Paul Maine Jazz Music » diminished chord shortcut http://www.paulmaine.com Jazz Aides and Band Information Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:44:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Diminished Chord Shortcut http://www.paulmaine.com/2010/02/diminishe-chord-shortcut/ http://www.paulmaine.com/2010/02/diminishe-chord-shortcut/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:10:20 +0000 Paul Maine http://www.paulmaine.com/?p=738 Do you know the notes in all of your diminished chords? If not – here is a shortcut method that works provided that you know all chord tones in your dominant 7th chords.

Here is an example:

What are the chord tones in an F# diminished 7th? The shortcut is to use the root of the diminished chord with the 3,5 and b7 from the dominant 7th chord a half step below. So we would combine the A,C and Eb from the F7 with the root of the diminished chord.

The notes in the F# diminished 7th chord are F#,A,C,Eb.

Hope this helps!

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