Talk:Half-diminished seventh chord
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This chord can be found in three scale-types, not just two. (I've added the diminished scale.)Prof.rick 07:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
You'll find few jazz musicians who will routinely play a half/whole diminished chord over the chord. For one, the diminished 4 (enharmonic major 3) clashes with the chord sound, and combined with the b7 implies a dominant chord function rather than a subdominant chord function, which the half-diminished chord overwhelming serves in the classic II-V pattern. Furthermore, its considered a synthetic scale, and most (if not all) tertian chord sounds are derived from the major and three minor scales. Also, if we were just going by what scales contain the chord tones of a half-diminished, we could also throw in there the second modes of the melodic minor and harmonic minor in addition to the seventh mode of the major, and sixth mode of melodic minor. But since that's not what we're doing when we're talking about what scales they're derived from, we don't do that. We're more interested in the complete chord scale sound with relationship to the chord, and Locrian and Locrian natural 9 are the sounds which are in common practice.Havic5 06:33, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
The half-diminished symbol (ie Ø) does not seem to be in the Unicode standard (at least I can't find it), and the current way of showing it is not all that great. Is there an alternative, better way? --Celtic Minstrel (talk • contribs) 05:28, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Is that audio request at the top just for the sound of a half-diminished chord? And would a MIDI count? If so, I could make one. --Celtic Minstrel (talk • contribs) 05:40, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I uploaded a midi file but i can't figure out how to display it properly on the page. Please help out if you can.Leif edling (talk) 04:10, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I couldn't figure out how to fix it either, so I moved it up to the top. It's not perfect, but I think it's better. –Celtic Minstrel (talk • contribs) 23:09, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
