In this post we’ll take a look at Melakarta #45 – Shubhapantuvarali (that’s shoo-bop pahn-too-vah-rahlly….no really!). “Shubhap” (for short) has the same tonal DNA as another Melakarta, namely, #36 – Chalanata, which is the subject of an earlier post. It might be helpful to check that out for some pertinent background info, as well as any of the other posts in this category (hey, why not? – they’re FreeB’s). Due to the process known as graha bedham, which changes the śruti, or tonic, of a scale (Melakarta) to a different note within that scale, Melas #36 and #45 have the same … Read More
Category Archives: Diminished Scale
Unidentified Descending Shape (UDS) Landing Near You Origin determined to be from the planet Tritonius Minorus in the Diminished Scale System, according to reports from Deep Space b9 Don’t jump out the window just yet………..! Swap that tricorder for a trichord and check out this supplementary exercise based on my last post, which deals with a hexatonic scale comprised of two minor triads, a tritone apart (C- & F#-). As this scale seemed to have been nameless, and for lack of one better, I dubbed it the “Tritone Minor Scale”. It’s close resemblance to it’s likewise Diminished Scale offshoot cousin, … Read More
On the heels of my last posted exercise, which was inspired by Walter Bishop’s “A Study in 4ths”, and which ended with an ascending figure of a diminished scale in Perfect 4ths, I thought it could be cool to further investigate some of the possibilities of P4th relationships within a diminished scale. I had considerably diminished the use of the diminished scale in my own playing for quite a while now, since I’ve felt that the modes of Melodic Minor (which is 2 notes shy of being a diminished scale), primarily the “altered scale” (seventh mode, diminished / whole tone) … Read More