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2013-02-06
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2016-01-04
Learning Ukulele with Curt
The Big Six Core Chords - Fdim7, Four Voicings
The Big Six Core Chords, Level I - Fdim7, four voicings. Fdim7 is a 1 b3 b5 bb7 of the major scale, based on the root of the chord. These are the four Fdim7 chord voicings that will be used for deriving other chords. There are far too many chord shapes to memorize thousands of shapes.
Author(s): Curt Sheller Publisher: Curt Sheller Publications Code: UL42L1-dim7
Main Category: Chords Main Instrument: Ukulele
Categories: Chords, Jazz, Scales, Intermediate, Core, Major
2026-08-23
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The Big Six Core Chords, Level I - Fdim7, four voicings. Fdim7 is a 1 b3 b5 bb7 of the major scale, based on the root of the chord.
These are the four Fdim7 chord voicings that will be used for deriving other diminished seventh based chords. There are far too many chord shapes to memorize thousands of shapes.
These are the four Fdim7 chord voicings that will be used for deriving other diminished seventh-based chords. There are far too many chord shapes to memorize thousands of shapes.
So Many Names!
As a chord with equal distant intervals, ALL four voicings of the diminished seventh chord are the same.
ANY one of the notes in the chord of a diminished chord can be the root.
The above info and knowing the notes of the ukulele fingerboard are all that is needed for this chord to transpose it to different keys.
Read in a Jazz Arranging books that I have — that, there are over 48 possible names for any diminished chord (dim7, to be exact)
In most cases, you might think that you are playing a Diminished chord — but in fact you're most likely playing a Diminished Seventh (dim7) chord.
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