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D9b5 Guitar Chord

A tense jazz chord with a tritone. Often serves as a tritone substitution for the dominant. The fifth is already altered, so the perfect fifth is not played — the remaining notes are all included.

Guitar

Strings X–5–4–5–5–4

How to play the D9b5 chord on guitar

Read the string pattern X–5–4–5–5–4 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) Fret 5 · middle finger
4th string (D) Fret 4 · index finger
3rd string (G) Fret 5 · ring finger
2nd string (B) Fret 5 · little finger
1st string (high E) Fret 4 · index finger

Notation for D9b5 chord

Other names: D 9th flat 5

Music theory name: ninth flat five chord

Common name: D 9b5 chord

Intervals and tones in D9b5 chord

Note Interval
D Root
F# Major 3rd
Ab Diminished 5th
C Minor 7th
E Major 9th

All Variations

Fret 4
X–5–4–5–5–4
Fret 5
X–5–6–5–7–0
Fret 9
10–9–10–9–9–10
Fret 10
10–11–10–11–X–12

More chords with D as the root

The same chord type in other keys