Voicing of C# Half Diminished

Type A

Back to C#m7b5

Space plays and stops
Left hand
C#2
Right hand
E4G4B4D#5
Family
4-Note Rootless (Type A/B)

The Type A voicing of C#m7b5 stacks E, G, B and D# from the bottom up: the minor 3rd, flat 5th, minor 7th and 9th 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 C#m7b5 is Type B.