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Fig. 1 · Am7b5 · moderate

ukulele chord

Am7♭5

A1C♭3E♭♭5G♭7

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

on guitaron pianothe scale

What is true of it

Am7♭5 is A, C, E♭ and G — 1, b3, b5 and b7 counted from A.

These are also the notes of Cm6/A. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 2333: 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 3 — 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

Am7♭5/C

5330

8
second inversion

Am7♭5/E♭

898a

third inversion

Am7♭5/G

0353

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

A7dominant seventhAmaj7major seventhAm7minor seventhAmajorAmminorAdimdiminished

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