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Fig. 1 · Abm7b5 on the keyboard

piano chord

A♭m7♭5

A♭1C♭♭3E♭♭♭5G♭♭7

A diminished triad with a minor seventh rather than a diminished one — half diminished, and not the same chord as dim7.

Written the other way round it is G♯m7♭5 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on guitaron ukulelethe scale

What is true of it

A♭m7♭5 is A♭, C♭, E♭♭ and G♭ — 1, b3, b5 and b7 counted from A♭.

E♭♭ is a double flat, and it has to be: every letter from A♭ upwards is used once, so the b5 cannot be written any other way.

These are also the notes of Bm6/A♭. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

A♭ in other shapes

A♭7dominant seventhA♭maj7major seventhA♭m7minor seventhA♭majorA♭mminorA♭dimdiminished

Cm7♭5C♯m7♭5D♭m7♭5Dm7♭5D♯m7♭5E♭m7♭5Em7♭5Fm7♭5all 374