![]() from Db to A)? At least on guitar that tends to be significantly easier. This got me thinking: Wouldn't this work for any song in practice? Instead of playing a diminished chord, just play the 7 chord that's four semitones lower (eg. Or at least same enough that you don't really hear the difference in the song. It turns out it sounds pretty much exactly the same. So I thought, what happens if I just play A7 instead of Db dim. ![]() It's A7! Well, without the A on the fifth string, I suppose. this finger pattern is actually awfully familiar. Well, since E is in the chord, it would be the second fret. Then I started thinking what the fourth string would be. But that last one would be the fifth from D, so we lower it one semitone, so the third string is also free. Db minor would be first string free, second fret on second string, first fret on third string. I knew from having studied it a bit that it's like Db minor, but with the fifth lowered to a fourth. I have never really learned the diminished chords on guitar, so I was trying to figure out how to play the Db dim. D minor, then when the song goes "the phantom of the opera is there", at that "there" the chord is, apparently, the rather strange but cool-sounding D-flat diminished (at least according to sources online). I was figuring out how to play the chords of The Phantom of the Opera with my guitar. ![]()
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