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Playing diminished 7th chords in solid, broken or arpeggios forms is a must for daily practice routine. I never heard of 'Half Diminished 7th chord until watching KZfaq. Thank you so much for demystifying this chord. Your videos are really gold mine!

half diminished are played in minor jazz all the time 2-5-1, usually harmonic minor and melodic minor scale

this is great I have long wondered about this question and now you explain it so easily, thank you for this.

Nice clip 👍👍! As a current KZfaqr, I am always looking for fresh ideas! Excellent Job!

2:40 -2.44 You've labelled C as root, so the diminished seventh chord tone (interval) is B double flat, not A.

I am not typing this comment, my fingers are. But I am so good at typing I just have to think about words, and I trust my fingers to do the rest. Why can't the piano be so easy? Sequences. I've changed the way to practice in a key since you showed us sequences in a previous video. I started yesterday. The Meyer, the Prinner, the Aprile, the Jupiter, etcff. The key of the day was Ab Major and F Minor, and I tried to go through the sequences and chord progressions. It was quite difficult at first, but my fingers started to feel the pattern. I can always go back to C Major to try an "easier" key, and go back to Ab. When you drew this out, the voice leading looked very simple. The tensor clausula goes down a half step, the lower bass clausula moves up a step, the octave bass clausula stays the same, and then there's a pattern to go into the Ic. I'll write this out in my sequence section and I hope you don't mind if I call it the Gareth? By practicing it like this, when I see it in the music, my fingers will know what to do. Merci beaucoup for being the best music teacher on the internet.

I never say A minor 7 b5 it is a bit long winded and it’s not an A minor chord if it has a flat 5 in the chord, it is a diminished chord with a minor seventh not a diminished 7th so I can actually understand the logic of calling it half diminished so really if you want to get into it, the more correct name would be half diminished. Of course you can call it a borrowed chord if that’s how it functions. Which of course you gave an example of that but that’s a very specific setting to call it a borrowed chord. You can have a chord VII with a minor 7th and that’s a half diminished chord and it’s not a borrowed chord so, I think in many ways it’s just function. It’s a half diminished chord that can be seen as a borrowed chord if you see the logic of what I am getting at. Also some would call it a C minor 6 when you put it into first inversion. Again depends on function but most of the time even calling that would be technically incorrect for me. Am I being picky?

At around 7.52 you mention the II7 b. (A7 in first inversion) what is the b? You mention b again later on. Do you mean 6? as that's what they would call a first inversion chord in first inversion in classical music.

I didn't even realize you had a keyboard there until you started playing it lol anyways,this was very helpful

Thanks. I have a much better understanding now.

so the harmonic function won't change and it would still be a predominant chord, right? how would the half diminished 7 chord function if it weren't borrowed, but the naturally occurring subtonic chord? i suppose it'd have a dominant function in that case? thanks for the informative video 😊

I am your regular student, Thank you sir for your contribution.

I recently used it as a predominant chord: G#m7b5 - G#°7/C# - F#m. Or it could be: Bm/G# C#7b9 F#m?

So half diminished chords can also referred as minor 7 flatted 5th (m7b5) and diminished minor 7 (dim m7).

Is there a chance to do a video on how to play scales and cords when you have small hands. Thank you, love your channel

Oh dear this is way above my pay grade but enjoyed it nevertheless!

Are there any circumstances where it could be labelled as a Cm6? (iv6) or is that illegal in the key of G major?

First 2 chords in example bass and top line parallel 5ths? Does the 2nd chord(half dim7th) negate this?

I want to learn about subjects in music. I guess they have something to do with an original theme and it's changed somehow, but I don't know what makes it different.

........negative harmony ☝️😃 = to borrow a chord from harmonic minor key...

No need to say, 7th chords!!? It's rather confusing.... Sounds to me as it's a dominant chords!... Half or diminished the difference is at the 7th... I love to discriminate the 2 diminished by calling it with your second option.. minor 7 flat 5 Just saying, I love your way of teaching, it's just that I see this concept baffled...and it's hard after stretch the concept afterwards... Thanks a jazz player ;)

So... Since I'm mischievous: is the half diminished chord the Tristan chord?

I call it Maj7/#2 ommit 1

One great chord with two horrible names to choose from!