Lynch Cover Tunes

[ericmeyer4]

I going to be doing some lynch cover tunes and I have a question about a scale. I've read somewhere that he uses a diminish scale and to do it you need to change the 5th and the 7th on a normal minor scale.

Could someone clerify this for me?

Thanks,
Eric

 

[BluesGuyJ]

Re: Lynch Cover Tunes

A diminished scale has a flat II, III, V, VI and VII. So basically take a major scale and everything but the 4th degree of that scale is flattened.
so you would go from
C D E F G A B C

to C Db Eb F Gb Ab Bb C


Good luck.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Lynch Cover Tunes

A diminished scale has a flat II, III, V, VI and VII. So basically take a major scale and everything but the 4th degree of that scale is flattened.
so you would go from
C D E F G A B C

to C Db Eb F Gb Ab Bb C


Good luck.

I use different math, but come to the same conclusion.
Another way to do this is to take the key you're in and play the locrian mode, which starts and ends with the seventh note of the relative major scale, and you'll be playing the same notes.

In actuality, Lynch more often plays major triad arpeggios but staggers them based off of a diminshed arpeggio pattern. He does do some diminished string skipping runs on the 3rd and 1st strings, tho. He also does 3 and 4 string diminshed licks bassed on the 1st - 4th strings, but once again, these are arpeggios, not scales.

Why? The reason he uses is probably b/c it sounds better. In theory, you can play a diminished chord or arpeggio on any step between diatonic chords.

For example, in the key of C, you can play the following arps: (I'm simplifying here, tho)

C Maj
C# Dim
D Min
D# Dim
E Min
F Maj
F# Dim
G Maj
G# Dim
A Min
A# Dim
B Dim