5 Easy Ways to Use and Write with Diminished Chords

Part of the series New To Music Theory? Start Here!

9 min Intermediate Part of a series Mar 1, 2019

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Practical applications for diminished chords in your progressions. Learn to use them between whole steps, in two-chord jams, the ii°-V-I progression, as pivots to new keys, and as tonic diminished.