Fm7b5 chord

The Fm7b5 chord (F half-diminished) on a piano: the notes, every inversion and the keys it belongs to. Tap play to hear it, and download it as MIDI.

F1Abb3Cb= Bb5Ebb7

About the half-diminished chord

A diminished chord with a minor seventh, also written ø. The natural chord on the second step of a minor key.

Formula: 1 b3 b5 b7. Used in: Jazz and minor-key ii-V-i progressions, R&B.

Tap an inversion to hear it. Inversions keep the same notes in a different order, which lets chords move smoothly from one to the next.

Fm7b5 is the VII chord in F# major and II chord in Eb minor.

It also appears in Ab Dorian (VI), Bb Phrygian (V), B Lydian (IV), C# Mixolydian (III).

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F, Ab, Cb (B), Eb.

1 b3 b5 b7. A diminished chord with a minor seventh, also written ø. The natural chord on the second step of a minor key.

Fm7b5 is a chord in F# major (VII), Eb minor (II).