1b3b7b5
Fig. 1 · Dm7b5 on the keyboard

piano chord

Dm7♭5

D1F♭3A♭♭5C♭7

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

on guitaron ukulelethe scale

What is true of it

Dm7♭5 is D, F, A♭ and C — 1, b3, b5 and b7 counted from D.

These are also the notes of Fm6/D. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

D in other shapes

D7dominant seventhDmaj7major seventhDm7minor seventhDmajorDmminorDdimdiminished

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