Locrian: Half-Diminished Chords, Tritone Riffs and the Flat 5th

Locrian has a reputation for being useless. As a key, it nearly is. It flattens the 5th, so there's no stable chord to come home to, and whole songs in Locrian are rare.

As a scale for one chord, it's essential. That chord is the half-diminished, m7b5, and it turns up all the time: in jazz standards, minor ballads, metal riffs and film cues. This book treats Locrian as a one-chord scale, not a key, and shows you exactly when to reach for it.

What's inside:

- The one-chord test for when Locrian fits, and why only Locrian does

- The minor ii-V: where Locrian starts and stops, and the one note that changes over the V chord

- Am7b5 is Cm6: the trick that doubles your chord shapes

- The minor pentatonic you already know that fits every m7b5 chord

- Tritone riffs over a pedal, and how to move them to the low E string

- Four one-octave patterns that run root to root, not boxes

- Where the flat 5th goes over every chord

- Ten rules for soloing without licks

- Jazz, metal, and suspense and ballads

- Twelve vamps to play over, plus a template for writing your own

- Locrian in all twelve keys

Everything is in A, the same key as the other books in the series. No licks to copy, no full-neck charts. Diagrams throughout.

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