SCALES FOR HALF-DIMINISHED CHORDS: Boost Your Improvisation Knowledge- "Beautiful Love"- Tutorial.

How to play and practice scales for HALF- DIMINISHED CHORDS. Tutorial applies the song "BEAUTIFUL LOVE", by Victor Young. Performance and improvisation using half diminished chords (m7b5). Lesson is on how the chords are formed and the LOCRIAN scale applied. For more on modes go here:
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I LOVE the sound of the half-diminished chords. And they are so versatile too.

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Yes, agreed...beautiful sounding chord. Thanks!

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1:06 = just the beautiful playing my heart needs this Monday!! KH to the rescue, as always!! 🥰

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Thanks for listening and the comment, Brenda Good vibes!

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Swing loose! Great lesson, Kent. Thank you.

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Another masterful lesson KH. Thank you. I noticed you mentioned the 'dim7' and I've wondered why we just don't call it a 'minor 6 flat 5' chord. To me that seems more logical. Anyway, I love your lessons sir. Thanks again.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Because the chord is built from a diminished triad we call it a diminished 7th. (bb7)

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[@alessandrobuontempo9240]

Lots ol love and thanks form an (almost) self-taught double bass cat from Italy. This is a very effective and simple way to approach iiVi and the altered dominant. Looking forward to digging into it. This is a beautiful song, which I didn't know! Thank you maestro!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Great to hear! Thanks for the comment!

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Thanks for the comment, Rick. I'm glad you're learning good things from the book and the tutorials.

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20:12 20:44 Another lesson on how you interchange the diminished with the dominant 7 flat 9?

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Yes, there's a slight adjustment in the notes...but the scales are relatively similar. The dominant needs a major 3rd.

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Hey Kent, love your videos ! Thanks a lot for sharing so much knowledge for so long...really appreciate it. Simple question : I was taught to think from where that chord (Em7b5) comes from...in that case is the second degree of a Harmonic D minor. Instead of thinking which scales can be used to play with that chord. is that ok to think like that too? It seems to me that is kind of the same thing in a different angle...

[@tomhynes2908]

I also teach my students Bm7-5 is Dm over B. Thus playing Dm lines over B. I’m not sure how many utilize this concept. Also the raised 2 on the m7-5 is the 6 chord in Melodic minor. Just another twist. 😊

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Twists are often good for seeing things from another perspective. A Dm6 inverted is a Bm7b5. Often in some fakebooks you'll see a Dm6 proceeding an E7, and it should be a Bm7b5.

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