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Posted by JJ
on 12/1/2007, 3:51 pm
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I was always given to understand a diminished chord is made up of four notes, all a minor third apart.
So a Cdim would be C, Eb, Gb, Bbb (then C, Eb, Gb and Bbb all over again if you kept going up the scale). It's a great chord, practically neutral in nature, any of the four notes can be the root, and it can resolve to numerous other chords. Play the shape on the guitar then slide the shape up or down three frets and you've got the same chord (albeit with different root and top notes)
But a colleague of mine says that a chord with the four notes described would be a Cdim-7 because chords are made up of three notes (which give the
chord its name) plus any additional notes.
I can kind of see his point if you're going to be strict about the definition of a chord being three notes plus any augmenting notes but now my whole (mis-)understanding of music is falling about my feet!
JJ (UK)
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