What notes are in a Cm7b5 chord?

Cm7b5 is C, Eb, Gb, Bb: the 1, ♭3, ♭5, ♭7 of C.

How do you play Cm7b5 on guitar?

5th String Root Voicing: x 3 4 3 4 x; 6th String Root Voicing: 8 x 8 8 7 x (low E to high E, x = don't play the string).

What scale goes with Cm7b5?

Scales on C that contain every note of Cm7b5: C Blues, C Locrian, C Altered, C Half-Whole Diminished, C Locrian Natural 2, C Locrian Natural 6.

Guitar chord · Half-Diminished (m7♭5)

Cm7b5 chord (C Half-Diminished (m7♭5))

Essential bridge chord on the ii degree of minor ii-V-I jazz progressions.

Notes CEbGbBb

Formula 1 ♭3 ♭5 ♭7

Shapes 2 on this page

Cm7b5 chord shapes

Tap a diagram to strum it. Numbers are fingers: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky. Blue dots are the root, C.

5th String Root Voicing x 3 4 3 4 x

6th String Root Voicing 8 x 8 8 7 x

Interactive chord diagram

Cm7b5 on the fretboard

STR OP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 E A D G B E ✕ ✕ ✕ ✕

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Scales to play over Cm7b5

These scales start on C and contain every note of the chord, so they fit when Cm7b5 is the chord of the moment.

C Blues C Locrian C Altered C Half-Whole Diminished C Locrian Natural 2 C Locrian Natural 6 C Ukrainian Dorian C Dorian b5 C Lydian #2 #6 C Hungarian Major

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Questions

What notes are in a Cm7b5 chord?: Cm7b5 is C, Eb, Gb, Bb: the 1, ♭3, ♭5, ♭7 of C.
How do you play Cm7b5 on guitar?: 5th String Root Voicing: x 3 4 3 4 x; 6th String Root Voicing: 8 x 8 8 7 x (low E to high E, x = don't play the string).
What scale goes with Cm7b5?: Scales on C that contain every note of Cm7b5: C Blues, C Locrian, C Altered, C Half-Whole Diminished, C Locrian Natural 2, C Locrian Natural 6.

Half-Diminished (m7♭5) chords in every key

Cm7b5 C#m7b5 Dm7b5 Ebm7b5 Em7b5 Fm7b5 F#m7b5 Gm7b5 Abm7b5 Am7b5 Bbm7b5 Bm7b5