Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robben Ford masterclass. Robben Ford has spent his career carving out a musical buffer between blues, rock and jazz/fusion. That ...

1) The Lydian Scale, 2) The Lydian Augmented Scale, 3) The Lydian Diminished Scale, 4) The Lydian Flat Seventh Scale, 5) The Auxiliary Augmented Scale, 6) The Auxiliary Diminished and Auxiliary ...

The diminished scale—often referenced by its formal moniker, the octatonic scale—occupies a niche that sits comfortably between strict diatonic tonality and outright chromaticism. Its defining feature ...

I first learned about the double diminished scale in the 1970s, inspired by pianists like Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. At that time, I was studying a book by Nicolas Slonimsky called Thesaurus of ...

Having looked at the minor pentatonic scale last month, this issue we’re moving on to its close relative, the blues scale. We say ‘close relative’ because the two scales are almost identical - just ...