Chords for Gospel Passing Chords #3 | Diminished Inversions

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[Ab] _ _ _ _ [C] _ Hey guys, [F] this is Davin, and I'm so excited for where we are in this diminished passing chord series
Let's go ahead and dive right in so in the last lesson we learned about
full diminished chords or diminished seventh chords
I realized I did not explain why it's called a diminished seventh
But let me go ahead and do that right now the note that you added in the last lesson
It is the seventh note in the diminished scale, okay?
And I'm going to play a diminished scale for you really quickly just so you can see it, okay?
So this a flat chord is the chord that we've really been working around
However, you should be applying this to all the diminished chords, okay? _
And the F is the additional note and [Db] so we're going to start our scale on the a flat, okay?
[Abm] _ _ So here we go
[E] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [A] _ [Db] All right now if you heard that scale, or you were paying attention.
I think there were nine notes in that scale _ [E] and
[Abm] _
this F was the seventh [G] and
So that is why it's called the diminished seventh because the F is the seventh note within this a flat diminished scale
All right, we're not going to get further into diminished scales because they are extremely complex
I think anyway all right so today.
We're going to be talking about
_ Inversions using inversions diminished inversions [D] as passing chords, okay?
so in
The last lesson we learned about
Full diminished chords all right now today
What you're going to do is you're going to [Ab] take this same chord
And you're going to start playing inversions by going to the first
Note or the root note in that chord, and you're just going to take this note, and you're going to put it up here
[B] _
_ _ _ _ And then you're going to take this note B, and you're going to put it up here
And [F] then you're going to take this note D, and then you're going to put it up here
Okay, _ _ and so for all [Gb] of your diminished chords.
You should be doing that
Activity for time sorry three times and you're going to end up with four different
Inversions okay, so let's do it again for let's say C [C] diminished _ _ _
[Eb] So you're gonna take this C, and you're gonna put it up here
_ You're gonna take this E flat and you're gonna put it up here
You're gonna take this G flat.
You're gonna put [A] it up here
_ And you're gonna take this eight and you're gonna put it up here Okay
[Eb] _ _ _ [A] _ Now [D] _
_ let's
Apply that in those inversions to a song so we're gonna use the same progression that we've been that we use in the last lesson
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
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_ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ _ So there you saw its application being used.
So I would encourage you to practice this week your
inversions as an exercise, [D] right?
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Okay?
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ All right?
That's going to give you so many creative options
when using a diminished chord as a passing chord to a minor chord.
Quite frankly, you could use
_ _ these diminished chords as passing chords [C] to major chords, but we're going to talk about
that in a later video.
All right?
That's it for this week.
[D] Thanks so much for watching,
[C] and I will [Am] see you next time.
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