F m7#5 Chord on Puerto Rican Cuatro
Play F m7#5 on Puerto Rican Cuatro: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.
The F m7#5 chord is a minor seventh with a raised fifth, an altered, unstable color. It is built from the notes F, G#, C#, D#. This page shows how to play F m7#5 on Puerto Rican Cuatro with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
The lowest shape sits at fret 3 and spans 4 frets, with no open strings in it. F falls on the B string. It sounds from G#3 up to C#5.
Puerto Rican Cuatro is strung in five courses of two, the lower two paired an octave apart, so each stopped note here sounds as two — which is why the shape rings thicker than the same grip on a single-strung instrument.
Browse alternate voicings to find the one that sits best under your fingers, then compare it with the other chord types built on F or explore the same shape in nearby keys. The diagrams list the notes in each voicing so you can connect the shape to the theory behind it.