It’s not the steak and potatoes of a meal, it’s the salt or the pepper that makes the meal a little more interesting. A diminished triad is like the salt of a musical meal. It’s just the opposite, really, of a augmented triad. Augment means to widen but diminished means to get smaller. Right? If I lower the third a half step, I go there and if I lower the fifth a half step, I go there.ĭiminished, by the way, means to diminish, doesn’t I? To get smaller. Say you’re in the key of B, you’ll need to know what the B-scale is in order to find the root third and fifth of the B-scale. For example, the C-scale is like that, so it’s not hard to find the root third and fifth. You have to know what the scale is, of course, of the key that you’re going to play in. To do that we lower the third a half step and the fifth a half step, so both of these, the third and the fifth, are lowered a half step from whatever the major triad is. Today I’d like to talk about  diminished triads. To make it an augmented triad we raise the fifth a half step.
To make it a minor triad we lower the third a half step. That would be a major triad for that particular key. As you know, there’s chords that are made out of many, many notes, five, six, seven-note chords, but the basic building block of advanced chords are the triad, the three-note chord, made out of the root third and fifth of a major scale. We’ve talk about major triads, a triad being a three-note chord. Today I’d like to talk about diminished triads. Diminished Triads: The Salt Of a Musical Meal Good morning.
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