What chord is the guy on the right playing at 0:15?
Auto transcripts online call it out as C#dim but it doesn’t look (or sound like it to me). Regardless, I can’t make it sound like he makes it sound. I’m pretty sure it’s standard tuning because my D, A and E sound like his.
Help appreciated.
To me it’s F#dim7
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I don’t see any fingering above the 4th?
I’m looking at 0:15 just as he sings “after all it’s been a while”
I’m not up on my guitar fingerings, but that’s a F#dim7 chord by sound.
If you can tell that just by listening that’s very impressive.
I’ll be back home soon and try out the suggestion.
It was my Hollywood occupation once upon a time. Ah, that *fabulous *F#dim7 chord! Brings back memories, she does! 
Musicat used to do transcriptions/takedowns for a living, so he should be pretty good at this.
(ETA: Well, ninja’d on that point.)
That said, once you get used to the sound of a diminished chord, you should be able to pick it out by ear. It does have a very distinctive sound. I don’t have perfect pitch or anything approximating it, so I couldn’t tell you that it’s specifically F#dim7 without the context of assuming his guitar is in concert pitch and knowing the key by looking at the chords he’s fingering, but I’d be able to tell you it’s a diminished seventh chord. It sounds like those first four chords are D - Dmaj7 - F#dim - G. (Though I am a little confused about that second chord. I guess it must be fingered x-x-4-2-2-2, so I guess it’s a Dmaj7/F#, unless I’m just hearing it wrong.)
Some trivia. Enharmonically speaking, there are only 3 possible diminished 7th chords.
Notating a dim 7th chord as an inversion rarely makes sense, as there is always a simpler name for it. Example: Call it a Cdim7/Eb, or a Ebdim7 – it’s the same 4 tones either way. A guitarist needs to learn only 3 dim7 fingerings in order to cover all possibilities.
Similarly, there are only 4 possible augmented triad chords.
I’m thinking F#m.
Oh, duh. :smack: Yeah, that would be F#m.
ETA: My ears want to hear it as a major 7th chord (and it can be interpreted that way if the D stays in there somewhere), but F#m is more straightforward and correct, and we do have an F# in the bass.
Okay; I was going by the OP and looking at 0:12.
I just want to say that every time someone plays a guitar on YouTube, they should be required to have the guitarist facing the camera so that we can clearly see the fingering of every chord.
OR, Mister Jimi, if you must leap around, then we need a tablature running down the side of the frame. If you wouldn’t mind shouting out the chords as you’re playing, that’d help, too.
“You know you are a… F#minor7th…cute little…Bmajor.… heartbreaker…
F#minor7th…Ooh, Bmajor…foxy!”
??? The OP says 0:15.
Ha ha, thanks, I got a kick out of that. I concur and it’s so true.
:smack: I looked at that at least four times and saw it as 0:12! What a goober!
Thanks for that. As a not-very-great guitarist I appreciate insights like this.
Another tip, the reason for that is that every note in a diminished 7 chord is 3 half-steps, or a minor 3rd, above the last. This means that any note in the chord can be considered the root, depending on the key or the other chords in the progression.
I also means that you can slide the same fingering up or down 3 frets to the same chord. It’s an easy way to add a sense of movement.