"Legal harmony but not recommended" Tony says. This guy is a great music teacher. It is really cool how he has two camera angles. Seeing his facial expressions is helpful. His use of the overhead view with seeing his full hands is the best I've seen. I'm 74 and of all the guys & gals out there teaching Jazz, Tony can teach me more than all of them combined.
Couldn’t agree more! I’m just about to turn 70 and and had pretty much given up trying to find a teacher who could unlock what for me has been a bit of a slog trying to wrap my head around jazz. This tutorial on the diminished scale is terrific.
Dear Tony, I'm a self-taught amateur pianist and I'm trying to learn the basic principle of jazz from great teacher here on TH-cam. You are one of these few and I cannot thank you enough for your lessons. God bless you and greetings from Italy!
Apreciado maestro Tony , son magistrales sus lecciones en este caso escalas disminuidas, soy un pianista amateur casi un autodidacta aprendí a tocar el piano básicamente a los 7 años y aún ahora a los 73 años tengo pasión por aprender más cada día, un abrazo cordial desde Buenos Aires-Argentina...
Tony, you just unlocked the diminished scale/dominant 7 chord mystery that I have been trying to understand for a couple of years. Adding the PDF practice concepts really helps so much. Thank you for your generosity and giving in the music world.
Not only comprehensive, informative, and talented ... Tony is clearly a kind soul, an encouraging teacher and fun to listen to and learn from. He’s the Bob Ross of video jazz instruction!
Oh man, this dude is the real deal. Makes me miss being able to afford one on one lessons, amazing how personal and relaxed the vibe of the video is. Supreme old school humanity, appreciate you Tony!
Many many years ago I learnt to play jazz with Jerry Cokers book Improvising Jazz. It's good that you mentioned it, brought back wonderful memories. Thankyou.
You’re activating all the learning senses: I’m seeing the text that outlines your spoken words while I’m watching the keys, hearing it all, thinking about it all. The way you explain, show, and exemplify is just incredible. I thought I was going to sleep tonight, but screw that! Time to practice
As a 60 year old guitarist I find this is a great review of things I've already known about the diminished scales. This is a great overview with some cool ideas both melodically and harmonically. And... I'm getting the urge to get back to working stuff out on piano which is always a good thing. Thanks for sharing your insights and ideas with the diminished scales. It's very much appreciated!!!
This is an awesome lesson, I come back to regularly. Learning the 3 diminished scales and running through that sheet of examples regularly has transformed everything for me. My improv is consistently getting better and better. Indeed the maestro is a brilliant teacher!
Over the last few years the majority TH-cam videos I have seen dealt with the pentatonic scale. My formative years (70’s-80’s) we absorbed completely the diminished scales. This is refreshing to see. Thank you.
I LOVE THAT BOOK!!! my short time piano teacher gave it to me to read in the 70s when I was around 14 years old. She gave it to me cuz I could play a mean piano but I wasn't able to read music a lick. That book taught me so much!!!
@@secondvisions9759 I'm 58 years old and I have been playing in church all of my life. About four years ago, one of the churches where I was playing sent me to music school where I learned to read. Now I repeat every day!!!
brilliant, informative, light hearted, funny, devoid of ego or self importance...the best explanation and advice on practical usage I've ever seen . Molto Bravissimo Signor Wilson or as we say in Australia, ''It's a bloody ripper mate ! The bees knees ! '' thanks ..I am finally inspired at age 71.5 years to get into that and implement some realistic and generically accurate ideas as per Tony's advice in this fantastic clip. commend this to any aspiring jazz or even blues-rock pianist .
Another superb explanation with working knowledge! Thanks. Ive learn a mass of stuff from these videos - and I dont even play piano (Im a guitar player)
You are an amazing teacher .. I am going to spend time practicing these with the chords underneath and maybe I’ll learn to improvise after 60 yrs of reading scores lol
Your insight connects remarkably with my own journey in finding a pathway through jazz improvisation and the diminished scales. Have a Listen to the great Brian Lemon...one of the greatest ever English pianists, sadly now passed. His concepts and in particular voicings are a constant inspiration to me. You are the first jazz teacher I have come across on the internet whose vision and teachings are truly inspiring and in sync with my own quest to learn. Many thanks for sharing.
Came here from Tangerine...and found a treasure !! Superbe maitise du Jazz : Dear Tony, i consider you as a Jazz Master !! Merci mille fois !! Thanks a thousand times !! Thanks for sharing your time, techniques and talent Tony !! Vince from Paris/France.
Fantastic video! The way I used to think about diminished scales back when I had a hard time "getting it", was to think of a diminished 7th chord, and then add a leading tone to each chord tone. Boom, diminished scale! Thanks as always Tony! Cheers from San Francisco :)
I’ve been getting it on over the last 14 months on a couple classical guitars three decades after dropping rhythm guitar where I lost my way after a couple years. I’ve composed five melodic pieces with a mind to come back and work out the harmony for each one until I’m happy that I’ve stored five off the top of my head personal compositions.I’m going to hold off for another year before I try my hand at playing classical pieces of yore,as I love listening to solo keyboard renditions of music by composers like Liszt and Chopin,Haydn and Beethoven, Bach and Mozart Construction wise to gain intuitive insight into spontaneously developing my own pieces. This video helped me expand on things I had an unintellectual grasp of but couldn’t articulate to anyone . Very valuable half hour and as usual it’s always pianists I’m inspired by much more than guitarists. Daniel Barenboim or Alfred Brendel for example. Something about the piano in the right hands that makes me want to try and emulate as much as is possible on a classical guitar! 🙏🏽
Thank you for your generosity in posting this lesson and demonstrating the various patterns. You present this information in a way that works for my brain. I am transferring these concepts to mandolin with so much gratitude!
This is an absolute eye opener. Just the right level of complexity for me, precisely what I've been looking for these past few months.. along Barry Harris. Thank you!
Dear Tony, this is by far the most helpful description of the diminished scale I've seen. Thank you for opening up the plethora of possibilities out there, hats off to you sir
Tony, I got hooked on your channel the last couple of days and after watching this video felt like I was robbing you of your knowledge so I joined your Patreon today. You are the best, wish you lived in the Chicago area, you would have a restraining order against me. Thanks for your devotion to teaching.
Thank you so much for this lesson, it’s most certainly all I wanted to know about these licks I never quite got. Absolutely brilliant and perfectly explained. I wish I had seen and understood the tricks of diminished scales before. Much appreciated from Normandy, France.
Thanks, Tony. I've been intrigued by Jazz piano since the sixties/seventies, but it all was such a mystery from the TV screen. Only now, via TH-cam, does someone freely give out the secrets. Electronic organ is possibly the worst thing a parent can do to a child. Only now, I see beyond major, minor, modal, and pentatonic scales. I thought there were eight-note scales but didn't know what to call them. I'll now see how I can incorporate these chords and arpeggios into elevating my compositions.
Terrific video that I will rewatch carefully, thank you from London England! BTW, those rising thirds at about 16 minutes are to be found played by George Cables in a duet with Art Pepper on their album "Tete a Tete".
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Tony thank tou for your videos. You sound real and honest. Beautiful pianist . Nice touch Sorry for my english. Im an Argentina Pianist in Madrid.
Thank you for sharing this incredible wealth of musical knowledge. You've managed to demystify for me something that I had a rough idea about but still wasn't able to fully understand until now.
I love these sounds, but man it seems like it's gonna take weeks and weeks of running these things up and down before I'll be able to just lay them into some swingin' standards. Right now my harmony is like real traditional, right out of the stride school. I play like you started on Bewitched, just plain old chords. Maybe the best thing is to learn one tune using the diminished scale and get used to it that way. You've done a lot of hard work over your lifetime, and you're a good teacher. Thanks!
The diminished scale is essential for getting in to the language of jazz. Now, check out this little exercise. The diminished scale is connected to dominants (X7 chords). Let’s play in the key of C. Now, if you play a G7 in you left hand with the notes G, B, F (leave out the D, as it’s only an extension of the basic note, G, and does nothing for the character of the chord.) Now, in your right hand, play a G-major chord: (G, B, D) - with the g7 in your left hand as written above. Boring, isn’t it? Now move your right hand from the G chord (a little third down) to an E chord (E, G#, B,) and keep the left hand on the G7. Now things begin to shine, right? This chord is a G7, 13, b9. Now move your right hand a little third down ones more and play a Db chord (Db, F, Ab) and keep the G7 in your left hand. This chord is a G7, b5 (#11), b9. The point is that any pattern that fits in to the diminished scale can be moved up and down in little thirds and be “legal”. Most of them even make a nice and perhaps surprising sound. Check it out. And thank you so much for the wonderful lesson, Tony Winston.
This scale has 8 notes or 4+4. First 4 is the beginning of classical minor, next 4 is the beginning of other classical minor (starts half tone higher.) When basic chord is diminished, then the scale starts from the main note, if it's dominant, then it starts half tone higher. Fingering could be simple - 1234, 1234 :) I think this is the easiest way to learn this scale and play it in all 12 keys without any problem.
Wow, this was excellent! I'm a music theory hound, and I have to say this is probably my favorite diminished scale video that I've seen. Every time I hear the dominant chords ascending in minor 3rds, I think of the Gershwin prelude #1. It always does that right before it modulates to a new key, and I LOVE it! Tony, at one point in this vid, you said that you didn't "learn this stuff until after the age of 30." What were you playing prior to that, and could you do a video about your growth as a musician? What sparked your interest in jazz harmony and improv?
29:47 "It defies logic, but it sounds kinda cool" Jazz in a nutshell. Great lesson, helped a lot!
This guy is pure class and pure knowledge. He recorded this video three times. I plan to watch
it three hundred times.
"Legal harmony but not recommended" Tony says. This guy is a great music teacher. It is really cool how he has two camera angles. Seeing his facial expressions is helpful. His use of the overhead view with seeing his full hands is the best I've seen. I'm 74 and of all the guys & gals out there teaching Jazz, Tony can teach me more than all of them combined.
I’m a guitar player but get my info from piano players, I JUST discovered Tony this morning!….I agree with all of your comments….great teacher!
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Couldn’t agree more! I’m just about to turn 70 and and had pretty much given up trying to find a teacher who could unlock what for me has been a bit of a slog trying to wrap my head around jazz. This tutorial on the diminished scale is terrific.
It’s the teacher I’ve been looking for all my life! Ha. But seriously
How is this gentleman not 100x more famous?
This era don’t give shit about real music no more.
Thank you Tony
Just like revisiting this
From time to time keep goin
Very good lesson exactly what iam looking for...
Muy buenas clases gracias 😮
Dear Toni, as a teacher of music I’m glad to find you’re lessons… you’re a real master!! Thank you for you’re love of music!!
I could park here for a long time. Great stuff! Thanks.
Dear Tony, I'm a self-taught amateur pianist and I'm trying to learn the basic principle of jazz from great teacher here on TH-cam. You are one of these few and I cannot thank you enough for your lessons. God bless you and greetings from Italy!
Thanks, good to hear
Agreed HM 👍
Apreciado maestro Tony , son magistrales sus lecciones en este caso escalas disminuidas, soy un pianista amateur casi un autodidacta aprendí a tocar el piano básicamente a los 7 años y aún ahora a los 73 años tengo pasión por aprender más cada día, un abrazo cordial desde Buenos Aires-Argentina...
Tony, you just unlocked the diminished scale/dominant 7 chord mystery that I have been trying to understand for a couple of years. Adding the PDF practice concepts really helps so much. Thank you for your generosity and giving in the music world.
im 46 now and stil trying to learn jazz but by watching your videos is like a lightbulb😀thank you and more power💪
Not only comprehensive, informative, and talented ... Tony is clearly a kind soul, an encouraging teacher and fun to listen to and learn from. He’s the Bob Ross of video jazz instruction!
love the bob ross comparison!
Oh man, this dude is the real deal. Makes me miss being able to afford one on one lessons, amazing how personal and relaxed the vibe of the video is. Supreme old school humanity, appreciate you Tony!
Thank you Tony, an excellent lesson for reviewing and reinforcing the diminished scales for jazz!
not even a piano player, this dude's videos guide my guitar playing
Sei un grande! La tua generosità dimostra quanto sia grande la tua conoscenza 🫂❤️
Many many years ago I learnt to play jazz with Jerry Cokers book Improvising Jazz. It's good that you mentioned it, brought back wonderful memories. Thankyou.
You’re activating all the learning senses: I’m seeing the text that outlines your spoken words while I’m watching the keys, hearing it all, thinking about it all. The way you explain, show, and exemplify is just incredible. I thought I was going to sleep tonight, but screw that! Time to practice
As a 60 year old guitarist I find this is a great review of things I've already known about the diminished scales. This is a great overview with some cool ideas both melodically and harmonically. And... I'm getting the urge to get back to working stuff out on piano which is always a good thing. Thanks for sharing your insights and ideas with the diminished scales. It's very much appreciated!!!
Glad it was helpful!
I watch a lot of jazz and gospel piano tutoring videos. I really like your style and your sincerity.
Excellent explanation. Congratulations. Thanks.
This is an awesome lesson, I come back to regularly. Learning the 3 diminished scales and running through that sheet of examples regularly has transformed everything for me. My improv is consistently getting better and better. Indeed the maestro is a brilliant teacher!
Wow.... I just found GOLD. I'm gonna learn so much from this channel. And sir I just feel like I'm sitting with you in a private class. Amazing.
One of the most educated people on music on all of youtube and I appreciate this page so much
of course Tomo Fujita too!
All the pieces to the diminished puzzle in one lesson - - - WOW! Thanks Tony - - Gregg
Over the last few years the majority TH-cam videos I have seen dealt with the pentatonic scale. My formative years (70’s-80’s) we absorbed completely the diminished scales. This is refreshing to see. Thank you.
I LOVE THAT BOOK!!!
my short time piano teacher gave it to me to read in the 70s when I was around 14 years old. She gave it to me cuz I could play a mean piano but I wasn't able to read music a lick. That book taught me so much!!!
Ya that's my problem I've played for about 52 years now and finally forcing myself to read music lol
@@secondvisions9759 I'm 58 years old and I have been playing in church all of my life. About four years ago, one of the churches where I was playing sent me to music school where I learned to read. Now I repeat every day!!!
The overhead shot is awesomeness!
brilliant, informative, light hearted, funny, devoid of ego or self importance...the best explanation and advice on practical usage I've ever seen . Molto Bravissimo Signor Wilson or as we say in Australia, ''It's a bloody ripper mate ! The bees knees ! '' thanks ..I am finally inspired at age 71.5 years to get into that and implement some realistic and generically accurate ideas as per Tony's advice in this fantastic clip. commend this to any aspiring jazz or even blues-rock pianist .
.... wow,.. just wow. I can't stop watching....
Another superb explanation with working knowledge! Thanks. Ive learn a mass of stuff from these videos - and I dont even play piano (Im a guitar player)
You are an amazing teacher .. I am going to spend time practicing these with the chords underneath and maybe I’ll learn to improvise after 60 yrs of reading scores lol
This is one great diminished deep dive. What makes it great is its concise, effective delivery. Tony even provided notated visual's.
Excellent job !!
The most useful diminished scale video that I have ever seen on TH-cam, Great work Tony thank you brother.
Thanks, and I find the diminished scale to be the most useful scale for improvising on standards
The real teacher guy. Old fashioned, old school or whatever, and I really like his style.
Your insight connects remarkably with my own journey in finding a pathway through jazz improvisation and the diminished scales. Have a Listen to the great Brian Lemon...one of the greatest ever English pianists, sadly now passed. His concepts and in particular voicings are a constant inspiration to me. You are the first jazz teacher I have come across on the internet whose vision and teachings are truly inspiring and in sync with my own quest to learn. Many thanks for sharing.
Came here from Tangerine...and found a treasure !!
Superbe maitise du Jazz : Dear Tony, i consider you as a Jazz Master !!
Merci mille fois !!
Thanks a thousand times !!
Thanks for sharing your time, techniques and talent Tony !!
Vince from Paris/France.
Thanks a lot!
Fantastic video! The way I used to think about diminished scales back when I had a hard time "getting it", was to think of a diminished 7th chord, and then add a leading tone to each chord tone. Boom, diminished scale! Thanks as always Tony! Cheers from San Francisco :)
❤
Toni ....best teacher and jazz freak so far 😊
Very nice. I’m a guitar player and this is the most useful explanation of the diminished scale I’ve ever encountered. Thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful!
One of the, if not THE best breakdown of the diminished scale I've seen! Thankyou!!
You got right to it without smalltalk or sales pitch. Nice👌
Don't worry about the camera, you're the best Tony , this lesson was incredible .
merci Monsieur pour ces belles leçons de musique
Very generous lesson.
Wish you'd had been my teacher!! Live the way you teach, you're awesome!!!😁🧡🙌🏼
Dear Tony, you are the most well-rounded pianist, a great singer and the best teacher. I cannot thank you enough. God Bless!
I’ve been getting it on over the last 14 months on a couple classical guitars three decades after dropping rhythm guitar where I lost my way after a couple years. I’ve composed five melodic pieces with a mind to come back and work out the harmony for each one until I’m happy that I’ve stored five off the top of my head personal compositions.I’m going to hold off for another year before I try my hand at playing classical pieces of yore,as I love listening to solo keyboard renditions of music by composers like Liszt and Chopin,Haydn and Beethoven, Bach and Mozart Construction wise to gain intuitive insight into spontaneously developing my own pieces. This video helped me expand on things I had an unintellectual grasp of but couldn’t articulate to anyone . Very valuable half hour and as usual it’s always pianists I’m inspired by much more than guitarists. Daniel Barenboim or Alfred Brendel for example.
Something about the piano in the right hands that makes me want to try and emulate as much as is possible on a classical guitar! 🙏🏽
Wonderful and useful post! Thanks for sharing your insights. I have the Jerry Coker Improvising Jazz Book and took me back to college days...
Hi Mr Winston! Glad I've found you. Will be back for sure!
Thanks Martin!
What a superb video. I’m a saxophonist and this is fantastic. Underlines and augments my existing thoughts on the diminished scale.
My god this is the best music theory vídeo on TH-cam. I really appreciate this hope you do more of this u r a great teacher THANK U
Thank you for your generosity in posting this lesson and demonstrating the various patterns. You present this information in a way that works for my brain. I am transferring these concepts to mandolin with so much gratitude!
This is an absolute eye opener. Just the right level of complexity for me, precisely what I've been looking for these past few months.. along Barry Harris. Thank you!
Dear Tony, this is by far the most helpful description of the diminished scale I've seen. Thank you for opening up the plethora of possibilities out there, hats off to you sir
Merci Tony, pour ces pistes de travail .
Thank you! You'e an amazing teacher, Mr Winston!
Thank you! 😃
Dude, what a masterclass.
Tony, I got hooked on your channel the last couple of days and after watching this video felt like I was robbing you of your knowledge so I joined your Patreon today. You are the best, wish you lived in the Chicago area, you would have a restraining order against me. Thanks for your devotion to teaching.
Sir. THAT was an enjoyable lesson. Ready to understand. The notes written out was very helpful do I could understand where and how to put the scale.
Txy so much for your sharing.. very bless and best teacher....for next , Hope you teach about PASSING CHORD ... God bless you.
Just discovered your channel. Incredible content and no filler. I wish all youtube channels were this informative.
Much appreciated!
Thanks for the valuable content. Cheers from Russia
Wonderful thank you very much for your analyse, very useful
Diminished scale sounds so special , makes me think to Oscar Peterson .... great master. Video teaching !!
Bless u . U brought me back to my diminished wonderland, u and Barry
I love the way jazz make bubbles in my brains, sweet combo between harmony maths and delicious chord notes✨ thank you Sir 🙏✨
Thank you so much for this lesson, it’s most certainly all I wanted to know about these licks I never quite got. Absolutely brilliant and perfectly explained. I wish I had seen and understood the tricks of diminished scales before. Much appreciated from Normandy, France.
This is the best music tutorial un TH-cam
Thanks, Tony. I've been intrigued by Jazz piano since the sixties/seventies, but it all was such a mystery from the TV screen. Only now, via TH-cam, does someone freely give out the secrets. Electronic organ is possibly the worst thing a parent can do to a child.
Only now, I see beyond major, minor, modal, and pentatonic scales. I thought there were eight-note scales but didn't know what to call them. I'll now see how I can incorporate these chords and arpeggios into elevating my compositions.
Terrific video that I will rewatch carefully, thank you from London England! BTW, those rising thirds at about 16 minutes are to be found played by George Cables in a duet with Art Pepper on their album "Tete a Tete".
Tony thank tou for your videos.
You sound real and honest.
Beautiful pianist . Nice touch
Sorry for my english.
Im an Argentina Pianist in Madrid.
Well you've lifted my spirits, so definitely a thumbs up. What an interesting video. Brilliant!
This channel is gold
Man you are a great teacher. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.
Thanks, Tony! Excellent Deep Dive!
Thank you for sharing this incredible wealth of musical knowledge. You've managed to demystify for me something that I had a rough idea about but still wasn't able to fully understand until now.
I love these sounds, but man it seems like it's gonna take weeks and weeks of running these things up and down before I'll be able to just lay them into some swingin' standards. Right now my harmony is like real traditional, right out of the stride school. I play like you started on Bewitched, just plain old chords. Maybe the best thing is to learn one tune using the diminished scale and get used to it that way. You've done a lot of hard work over your lifetime, and you're a good teacher. Thanks!
The diminished scale is essential
for getting in to the language of jazz.
Now, check out this little exercise.
The diminished scale is connected to dominants (X7 chords).
Let’s play in the key of C.
Now, if you play a G7 in you left hand with the notes G, B, F (leave out the D,
as it’s only an extension of the basic note, G, and does nothing for the character
of the chord.)
Now, in your right hand, play a G-major chord: (G, B, D) - with the g7 in your
left hand as written above.
Boring, isn’t it?
Now move your right hand from the G chord (a little third down) to an E chord
(E, G#, B,) and keep the left hand on the G7. Now things begin to shine, right?
This chord is a G7, 13, b9.
Now move your right hand a little third down ones more and play a Db chord (Db,
F, Ab) and keep the G7 in your left hand. This chord is a G7, b5 (#11), b9.
The point is that any pattern that fits in to the diminished scale can be moved
up and down in little thirds and be “legal”. Most of them even make a nice and
perhaps surprising sound. Check it out.
And thank you so much for the wonderful lesson, Tony Winston.
Thank you, Tony! Your explanations help so much to simplify and demystify jazz theory.
Nice scale, nice pattern...thank you so much...
Тони, ты молодец,хороший учитель,браво!
Tony, many thanks for the great lesson. Greetings from Hungary.
Thank you for the sheets and for your great tutorials
What a great resource. Thank you!
thanks for the licks , one of my latest over Dim chords favorites (starting on chord tones) is 1 b3 #5 #4
Thanks very much Tony. This is the great sound of Bheki Mseleku on his album Celebration amongst many others.
This scale has 8 notes or 4+4. First 4 is the beginning of classical minor, next 4 is the beginning of other classical minor (starts half tone higher.) When basic chord is diminished, then the scale starts from the main note, if it's dominant, then it starts half tone higher. Fingering could be simple - 1234, 1234 :) I think this is the easiest way to learn this scale and play it in all 12 keys without any problem.
ultra cool! cromatic conection!!
Awe man. I've been looking for something just like this ! Thank you TW. You always have useful stuff.
My second time watching this. Very excellent
Hello, this is a amazing information for me, I from Colombia and I would like to learn this diminished secrets.. Thanks
Excellent piano lesson. Well explained and easy to understand. Thank you for posting this...your lesson here demystifies a lot of jazz piano solos.
Great ideas Tony - just what I have been looking for, thanks - for my saxomophone too.
What a GREAT lesson (for bass players like me too). Thanks a lot!
this is the best lesson I seen on tube
Wow, this was excellent! I'm a music theory hound, and I have to say this is probably my favorite diminished scale video that I've seen. Every time I hear the dominant chords ascending in minor 3rds, I think of the Gershwin prelude #1. It always does that right before it modulates to a new key, and I LOVE it! Tony, at one point in this vid, you said that you didn't "learn this stuff until after the age of 30." What were you playing prior to that, and could you do a video about your growth as a musician? What sparked your interest in jazz harmony and improv?
Hey Tony Thank you , Love how you communicate complicated ideas . Really appreciate it
thank you so much Sir, for all the lessons 🥰