Diminished Portal Chord – The modulation beast!

In this guitar music theory lesson you learn you’ll learn about how easy a single diminished chord that can modulate to no less than 8 different keys! This concepts is called the diminished portal chord and relies on the symmetrical structure of diminished 7 chord. This typical structure of a diminished chord results in some particular properties. One of the properties of the diminished chord is that it can be used to modulate very easy to 8 different major and minor keys and even to different modes of the major scale. In this guitar tutorial you’ll find practical examples with tablature. This technique is used in many style like Jazz, Fusion, neo-classical Rock and Metal, Pop and Blues.

0:00 Introduction
1:25 What is a diminished chord
3:41 Chord shapes
4:33 Diminished chord in the major scale
6:23 Diminished chord in the minor scale
8:23 The portal – method 1
11:48 The portal – method 2 (Pro)
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16:00 The nerdy chapter
18:55 Conclusion

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Used:
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Ibanez SD GR Bass (www.Ibanez.com)
Takamine GD930 (www.takamine.com)
Castilla Classical Guitars

Oktave MK-012 microphone
Axe FX II (www.fractalaudio.com)
Neural DSP plugins (www.neuraldsp.com/)
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Sony FX30
Sigma Contemporary 30mm F1.4

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Subjects in this video:
Diminished chord, diminished portal, diminished portal chord, dim7 chords, modulation, modulate, modulate with diminished chord, diminished modulation, Jazz guitar, Jazz progression, Neo-classical, classical music, Music theory, backdoor dominant, tritone substitution, chromatic mediant, deceptive cadence, chord theory and diminished chord theory.

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