• Four Diminished Chords You Can Form From The Octatonic Scale

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    Explore four diminished chords and how they are formed from the octatonic scale in this lesson.

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    Another Smart Way To Understand Diminished Seventh Chords

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    This lesson shows you yet another exciting way to understand and connect diminished seventh chords.

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    The Secret Link Between Dominant 7 [b9] Chords

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    In today’s lesson, we’ll be focusing on the dominant 7 [b9], which is one of the extended dominant chord varieties, dissecting it to reveal the secret link dominant 7 [b9] chords share.

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    The Key To Playing Altered Passing Chords

    chords101picsmall.jpgYesterday, we discussed how to use diminished passing chords a half step lower to transport us where we want to go.

    Today, we’re going to cover how to use passing chords a half step HIGHER than the target chord. The only difference is we’re not using a diminished 7 chord this time. We’re going to use an altered…

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    Here’s a quick and easy refresher on tertian chords

    As you may know from past lessons, tertian chords are built on thirds.

    This is majority of the chords you’ll play since almost every common chord (like major, minor, dominant, diminished, augmented, and even most altered chords) are built on thirds.

    In this post, I wanted to provide a quick refresher on some of the most common tertian chords.

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    Little known ways to use “diminished” walk-ups and walk-downs…

    If you joined us on our weekly radio show last night, you’ll know that we talked about “diminished walk ups.”

    This is our own way of describing strong transitional chords that take you from one degree of the scale to another.

    They occur frequently in gospel songs, especially worship and what Jason White calls the “Old School Shuffle” types of songs…

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