Space plays and stops
- Notes and intervals
- FbM3Ab2CbbM3Ebb
- Extends
- Fb Dominant 7
Fb Dominant b5, written Fb7b5, is built from Fb, Ab, Cbb and Ebb: the root, major 3rd, flat 5th and minor 7th.
Its 3rd and 7th, Ab and Ebb, 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. Bb7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for Fb7b5 as its tritone substitute.