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Fig. 1 · Dbm7b5 · moderate

ukulele 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.

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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.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 6777: 4 fingers, held at the 6th 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 D♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

9
first inversion

D♭m7♭5/F♭

9b9a

second inversion

D♭m7♭5/A♭♭

0102

third inversion

D♭m7♭5/C♭

4704

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.

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