Hi Pierre. The reason your alternate of Ebdim/C works is the nature of the diminished chord's repeating notes, so it's just a question of inversions.

Let's take C as a root.

Cdim = C, Eb, Gb

add the seventh and you get A (Bbb).

If you keep going up for different inversions, you get again to C, Eb, Gb, A etc.

So, you can start a diminished seventh chord on any of its notes as the root, and you have the same notes in the chord, just a different inversion.

Since BIAB plays a diminished seventh anyway, what you have with Ebdim/C is the same chord sound as Cdim just with another C at the top of the chord.


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