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Summary: Learn how to play the minor seventh flat five, first inversion piano chord in this free video music series that will teach you how to utilize one of the essentials of mastering the piano - playing diminished chords.
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MIKE LAIS: Hi. I'm Mike Lais, and on behalf Expert Village, this is diminished chord voicings. All right, so we got the minor 7th flat 5 chord down now. Let's look at some of the other voicings. We can do a 1st inversion of this where we're starting out on the 3rd of the chord just like the all the 1st inversions that we've seen today. Let's take a look at it. We're going to be here. We're going to take the C minor 7th flat 5 chord, which is 1, flat 3, flat 5, flat 7, and now, we're just simply going to take the root and we're going to put that on the top. So, we got 3, flat 5, flat 7, 1, all right? Just like that. It's kind of nice to have it all up here which is why the C minor 7th is a good one. But, yeah, if we were to do that, if we wanted to look at it any other key, we could do that, too. Let's say, for example, we were in the key of A. We're going to go A. This is the minor 7th flat 5 in its root position. We're going to do it in its 1st inversion. It looks just like that, flat 3, flat 5, flat 7 and 1. But for this, we're going to stick with the C for our examples. There's the root position. You just take by hand and flip it this way and you got your same chord, flat 3, flat 5, flat 7, 1, minor 7th flat 5, 1st inversion.