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    #6 Dim7 tricks

    Nov 04, 2020 4 minutes

    If your chord progressions sound a little stale, why not use diminished seventh chords to beef things up a bit? Diminished seventh (or ‘dim7’ from here on out) chords are nowhere near as scary as they sound – once you know the formula for how to put them together, they’re pretty easy to suss.

    This is down to the unique, symmetrical way in which a dim7 is structured, with all four notes in the chord separated by the same pitch distance or interval – three semitones. This in turn means that, by shifting each of the three chord shapes up or down three semitones, you can cover

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