I don't get this. In a diminished chord you have a first, a minor third, a flat fifth and a minor seven or a first, a minor third, a flat fifth and a mejor sixth?My music teacher says it is a minor seventh because from the flat fifth the next note (the minor seventh according to him) is a minor third away. I disagree. I am a guitar player and for me a minor seventh is always the same (two frets below the fundamental) and it has nothing to do with the previous note in the scale. In a diminished chord the last note played is a major sixth (three frets below the fundamental) not a minor seventh.

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I don't get this. In a diminished chord you have a first, a minor third, a flat fifth and a minor seven or a first, a minor third, a flat fifth and a mejor sixth?My music teacher says it is a minor seventh because from the flat fifth the next note (the minor seventh according to him) is a minor third away. I disagree. I am a guitar player and for me a minor seventh is always the same (two frets below the fundamental) and it has nothing to do with the  previous note in the scale. In a diminished chord the last note played is a major sixth (three frets below the fundamental) not a minor seventh.

ivancsc1996 · Answer

Who is right?

anonymous · Answer

Ielivyou are but I don't know why he wld say that hmm wierd did you ask him about it?????

anonymous · Answer

^I belive you^

ivancsc1996 · Answer

Yeah I tried to make him see my point of view, but he just called me a dumbass and told me I was just making things more complicated, I hate him