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Fig. 1 · Gbm7b5 · hard

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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.

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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.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is bccc: 4 fingers, held at the 11th 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 G♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

2
first inversion

G♭m7♭5/B♭♭

2423

second inversion

G♭m7♭5/D♭♭

5420

8
third inversion

G♭m7♭5/F♭

9989

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.

G♭ in other shapes

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

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