It could be the thin sound, the fact that it always feels like it needs to change and, perhaps, be somewhere else. The B mixolydian mode can be used when soloing over the B dominant 7 chord.In the last issue we promised to bring you an unusual melodic chord – but we have failed to deliver due to a deluge of e mails asking us to demonstrate a diminished chord and explain why they exist! A good point well made.īefore we go into more detail, let’s pick one diminished chord to show you……….B flat diminished. It is written/displayed in 3 ways – Bbdim, Bb0 or Bb- and here are three example positions of where it can be played on the fretboard, with suggested fingering, where 1 represents the forefinger, 2 the middle, 3 three the ring finger and 4 the pinky.ĭiminished chords, in general, are not particularly melodic or, indeed, inspiring to play or listen to as they seem to lack something and tend to be very dissonant.The B7 chord (just like all dominant 7 chords) contains the following intervals (starting from the root note): major 3rd, minor 3rd, minor 3rd, tone (which leads back to the root note).It resolves naturally to the E Major chord. The B7 is the fifth chord in the key of E.The B7 chord is produced by taking the 1 (root), 3, 5 and b7 of the B Major scale.
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