Bdim chord on guitar

The B diminished chord, written Bdim, has 3 notes: B D F.

As tab, thick low E string first: x20xx1, 789707. 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 Bdim

These keys have Bdim among their chords:

• C Major Scale (vii°)
• A Natural Minor scale (ii°)

Scales to play over Bdim

Each of these scales holds every note of the chord:

• B Locrian Mode
• B Blues Scale

Diminished Chord in other keys

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