Diminished chord practise · Learning Jazz Violin

Diminished chord practise

I took a short bit of the line we worked on in the Practise Club yesterday and used it to explore different V7 → i minor progressions where the A diminished works.

A diminished 7th chord can be used over a dominant chord that’s a semitone below its root. Because a diminished 7th chord is made up of the same interval stacked over and over, the same diminished chord works in four different keys.

So A°7 can be used over

G#7, B7, D7, and F7.

I played the same basic line each time, just changing the ending slightly to fit each key.

Here are the progressions I played it over:

• D7 → G minor

• F7 → Bb minor

• G#7 → C# minor

• B7 → E minor

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