Voicing of D Dominant b5

Type A

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Left hand
D2
Right hand
F#4Ab4C5E5
Family
4-Note Rootless (Type A/B)

The Type A voicing of D7b5 stacks F#, Ab, C and E from the bottom up: the major 3rd, flat 5th, minor 7th and 9th of the chord. It leaves out the root, D, 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 D7b5 is Type B.