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

My pro theory songwriting course Enroll in my Rhythm Training Course at ANY price! These lessons are sponsored by my Patreon subscribers: 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: Chords of Minor: Diminshed Chords: Diminished Chord Portals: Dim7 Arpeggios: Chords of Harmonic Minor: Orcastra Studio - Common Diminished Chord: These lessons are sponsored by my Patreon subscribers: A very big thank you to the following Patrons!!!: Linas Orentas Marek Pawlowski John Arnold Christopher Swanson Marc Bulandr Bradley Bower Alvaro Begue-Aguado Don Watters Don Dachenhousen III Patrick Ryan Free online guitar lessons for beginners, intermediate, and advanced players. Located in Crystal Lake, Jake Lizzio provides free jam tracks and video lessons for guitar players, as well as music theory videos and other music education content. 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