A diminished piano chord - Adim
The A diminished chord is a 3-note chord consisting of the notes A, C and Eb.
You can see these notes highlighted in the interactive piano chart below.
The chord itself is often abbreviated as Adim.
Interactive piano diagram for the A diminished chord
Extended Chords
Chords that are a superset of Adim. The chords include more notes but always A, C and Eb.
Scales with Adim
Below you find all scales that include Adim:
- minor blues
- diminished
- locrian
- locrian pentatonic
- super locrian pentatonic
- altered
- locrian #2
- ultralocrian
- locrian 6
- dorian #4
- lydian diminished
- hungarian minor
- hungarian major
- flamenco
- todi raga
- lydian #9
- bebop locrian
- half-whole diminished
- composite blues
- messiaen's mode #3
- messiaen's mode #7
- chromatic
Related Topics
A diminished piano chord chart image
In case you prefer a non-interactive variant of the chord chart, we've embedded a PNG image below that shows the notes for the the Adim chord. Feel free to save or share the image as needed.
