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D7b5 Guitar Chord

A tense jazz chord with a tritone replacing the perfect fifth. Often serves as a tritone substitution in jazz progressions — replacing the classic dominant seventh chord.

Guitar

Strings X–X–0–1–1–2

How to play the D7b5 chord on guitar

Read the string pattern X–X–0–1–1–2 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) Do not play
5th string (A) Do not play
4th string (D) Play open
3rd string (G) Fret 1 · index finger
2nd string (B) Fret 1 · index finger
1st string (high E) Fret 2 · middle finger

Notation for D7b5 chord

Other names: D 7th flat 5

Music theory name: seventh flat five chord

Common name: D 7b5 chord

Intervals and tones in D7b5 chord

Note Interval
D Root
F# Major 3rd
Ab Diminished 5th
C Minor 7th

All Variations

Open
X–X–0–1–1–2
Fret 3
X–X–4–5–3–4
Fret 5
X–5–6–5–7–X
Fret 9
10–X–10–11–9–X

More chords with D as the root

The same chord type in other keys