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     These are commonly referred to as full Diminished chords... These interval based chords are so tightly interlaced that they each have four names, A diminished chord can move up or down three frets and still be the same four tones. The Augmented Chords can be moved up or down three frets and the tones stay the same, These two chords are in the same family for one reason, They are both constructed using equally spaced intervals from one tone to the next..

    We get alot of 'you're wrong about that' emails and our diminished chords will probably generate even more, In our lessons you will find that 'our diminished chords' are commonly called 'half-diminished'. The diminished chord is the weirdest chord of the bunch so we have a theory to match... The common 'old school' theory on diminished chords is the formula 'R b3 b5 b7' - Our theory is that this is an interval based chord that is strongly related to the 'minor' chord.

    The 'diminished' chord may be taught as 'diminished' but it the fact is that it's a 'rootless' chord where each tone itself could very well be the naming tone. The 'B diminished' as found on other sites (Not Ours) to be "B D F Ab", The "B diminished", "D diminished", "F diminished" and "Ab diminished" all use the exact same four tones - No matter which tone you start from the interval pattern stays the same...

    The 'full diminished' chords fall naturally on the minor chords, The 'augmented chord is a modification of a major chord' and the 'diminished chord is a modification of a minor 7th chord'. The whole-step half-step pattern for the major scale is "W W W H W W H" - With the diminished chord the pattern would be "Mt Mt Mt Mt" where Mt represents a whole and a half step.