![]() Now some musicians do call it an A, but for proper theory definition that would be a B double flat. I’d have to call it a B double flat for rules of theory. That would take me down a whole step, not a half step but a whole step to what looks like A, but I couldn’t call it an A. If I wrote it on paper I’d put 2 flats in front of that B. If I flat the 7th scale I get that, but I’ve got to double flat. In other words, lower the 3rd and the 5th, but you double flat the 7th. A diminished 7th chord is made out of a diminished triad. Today I’d like to take up a diminished 7th chord. We said that you can find that in songs like Misty, that kind of sound. Sometimes it’s a sleepy feeling or a contemporary feeling. We call this the pregnant chord because it wants to move, and we call this the mellow chord because it is so mellow. Then we covered the minor 7th chord, which is a minor triad plus that dominant 7th chord, dominant 7th note, the flat 7th, in other words. We went through all the dominant 7th chords. First I took up the dominant 7th chord, which is root 3rd, 5th and the flat 7th of any scale. We’ve been talking about various kinds of 7th chords. Diminished 7th Chord – Root, flat 3rd, flat 5th, double-flat 7th
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