The diminished chord|
Formula:
| 1 3b 5b 6 |
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Common
Abbreviations:
| 0, 07, dim, dim7, o, º, º(7), o7, º7 |
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Most popular root:
| G#, A, C#, B, C |
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Popularity:
| 26 |
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Top Users:
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Common Styles:
| Blues, Country, Folk, Jazz, Latin |
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Some diminished chord examples. | Description:
The diminished chord is a triad with two minor thirds, or a minor third and a diminished fifth. The diminished fifth is the same sound as the tritone, or augmented fourth. But the correct spelling in this context is a diminished fifth. The perfect fifth is the interval that gives stability to our most common chord. The diminished chord does not have that perfect fifth, which gives us an unstable and restless chord. For more about this chord, go the lesson in the Theory series. ...
Description courtesy of
http://www.torvund.net/guitar/chords/dim.asp | Songs using diminished chord:
(NB Common types such as Maj, m, 7 will generate longs lists)
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