Fully Diminished Voicings - Peter Martin | 2 Minute Jazz

Are you scared of fully diminished voicings? Never fear, Peter Martin is here to give you some tips.
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What's going on everybody? Peter Martin
here for Two-Minute Jazz.

We're gonna talk about fully diminished chords today. I want to give you a little bit of ideas for your voicings. So we're gonna take
"Embraceable You." E flat major. Then the second chord: G flat fully diminished. So we've got the root, minor third, minor fifth, diminished seventh. but I've always thought that was kind of a basic sound.

So, the easiest alteration you can make is: shift that diminished seventh up to a major seventh. Okay so we know we still got that diminished triad but with the major seventh, which kind of leads nicely to where we're going. And so this to me it always kind of implied that D7#9 kind of a sound. Right? But the root's going up to G flat. And in terms of like implementing this in some two-handed voicing, we've got E flat major and what about this? What do we have here? We've got the G flat - the root, the diminished fifth, we've still got the diminished seventh and up here we have the major seventh. This is the minor third and like this, I really think about, this is that D mino triad and if we put the D down - the root,

Then we go half hold diminished. Thinking about it off of the D. Okay? You can kind of move this around chromatically. Have some fun with it there. And it leads real nice to where we're going in F minor. Okay? So we don't need to be scared of the fully
diminished. I know sometimes it feels like we're locked in and it's so basic. But you know there's some nice symmetry here too and I always love these voicings where you've got the tritone separating the hands. I don't know why. It's always been like a cool thing to me there.

Works off of either root. And when you take, you know, when you have this voicing in your arsenal, a nice thing too is you can go basic. Root position first and then kind of jump up here and combine it. It'll give it a little bit of a modern sound. Alright?

So don't be afraid of the diminished, and have fun with the diminished.

Happy Practicing.
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[antjamnow]

Thank you for your videos! Hearing your 2 min jazz piano videos has fired up my passion for practicing.

[SIRUS]

Thanks for identifying such a subtle difficulty and offering such a useful solution for it.

[chillaxTF]

dude i love the internet. thank you for the short and sweet lesson

[daveaustin]

you’re always right in the nitty-gritty of how to make the piano stand up and shout all of its expression and possibilities.
I would love it if you talked about your formation, your background, did you grow up in St. Louis?

[bhristopher]

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR WHAT! You’re videos are insane thank you!

[CharlesAustin]

Be very afraid :) of the diminished.. Always insightful!!

[chriswright]

Love it Peter, you're the man. Will try this on rhythm changes. Also great for triad pairs. Dm and Cdim (C, Eb, F#)

[louispearson]

Woah happy to see your lessons again peter you are brilliant teacher - i Would love to see a compilation of your licks
in modes or you dismantle your own complete solos with insight into what you were thinking

[henndawg]

2:15-2:23 is absolutely unreal. My goal is to play like that.

[streitlucas]

That's a really nice lesson, thank you so much!

[BMarPiano]

Just discovered your channel - love it! This is so concise and helpful - thank you!

[robpiano]

Loved this video man! Do you give private lessons as well?

[urbster]

next 2 minute jazz could you please do lick ideas in Locrian? thanks!!

[mrfokus]

Can you talk about other diminished voicings such as voicings that dont particularly have a name but the shapes are unique. For example...left hand A and F#... right hand C F and Bb. It's not necessarily a diminished chord but it does have a tritone in it which gives it a unique sound.

[JulianFernandez]

Even you play an exercise, I hear music... Nice!

[ShakingMadDavid]

can someone explain the relation of the Dminor inverted triad stacked above the Gb diminshed voicing? in the video peter mentions "minor 3rd." what is meant by this? because I dont believe all those notes are in the same scale? I understand the F note is the major 7th, but what about the D and the A notes? and also, what key is this in, is the gb diminshed chord the vii chord or what?? sorry if my questions are dumb or I am a little slow at understanding the video, I would just really like to understand it better.

[jeanthomasd]

Can I use this voicing on the second chord of "have you met mis jones" in F?