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Fig. 1 · D#m7b5 · moderate

ukulele chord

D♯m7♭5

D♯1F♯♭3A♭5C♯♭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 E♭m7♭5 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

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

These are also the notes of F♯m6/D♯ and G♭m6/D♯. 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 8999: 4 fingers, held at the 8th 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 D♯, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

2
second inversion

D♯m7♭5/A

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5
third inversion

D♯m7♭5/C♯

6656

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.

D♯ in other shapes

D♯7dominant seventhD♯maj7major seventhD♯m7minor seventhD♯majorD♯mminorD♯dimdiminished

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