Minor Pleasures (4 Viewers)

[Unicron]

share!

Okay. There's probably complicated theory to it but here's my understanding. And please forgive me for including stuff anyone who has been playing music for a month would get. But it helped me to start with the basics and add to that



What's a dim chord?

Lets say you're playing in the key of C

Y'know how your major triad is the root (C), the major 3rd (E) and the 5th (G, can't remember if it's called a major 5th or a perfect 5th)? Your diminished triad is the root but with the 3rd and 5th flattened. So Cdim is the root (C), a minor third (D#) and a flattened 5th (minor 5th? I don't know, it's F# anyway)

How to use them?
Again, in C. Your root major scale is C,D,E,F,G,A,B and the typical standard chords in that key would be I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi (C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am). You can use a dim chord whenever you want to play a chord who's root isn't in that major scale of the key. So if you're playing in C you can play C#dim, D#dim, F#dim etc. and they should all fit into the key.

Why to use them?
I don't know, jazz or some shit like that.

Hoping to learn how to use aug chords before I'm 50.

 

[therealjohnny]

I need to print this out and keep it. Thanks!

Nice of you to share...nice but dim

(edited for purposes of using 'nice but dim' joke)

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Gobbledygook

 

[hugh]

Nice one Unicron. Just been trying this out. Always knew what they were but not really where/how to use them. They act kind of like jazzy bridging chords to get from one standard chord to another, especially if the root notes form a run e.g C C#dim Dm G.

 

[hugh]

Augmented chords are just the same except you sharpen rather than flatten the 3rd and the 5th I think. So Caug is C + F + g#

 

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[7 - No tomorrow]

I have my New Posts red number down to under 2,000

A productive Friday

 

[Unicron]

Augmented chords are just the same except you sharpen rather than flatten the 3rd and the 5th I think. So Caug is C + F + g#

Just watched a video about them. You leave the third alone, but you do sharpen the 5th. If you sharpen the 3rd you get a sus4

In terms of intervals, a major chord is a root, and a major 3rd, and a minor third on top of that. A dim is the root and a pair of minor thirds, an aug is the root and two major thirds.

 

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[Unknown Convict]

kale season

 

[Jim Daniels]

kale season

These are nice in salads and sandwiches

 

[ann post]

had a thumped person stayin in my gaff.
due to work i couldnt actually be there meself.
house is in better condition than i left it.

 

[therealjohnny]

'Kale season' sounds like a band thumpeders would like

 

[Jill Hives]

These are nice in salads and sandwiches

Or an entire bag on its own. Yum.

 

[Unicron]

Or an entire bag on its own. Yum.

If you moved to Paris you could be friends with this person http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/dining/in-paris-the-kale-crusader.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

[Jill Hives]

If you moved to Paris you could be friends with this person http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/dining/in-paris-the-kale-crusader.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

I'm not really suppose to eat it, or at least not a lot of it but I do. Good for many, bad for me. I hope this means KC Peaches is going to have the kale salad again! The French should get on the bandwagon.

 

[ann post]

had a thumped person stayin in my gaff.
due to work i couldnt actually be there meself.
house is in better condition than i left it.

oh wait. the knives in the knife block are in the wrong order.

 

[Jill Hives]

Searching for the image-a-day I post for the work facebook account. I end up reading tons of weird shit I never knew.

Also, 999/9, which will happen/change soon.

 

[Jill Hives]

party with closefriend with cold beer and barbecue, nice life

That sounds like a major pleasure to me.