What Are Diminished Triads?

Diminished Triads & How To Use Them

Good morning. This is Duane. Today I’d like to walk you through a page on the web about diminished triads. Diminished piano triads are really the salt of a musical meal. If you say down to eat a normal meal, your main items would not be salt, would they? They’d be meat and potatoes, or vegetables, or something. You wouldn’t sit down and have salt and pepper. Well, there’s a couple kind of chords called diminished and augmented chords that are like the salt and pepper of music. They add interest, but you don’t want to feast on them, because that would be too much of a good thing. This page has to do with diminished piano triads. I’d like you to bookmark this page when you get to it.

Right below this video I will put the link to this page about diminished triads. Then you can click on that link and go to that page, and then bookmark it. That way, you’ll always have reference to it. There’s an audio file that you can listen to right there by pushing that little button there. Of course, there’s text that explains all about diminished triads. Here’s a cheat sheet that explains the diminished piano triads, and shows them both on the staff and on the keyboard. A diminished triad consists of a root, a flat third, and a flat fifth. You can explore that there. Then there’s a video that explains it very clearly too. By just clicking on that, I’ll walk you through all the diminished triads, all twelve of them.

We’ve learned twelve piano major chords, twelve minor piano chords, and we’ve learned three inversions of each piano chords. That makes seventy two chords. Now we’ve added diminished triads to it. That’s starting to add up a lot with a lot of chords. By the way, if you haven’t already signed up for our newsletter, be sure to toggle to the bottom of the page and do that. Just click your name and address right there and you’ll be taken to a page where you can sign up for that. Okay, that’s it for today. Thanks for being with me, and be sure and go to this page and then bookmark it. Thanks. Bye.

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