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Fig. 1 · Abdim on the keyboard

piano 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 guitaron ukulelethe scale

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.

A♭ in other shapes

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

CdimC♯dimD♭dimDdimD♯dimE♭dimEdimFdimall 374