Now some musicians do call it an A, but for proper theory definition that would be a B double flat. I’d have to call it a B double flat for rules of theory. That would take me down a whole step, not a half step but a whole step to what looks like A, but I couldn’t call it an A. If I wrote it on paper I’d put 2 flats in front of that B. If I flat the 7th scale I get that, but I’ve got to double flat. In other words, lower the 3rd and the 5th, but you double flat the 7th. A diminished 7th chord is made out of a diminished triad. Today I’d like to take up a diminished 7th chord. We said that you can find that in songs like Misty, that kind of sound. Sometimes it’s a sleepy feeling or a contemporary feeling. We call this the pregnant chord because it wants to move, and we call this the mellow chord because it is so mellow. ![]() ![]() Then we covered the minor 7th chord, which is a minor triad plus that dominant 7th chord, dominant 7th note, the flat 7th, in other words. We went through all the dominant 7th chords. First I took up the dominant 7th chord, which is root 3rd, 5th and the flat 7th of any scale. We’ve been talking about various kinds of 7th chords. Diminished 7th Chord – Root, flat 3rd, flat 5th, double-flat 7th
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