5 comments on “What are the parent scales?”

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   Julien Emmanuel says:

   Many thanks Alex, actually I was asking myself if this Bbdim might be seen as a A7b9 in the context of the harmonic progression of Wave so with another parent scale that might be minor melodic…

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   January 26, 2022 at 5:00 am

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     Alex Terrier says:

     Julien Emmanuel Yes you can see it as a A7b9 and use the half-whole scale from A, which is the same as the whole-half from Bb.
     You can also consider Bb and Db to be the chromatic approaches of the A and C, interestingly enough if you use D# and F# as the chromatic approaches of E and G you end up with… the half-whole scale 🙂

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     February 1, 2022 at 8:38 am

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   Julien Emmanuel says:

   Hi Alex,

   In the standard “Wave” (in D) the second chord is a Bb dim.
   Is there any parent scale for this chord ?

   Thanks.
   Julien

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   January 23, 2022 at 11:30 am

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     Alex Terrier says:

     Hi Julien, here it is: https://jazzvideolessons.net/course/the-diminished-scale/

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     January 25, 2022 at 7:54 am

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   Marcos Vinícius says:

   Thank you so much!

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   January 17, 2022 at 6:29 am

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