Guitar Metal - Harmonic Minor Diminished Lick #1

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Uploaded by on Mar 17, 2009

Diminished sounding heavy metal guitar lick using the harmonic minor scale. This lick relies heavily on alternate picking. Tablature and guitar lesson available at the Guitar Metal website http://www.guitarmetal.com/guitar-licks/harmonic-minor-diminished-lick1.html

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  • Dude.. that was a diminished arpeggio, nothing related to the harmonic minor scale..

  • @Masterboychris I'm actually using only four notes from the E harmonic minor scale. Alone it can be considered unrelated but within the context of the E harmonic minor scale is what I intended. Visit the lesson from the link (click "Show more") above for tab and a better explanation. Thanks!

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  • @Masterboychris a diminished arpeggio is not 4 notes, a diminished arpeggio is a 1 b3 b5 triad, the b5 is what makes it diminished... you can also think of it as a minor triad with a b5... so actually its 3 notes, anything more then its an extension upon the triad, believe me when it comes to music theory I also know my stuff ;)

    also he's put it in the context of the the harmonic minor scale, so since the harmonic minor has a leading tone, 7, instead of a b7, it contains 2 diminished triads

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  • It's from Randy Rhoads spotlight solo after Suicide Solution on the Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of A Madman tour

  • sweet mother of....now this is a lick!!

  • @6EELZE6U6666 Sorry I meant Diminished 7th. Now would you cut the crap that is a diminished 7th arpeggio.

  • I'm play a lot of rhythm guitar, never really had a good way to approach a lick or solos, your videos are great.

  • @elgrau1 its not a rip off. that diminished progression is really common. and its a little different than how dan donegan plays it.

  • inside the fire by disturbed... rip offffff

  • @foxybrown2 no he isnt

  • @Masterboychris you are right

  • @guitarmetal1 Lol, I'm not gonna start a fight or anything, and I'm not the greatest guitarist either.. But when it comes to musical theory, I know my stuff.

    You're playing a diminished arpeggio.

    A diminished arpeggio is four notes.

    Kthxbai.

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