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F9b5 Piano 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.

Piano

Recommended voicing
Left hand F2 · Eb3 fingers 5–1
Right hand B3 · G4 · A4 fingers 1–4–5

How to play the F9b5 chord on piano

Split the recommended voicing between the hands: play F2 and Eb3 with the left hand and B3, G4 and A4 with the right. Suggested fingering is 5–1 on the left and 1–4–5 on the right (1 is the thumb).

Notation for F9b5 chord

Other names: F 9th flat 5

Music theory name: ninth flat five chord

Common name: F 9b5 chord

Intervals and tones in F9b5 chord

Note Interval
F Root
A Major 3rd
H Diminished 5th
Eb Minor 7th
G Major 9th

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