How to Play Diminished & Augmented Triads in Jazz Guitar

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com. I'm a professional guitar instructor and today we are going to be studying beginning jazz guitar. Okay, next I would like to discuss the next type of triads diminished and augmented triads. Let's start off with a diminished triad. Now the diminished triad just like any other triad uses the root of the 3rd and 5th note of the major scale but we flat the 3rd and we flat the 5th notes. So let's just use these bar chords for example. Back to the root note on the low E or 6th string bar code. What I have to do here is root, here's my 5th, let's flat it. Here's the octave of the root, here's my 3rd let's flat it. It is really kind of impossible to flat this 5th here in this particular situation, so what we will do is we already have a root, a flatted 3rd and flatted 5th so we don't need anything more. So the diminished voicing off the low E string will go like something like this, root flatted 5th, root flatted 3rd. Kind of an eerie sounding chord. Okay? "