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That's not a scale, it's an arpeggio (of Cdim7, aka D#dim7, F#dim7 or Adim7).
You can play it any way you like (notes in any order, any fingering that's comfortable), but as it appears on that site (ascending in minor 3rds from low C on 5th string to C on fret 8 1st string), I'd play it with index and pinky on each string.

But I might change the penultimate note (A) and play it on 5th fret 1st string instead, as follows (fingering shown below):

 playing with the least movement and fewest stretches possible. But different players have different ways of achieving that goal - eg some like to keep the same finger pattern on each string, even when it involves more movement up and down the neck.  There are also certain contexts (or phrases) where different fingerings might be preferred.
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keep it up bro! I'm slacking on my arpeggio learning too-- been spending too much time familiarizing myself with harmonic / melodic minor patterns and their relation to the natural minor scale and the variations between the three. Fun stuff, ehh lol

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keep it up bro! I'm slacking on my arpeggio learning too-- been spending too much time familiarizing myself with harmonic / melodic minor patterns and their relation to the natural minor scale and the variations between the three. Fun stuff, ehh lol

 

 

The Harmonic Minor gives you dim7 arpeggio's.

 

This is a great progression for applying the Minor Key:

 

||: Am | Am | E7 | E7 :|| (play them as written, don't add any other extension like m7 or 9th or anything just straight Am->E7)

 

Use the A Natural Minor for the Am chord and use the A Harmonic Minor scale for E7.

 

The A Harmonic Minor scale gives you these three diminished chord/arpeggio's by default: Ddim7, Fdim7, G#dim7, Bdim7

 

Give them a run, play the Am->E7 progression repeating it about 4 times then substitute the any of those dim7 chord for the E7 at will, in any order. For instance it down like this:

 

| Am | Am | E7 | E7 |

| Am | Am | E7 | E7 |

| Am | Am | E7 | E7 |

| Am | Am | E7 | E7 |

| Am | Am | E7 | G#dim7 |

| Am | Am | E7 | Bdim7 |

| Am | Am | G#dim7 | Bdim7 |

| Am | Am | Ddim7 Fdim7 | G#dim7 Bdim7 |

| Am | Am | E7 | Ddim7 Fdim7 G#dim7 Bdim7 |

etc, etc...

 

String the E7 and the four dim7 chords anywhere across those last two measures. Really, you are going to be hard pressed to find a combination that doesn't sound fairly decent, and work.

 

That exercise, if anything, will help you wrap your ears around the sound of where a dim7 chord can pretty much ALWAYS be applied.

 

Next, go back to the basic ||: Am | Am | E7 | E7 :|| progression...now...

 

play Am arpegpios for Am and play any of the four dim7 arpeggio's for E7. By playing this you will be using those two bars as tension that resolves to Am back at the beginning. Yes, you can also play E7 arpeggio's too if you want but you might find that you'll end up being focused too much on playing OVER E7 instead of playing back TO Am. Experiment with all of it, you'll see what I mean.

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