A 7b5 Chord on Guitalele

Play A 7b5 on Guitalele: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.

The A 7b5 chord is an extended or altered dominant that stacks ninths, elevenths, thirteenths, or chromatic tensions over a dominant-seventh core. It is built from the notes A, C#, Eb, G. This page shows how to play A 7b5 on Guitalele with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.

The shape nearest the nut leaves the A and G strings open and takes the rest at fret 1, reaching across 3 frets. The root is the A string itself. It sounds from A2 up to A4.

Guitalele is tuned A–D–G–C–E–A, with 15 frets to work with. Guitar shapes work unchanged on guitalele — finger them exactly as charted; every shape sounds a perfect fourth higher than on guitar.

Browse alternate voicings to find the one that sits best under your fingers, then compare it with the other chord types built on A 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.