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| 884.1 | The Devil's Tone | BMT::COMAROW | Bring on the Dodgers | Tue Oct 04 1988 11:22 | 19 |
| In general, one used diminished chords in place of 7ths.
They imply motion up. They are of course a collection of flatted
fifths. The flatted 5th was called the Devil's Tone by the Church
because it has so much instability.
Try using it in place of a 7th chord, one/half step below your target.
For example, instead of a G7 - C try Bdim to C.
You might try B-7b5 instead.
Of course, this implies you could play a Bdim appeggio over a G7
for soloing.
Example:
C AM DM G7 C
Play a B dim appeggio. A Bminor 7th flatted fifth
will be more traditional.
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| 884.2 | Use it to approach other chords | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | Yo! | Tue Oct 04 1988 14:13 | 20 |
| Dim chords are great as passing chords.
Reasons:
1) Move a dim chord up or down a minor third and you have the
same chord with a different inversion. So applying the
"motion up" tendency mentioned in .1, you could use a Bdim
to get to C, A, Gb or Eb.
2) Not only that, but dim chords motion chromatically very
well. Just play a dim chord on the guitar and go down
one fret at a time. It'll sound very familiar.
So using these two things together you can approach almost any chord
with a dim. This also means dim chords are great for doing a smooth
modulation, including less commonly used modulations (up or down
chromatically, a whole tone, or going to the relative major or minor
are by far the most common in my observation).
db
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| 884.3 | Augmented Chords ? | HAMPS::JOYCE_A | Andy Joyce, UK.SRAC | Mon Oct 10 1988 07:02 | 5 |
| Thanks for the input so far; I've tried a few of these ideas and
got some reasonable sounding progressions worked out. Now...how
about using augmented chords ?
Andy
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| 884.4 | Sharp That Five | MARKER::BUCKLEY | Quayle? Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha | Mon Oct 10 1988 11:04 | 25 |
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Augmented chords, like dim chords have a symmetrical harmony to
them. I usually use the augmented chord as a substitution for
a V7 chord, as in this common 1-6-2-5 progression:
Cmaj7 A-7 D-9 G+7
Imaj7 VI-7 IV-7(9) V+7
Also, the chord pops up in certian chord scales. As in the Harmonic
Minor Chords scale, the augmented chord is the flatted third harmony.
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Cmin Ddim Ebaug Fdim Gmaj Abmaj Bdim |
v
Imin IIdim b3AUG IVdim Vmaj bVImaj VIIdim |
^ |
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You could substitute the aug. chord from the harmonic minor chord scale
in place of a regluar minor 7 chord (found in the natural minor chord
scale) if you wanted to change your context for soloing.
Buck
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| 884.5 | Diminished.. | TRUCKS::JANSEN_J | | Fri Dec 02 1988 07:29 | 6 |
| I play an arrangement of "Michelle" incorporating a diminished
progression and I have also written a song called "Lovingly" using
such chords...
For further info just contact me..
Regards
Jeff Jansen P&T @ F1/10 SBP UK
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| 884.6 | Is There Life On Mars? | GVA02::GOLDBERG | I'd rather be eating ... | Tue Dec 13 1988 07:21 | 10 |
| Get a copy of the music to David Bowie's "Life on Mars", which is
absolutely full of aug's and dim's. That'll give you an idea of how you
might use them.
For instance, you get the sequence:
F F#dim Gm G#dim Am Bb Bbm F
Cheers,
Dave
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| 884.7 | Quicksand | WELMTS::GREENB | One man rock & roll band | Fri Dec 16 1988 08:03 | 3 |
| Bowies 'Quicksand' off Hunky Dory also has a few dims
Bob
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