Voicing of Half Diminished

Type B

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Left hand
C3
Right hand
Bb3D4Eb4Gb4
Family
4-Note Rootless (Type A/B)

The Type B voicing of Cm7b5 stacks Bb, D, Eb and Gb from the bottom up: the minor 7th, 9th, minor 3rd and flat 5th of the chord. It leaves out the root, C, for the left hand or the bass player to take.

It's one of the 4-Note Rootless (Type A/B) voicings: four-note rootless voicings in their two forms, with the 3rd or the 7th on the bottom, played over the root. The other for Cm7b5 is Type A.