The Diminished Scale for Guitar

Jean Marc Belkadi reveals the secrets of using the diminished scale in over 30 lessons and sample phrases. The CD includes over 30 tracks for demonstration and play-along, and the topics covered include: tonal and modal usage; diminished triads, chromaticism, arpeggios, polytonalities, common licks and patterns for jazz, rock, and fusion guitar; and more! more

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Posted: Aug-03-2009

Lacks any context whatsoever

I recently decided to dig a little deeper into the symmetrical diminished scales (whole-half and half-whole), and have been putting in some time on that. I remembered that I've had this book for a while, and so pulled it out to see if I could get any information out of it. As you might guess...

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Posted: Sep-06-2006

Ok, but could have been better ...

some of the licks here are also in Jean Marc's "advanced scale concepts and licks for guitar" (which I thought was kind of lame) in this (very) short book Jean Marc tries to teach thru examples only, almost no explanations, very short on theory, just a line or two outlining what's going on ......

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Posted: Feb-28-2005

Diminished 'secrets' remain secret

Like other reviewers, I also found this book to be disappointing due to lack of any explanation (as seems to be the case with 'Jean Marc Belkadi' books, I also have 'slap and pop guitar' by the same author).The `diminished scale for guitar' book contains a myriad of interesting and sometimes...

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Posted: Apr-21-2004

Very Unclear

I bought this and this authours slap and pop books. Both are very dissapointing. The guitar tone on this cd is terrible, the examples are unclear and I cant hear what is being played. The guitar has a lot of effects on it, when I try to learn from the book I dont even know where to start.

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