This is a little fun I have with diminished based scales over augmented based chords.
It was probably in the late '70's while I was discovering much about harmony, that I consciously played with these two entities together. It was a time of great experimentation and learning for me. I was playing with a guitarist friend and he said "man, what is that you're playing over that chord", and that's when I realized I was fusing augmented and diminished chords together.
It seems a bit counterintuitive as musicians know how very different these sounds are - it's a bit like oil and water. Taking an augmented chord and matching it up with it's own diminished chord (add dim. 7 while you're at it), you only still have the root in common. Mathematically there's this imaginary "Y" in the road when dividing up the twelve note octave - into fourths or thirds. Without knowing anything about music theory but knowing basic math, you know that when you mix quarters and halves of entities with thirds or sixths, you have to break down to the least common denominator to be sure. For instance, it's easy to think about three quarters of something "even". But now add something from the "odd" group in there like 1.333333 or 3.666666 then....... I need more coffee - c'mon, it's early over here!
Anyway, if I make scales up that resemble dim. scales but use augmented seconds in random places you can get this sound. There is some other random stuff thrown in there too. Experiment - nothings wrong. How does it sound?
It was probably in the late '70's while I was discovering much about harmony, that I consciously played with these two entities together. It was a time of great experimentation and learning for me. I was playing with a guitarist friend and he said "man, what is that you're playing over that chord", and that's when I realized I was fusing augmented and diminished chords together.
It seems a bit counterintuitive as musicians know how very different these sounds are - it's a bit like oil and water. Taking an augmented chord and matching it up with it's own diminished chord (add dim. 7 while you're at it), you only still have the root in common. Mathematically there's this imaginary "Y" in the road when dividing up the twelve note octave - into fourths or thirds. Without knowing anything about music theory but knowing basic math, you know that when you mix quarters and halves of entities with thirds or sixths, you have to break down to the least common denominator to be sure. For instance, it's easy to think about three quarters of something "even". But now add something from the "odd" group in there like 1.333333 or 3.666666 then....... I need more coffee - c'mon, it's early over here!
Anyway, if I make scales up that resemble dim. scales but use augmented seconds in random places you can get this sound. There is some other random stuff thrown in there too. Experiment - nothings wrong. How does it sound?