AbCbEbbAbCbGbb
Fig. 1 · Abdim7 · moderate

guitar chord

A♭dim7

A♭1C♭♭3E♭♭♭5G♭♭♭♭7

Three minor thirds stacked. The seventh is doubly diminished, which is why it is written with a double flat.

Written the other way round it is G♯dim7 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

420101

moderate

Fig. 3

420401

moderate

Fig. 4

45340x

hard

Fig. 5

45046x

hard

4
Fig. 6

456464

hard · barre

What is true of it

A♭dim7 is A♭, C♭, E♭♭ and G♭♭ — 1, b3, b5 and bb7 counted from A♭.

E♭♭ and G♭♭ are double flats, and they have to be: every letter from A♭ upwards is used once, so the b5 cannot be written any other way.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 420101: 4 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

1 of the 5 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are A♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

A♭dim7/C♭

x20101

second inversion

A♭dim7/E♭♭

xx0101

third inversion

A♭dim7/G♭♭

120101

An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

A♭ in other shapes

A♭7dominant seventhA♭maj7major seventhA♭m7minor seventhA♭majorA♭mminorA♭dimdiminished

Cdim7C♯dim7D♭dim7Ddim7D♯dim7E♭dim7Edim7Fdim7all 374