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Fig. 1 · Gm7b5 · open

ukulele chord

Gm7♭5

G1B♭♭3D♭♭5F♭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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Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

0111

open

Fig. 3

0564

easy

What is true of it

Gm7♭5 is G, B♭, D♭ and F — 1, b3, b5 and b7 counted from G.

These are also the notes of B♭m6/G and A♯m6/G. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

The easiest of the 2 fingerings below is 0111: 3 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

1 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 4 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are G, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

3
first inversion

Gm7♭5/B♭

3534

6
second inversion

Gm7♭5/D♭

6768

9
third inversion

Gm7♭5/F

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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.

G in other shapes

G7dominant seventhGmaj7major seventhGm7minor seventhGmajorGmminorGdimdiminished

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