How to Play an F# Dim to a B Altered Piano Chord

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Summary: Learn how to play an F sharp dim to a B altered piano chord from our expert in this free music video on piano lesson and minor II and V chords.

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How to Play an F# Dim to a B Altered Piano Chord

Now we're going to do F sharp half diminished going into B altered. And we already learned this earlier in the lesson plan, but it was listed as G flat. And again you're going to get all these different and in harmonic equivalents so it's good to learn them. So here's F sharp and it still comes out of G major. And just slide it down a half step. And then B altered is B, there's our three and our flat three and our seven. Again, we want to get that pattern, yet again, half, whole, half, whole, whole, whole. So we have this pattern now, which is. I'm using my E blues scale to improvise. And that's our minor two-five going into E minor.

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