How Do You Play The Half Diminished Seven Chord In Jazz Guitar?
If you dig playing the guitar, and you dig jazz, then you must learn some of the staple chords used to play jazz music. Even if you don’t have an Archbishop Guitar, which is the universally known “jazz guitar,” you can still play the chords and get that wonderful sound. Here’s how to play the half diminished 7 chord. Determine what your root note is going to be. Every octave has 8 main notes with the eighth note being a repetition of the first. Because a chord builds on top of a root note, you must determine what that note is before building the other pieces. For these purposes we will make it a “C” since “Middle C” is easy to find on a piano. Place a minor third on top of the root note. In this example, this would be E flat. To come to that result, look to a piano. From one white key to another is considered 1 step. The black key in between is considered a half step. If there is no black key in between as happens between the E and F key and the B and C key, then that is considered a h
