All About Diminished Chords

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🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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It's another live edition of You'll Hear It where Peter and Adam take your questions - today, they take a question on when to use diminished chords, how to practice guitar for a whopping 8 hours, and the worst $28 beer Peter ever drank.Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.Tuesday's Open Studio Live Events:1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)3:00 PM - Piano Guided Practice Session with Adam on YouTube4:00 PM - Open Studio Demo & Tour (register here!)8:00 PM - Listening Sesh with Peter and Adam on YouTubeFor the rest of this week's calendar, follow this linkLet us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel.Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:20.1	before you do because i'm i'm at a bit of a delay here.
0:40.3	Okay, got you.
0:42.0	Okay, here we go.
0:42.9	So now we're getting into the meat of the situation.
0:46.6	Janet asks, please, can you talk about the different uses of diminished chords?
0:50.6	When are they really dominant seven flat nine chords and when are they not? Oh.
0:59.5	So I think that they're diminished when the root. So what I'm playing here is G7, just kind of a
1:08.1	crappy root position situation, right?
1:17.0	Route 7357, flat 9.
1:19.4	So that's a flat 9.
1:23.4	When you put the root on B, that's it diminished, right?
1:24.6	Yeah.
1:25.4	Yeah. No, yeah, I think we talked about this. Just trying to remember what we've said about this. Yeah, it's the same, it's the same thing, right? So this, right, if I, if I have B, D, F, and A flat, right, B diminished, and I just put this G way down low, just as you were doing.
1:46.7	These are the same thing. They actually function a lot in the same way. Like this goes to C minor.
1:53.5	Yeah. And this goes to C minor.
1:56.4	Man, your voices are as crappy as mine today.
1:59.8	Well, yeah, I'm not Fred Hershing it.
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