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The Diminished Scale for Guitar | 
 enlarge | Creator: Jean Marc Belkadi
Publisher: Musicians Institute Press
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1258727
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 24
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 9.1 x 0.3
ISBN: 0793585015
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
UPC: 073999089028
EAN: 9780793585014
ASIN: 0793585015
Publication Date: November 1, 1997
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Product Description
Jean Marc Belkadi reveals the secrets of using the diminished scale in over 30 lessons and sample phrases. The CD includes over 30 tracks for demonstration and play-along, and the topics covered include: tonal and modal usage; diminished triads, chromaticism, arpeggios, polytonalities, common licks and patterns for jazz, rock, and fusion guitar; and more!
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 Ok, but could have been better ... September 5, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
some of the licks here are also in Jean Marc's "advanced scale concepts and licks for guitar" (which I thought was kind of lame) in this (very) short book Jean Marc tries to teach thru examples only, almost no explanations, very short on theory, just a line or two outlining what's going on ... but still I thought the lines presented are quite good, so I think this skinny book is cool as a supplement but you'll have to analyze the licks yourself to get the most out of the ideas presented here (which is not a bad thing really considering sometimes you obtain a deeper understanding when a book makes you work) almost every lick is in a jazz fusion vein, some are better than others ... what I liked about this one is how Belkadi mixes dimished sounds with more standard chords, so he applies the scale but doesn't really sound diminished like in a 13th flat 9 chord ... while not essential I didn't regret I bought it, just don't expect too much material.
Diminished 'secrets' remain secret February 28, 2005
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Like other reviewers, I also found this book to be disappointing due to lack of any explanation (as seems to be the case with 'Jean Marc Belkadi' books, I also have 'slap and pop guitar' by the same author).
The `diminished scale for guitar' book contains a myriad of interesting and sometimes esoteric examples of the diminshed scale in use (which is why it gets a possibly generous 2 stars). However, this is literally all it is.
There are no explanations or *music theory* (???!) pertaining to why the dimished scale functions over any of the examples, neither any mention of which dimished scale is being using (ie C/Db/D and their symetrical equivalents), or which version (ie Half/Whole Whole/Half), which he does introduce, but *very* briefly at the beginning (certainly no guitar charts). This was extremely frustrating at the time.
The consequence of this is that the intended audience will not understand how to use the diminished scale (like me when I first aquired this book, and any other reviewer of 'Jean Marc Belkadi' books, seriously, check out his reviews), and are even prevented from extrapolating correct usage/theory from the examples by using knowledge of which particular diminished scale is being used over certain chords (and people who can actually do this must already have good knowledge of the diminshed scale anyway, and so would not need this book - fathom that!).
In summary, if you want to learn how to use the diminshed scale, I urge you not to purchase this book - rather than "Jean Marc Belkadi reveals the secrets of using the diminished scale", he merely plays examples with `secrets' in without explanation or mention of music theory - the secrets remain secret! (though we are endowed with the knowledge that he can play guitar in a fast manner)
However, in fairness the other jazz tuition books I have used are not particularly clear, and I've had to use a lot of pen and paper to generalise the knowledge provided; my general advice: be prepared to think!
(As a side note, the "thanks to" page in the book probably gives an insight into the author's work ethic - "Thanks to: Mareello for his patience in transcribing these thousands of notes" [ie the actual examples])
 Very Unclear April 21, 2004
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this and this authours slap and pop books. Both are very dissapointing. The guitar tone on this cd is terrible, the examples are unclear and I cant hear what is being played. The guitar has a lot of effects on it, when I try to learn from the book I dont even know where to start.
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