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Fig. 1 · Cm7b5 · moderate

ukulele chord

Cm7♭5

C1E♭♭3G♭♭5B♭♭7

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

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What is true of it

Cm7♭5 is C, E♭, G♭ and B♭ — 1, b3, b5 and b7 counted from C.

These are also the notes of E♭m6/C and D♯m6/C. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 5666: 4 fingers, held at the 5th fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 3 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are C, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

8
first inversion

Cm7♭5/E♭

8a89

2
third inversion

Cm7♭5/B♭

3323

An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

C in other shapes

C7dominant seventhCmaj7major seventhCm7minor seventhCmajorCmminorCdimdiminished

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