Dominant family
A dominant seventh flat five chord
A7♭5A dominant seventh flat five
Piano root position
- Root
- 3
- ♭5
- ♭7
Guitar standard tuning
Barre · fret 5
Lay your index flat across all six strings at fret 5.
Finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 little
Notation treble clef
Intervals
12 semitones- A1
- ♭2
- 2
- ♭3
- C♯3
- 4
- E♭♭5
- 5
- ♯5
- 6
- G♭7
- 7
- A Root
- C♯ Major 3rd
- E♭ Diminished 5th
- G Minor 7th
About this chord
What is an A dominant seventh flat five chord?
A7♭5 is built from 4 notes: A (the root), C♯ (the 3), E♭ (the ♭5), G (the ♭7). A dominant with a lowered fifth: two tritones, the French-sixth sound.
- Notes
- A · C♯ · E♭ · G
- Formula
- 1 · 3 · ♭5 · ♭7
- Also written
- A7(♭5)
- Found in
- Outside the major and minor keys
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