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Fig. 1 · Abm7b5 · moderate

guitar chord

A♭m7♭5

A♭1C♭♭3E♭♭♭5G♭♭7

A diminished triad with a minor seventh rather than a diminished one — half diminished, and not the same chord as dim7.

Written the other way round it is G♯m7♭5 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

420402

moderate

Fig. 3

420102

moderate

Fig. 4

450402

moderate

Fig. 5

45440x

moderate · barre

Fig. 6

454407

moderate · barre

What is true of it

A♭m7♭5 is A♭, C♭, E♭♭ and G♭ — 1, b3, b5 and b7 counted from A♭.

E♭♭ is a double flat, and it has to be: every letter from A♭ upwards is used once, so the b5 cannot be written any other way.

These are also the notes of Bm6/A♭. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 420402: 4 fingers, held at the 2nd fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

2 of the 5 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are A♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

A♭m7♭5/C♭

x20102

second inversion

A♭m7♭5/E♭♭

xx0102

third inversion

A♭m7♭5/G♭

220102

An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

A♭ in other shapes

A♭7dominant seventhA♭maj7major seventhA♭m7minor seventhA♭majorA♭mminorA♭dimdiminished

Cm7♭5C♯m7♭5D♭m7♭5Dm7♭5D♯m7♭5E♭m7♭5Em7♭5Fm7♭5all 374