×BbFbAbDbFb
Fig. 1 · Bbm7b5 · moderate

guitar chord

B♭m7♭5

B♭1D♭♭3F♭♭5A♭♭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 A♯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

x12120

moderate · barre

6
Fig. 3

676696

moderate · barre

Fig. 4

x1212x

moderate · barre

6
Fig. 5

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moderate · barre

6
Fig. 6

676699

hard · barre

What is true of it

B♭m7♭5 is B♭, D♭, F♭ and A♭ — 1, b3, b5 and b7 counted from B♭.

These are also the notes of D♭m6/B♭ and C♯m6/B♭. 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 x12120: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 1st fret, held at the 1st 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

B♭m7♭5/D♭

x46350

second inversion

B♭m7♭5/F♭

012120

2
third inversion

B♭m7♭5/A♭

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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.

B♭ in other shapes

B♭7dominant seventhB♭maj7major seventhB♭m7minor seventhB♭majorB♭mminorB♭dimdiminished

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