Chord

Db Half Diminished

  • Dbm7b5
  • Dbø
  • Dbø7
  • Dbmin7b5
  • Db-7b5
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
Dbm3Fbm3AbbM3Cb

Db Half Diminished, written Dbm7b5, is built from Db, Fb, Abb and Cb: the root, minor 3rd, flat 5th and minor 7th.

Its 3rd and 7th, Fb and Cb, are its guide tones: they say what kind of chord it is, so voicings are built around them and the root is often left to the bass.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Major

    C# Locrian

  2. Mode of Melodic Minor

    B Locrian #2

  3. Mode of Harmonic Minor

    Db Locrian #6

Voicings All 14