How to Play Diminished Fifth 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 diminished triad or chord with the root note based off the 5th string or the A string. Once again, we have a root, flatted 3rd and flatted 5th. Here is our D major chord. Let's use D as an example. There's a D major movable triad or movable major chord. In that chord we have the root, the 5th, the root and the 3rd. So what we need to do is flat the 5th, which is the A note and flat the 3rd which is the F sharp note. So by flatting the 3rd and flatting the 5th, I come up with this chord voicing here. The diminished triad voicing. There is indeed diminished E flat or D sharp diminished. There is my diminished triad."