![]() Even with music degree training and knowing what academicians would say about the two names, when I play I think Dm6 more often than Bm7(flat5) because it is easier for me to process in the moment. What to Call It: What a guitar player may call the half-diminished chord in the key of C - Dm6 or Bm7(flat5) - is open to discussion. The leading tone is the seventh note of the scale, “leading” to the tonic, i.e., the first note of the scale. If you don’t know, the ii chord is the minor chord built on the second note of a major scale. This is called a Dm6 chord (B is six scale notes above D) AND it’s called a B half-diminished chord (B minor7-flat5). For example: In the key of C, play a Dm chord, and then add a B note to it. V oila - you have the key’s “half-diminished” chord. The concept: In a major key, combine the ii chord with the key’s leading tone. Here’s a new approach for you concerning a cool, slightly angst-filled chord that I use all the time, a “half-diminished.” I use them quite effectively in my YouTube videos of “Brother Can You Spare a Dime” and “Easy Virtue.” On occasion I dream up a new way to explain something if a student is not understanding the concept initially. Teaching privately, I come up will all kinds of musical ideas and new approaches as I answer students’ questions.
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