Electric guitar · Half-diminished chord

Fm7b5 Half-diminished

  • Key: F# Major
  • Easy
  • Open chord

Fm7b5 is the F half-diminished chord on electric guitar, made of the notes F · G# · B · D#.

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Position 1 of 3Main

Notes

  • F
  • G#
  • B
  • D#

Structure

  1. 1
  2. ♭3
  3. ♭5
  4. ♭7
Sound
Half-diminished (m7♭5)
Dark, jazzy
Harmonic function
Dominant
Creates tension that resolves to the tonic.

Harmonic field of F# Major

DegreeChordFunction
IF#Tonic
iiG#mSubdominant
iiiA#mTonic relative
IVBSubdominant
VC#Dominant
viD#mTonic relative
vii°FdimDominant

How to play

  1. 1Place your index finger on fret 1 of string 6.
  2. 2Place your middle finger on fret 1 of string 4.
  3. 3Place your ring finger on fret 1 of string 3.
  4. 4Let string 2 ring open.
  5. 5Don't play strings 5, 1.
  6. 6Strum all the strings.

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