Adim chord on guitar

The A diminished chord, written Adim, has 3 notes: A C Eb.

As tab, thick low E string first: x0121x, x01215. Numbers in the dots are fingers: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 little, T thumb. × marks a muted string and ○ an open one.

About the Diminished Chord

A diminished chord is a root, a minor third and a flat fifth. It sounds tense and wants to move on. More about the Diminished Chord.

Keys with Adim

These keys have Adim among their chords:

• Bb Major Scale (vii°)
• G Natural Minor scale (ii°)

Scales to play over Adim

Each of these scales holds every note of the chord:

• A Locrian Mode
• A Blues Scale

Diminished Chord in other keys

• Cdim
• C#dim
• Ddim
• Ebdim
• Edim
• Fdim
• F#dim
• Gdim
• G#dim
• Bbdim
• Bdim