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Cmmaj7b5 Guitar Chord

An extremely rare chord with a unique, dissonant sound. Found only in avant-garde jazz and experimental music.

Guitar

Strings X–3–X–4–4–2

How to play the Cmmaj7b5 chord on guitar

Read the string pattern X–3–X–4–4–2 from the low E string to the high E string. Numbers in the pattern are frets; numbers in the colored dots are left-hand fingers. X means a muted string and 0 means an open string.

6th string (low E) Muted
5th string (A) Fret 3 · middle finger
4th string (D) Muted
3rd string (G) Fret 4 · ring finger
2nd string (B) Fret 4 · pinky
1st string (high E) Fret 2 · index finger

Other names for the Cmmaj7b5 chord

Other names: C minor major 7th flat 5

Music theory name: minor major seventh flat five chord

Common name: C minor major 7th flat 5 chord

Notes and intervals in the Cmmaj7b5 chord

Note Interval
C Root
Eb Minor 3rd
Gb Diminished 5th
B Major 7th

All variations

Open
X–3–X–4–4–2
Open
X–3–4–4–4–X
Fret 8
8–9–9–8–X–8
Fret 10
X–X–10–11–12–11

More chords with C as the root

The same chord type in other keys