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Only one diminished pattern
These are the three 5-string Major triad patterns so all we need now is the pattern of
the diminished triad. Luckily the diminished triad is pure symmetry. It's one minor
third repeating itself over and over again. Here's the first pattern:
To make it a manageable 5-string pattern that resembles the Major and Minor
patterns, I've taken out one note in the arpeggio. The D note on the G-string in the
7th fret should be marked as well but that would mess up our system so I left it out.
And, that sacrifice creates an extremely cool sounding and useful pattern. The next
pattern looks exactly the same only three frets higher:
As you can see there's nothing new here. Only the position of the pattern shifted.
Let's do it again and move it up three frets:
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