Diminished 7th Chords - Their Symmetry & Function Explained

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[@darkhorse21xx]

Thank you so much for sharing this lesson. I have always excluded playing the Dim 7 chord in my guitar playing primarily because I found that it is so rarely used, and that the shape was a bit awkward compared to the standard Barre Major and Minor chords. I only ever considered the Dim 7th chord as being located in one place in a chord progression. When you demonstrated that the Dim 7 chord can change it's voicing up the fret board by simply moving up 3 frets, my mind was blown. Then when you showed how versatile this can be by using it as a passing tone between chords, I was awestruck by the versatility of this chord. Here I have been playing for many years and never really touched the diminished 7th chord. I intend to start studying the basic shapes on the 6th, 5th and 4th string root to start to add this next level of complexity to chord progressions. Your video will be so very useful with this.

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The more I practice and play, the more it occurs to me that Dim7 chords are much more commonly used than people are led to believe. They're just rarely talked about in lessons. Teacher: "Oh, yeah, there's a thing called 'diminished chords," but we can skip that for now." Translation: "we can skip that...for EVER." I noticed an almost immediate improvement when I started sliding an arpeggiated dim7 into my pentatonic runs that also sounded oddly familiar after 50 years of listening to Rock-n-Roll.

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The best by far, tutorial on Diminshed 7th chords. Now I totally get it.

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[@andyl3933]

Great clear lesson- showing the intervals on one string and showing that it’s as simple as inversions made this very easy to understand - thx for posting

[@chordsloonrodriguez5917]

I have been using dim7 without knowing they were, because I used them in C & D dim that in acoustic sound really good. Now I understand the relation among chords & chord progression. Thanks for helping, great videos. Keep the good work on. Cheers.

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[@UrantiaRevelationChannel]

Diminished scales and chord are my favorite. Very mellow. If you play C half-whole scale over C7 it seems like you play 6 of Bb or Gminor. The sound 3 you get by playing chord C dim7, and sound 2 or 7 you get by Fdim7. Thus playing all dim chords and keys create full set of strange and beautiful minor scales.

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Your voice is more tetric than a diminished 7th! 😄

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[@gilregev4823]

at 9:20 - Bdim7/E is equal to E7(b9) : V7(b9), which is easier to grasp

[@jerrywilson4371]

Best explanation I've heard so far, thank you so much

[@tanguydelooz2881]

At 6:59, it's not a Gb7 but Gb7b5 (Dominant flat5). I first came across it when harmonizing the double harmonic minor and major scales and then was happy to find it, brilliantly used, in Girl From Ipanema. :)

[@AlexanderMorokhovets]

Also diminished 7th chord naturally occurs in harmonic minor on 7th degree and acts as a leading chord to tonic i think. Actually, it's the same chord as in the last example in the video, just without E in bass (example is in A harmonic minor).

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Cool example of ascending dim7 chords can be heard at the end of the bridge in 'road trippin' by rhcp

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I think Brian Setzer uses this formula a lot and it sounds pretty good as passing chords.

[@michaelaiello9525]

I got a little fuzzy about the last example… not sure why E7 is the dominant of the harmonic Am scale? And why is Bdim7 a relative chord of E? It sounds good and the diminished sub sounds good too, but I don quite fully understand the relative relationship.

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[@DROSTraceurADD]

Great video! I've got just a tiny almost unrelated question: in 5:08, why do you play that F# (or Gb , no idea)?? Is that a different chord? An E9 or something? I hear a regular E major chord, but my ear it's not so well trained, so I'm a bit lost in there

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Eadd9. Just stretch the pinky out on that 4th string if you can. It's a nice alternative to standard E major.

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[@lgomez222]

How is do you figure out the relative diminished chord for substitutions, like the V chord? Why is B dim7 the substitute for E in the key of Am?

[@0megaPi]

I know your comment is two years old but... If you harmonize the Am scale you get that the diminished chord is formed on the second degree. In the case of Am it is on the note B. So if you harmonize further in 7th chords you get Bdim7 which is a sub of the 5.

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[@mattguitar91]

How is it relative @9:12? Relative to what? Where is the Bdiminished7 pulled out of? A 5th of a 5th?

[@fretjamguitar]

Sorry for the confusion. The dim7 is played on the 5th of the V chord. It's essentially an expression of the harmonic minor scale on the tonic of the key, or you could see it as an expression of phrygian dominant on the V. I should have said "in relation to" rather than "relative" as I know relative has a narrower meaning in music.

[@mattguitar91]

@@fretjamguitar Okay. Because I've heard of the concept of secondary dominant of the secondary dominant and thought it was similar. This makes sense. Especially since I missed the part where you said under harmonic minor. Thank you for clearing this up. I struggle with theory and I was writing stuff down trying to figure it out in different ways lmao

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[@romyn8726]

at 6:50 you are using passing chord of Ab dim7 in between F and G. Why are you choosing to use that Dim7 chord instead of the F# dim 7 that is a step in between F and G?

[@fretjamguitar]

I was demonstrating that you can place a dim7 between any two diatonic chords. Placing it between the ii and iii is just one option.

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Why is the 7 a double flat?

[@Johnhasa1]

Because it has shrunk a minor/flat seven, but remaining a 7, keeping the *letter name*. If you are in C major for example, the double flat 7 is the same note as A (the sixth degree), but functions as a 7 which is a B in C major. So, it's a bbB, not an A.

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4:22

[@wayansugiantha9817]

I like dim7 sound if combination with harmonic minor and phrygian dominant..yngwie rule..!!

[@fretjamguitar]

Hell yes that's where it really does its thing. The way I remember it is the dim7 is one semitone (or fret) above the V in a minor key (e.g. A#dim7 in Dm). Or one semitone below the minor tonic root (e.g. G#dim7 in A minor). Then you can play around with the symmetry covered in this video.

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[@fretjamguitar]

Brilliant! That movement of dim7 inversions is the dominant substitute I explain in the later part of the video. Straight from the harmonic minor scale. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIutqI2Pn81nmLs

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[@mysteriousdoge1298]

4:50 there is no way the first chord is C - it has C B E & A notes in it. C chord is made of C, E & G...

[@fretjamguitar]

It's Cmaj13. I just kept the chord naming simple as you could technically use any C major variation (triad, 7th or extended) in the example.

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

@@fretjamguitar I mean it gets really confusing sometimes in your videos when you don't name the chords correctly but thanks fot the explanation I couldn't find the chords name

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I understand nothing at all

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i couldn't understand either?? But it sounded good :)

[@OlettaLiano]

Why do they refer to forth note of a Diminished 7th chord as a double flat 7th when in reality the note is a 6th? I see no need to rename notes we already know. That just adds to the confusion.

[@fretjamguitar]

Chord naming tends to refer to structural "rules" that have just stuck over time. It essentially comes from the study and use of tertian harmony. So one part of it is that the most common seventh chords are structured with a sequence of major and/or minor 3rds (maj7, min7, dom7, dim7 all conform to that). The other part is that, when the chord conforms to such a structure, we number the tones 1, 3, 5, 7. As it happens, the dim7 chord conforms to the 3rds rule (all minor 3rds) and therefore, since the 7 falls a minor 3rd from the b5, it becomes a bb7. Since most musicians don't need to think about how they NAME the structure of a chord (most of us see chords as shapes and hear them as having a particular sound), it's not really that important, which is why I didn't spend a lot of time on it.

[@OlettaLiano]

Thank you for clearing that up for me. I've been playing for a little over 15 years and this was the first time I saw the bb7 and was simply curious.