Monday, September 9, 2013

Dictionary: Cdim Chord


You might think of the C diminished chord as an Ab7 chord, without the A-flat note.  Here is an alternate, non-C?-E?-G? spelling of the Cdim chord, which might work in the context of certain scales:

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