s just amazing so thank you 🙏

This is an awesome tutorial, Simon! Thank You!

Thank you so much!

this is very useful ty

Thanks Simon 🙏😊gonna practice now! Waiting for more videos like this.Also love the run at the beginning

Thank you for the video! I'm working on it!😊

Wow great video! Really cool pattern

... I'm not a piano guy, but I found the musical ad lib "hack" useful. Thank you.

Very very informative. Thanks .

Duke Ellington's version of Overture from the Nutcracker has a unison saxophone line that uses this lick

is there a video on how to use scales to improvise? do musicians switch between scales or do they stick to one? are the chords they move to and from in the same scale? I'm smol brain

Interesting! Really nice educative video!

Welcome back bro

Thx sir

Thank you! Is this chord C7(#9)? ah! I got it! Gb7 chord..!!

Nice lick..

So cool!!!

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Wawu I love this ✊ thank you!

Nice description. Certain scales like C HW dim have stuck in my head. It was easier to go up a H then up a 4th.eg. CDb Gb then back to Eb to E then 4th to A. then F# G up a 4th to.C. Back to A up a H to Bb then up a 4th to Eb then back down to Eb..same as before. Should be the same notes as the sheet music. I just noticed another pattern as well as the HW diminished scale..we.continue going backwards a min 3rd..then forward.

Simon Sir 👍 super..

HI....DO YOU MIND IF I CALL THE HALF-WHOLE DIMINISHED SCALE: AN ALTERED-MELODIC SCALE. IF NOT, I'LL BE GLAD TO HEAR WHY!!

Hi PianoPig Which application do you use to show these keyboards and please how do you connect it to your keyboard. We have electronic piano and Mac. All the best

I will probably mess around with some of these scales, but at some point you gotta question when to stop being a dictionary and when to make some music based on emotion and not internalized patterns.

loving the vids and will subscribe man!! ps. What piano Sample you using lush sound man?

Im a big fan love your channel. i was wondering what Diminished scale would you use over a g minor scale?

Great pattern. You mind revealing which piano sample you're using? Sounds great!

Please can do tutorial on very long phrase...using it as a turnaround

Seven modes how to do use song piano?

Hi, I'm looking for a method to improvise on all the scales without having to remember them. Could you recommend something? I have only found the solution of buying lots of roli lumi in parallel while leaving the scale keys lit. Thanks!

Beautiful pattern! I just think it would've been better at the end with a emotional chord.

hi my maestro, I'd like to know what happen with the pianopig web site ! it's not working

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Sir do we have to sight read scales while playing along or its just a technical improvisation one?

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The piano into to this lesson sounds identical to the intro to "Til The Cops Come Knockin'" by R&B recording artist Maxwell

I THINK DIMINISHED IS ANOTHER WORD FOR DESTROYED

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U know some licks Simon

reminds me of an episode from tom and jerry

I was going to ask: why Pig?

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I don't understand the dislikes

I lost concentration

you've been whitening your teeth ;-)

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3:58 this exact pattern is used in liszt's valse impromptu. Maybe liszt was a jazz musician😁

What I hate about these videos is you have to sit through several minutes of shit you've already known for years to get to the payoff. You could make shorter videos by assuming your audience already knows what a diminished scale is.