A Unified Theory of Diminished Chords

Everything you ever wanted to know about diminished chords and diminished chord symmetries in the context of functional harmony. Some of the credit goes to jazz musician Barry Harris, for his ideas about harmony. The remainder of the credit goes to me, for managing to fit a half dozen ideas into a single elegant graph (you can only imagine the many hours I spent feverishly scribbling chords and functions in my notebook).

A lot of people were asking for .PDFs of the sheet music for the example songs I used in this video. So I uploaded those to my website:
sites.google.com/site/thepopdescriptivist/home/a-u…

===== Contents of this Video =====
0:00 - Introduction
1:26 - The Basics of Diminished Chords
4:17 - The Sixth Diminished Scale
7:21 - Brother Chords (Bottom Up)
10:44 - Brother Chords (Top Down)
13:43 - Cousin Keys
15:39 - Diminished Functions
19:06 - The Diatonic Diminished Graph
21:36 - Perimeter Changes
24:54 - Graph as Descriptive Tool
29:40 - Graph as Creative Tool