E Diminished (halftone - wholetone) Ukulele Scale - D-Tuning
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D-Tuning (ADF#B).
View this scale in: Standard Tuning (gCEA)G-Tuning (DGBE)Slack-key Tuning (gCEG)
The diminished scale is a scale that one finds most often in jazz, and that many guitarists of fusion, rock, or neoclassical use the scale in their solos. This scale of eight notes is constructed symmetrically by alternating tones in whole and half steps. In improvisation, it is used on the diminished seventh chords, as well as on the dominant seventh chords.
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Diagram/Chart
Staff Line Notation
Scale details
- Type : Octatonic
- Number of notes : 8
- Formula : 1,b2,b3,b4,b5,5,6,b7
- Notes : E, F, G, A♭, B♭, B, D♭, D
- Intervals : H,W,H,W,H,W,H,W
- Degrees : E (I - tonic), F (II - supertonic), G (III - mediant), A♭ (IV - subdominant), B♭ (V - dominant), B (VI - submediant), D♭ (VII - leading tone), D (VIII - octave)
Scale Positions
You'll find below the 5 different positions/shapes of the E Diminished (halftone - wholetone) Uke scale in D-Tuning (ADF#B), along with their ascending tab patterns.
Position #1
Position #2
Position #3
Position #4
Position #5
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