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Cryptic Excretions
Attorney at Law
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Cryptic Excretions
Attorney at Law
Joined: 01/31/04
Posts: 3,055
05/16/2006 11:53 pm
Originally Posted by: Julian VickersNo, what we are trying to say is that when you take the 7th degree of the major scale and make a 7th chord from it, you don't get a diminished 7th chord, you get a minor7b5 (half diminished). It's not a big deal don't worry about it. I hate getting in theory arguments on the net.

Ok, and that's what I was saying. That is still a diminished chord. The root triad in it is a diminished triad with a major 3rd tagged on the ass end of it. It's still a diminished chord just like a dominant 7th is still a type of major chord.
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