You guys would have been thrown out of my old theory classes
Perfect fifth ..least important, not by a long shot..
The perfect fifth of the chord is your passing and lead in harmonics to the next chord.. Total emptiness.. There are no least important.. every harmonic that is added is important.
I would argue dropping the root would be better
This sounds almost like perfect, almost as perfect as a round circle..
As to not changing the sound character of a chord, i think playing a diminished 5th has quite some impact on the sound of a chord? Strangely the 7th chord in a scale is a diminished chord..
Disagreeing with the fact that the choice of the 5th note doesn’t impact the character of the chord. But whats more important is that the diminished chords using the diminished 5th note is much less pleasing to my ears then playing the root with a perfect 5th. Thats why we don’t play a lot of diminished chords?
There is also the augmented 7th chord, in which there also is no perfect 5th..
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