

The staff diagrams and audio files contain each note individually, ascending from the root, followed by the chord containing all 3 notes. The figured bass symbols for this chord in root position are 7/5/3. These note names are shown below on the treble clef followed by the bass clef. Middle C (midi note 60) is shown with an orange line under the 2nd note on the piano diagram. The 4th note of the B-flat half-diminished 7th chord is Ab The 3rd note of the B-flat half-diminished 7th chord is Fb

The 2nd note of the B-flat half-diminished 7th chord is Db The 1st note of the B-flat half-diminished 7th chord is Bb B-flat half-diminished 7th chord note names Note no. The chord spelling / formula relative to the Bb major scale is: 1 b3 b5 b7. The B-flat half-diminished 7th chord contains 4 notes: Bb, Db, Fb, Ab. P.s.This step shows the B-flat half-diminished 7th chord in root position on the piano, treble clef and bass clef. Since the diminished 7th chord has the tension interval (tritone) of a 7th chord, we can use the diminished 7th chord as the V7 chord in a V7 to I motion.įrom the above grouping of notes, we see that the same diminished chord, can act as 4 different V7 chords in a V7 to I motion. Each of the V7 can then resolve to 4 different 'I' chords hence acting as a door to 4 different roots. the 3rd and 7th note form a tritone interval which is the reason for the unsettled feeling which asks for resolving.) (in fact just the third and seventh notes of a 7th chord are enough to create the tension. Those three notes in the seventh chord gives it the tension to be used as a V7 chord before a I chord.

We see that each of the note grouping or rearranging of diminished 7th chord has 3 notes in common with a 7th chord. Then we write a 7th chord which share three notes with the dim7th chord. This is because the interval between any nearby notes in the chord is the same, a minor 3rd.ĭiminished 7th chord as entry to 4 different rootsįor example, let us take G# diminished 7th chord : G# B D Fīelow we group the notes starting from each of the four notes of the G# diminished 7th chord. The same notes, starting from each we get diminished 7th chords.
