Comments on: Diatonic harmony- the building block of composition http://theguitarresource.com/music-theory/diatonic-harmony-the-building-block-of-composition/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:07:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Ross Gordon http://theguitarresource.com/music-theory/diatonic-harmony-the-building-block-of-composition/#comment-10 Ross Gordon Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:23:31 +0000 http://theguitarresource.com/?p=18#comment-10 Thank you for the heads up. Now that i look at it i see you are right. I did not realize that. However if you see my lesson on "building 7th chords" you will see i correctly labled the chord "half-diminished". I will have to update in this post when i have time. <br/>Thanks for pointing it out and thanks for visiting. Come back soon! Thank you for the heads up. Now that i look at it i see you are right. I did not realize that. However if you see my lesson on “building 7th chords” you will see i correctly labled the chord “half-diminished”. I will have to update in this post when i have time.
Thanks for pointing it out and thanks for visiting. Come back soon!

]]> By: Anonymous http://theguitarresource.com/music-theory/diatonic-harmony-the-building-block-of-composition/#comment-9 Anonymous Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:20:28 +0000 http://theguitarresource.com/?p=18#comment-9 Hi, I teach music...guitar especially.<br/><br/>In the "Harmony" lesson, you show the "modal<br/>triads in the key of C, identifying them as either<br/>major or minor.<br/><br/>The "B" triad has a flat Vth, yes, which enables us <br/>to refer to it as "diminished" but later you show chord diagrams and the one for "B" includes the<br/>[diminished] VIIth, which in this case is the flatted<br/>dominant 7th, A-flat.<br/><br/>This sort of presumption , namely, not explaining how this chord ended up with a fourth note, typ-<br/>ically causes confusion.<br/><br/>Modern music-theorists. jazz especially, would re- fer to the B-D-F-A as the "half-diminshed" or<br/>"minor 7, b5" or diminshed 7th, while B-D-F-Ab<br/>is the "B-Diminished", fully diminished in that all<br/>of the inrervals between successive notes is 1 1/2<br/>steps ( a minor third ). Hi, I teach music…guitar especially.

In the “Harmony” lesson, you show the “modal
triads in the key of C, identifying them as either
major or minor.

The “B” triad has a flat Vth, yes, which enables us
to refer to it as “diminished” but later you show chord diagrams and the one for “B” includes the
[diminished] VIIth, which in this case is the flatted
dominant 7th, A-flat.

This sort of presumption , namely, not explaining how this chord ended up with a fourth note, typ-
ically causes confusion.

Modern music-theorists. jazz especially, would re- fer to the B-D-F-A as the “half-diminshed” or
“minor 7, b5″ or diminshed 7th, while B-D-F-Ab
is the “B-Diminished”, fully diminished in that all
of the inrervals between successive notes is 1 1/2
steps ( a minor third ).

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