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The Half Diminished
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3 comments
Dorian Martinka
Wow! What a super theory pill! These well thought-out mini-bites are so helpful, and really an extra-benefit of your site and instruction! Thanks so much! (Also well timed- I have to sing a half-dim chord for a school final next week. I’m going to get some good practice).
Petra Friedrich
Thx for opening a door to the halfdimished – makes me curious to explore this sound!
And its really fun how you dive into exploring the “unseen” halfdminished 🙂
while I still wond what to do about the obvious one in Clair de Lune line 4, 2.bar…
If I got your explanations right, I could read this B halfdiminished also as a Bm7b5 or turn it into a Dm6?
Jim Bruno
As always, Tim, I thank you so much. You’ll probably talk about it in the future, but I was interested that you introduced the minor seven flat five chord as a 2 chord in the 251 in minor keys, of course. But what about it being a seven chord in major keys? example F sharp, minor seven, flat, five in the of G