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Diminished Voicings


The next figure shows on each quarter beat the same voicings as in the previous figure, here played in one hand. On each following 1/8 beat the chords "resolve" to basic triads:




The following is the same concept with the voices distributed between the hands:





In the next figure the right thumb plays the roots, the left hand plays the tension tones:





Interpreting these chords as X7 b9, the first bar is F, Ab, B, D7 b9, the second is G, Bb, Db, E7 b9, the third bar is C, Eb, Gb, A7 b9. Each group of diminished chords is enharmonic to a group of V7 b9 chords one step away in the Circle:

In the next figure, the upper 2 voices trace halftone-wholetone scales. The RH thumb plays minor 3rd intervals. RH chord shapes are triads in 1st and 2nd inversion: