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Fig. 1 · Gbm7b5 on the keyboard

piano chord

G♭m7♭5

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

on guitaron ukulelethe scale

What is true of it

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

B♭♭ and D♭♭ are double flats, and they have to be: every letter from G♭ upwards is used once, so the b3 cannot be written any other way.

These are also the notes of Am6/G♭. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

G♭ in other shapes

G♭7dominant seventhG♭maj7major seventhG♭m7minor seventhG♭majorG♭mminorG♭dimdiminished

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