Diminished Portal Chord – The modulation beast!

In this guitar music theory lesson you learn you’ll learn about how easy a single diminished chord that can modulate to no less than 8 different keys! This concepts is called the diminished portal chord and relies on the symmetrical structure of diminished 7 chord. This typical structure of a diminished chord results in some particular properties. One of the properties of the diminished chord is that it can be used to modulate very easy to 8 different major and minor keys and even to different modes of the major scale. In this guitar tutorial you’ll find practical examples with tablature. This technique is used in many style like Jazz, Fusion, neo-classical Rock and Metal, Pop and Blues. 0:00 Introduction 1:25 What is a diminished chord 3:41 Chord shapes 4:33 Diminished chord in the major scale 6:23 Diminished chord in the minor scale 8:23 The portal – method 1 11:48 The portal – method 2 (Pro) 16:00 Shameless self-promotion 16:00 The nerdy chapter 18:55 Conclusion Crystal Clear E-BOOKS with audio files: ========================= E-BOOK - Easy arpeggios for sophisticated results ----------------------------- E-BOOK - Improvising over dominant 7 chords (using scales) ----------------------------- E-BOOK - Modes of the major scale crystal clear ----------------------------- E-BOOK - Exotic Pentatonic scale for Guitar ----------------------------- E-BOOK - Modes of the harmonic minor scale ----------------------------- E-BOOK - Secrets of outside playing ----------------------------- E-BOOK - Superimpose Pentatonic scales ----------------------------- E-BOOK - Traids and inversions for Guitar ================= PATREON: Supporting material can be found here: ================= Artwork: (c) 2021) Rob van Hal Photo of portal by Genty C00 license: Used: Strandberg* Boden Prog NX () Ibanez JEM 7vb () Ibanez SD GR Bass () Takamine GD930 () Castilla Classical Guitars Oktave MK-012 microphone Axe FX II () Neural DSP plugins () Fireface UCXII audio interface () Sony FX30 Sigma Contemporary 30mm F1.4 Aperture Studio Lights Godox Softboxes Social Media/contact: (c)2023 Rob van Hal, Netherlands Subjects in this video: Diminished chord, diminished portal, diminished portal chord, dim7 chords, modulation, modulate, modulate with diminished chord, diminished modulation, Jazz guitar, Jazz progression, Neo-classical, classical music, Music theory, backdoor dominant, tritone substitution, chromatic mediant, deceptive cadence, chord theory and diminished chord theory.