Why Half Diminished Chords Are Amazing And How To Use Them

For many beginners, the half diminished chord or m7b5 chord is a weird mysterious chord, but it is actually a very flexible chord to have in your vocabulary

In this video, I am going to talk about how to construct and play them and then go through how you can use them in a song, not only as half-diminished chords but also as a lot of other chord sounds.

Content:

0:00 Intro

0:57 #1 Basics: Half diminished Chord construction and Voicings

2:08 #2 Basic use in a minor II V I

3:35 Two things!

4:33 #3 Dominant

6:56 #4 Altered Dominant

9:22 #5 Lydian Chords

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