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Diminished chords come in three varieties: diminished triads, diminished 7ths, and half-diminished chords. These chords are used in different contexts, and for the sake of brevity we're going to take a look at the first two and save half-diminished chords for another discussion.
- What are the 4 diminished chords?
- What chords can be diminished?
- What makes a diminished 7th chord?
- Are all diminished chords the same?
What are the 4 diminished chords?
There are three types of diminished chords: diminished triads, the diminished seventh, and the half-diminished seventh.
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The diminished seventh is a four-note chord that consists of a:
- Root Note.
- Minor 3rd.
- Diminished 5th.
- Diminished 7th.
What chords can be diminished?
There are three types of diminished chords: Diminished triads, half diminished, and diminished 7th, which is also called a fully diminished chord. The diminished triad is what naturally occurs on the 7th degree of the major scale. It's 1-f3-f5.
What makes a diminished 7th chord?
A diminished seventh chord is a diminished triad, with an added note of a diminished seventh interval from the root. A diminished seventh chord contrasts from the half-diminished seventh chord in its seventh note; the half-diminished seventh is a diminished triad with a note added that is a minor seventh from the root.
Are all diminished chords the same?
Notice now that, as there are 12 notes on the tempered scale and a diminished chord corresponds to another 4 chords identical to it, we can conclude that there are only 3 different diminished chords. They are: C°, C#° and D°.
