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Fig. 1 · Abdim · moderate

guitar chord

A♭dim

A♭1C♭♭3E♭♭♭5

Two minor thirds stacked. The fifth is diminished, so it cannot be dropped without losing the chord.

Written the other way round it is G♯dim — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

450404

moderate

Fig. 3

420404

moderate

Fig. 4

45040x

easy

Fig. 5

42040x

easy

Fig. 6

420104

moderate

What is true of it

A♭dim is A♭, C♭ and E♭♭ — 1, b3 and b5 counted from A♭.

E♭♭ is a double flat, and it has to be: every letter from A♭ upwards is used once, so the b5 cannot be written any other way.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 450404: 4 fingers, held at the 4th fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are A♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

A♭dim/C♭

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second inversion

A♭dim/E♭♭

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An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

A♭ in other shapes

A♭majorA♭mminorA♭augaugmentedA♭5power chordA♭sus2suspended secondA♭sus4suspended fourth

CdimC♯dimD♭dimDdimD♯dimE♭dimEdimFdimall 374