1b3b7b5
Fig. 1 · Em7b5 on the keyboard

piano chord

Em7♭5

E1G♭3B♭♭5D♭7

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

on guitaron ukulelethe scale

What is true of it

Em7♭5 is E, G, B♭ and D — 1, b3, b5 and b7 counted from E.

These are also the notes of Gm6/E. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

E in other shapes

E7dominant seventhEmaj7major seventhEm7minor seventhEmajorEmminorEdimdiminished

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