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Diminished Chord Quality

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Sun, 11/04/2018 - 13:20
gwknopp@gmail.com
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Hello David

This is a small point but one I want to check out.

C Major Scale, Second scale degree triad is D F A.  The D scale has two sharps F# C#.  I dont see how the second of that C chord is Dm.  As I understand it Diminshed means that both the 3rd and the 5th would be flattened a half step.  I only see the F as flattened a half step in hte key of D.  

Thanks

gary

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Mon, 11/05/2018 - 00:34
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Hello Gary. You are correct,

Hello Gary. You are correct, the ii (two chord) in C Major is a minor chord, not diminished.

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