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Bm7b5 Chord on Guitar: 3 Easy Ways to Play B Minor Seventh Flat Five (Charts)

Bm7b5 chord charts with finger numbers, an easier version, the notes and intervals, and the keys and progressions that use it. Also searched as bm7b5 chord, bm7b5 guitar chord and how to play Bm7b5.

By David Sandy, guitar player and founder of Sandy Music Lab. Every chord shape on this page is checked note by note against the chord's formula.

Bm7b5 chord diagram, Open positionBm7b5 Open position: low E muted, A fret 2, D fret 3, G fret 2, B fret 3, high e muted.×1324×x 2 3 2 3 x
Open position
x 2 3 2 3 x
Bm7b5 chord diagram, Open positionBm7b5 Open position: low E muted, A fret 2, D open, G fret 2, B open, high e fret 1.×231x 2 0 2 0 1
Open position
x 2 0 2 0 1
Bm7b5 chord diagram, Barre (2nd fret, A-string root)Bm7b5 Barre (2nd fret, A-string root): low E muted, A fret 2, D fret 3, G fret 2, B fret 3, high e fret 5.×1234x 2 3 2 3 5
Barre (2nd fret, A-string root)
x 2 3 2 3 5

Numbers are fingers (1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky, T thumb). × = don't play that string, ○ = play it open. A long bar is a barre: one finger flat across those strings. Strings run low E (left) to high e (right).

Chord chart by Sandy Music Lab

Quick answer: To play Bm7b5 (B minor seventh flat five) on guitar, play x 2 3 2 3 x from the low E string to the high e string (the open position shape). The chord contains B, D, F, A. If that is hard, use the easier shape x 2 0 2 0 1, which needs 3 fretted notes.

Bm7b5 chord facts

Chord Bm7b5 (B minor seventh flat five)
Other names Bø7, Bmin7b5, B-7b5
Notes B, D, F, A
Intervals B (root), D (minor 3rd), F (diminished 5th), A (minor 7th)
Formula 1-b3-b5-b7
Difficulty Beginner
Shapes on this page 3

How do you play Bm7b5 on guitar?

The main shape is x 2 3 2 3 x (Open position). Finger by finger:

  1. Put your index finger (1) on the A string at fret 2 (B, the root).
  2. Put your middle finger (2) on the G string at fret 2 (A, the minor 7th).
  4. Put your r