Off d regular

[sebstyoung]

I've been reading tons of piano stuffs from kid days and I approximated the concept to these:

using the number system
1 major
2 minor
3 minor
4 major
5 dominant
6 minor
7 half dim


Now these are the usually chords to be played on these scale tones,  although altered chords spice up the whole concept a little.

I wanna know for each pianist what exceptions u apply to your playing.

[berbie]

I thought 7 was diminished.

[sebstyoung]

Its standard half dim or m7b5. You can use a dim7 chord here too. I do that mostly to the one.

e.g in the key of Db/C# its C-Eb-Gb-Bb

can be played as C/Bb-Eb-Gb

My exception on the 7th is to play a m9 chord here.

[ltljake]

.....you can also play Ab/C or Ab 6/4 inversion in place of C diminished.

[sebstyoung]

Yea. That occurs in gospel a lot.
E.g Mcdowel's I GIVE MYSELF AWAY
Where he sang...I BELONG TO U
In d key of Bb

I BE
A | FGAC   LONG (A is the 7th in Bb)
Bb | FA#D
Eb | GA#DG   TO U