Chord

Gb Half Diminished

  • Gbm7b5
  • Gbø
  • Gbø7
  • Gbmin7b5
  • Gb-7b5
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
Gbm3Bbbm3DbbM3Fb

Gb Half Diminished, written Gbm7b5, is built from Gb, Bbb, Dbb and Fb: the root, minor 3rd, flat 5th and minor 7th.

Its 3rd and 7th, Bbb and Fb, 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

    F# Locrian

  2. Mode of Melodic Minor

    E Locrian #2

  3. Mode of Harmonic Minor

    Gb Locrian #6

Voicings All 14