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Fig. 1 · G#m7b5 · moderate

guitar chord

G♯m7♭5

G♯1B♭3D♭5F♯♭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

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

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

These are also the notes of Bm6/G♯. 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 G♯, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

G♯m7♭5/B

x20102

second inversion

G♯m7♭5/D

xx0102

third inversion

G♯m7♭5/F♯

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.

G♯ in other shapes

G♯7dominant seventhG♯maj7major seventhG♯m7minor seventhG♯majorG♯mminorG♯dimdiminished

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