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- Fm3AbM3Cm3Eb
F Minor 7, written Fm7, is built from F, Ab, C and Eb: the root, minor 3rd, 5th and minor 7th.
Its 3rd and 7th, Ab and Eb, 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.
In the progressions here, Fm7 is the ii7 of the Major ii-V Progression in Eb, the iv7 of the Backdoor ii-V-I Progression in C, the vi7 of the Deceptive Cadence in Ab, the iii7 of the Major iii-VI-ii-V Progression in Db, the i7 of the Minor i-vi-ii-V Progression in F and the v7 of the Whole-Step ii-V Chain in Bb.