5 Easy Ways to Use and Write with Diminished Chords [MUSIC THEORY

5 Easy Ways to Use and Write with Diminished Chords [MUSIC THEORY - CHORD PROGRESSIONS]

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This video is about diminished chords and where you can use them and fit them into your chord progressions.
IMPORTANT! READ! Diminished chords come in two main flavors- diminshed seventh (aka full diminished) and half diminished (aka m7b5). In this video I exclusively use FULL diminished chords, but nearly every example can be used with a half diminished as well, to varying degrees of success.
It is also important to note that I am a big fan of "learning backwards". That is, do the stuff first- make the noise, use the chord, solo with the scale, regardless if it makes sense to you or not. Then later on you are more likely to learn the inner workings and theory because you actually recognize it's useful application.
This strategy doesn't work for things like heart surgery - for that you should probably learn the details first before doing hands-on experience. But with music, I'm totally okay with skipping many steps along the way as long as they get us to playing and writing quicker.
The following videos are referenced and very important to understanding everything here:
Chords of Major: • How To Write Chord Pro...
Chords of Minor: • How to write Chords an...
Diminshed Chords: • Deconstructing Diminis...
Diminished Chord Portals: • Diminshed 7th Chord = ...
Dim7 Arpeggios: • Quick and Easy CHAOS M...
Chords of Harmonic Minor: • Writing Chord Progress...
Orcastra Studio - Common Diminished Chord: • Learning Chords: The C...
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Table of Contents:
00:00 Intro
00:51 Between Whole Steps
03:17 Two Chord Jams
04:45 ii° - V - I
06:18 Pivot to New Keys
07:17 Making the Tonic Diminished
08:04 Wrapping Up

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I was mightily impressed as well.

@joeybowie5706 5 жыл бұрын

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Yes I've recommended this channel to at least four people now. I personally am getting good mileage out of the Diatonic Major and Minor vids and the Harmonic minor vid. It's actually given me a good prod to fiddle around with scales, explore the fret board and writ e few tunes. In other words more progress in a few months than learning songs on the guitar for 30 odd years!!!

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lol that’s exactly what I do, this 9 min video was an hour for me

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Get a guitarist friend to help you find a cheap acoustic guitar from a pawn shop.

@Djeraldancheta 5 жыл бұрын

Basically, it's there to build insane tensions and also to transition.

@sharloable 5 жыл бұрын

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@taquitoburrito6335 5 жыл бұрын

me: plays diminished arpeggios space: spawns a portal to another dimension

@monkeybusiness673 5 жыл бұрын

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@oenwilson2486 5 жыл бұрын

This made me realize how important a diminished chord is. I always ignored this back then and now I'd love to use it now.

@jem8936 Жыл бұрын

Teaching is your gift! Love the way you break things down and the audio/visuals help so much! Thank You!

@ddude1212 5 жыл бұрын

...augmented please? That’d be great! I use them, like in this video, as a transition chord, but I’d like to hear your thoughts!

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@mehdimoussaoui1712 3 жыл бұрын

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@danielpogue7065 2 жыл бұрын

I like using augmented chords sometimes as a replacement for dominant chords. In the key of A minor, a nice progression could be Am F C Caug. The #5 makes a perfect resolution back to Am.

@mrbaz5150 5 жыл бұрын

You give off this really cool vibe like Paul Gilbert does in his lesson videos. Love your work man.

@zzzut 3 ай бұрын

What a brilliant introduction to diminished chords! I've been playing the Hammond B3 for a few decades now and although I routinely play diminished chords whenever they're written in a sheet music, I've never been tempted to use them when improvising or playing by ear. I most definitely will from now on. Thank you for this video. I just subscribed.

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@isaach8426 4 жыл бұрын

Diminished and suspended chords are my favorite for learning tension and release. I also really like the Barry Harris 6th diminished scale concept. Works really well to help understand the theory behind the tension and release of diminished 7th chords.

@abrahamofei1063 2 жыл бұрын

Man, you are too much. I have been playing the diminished chords for decades now but for the first l am beginning understanding them. For a music enthusiast like me, this is heart-warming. More grease to your elbows.

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@Rain593 5 жыл бұрын

My favourite way of using dim7s is to play them over the V7. So an example: if our chord is E7, playing Fdim7 (F G# B D) implies a V7(b9). Sounds super neoclassical and I adore that sound. 2nd favourite way is to bridge two Dom7 chords a tritone apart. So if we are in Am still. Our V7 is E7 (E G# B D), our tritone of that is Bb7 (Bb D F Ab/G#). Both those chords can be imbellished with Fdim, Abdim, Ddim, or Bdim. Thanks for reading my dim7 essay xD

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@hearpalhere 3 жыл бұрын

This is incredibly helpful, thank you! I'm trying to learn more about diminished chords and finally feel like I'm getting a better understanding of how they function. Seeing your practical uses is awesome and maybe even better than understanding the theory behind them.

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@jamminwithjambo7729 4 жыл бұрын

I've used diminished chords in so many ways over the years, but now you have shown me some new ways to look at them!!! Much appreciated coach.

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@aptelbruno8316 3 жыл бұрын

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@aptelbruno8316 5 жыл бұрын

I'm working on it ! I love diminished chords. Thank you again Jake !

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@emilythesongbird2306 Ай бұрын

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Good timing, my guitar teacher just started going over this

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@acousticknights9654 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing way to break down some practical ways to get those diminished chords in. Thanks man. Keep up the good work

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Great video as usual! I'd love to see a video on augmented chords next, those things have been one of the greatest musical mysteries for me

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@tobyzxcd 5 жыл бұрын

Yes!! More diminished chords please!

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@OrignalElidest 5 жыл бұрын

Holy cow i never thought of chord progressions like those. I always thought of switching from Harmonice minor to phrygian dominant to a diminished arpeggio run but these progression are insane

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@richardapai3676 5 жыл бұрын

I am amazed! I was never really able to deal with diminised chords up until now!

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@natedionne 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video because I haven't seen too many video that have gone this in-depth on using diminished chords. It was very insightful! I would love to learn more about augmented chords in this way too!

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Very educational , this music theory is the way to get the understanding of how use all the different chords , you really know your stuff , really appreciate your help .