How to Play a Fully Diminished C Chord on the Saxophone

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MIYANNA NIELSEN: Here's where life get's really interesting. We take the chord we just looked at, the half-diminished 7th chord. And let's show you why it's half-diminished or why it's minor 7th flat 5. Here we have a minor seventh chord, right? With the flat 3rd and the flat 7th from what it ordinarily would be right here. And we flat the 5, so in jazz, we simply call this a minor 7th chord with a flat 5, also known as half diminished because this chord is known as fully diminished because we flat the 7th in addition to the 5. So, we flat the 7th twice with this ending process of the 7th chords. This E double flat is a strange looking creature and you'll see sometimes an X to the left of the note as well which would mean double sharp. This, as it looks means double flat. Double flat always means the note that's a whole step below that note. So, in this case, we're talking about a D. But in the interest of music theory, we've kept it space, space, space just like they also like it, line, line, line, line to keep it proper musical theory. And this is what a C fully diminished 7th chord sounds like.

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