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MIKE LAIS: Hi. I'm Mike Lais and on behalf of Expert Village, this is diminished chord
voicings. All right, so here's an example of how to use the diminished 7th. We're going
to be on the key of E minor except we're not going to stick strictly to it. We're going
to bounce back and forth from the major scale and the minor scale. But this is just kinda
one thing that happens with it and it is okay to do that. In fact, it helps with your playing,
like if you were on a minor key, and you play the dominant 7 on the V chord, it's just going
to make it a standout all that much more. Even though if you were a true minor key,
the V chord is not strictly dominant chord. Okay? But anyway, let's check this out. I'm
going to play in the key of E minor, right. Right here, I'm in the E minor, and I'm just
going to go E minor to a C diminished 7th to a B7, right? And then, that's going to
go right back to the i minor. So, I did the i in the 2nd inversion so I can have my hand
right there, and then root position, and then our root position, and then a 2nd inversion,
okay? So that's i, vi diminished 7, V7, 1.