Minor#4 Pentatonic | A pentatonic inside the diminished scale
Channel: Stefano Micarelli
Date: 2020-04-26

The half-whole diminished scale contains a minor seventh arpeggio, that is most of minor pentatonic; however the perfect fourth is missing. Replaced by the augmented fourth, gives rise to a hybrid pentatonic with an intense bluesy flavor (not only) with the previous four notes.  On a seventh chord this minor pentatonic #4 have several blue notes available. In addition to the minor seventh there are a minor third and a diminished fifth. The only thing to notice is that the diminished fifth loses the passing tone characteristic between the fourth and fifth of the conventional pentatonic-blues.

We can transpose the whole scale in minor thirds while remaining within the notes of the diminished scale. The sound of each pentatonic played on same seventh chord will obviously sound different at each minor third transposition. The different intervals ranging from the most bluesy sounds to the most tense and dissonant almost "scofieldian" ones.
Consequently each fingering and therefore each phrasing on it can be transposed in minor thirds.

❗corrigendum: 0:59 on graphics error on the first string, please refer to the pdf for the correct one 

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