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Fig. 1 · Dbdim7 · moderate

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D♭dim7

D♭1F♭♭3A♭♭♭5C♭♭♭♭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 C♯dim7 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

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

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

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 6767: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 6th fret, held at the 6th 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 3 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

9
first inversion

D♭dim7/F♭

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second inversion

D♭dim7/A♭♭

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3
third inversion

D♭dim7/C♭♭

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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.

D♭ in other shapes

D♭7dominant seventhD♭maj7major seventhD♭m7minor seventhD♭majorD♭mminorD♭dimdiminished

Cdim7Ddim7D♯dim7E♭dim7Edim7Fdim7F♯dim7G♭dim7all 374