A diminished pattern you hear a lot of Jazz musicians play
Here is a diminished pattern that you probably have heard a lot of Jazz musicians play in different variations. This diminished lick is very easy to learn and implement into your improvisation skills.
Here is a sound sample played on trumpet:
How to memorize this diminished pattern in 12 keys:
Since this is another diminished pattern, you’ll only need to worry about memorizing the lick in 3 keys depending on which note you start on. You can see that this is simply a diminished scale going down with a half step up between each note of the diminished scale.
If you look closely, every first and fourth note of each group of 4 notes is just part of the diminished scale. This diminished lick is easy to learn on trumpet because the fingerings lay really well in all the keys.
Interesting, never thought of it like that.
why Ddim? this scale is for C Eb F# A dim. can you explain this to me?
thanx.
Thanks for pointing this out Michele.
You can play the same pattern over C Eb F# or A diminished and it will probably sound just as good or better. I just picked D diminished because of the chord tone I started on.
In the above example, I start on the 3rd of D diminished, as you go down the pattern, one & three (stronger beats) are being hit as diminished chord tones in the stacked minor 3rd succession. (F 1st, then D, then B, then Ab, then F, etc….)
Hope this helps!!!