7DAbCF
Fig. 1 · Dm7b5 · moderate

ukulele 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 pianothe 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.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 7888: 4 fingers, held at the 7th 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

10
first inversion

Dm7♭5/F

acab

second inversion

Dm7♭5/A♭

1213

4
third inversion

Dm7♭5/C

5545

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

D7dominant seventhDmaj7major seventhDm7minor seventhDmajorDmminorDdimdiminished

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