Wow, thanks for all the suggestions you guys! I'll be busy listening to all of those over the next few days!Īs for the nature of what I'm doing, I don't think it's a 'show' as in like an area with an audience coming to see me. The Thelonious Monk piece was a B to get on our beloved little instrument, lol. Oh, and when I'm done I'll definitely scan my arrangements and share them with the community, but it might take a bit for me to figure them out, tab them, and then revise them for what works. Just something cool that you'd expect to hear as you walk around a gallery viewing fine art I might also use a melody tab of Here Comes the Sun and Somewhere Over the Rainbow I found online, so they really don't specifically have to be jazz. I'm really liking the push to do something harder and different than what I'm used to though. It's been a ball getting started over the last few days, and is been by far the most difficult playing I've attempted on ukulele. I was asked to play at an Art Gallery this February and am too self-loathing of a singer to attempt any uke/vocal songs, so my new project is arranging a bunch of chord/melody jazz standards for ukulele and am going to start practicing a ton. I would really appreciate any suggestions In David's example the G#dim (G#-B-D-F) can be viewed as a substitute for E7 (E-G#-B-D).If any of you feel up to helping me make a set list, I'm searching for suggestions of jazz standards I should learn.

The additional note (in this case Ab) would be the b9 of a G7 Chord, thus the result you hear is a G7b9chord with B in the Bass. You can clearly see that these two chords have three notes in common. Now if you take a diminished chord a half step below the tonic you get a B diminished chord (B-D-F-Ab). In most cases, a diminished chord substitutes a dominant chord.Įxample: in the key of C, the dominant chord that leads to the tonic chord C would be G7 (G-B-D-F).

(I also take everything I learn in one key and run it through the rest of the keys - try these chords - (D, D+, G) then (E, E+, A), then G, G+ C etc.) You can hear the chord passing from one to the other very smoothly. Try playing chords C, C7, then F, then the chords C, C+, and F - has a different subtle feel to it.I think augmented means 'add', so you're adding to the 5th note by raising it 1/2 step.Ĭaveat - I figured a lot of this out by fooling around, so if I tortured some guitar theory, I apologize in advance.but I think C, C+ then F sounds pretty y it.! 1, 3, and 5), for an augmented chord, C+, it would be C, E, and G#.has kind of a cool sound to it.

For example, in C the C major chord is made up of C, E, and G notes (i.e. I'm not as technical as the rest of the guys in the thread, but I think an augmented chord is when you take a major chord (Notes 1, 3, and 5) and 'sharp the 5th', so the augmented chord is notes 1, 3, and 5#). (On his Phases and Stages CD, there's a song called 'How Will I Know' that you can hear the dim chord very strongly at the beginning of the song - can't miss it.) Listening to Willie years ago is what got me started with the diminished chords. Play xx2323, slide it up to xx5656 and on up to xx8989. (As Brian mentioned, one of the cool things about diminished chords is that they repeat. I called the diminished chord a 'G#dim' because of the G# bass note, but it could just as easily be called B, F, or D diminished. This is a very standard jazz progression (often with an Am7 instead of A7 or A9). Here's a two-measure excerpt from Michael Bloomfield's version of 'Mop Mop'. Similarly, I don't see diminished chords as 'passing chords' (if by that you mean as a lower-priority link between two higher-priority chords) - I tend to see them as having their own distinctive sound and musical purpose.ĭespite the examples above, you find them more in jazz tunes and popular music of the earlier part of the 20th century than in folk, blues, rock, modern pop, etc. Like Am7 (ACEG) substituted for C major (CEG). Typically, a substituted chord shares two or more notes with the chord it's substituted for. To try to address your questions, my perception is that diminished chords are not generally used as a substitute for another chord. In rock music, the tune 'This Wheel's On Fire' by The Band has several diminished chords in the verse.

Georgia on my mind chords django