Chords for Gospel Passing Chords #1 | Diminished to Minor

Hey, what's up, [Gm] guys?
Have you ever heard [G] somebody play a song and you asked yourself the question,
what are [F] all of those chords they're able to [Eb] fit in between the basic chords of [Ab] the song?
_ Today, we're going to be talking about [Fm] it.
We're going to be talking about passing
chords, [Ebm] and passing chords that I [F] find primarily [Ebm] in gospel [Gm] music.
However, [C] music is music,
[Ab] and so you can apply [Gm] this to whatever [A] genre you like.
Hey, check [E] it out.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Hey, guys, this is Davin, and this video is the first video in [N] a series where I'm going to be
teaching about diminished passing chords.
_ I'm going to be spending so much time on
diminished passing chords because I think _ _ it can go from really rudimentary to extremely complex,
and I find that gospel musicians use these chords a whole lot in their playing.
And so,
let us go ahead and dive right in. _
What is a passing [C] chord?
A passing chord is a chord used
between two chords.
So, let's say I'm going from C to [Dm] D minor.
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If I put a chord in between these
two chords, that chord becomes my passing chord.
This is [C] what I mean, _
_ _ [Db] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
all right?
There, I used a
passing chord to get to the D minor.
Okay, so now I'm going to play a song that you probably know,
and I'm going to play it in a very simple way, and then after that, I'm going to apply
some diminished passing chords to it, okay?
[G] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [G] _ All right, now [Gb] I'm going to apply some passing chords
to [G] it.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ All of those chords I used [E] were diminished chords, okay?
_ [Bm] _ _ [Db] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ All right, so now let's talk about _
what is a diminished chord and how do you find it going to a minor chord.
So, a diminished chord
is this.
_ Play a C [C] chord, all right?
Go down a [Eb] half step from the second note in the chord.
_ That gives you C minor.
[Cm] _
Well, when you go down [B] a half step from the fifth,
_ or from the third note in the chord, _ _ that gives you C diminished, [C] _
okay?
And that's [B] how you find
[Em] a diminished chord.
So, now _ _ let's figure out how do you find a diminished chord when going to
a minor chord in any key that [C] you're in.
This is what you're going to do.
You're going to locate
the minor chord that you're going to.
So, let's say we're in the key of C, _ and we're going to go
to an A [Am] minor, _ all right?
Well, what we need to do is we need to find [G] the major chord before it.
So, the major chord before A minor is G major.
_ We need to take the root of the chord and go up a
half step.
The root of the chord is G, and we go up a half step to [Ab] G sharp. _
That gives us our
diminished chord going to the [Am] minor chord.
_ _ [G] So, this is how you would do it.
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ So, let's do another
[Em] example just in case you missed that one.
Let's say we're going to an E minor chord.
_ _ You find the
chord before [D] it, which would be D. _ _ _
You take that [Bm] root of the chord, and you go up a half step,
[Eb] _ _ _ [Ebm] and that gives you your diminished chord [Fm] going to the E minor [Em] chord.
That gives you your passing
chord, okay? _ _ _
All right?
_ _ Just something I like to do for fun.
I like to just practice diminished
chords going to minor chords.
Something that would be like [Bb] this, _ [D] you _ _ [B] _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ [Db] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[F] know?
_ I actually practice them
using _ diminished half sevens, so it was a little awkward.
Something that would be like this.
_ [Bm] _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[Abm] Ah, oh, it's been a while.
[Gb] _ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Cm] _ _
All right?
But you get the idea.
[Ab] Let me do it again.
_ [Cm] _
_ [Db] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ _ All right? _ _
So, there you have it.
Start practicing _ [E] that, and then stay tuned for more videos where we
[Eb] dive further [Gm] into diminished passing chords.
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