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  2. Half-diminished seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    In diatonic harmony, the half-diminished seventh chord occurs naturally on the seventh scale degree of any major scale (for example, B ø 7 in C major) and is thus a leading-tone seventh chord in the major mode. [3] Similarly, the chord also occurs on the second degree of any natural minor scale (e.g., D ø 7 in C minor). It has been described ...

  3. List of chords - Wikipedia

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    Approach chord; Chord names and symbols (popular music) Chromatic mediant; Common chord (music) Diatonic function; Eleventh chord; Extended chord; Jazz chord; Lead sheet; List of musical intervals; List of pitch intervals; List of musical scales and modes; List of set classes; Ninth chord; Open chord; Passing chord; Primary triad; Quartal chord ...

  4. Tritone substitution - Wikipedia

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    Since it is the dominant chord a tritone away, the substitute dominant may resolve down a fifth, to a tonic chord a tritone away from the previous tonic (for example, in F one may feature a ii–V on C, which with a substitute dominant resolves to G ♭, a distant key from F). Resolution from the substituted chord to the original tonic is also ...

  5. Guitar chord - Wikipedia

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    A chord is inverted when the bass note is not the root note. Chord inversion is especially simple in M3 tuning. Chords are inverted simply by raising one or two notes by three strings; each raised note is played with the same finger as the original note. Inverted major and minor chords can be played on two frets in M3 tuning.

  6. Diminished major seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    Diminished major seventh chords are very dissonant, containing the dissonant intervals of the tritone and the major seventh.They are frequently encountered, especially in jazz, as a diminished seventh chord with an appoggiatura [citation needed], especially when the melody has the leading note of the given chord: the ability to resolve this dissonance smoothly to a diatonic triad with the same ...

  7. Chord substitution - Wikipedia

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    For subdominant chords, in the key of C major, in the chord progression C major/F major/G7/C major (a simple I /IV/V7/I progression), the notes of the subdominant chord, F major, are "F, A, and C". As such, a performer or arranger who wished to add variety to the song could try using a chord substitution for a repetition of this progression.

  8. Royal road progression - Wikipedia

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    IV M7 –V 7 –iii 7 –vi chord progression in C. Play ⓘ One potential way to resolve the chord progression using the tonic chord: ii–V 7 –I. Play ⓘ. The Royal Road progression (王道進行, ōdō shinkō), also known as the IV M7 –V 7 –iii 7 –vi progression or koakuma chord progression (小悪魔コード進行, koakuma kōdo shinkō), [1] is a common chord progression within ...

  9. Diminished seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    Diminished seventh chords may also be rooted on scale degrees other than the leading-tone, either as secondary function chords temporarily borrowed from other keys, or as appoggiatura chords: a chord rooted on the raised second scale degree (D ♯ –F ♯ –A–C in the key of C) acts as an appoggiatura to the tonic (C major) chord, and one ...