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Fig. 1 · Em7b5 · hard

ukulele 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.

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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.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 9aaa: 4 fingers, held at the 9th 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 E, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

Em7♭5/G

0201

3
second inversion

Em7♭5/B♭

3435

6
third inversion

Em7♭5/D

7767

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.

E in other shapes

E7dominant seventhEmaj7major seventhEm7minor seventhEmajorEmminorEdimdiminished

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