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Diminished chords are truly amazing because of the harmonic palette surrounding them. In this video, we look at three important features of the Diminished chord that help us create a fluent chord melody style on guitar. Join us for an exciting journey as we continue to explore the world of harmony as we start at the very beginning and look at how to transfer keyboard knowledge and arranging techniques to the guitar fingerboard.
I love feature three, where lowering any note of a dimished chord creates a dominant 7! This'll come in useful when transcribing - if you find a shape that differs from a dimished by one semitone (on one string) this helps identify it.
FOCUS ON DIMINISHED CHORDS ______________________ 00:29 C6 Diminished scale harmonized with alternating C6 Bdim7 0:46 Diminished chords are truly amazing because of the harmonic palette surrounding them 1:15 Three amazing feautures of Dim 7 chords 1. 1:28 Four roots 2. 2:23 repeated every three frets 3. 03:46 Lower any note by a fret to get a Dom7 chord with that note as root 05:10 B7 as substitute for G7b9 06:11 PRACTICE TRACKS 07:37 C6->Bdim7 across fretboard shapes 09:41 Same shapes with alternating C-G bass gives effect of C6-G7b9 12:17 Just the above base for playing the same shapes with
Hello Gerdin, Thank you for your comment. At present we only have the RU-vid series, however in the future, we will be offering a full course complete with additional theory workbooks and examples in all keys, etc., we'll keep everyone posted when this becomes available. Again, thank you for your interest in our series. Warm regards, Mike
Thank you for your question, The most important thing is to regularly review the material and find a way of applying the new material to the music you play. If the concepts we present in these lessons are new, it will take time to fully grasp the material. Best wishes with your guitar playing.
Thank you for these amazing videos. Can we do the same thing (replacing chords with C6 and Bdim7) in the natural minor scale, which is tonally different?
Hello and thank you for your question, Yes any scale can be harmonized and will produce a harmony unique to that scale. If you were to harmonize a natural minor scale as three note chord structures (triads) you would have the same chords as a major scale however the chords would sound different because we are listening to them in relation to a minor chord. I think of each set of chords like a musical solar system where the 'key' chord has all the other chords orbiting around it. When you harmonize the natural minor scale all the other chords will be orbiting around it (heard in reference to that minor chord). I hope this helps. Warm regards, Mike
Hello Nonato, thank you for your question. At present, our lessons are only available in English. We indend to have our videos available in other languages in the near future. All the very best. Mike
