If you've ever wanted to turn heads during your blues solos, the diminished sound is a great way to accomplish that. Just to avoid any confusion for those who care, the Diminished "scale" as I refer to it in this particular video is technically a seventh arpeggio, but I find these intervals are the easiest to incorporate into blues, rather than the half or full symmetrical diminished scales.

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