Abdim chord on mandolin

The Abdim chord diagram on mandolin, the notes it is built from, and the Alviena charts that use it.

The diagram

The notes in Abdim

Ab · D · B

The chord is built from 3 distinct pitches. A shape may double them an octave apart: the same note then appears more than once without changing the chord.

The shape, string by string

1 open string

StringFretNote
41Ab
3openD
22B
14Ab

Other Ab chords

The same colour, on another root

Abdim on other instruments