chris beagles wrote:
  I shall have a
 go at reworking it with less diminished chords 
One of the things you could try is major chord in 1st inversion. So
E-dim *could* be substituted with C/E, esp if the next chord has root F.
Same function (secondary dominant), quite different sound...
Just a suggestion, feel free to discard :-)
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