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Diminished chords

Diminished chords

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Diminished chords

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- Now let's talk about diminished chords. We basically have two diminished chords. The diminished and the half-diminished. The diminished, is the root, the flat three, the flat five and the double flatted seventh and it sounds like this, (plays piano) again(plays piano) The arpeggio(plays guitar) (sings) Okay, now, let's play the appropriate scale, which would be the half step whole step once again. (plays piano) (plays guitar) Now(plays piano) the whole step half step scale. (plays guitar) Now let's talk about the half-diminished chord. It's built on the root, the flat three, the flat five and the flat seven of the scale. (plays piano) Let's sing(sings) (plays piano) Okay, let's play it now. (plays guitar) Now the scale, that I like to play over the half-diminished chord, is actually, the E flat melodic minor scale over the C, half diminished. I feel this, scale sounds the best over this particular…

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