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Thread #50589   Message #768815
Posted By: Murray MacLeod
20-Aug-02 - 07:57 PM
Thread Name: Do you think it's ok to play a maj 7th?
Subject: RE: Do you think it's ok to play a maj 7th?
Benjamin, sorry for any offence caused, I had assumed your post was humorous. If it wasn't, then we need to talk....

Jim, I cannot get to grips with your concepts. How does Ddim feature in the scheme of things in the scale of C Major? Ddim contains a G#.

Bdim is essentially just another way of describing Bdim, or Fdim, or G#dim. If you are regarding the triad formed by B-D-F as a diminished chord, IMHO you are way off-beam. It makes much more sense to regard it as part of a G7 chord, (G-B-D-F)the dominant seventh chord in the scale of C Major.

Diminished chords need FOUR notes to define them.

Murray