Lessons
Diminished Ideas
I have transcribed some solo passages from three compositions featured on my album Only Human.

Icarus 2:43 (E Lydian)
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Here I am playing a diminished (whole/half) line from the root of the bVI chord, which then resolves to V.

I play an octave displacement lick in position and transition into an ascending diminished sweep arpeggio.  The intervallic sequence is (ascending) tritone, minor 3rd, minor 3rd.  I then shift that pattern up a minor 3rd.
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Chord Voicings
01_icarus_voicings.jpg I am often asked about chord voicings.  My own approach is usually, very simple.  In the tune Icarus, for example, there are hits after the B section (0:55sec.)


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