Once you’ve got these basic 2 and 4-note phrases under your fingers, you might like to look at a wider 8-note phrase – and for this you’ll hopefully recognise our “scale island” shape from Module 1. 

Notice that this offers us a few different pathways in terms of resolving to the D major 7 chord: 

Something to aware of is that the further we travel through the diminished scale, the more it can sound like we’re “running scales” rather than making music. Try experimenting with rhythm and rests just as we’ve done in previous lessons.  

These are all in descending form – which I personally prefer the sound of – but there’s nothing to stop you practising with the ascending version as well.