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Hi
I am having a go at Kirk's fancier 'over the rainbow' arrangement and in the third bar he plays a partial c and then moves to a c#dim on the way to a G. I was forming a normal c chord and then sliding the middle and ring up 2 frets to form the c#dim and it sounded OK but I have just realised I had the 4th and 5th strings transposed playing x5435x DF#A#E instead of x4535x. I have included a sound bite of the song up to that section. (the change is where you here the string sliding noise) .
Like I said it doesn't sound out of context, I was just wondering what the actual chord was. And is it totally wrong in this song?
It sounds fine to me too Peter. Both Augmented and Diminished chords are usually used as passing chords as in this example. As long as they're not lingered on for too long then both would work.
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