5 Easy Ways to Use and Write with Diminished Chords [MUSIC THEORY - CHORD PROGRESSIONS]

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This video is about diminished chords and where you can use them and fit them into your chord progressions.

IMPORTANT! READ! Diminished chords come in two main flavors- diminshed seventh (aka full diminished) and half diminished (aka m7b5). In this video I exclusively use FULL diminished chords, but nearly every example can be used with a half diminished as well, to varying degrees of success.

It is also important to note that I am a big fan of "learning backwards". That is, do the stuff first- make the noise, use the chord, solo with the scale, regardless if it makes sense to you or not. Then later on you are more likely to learn the inner workings and theory because you actually recognize it's useful application.

This strategy doesn't work for things like heart surgery - for that you should probably learn the details first before doing hands-on experience. But with music, I'm totally okay with skipping many steps along the way as long as they get us to playing and writing quicker.

The following videos are referenced and very important to understanding everything here:
Chords of Major:    • How To Write Chord Progressions - Son...  
Chords of Minor:    • How to write Chords and Songs in Mino...  
Diminshed Chords:    • Deconstructing Diminished Chords - Mu...  
Diminished Chord Portals:    • Diminshed 7th Chord = PORTAL to 8 Ton...  
Dim7 Arpeggios:    • Quick and Easy CHAOS Music Using Only...  
Chords of Harmonic Minor:    • Writing Chord Progressions in Harmoni...  
Orcastra Studio - Common Diminished Chord:    • Learning Chords: The Common Diminishe...  

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Table of Contents:
00:00 Intro
00:51 Between Whole Steps
03:17 Two Chord Jams
04:45 ii° - V - I
06:18 Pivot to New Keys
07:17 Making the Tonic Diminished
08:04 Wrapping Up