Guitar Lesson: Diminished 7th Chords

[dansadlersacramento]

He's referencing "Along Came Jones" by the Coasters, which starts with a diminished run just like the video show,

[numanuma20]

I just learned that there are only three dim chords C C# and D. The rest are just inversions.

[DBTdad]

Thanks for explaining WHEN to use the dim chord since most Youtube instructors do not do that.

[Feet4hands]

Very helpful lesson , many thanks. Loved the "Ladies tied to the Railway Track".

[handsomebrick]

So in a way, there's only three diminished sevenths that exist.

[XxicruffesionalxX]

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[bob40326541]

hold it some what sounds like f u ish more like f eck

[rockdoesntdie]

owhyeah! I have some chords to a song and one of them reads A° but with a slash through the ° so that is a dim7 then? and do dim chords always have the 7?

Yeah I'm new :p

[originallhamfist]

@rockdoesntdie That's a half-diminished, or minor seventh-flatted fifth formula: root- minor third-flat five-flat seven.

[illnastic]

In respect to harmonizing....where can I fit these chords?  In place of regular dominant 7ths? can anyone helllllp meee?

[marceloiacovone]

nice, thanks for the advice =]

[eldonb24]

Someone listen to Age 0f Electric - remote control, sounds like that chord lol in the beginning lol

[JoeBarcus]

great stuff thanks for sharing

[davidserban]

for the info , very usefull !

[mdaleo]

Sweet tele

[reinn86]

very useful! thanks!

[FTStratLP]

Great lesson and very usefull! Thanks a lot!

[Maestrp37388]

Really helpful!

[JPetrucci744]

Of course I means to say if he had started with C# major...

[mymusick86]

LMAO at lady tied to the train track awesome

[bluelake07]

I just spent 20 twenty minutes trying to find this info on the internet; shoulda come here first! Thanks.

[Rickyyy001]

So wait why do you flat the root, does it pertain to the key? i thought a diminished 7th was 1 b3 b5 bb7, and the nucleus simply 1 b3 b5?? can someone please message me with the answer?

thank you.

i do agree with anon540.

[JPetrucci744]

A bit late but...

C Major - C, E, G, B

C Dom 7th - C, E, G, Bb

C Dim - C, Eb, Gb, Bbb

C# Major - C#, F, G#, B#

C# Dom 7th - C#, F, G#, B

C# Dim - C#, E, G, Bb

You're right, but this guy constructed a C# diminished chord by raising the root of a C dominant 7th. If he had started with a C Major chord, then your formula would have applied to it.

[sportstud7]

Just a couple things.... In a C Major Triad, B is not included, and in the C# Major and Dominant chords, the third of the triad wouldn't be an "F", it would be an "E#". I know it's the same note, I guess it's a matter of symantics-- but you wouldn't say the C# Major scale as C#, D#, F, F#, G#, A#, B#.....

[lespaulsoundwave]

@sportstud7 If you'd talk numbers, you wouldn't confuse people.

[lespaulsoundwave]

@JPetrucci744 Numbers numbers numbers.

[P3313]

nice, but you should have implemented it just to give an idea of some ways to use it

[anon540]

It isn't necessarily the bass note that changes, but the ROOT note. This makes a big difference.

Remember; A diminished chord is a chord where all but the root is a half step lower than it would normally be.

For example:

A C Major chord is 'C' 'E' 'G.'

A C# diminished chord is 'C#' 'E' 'G,' NOT 'C#' 'E' 'G' 'C.'

If you play a 'C' over a 'C#' bass you'll probably sound off.

[TheodoreCao]

i thought a diminished chord was a 3 minor thirds.

[anon540]

I don't know much about music theory, I just know how a few chords work. For that matter I may have described the augmented chord, which is just the opposite. If that's the case you drop the root rather than bump it up. I tend to mix the two because I almost never play those.

[metalmaniac767]

great

[revaewtruc]

great video!

[wellurs]

brilliant lesson I've always wanted to know this!

[klined]

great vid

[DRGasMoney]

nicely done. i think if you spoke quicker, had a jam, and showed a few more positions this would be real good.

[vydeva]

Thank You

I Love you

[lomoholga]

This video is ridiculously good!

[THESONARIAN]

Always helpful ... very much appreciated ...

[jipes]

I never really figures that nicely Great lesson Thanks !

[jasongyro77]

what?

[stratocastermojo]

thats awesome information many thanks!

[bluefingaz]

gr8 lesson..could've been even better with a short jam in the end though.

[scat4u]

yeah there should ALWAYS be a jam

[jasongyro77]

i will agree a jam is always good

[burnout2022]

i fucking love jam, especially with pancakes!

[mentalboy11]

banana pancakes at that.