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So we talked about all the diatonic C Major chords except for B Diminished. Time to cover it now.
Diminished chords are comprised of a root, its minor third, and its diminished 5th. The distance between the minor third and the diminished fifth is another minor third, so the chord is composed of 2 minor thirds and 1 diminished fifth (and their inverses).
== Open Position B Diminished ==
|-|i|-|-|-| F
|-|-|-|p|-| D
|-|-|-|-|-|
|-|-|-|r|-| F
|-|-|m|-|-| B
|-|-|-|-|-|
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You'll need to use your ring finger to mute the 3rd string when you strum this chord, so you don't hear the open G string. Diminished chords tend to have pretty nasty shapes, and even vanilla B dim is no different. If it's difficult, you can drop the high F with the index finger.
Diminished chords are comprised of a root, its minor third, and its diminished 5th. The distance between the minor third and the diminished fifth is another minor third, so the chord is composed of 2 minor thirds and 1 diminished fifth (and their inverses).
== Open Position B Diminished ==
|-|i|-|-|-| F
|-|-|-|p|-| D
|-|-|-|-|-|
|-|-|-|r|-| F
|-|-|m|-|-| B
|-|-|-|-|-|
0 1 2 3 4
You'll need to use your ring finger to mute the 3rd string when you strum this chord, so you don't hear the open G string. Diminished chords tend to have pretty nasty shapes, and even vanilla B dim is no different. If it's difficult, you can drop the high F with the index finger.