×BbFbAbbDbFb
Fig. 1 · Bbdim7 · open

guitar chord

B♭dim7

B♭1D♭♭3F♭♭5A♭♭♭♭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 A♯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

x12020

open

Fig. 3

645050

moderate

Fig. 4

x1202x

open

Fig. 5

x12023

moderate

Fig. 6

64505x

hard

What is true of it

B♭dim7 is B♭, D♭, F♭ and A♭♭ — 1, b3, b5 and bb7 counted from B♭.

A♭♭ is a double flat, and it has to be: every letter from B♭ upwards is used once, so the bb7 cannot be written any other way.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x12020: 3 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

2 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

B♭dim7/D♭

x45350

second inversion

B♭dim7/F♭

012020

third inversion

B♭dim7/A♭♭

312020

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.

B♭ in other shapes

B♭7dominant seventhB♭maj7major seventhB♭m7minor seventhB♭majorB♭mminorB♭dimdiminished

Cdim7C♯dim7D♭dim7Ddim7D♯dim7E♭dim7Edim7Fdim7all 374