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Fig. 1 · Fm7b5 · hard

ukulele chord

Fm7♭5

F1A♭♭3C♭♭5E♭♭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

Fm7♭5 is F, A♭, C♭ and E♭ — 1, b3, b5 and b7 counted from F.

These are also the notes of A♭m6/F and G♯m6/F. 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 abbb: 4 fingers, held at the 10th 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 F, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

Fm7♭5/A♭

1312

4
second inversion

Fm7♭5/C♭

4546

7
third inversion

Fm7♭5/E♭

8878

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.

F in other shapes

F7dominant seventhFmaj7major seventhFm7minor seventhFmajorFmminorFdimdiminished

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