Isn't it a tapped diminished 7th arpeggio shape on each string?

Seems like it!

If anyone could tab the solo to "Tell Me Why" by The Scream I'd probably piss my panties and cry like a school girl for a day or two.

It would be greatly appreciated.

hey guys, I would like to request a guitarpro tab of
Jack Thammarat's (winner of guitar idol 2009)
"Falling in Love Again" please..
It would be greatly appreciated.
Here's a video of him on youtube playing it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5UHCMlL7E

P.S.
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dun have credit card to buy it online..

Could you tab it please?
and can you explain what a diminished 7th is?

Could someone correct me if I'm wrong at any point in this.

The shape he seems to be repeating on each string is:


A diminished 7th is a chord consisting of two minor thirds and a major third intervals. so an A diminished 7th would be A, C, D# and G.

nah a Diminished 7th is just the Root note with 3 minor thirds.

A-C-D#-F#

so its a major 6th above the root....

kinda makes me wonder why its even called a 7th in the first place...

a diminished seveth chord is a chord consisting of the root

the minor third

the flattened 5th

and a double flattened (diminished) 7th

if you flatten the 7ths by one half step it becomes a minor 7th and you have a minor7b5 chord,

any major inteval double flattened becomes diminished

The chord fragment is usualy played a semitone above the root to outline a 7b9 sound

ok?

oh and its A-C-Eb-Gb

The chord fragment is usualy played a semitone above the root to outline a 7b9 sound

ok?

i dont understand that last part...can u use it in an example?

ppl play an Bbdiminished 7th chord for a A7b9 sound?

EXACTLY

if you look at a 7b9 chord in tab

-6---
-5---
-6---
-5---
-----
-5---

you can see that the top part of the chord is a diminished chord

The 7b9 resolved up a 4th (perfect cadence) so in this case

A7b9 - D

now to apply the idea in a setting we should all get

NEOCLASSICAL!!!

so your playing a neoclassical tune in Am, everyone knows that the dimished arpeggio sounds good, but where?

we imply a secondary dominamt chord which would resolve to Am, in this case thats E7b9, which means if we play a diminished chord a semitone higher than that we outline that illusive 7b9, so in this case Fdim7 (or Abdim, Bdim or Ddim)

so jamming in Am.....

then

[---------------diminished implying E7b9----------][--resolve to Am----]

-10-7------13-10--------16-13--------19-16-------------------17---------------
-------9-----------12------------15------------19------------17-----20(b)----
---------10-----------13------------16------------19-17-19--------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I think people are getting confused when the term "diminished 7th" is used. There's "full diminished", which is the 3 semitone thing that everyone knows, and then there's the min7b5, where the 7th interval is 1 semitone higher than the fully diminished one.

I was explaining something to someone the other week and I used "diminished" to refer to the full one and someone butted in and starting rambling on about how I was wrong. After I corrected him, he didn't reply back...

yes a minor 7b5 is often called a half diminished chord because it contains a diminished triad

people often confuse a diminished triad, diminished chord and the diminished scale

a m7b5 is as much a diminished chord as a regular 7th chord is

Bm7b5 - BDFA
G7 - GBDF

both contain the diminished triad BDF, so i think calling a minor7b5 chord half diminished is vey misleading and where possible i avoid it

ahhhhhh i got it now. so that example you gave is played over the E7 chord? that seems to make sense since the diminished triads 'fill in' the necessary chord notes with the b9 as well.

correct me if im wrong! we should start a music theory/application thread...where people post questions/answer them, etc. that'd be kinda cool

That'd be a good idea, yeah! There's alot of theory questions asked here, and I think stuff like solos for forum jams could be talked about, if people are confused as to what to play over certain chords.

Someone now what the backing chords on Norwegian Cowbell, between 2:05 and 2:32. That would helped me alot

And the scale of the song is A mixolidian right?

I meant that solo, which backing guitar is "backing" for...

Right, I have my pc back to 'normal' now, so I should start being a bit more active in here.