Diminished Triads

Have you ever wondered how those silent movie accompanists create all that tension and excitement during a suspenseful scene?

Easy.

Learn to play a series of diminished chords and you can have all your listeners wondering if the hero will be able to untie his sweetheart from the tracks before the train runs her over.

Diminished chords -- demonstrates how they convey an unresolved sound.



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Major and minor triads -- convey the home key or resting lace of a tune

Diminished triads -- always lead somewhere else. They are unsettled. They have minor thirds and diminished 5th.

Diminished chords -- just passing through quality -- diminished chords are rarely lingered over the way major and minor chords are except when one deliberately builds tension as in our silent movie music.