G# 7b5 Chord on 8-String Guitar
Play G# 7b5 on 8-String Guitar: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.
The G# 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 G#, C, D, F#. This page shows how to play G# 7b5 on 8-String Guitar with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
There is no open-string version on 8-String Guitar: the lowest shape barres fret 4 and covers 4 frets. The F# and B strings stay silent, so 6 of 8 sound. G# falls on the E string. It sounds from G#2 up to G#4. 2 voicings are charted, the highest starting at fret 10.
8-String Guitar is tuned F#–B–E–A–D–G–B–E, with 15 frets to work with.
Browse alternate voicings to find the one that sits best under your fingers, then compare it with the other chord types built on G# 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.