Six String Guitar · Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

Am7♭5A Minor 7th Flat 5th

F♯Root

Atone

Ctone

Etone

Formula 6 · 1 · ♭3 · 5 · Notes F♯ · A · C · E

How to play it

Am7♭5 fingering positions

Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD), low E on the left. Each dot is colour-coded by note — the ringed dot is the root. Numbers below show the fret per string (x = muted).

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar chord — Open (x 2 0 2 x 1) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar chord — Open (x 2 0 2 0 1) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar chord — Open (x 2 x 2 3 1) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar chord — Open (x 2 0 2 3 1) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar chord — Open (x 2 3 2 3 1) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar chord — 2nd position (x 2 3 2 3 x) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar chord — 2nd position (x 2 3 x 3 5) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar chord — 2nd position (x 2 3 2 3 5) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

Read it as tab

Am7♭5 guitar tab

The same voicings in tablature — high e on top, low E on the bottom. Each fret number is colour-coded by note; the ringed number is the root, × means don’t play that string.

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar tab — Open (x 2 0 2 x 1) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar tab — Open (x 2 0 2 0 1) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar tab — Open (x 2 x 2 3 1) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar tab — Open (x 2 0 2 3 1) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar tab — Open (x 2 3 2 3 1) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar tab — 2nd position (x 2 3 2 3 x) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar tab — 2nd position (x 2 3 x 3 5) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

A Minor 7th Flat 5th guitar tab — 2nd position (x 2 3 2 3 5) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

Sound

How Am7♭5 sounds

Consonance

2/ 5

Brightness

DarkBright

Character

Moods & genres

Moods

melancholyanxiousyearning

Genres

jazzclassical

Theory

Notes & relationships

NotesF♯ · A · C · E

Formula (scale degrees)6 · 1 · ♭3 · 5

Same notes asAø7

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