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Fig. 1 · Dbm7b5 on the keyboard

piano chord

D♭m7♭5

D♭1F♭♭3A♭♭♭5C♭♭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 C♯m7♭5 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on guitaron ukulelethe scale

What is true of it

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

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

These are also the notes of Em6/D♭. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

D♭ in other shapes

D♭7dominant seventhD♭maj7major seventhD♭m7minor seventhD♭majorD♭mminorD♭dimdiminished

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