The diminished scale connects the tones of the diminished seventh chord with regular whole-tone + semitone or semitone + whole-tone steps.

This is the second module in the Scale City Diminished Scale series.

You can download the MS for the first two modules here.

G diminished

The whole-tone/semitone diminished scale built on G (one octave) is shown below. The fingering is for one octave only.

Here is the teaching video.

This is the outline MS of the material you are learning.

Here is the keyboard diagram again, fingered for more than one octave. Note how the fingering changes to carry on up or down.

A diminished

The one-octave whole tone/semitone diminished scale built on D and fingered for one octave is shown below.

Here is the teaching video.

This is the outline MS of the material covered.

Here is the keyboard diagram fingered for more than one octave of the diminished scale. Note how the fingering changes to carry on up or down.

B diminished

The one-octave whole tone/semitone diminished scale built on B and fingered for one octave, is shown below.

Here is the teaching video.

This is the outline MS of the material covered.

Here is the keyboard diagram fingered for more than one octave of the diminished scale. Note how the fingering changes to carry on up or down.

Now go on to Page Three of this series, and work out the diminished scales on black-key tonics.

Patterns like these, and the fingering challenges they present, are more likely to occur in practical music-making and improvisation.