![]() ![]() And it completely loses the sense of something being "diminished." It's called a diminished chord because the tones that form a normal, major chord are all being flatted, that is, they are being lowered, or "diminished." You take a dominant seventh chord (I, III, V, flat VII), and you flat/diminish all the tones except the root. This property of starting on the 7th of a MINOR scale and taking every other note may be perfectly true from a theory perspective, but I think it also misses the point somewhat, because diminished 7th chords are often played in tunes featuring the MAJOR scale. Nothing altered from the scale, let alone "double-flatted". For example, in A minor start with G# and go up in thirds (B-D-F). The dim7 chord is the chord formed by starting on the 7th note of a minor scale and taking alternate scale notes. Problem is mainly that most people say "dim" when they mean "dim7".īy the way, it's best not to think of "double flat 7th", etc. ![]()
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