Meet Andrea Fascetti
Hi my friends!
It's great to be here at Bass Musician Magazine.
Last lesson we created some exercises using Major, Minor, and Dominant
7th chords, so it's time to progress with a new chord. If you remember,
earlier on, I spoke about 11 types of chords. I strongly recommend you
to take a look at my first lesson in the December 2008 issue.
In this lesson we'll work with the Half Diminished chord. I found that
many of my students make a mistake as far as the use this chord. They
confuse it's use with a minor 7th chord due to the fact that this chord
is often used in a II – V minor cadence--for example D-7b5(or D half
diminished)– G7 b9 – Cm.
So it's time to clarify this chord, which is made up of the root, minor
third, "diminished fifth", and the minor 7th, as opposed to the minor
7th chord---root, minor third, perfect fifth, and minor 7th. Here's the
assignment:
