Am7b5 Chord — Notes & How to Play

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Notes: A C D# G

Mood: Haunting, jazzy

The Am7b5 chord (A half-diminished (m7♭5)) is a haunting jazz chord, often leading into a minor resolution. It contains the notes A C D# G.

It's built from the root A using these intervals (semitones from the root): 0, 3, 6, 10.

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