C m7#5 Chord on Mandocello
Play C m7#5 on Mandocello: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.
The C m7#5 chord is a minor seventh with a raised fifth, an altered, unstable color. It is built from the notes C, Eb, G#, Bb. This page shows how to play C m7#5 on Mandocello with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
The shape nearest the nut leaves the C course open and takes the rest at fret 1. The root is the C course itself. It sounds from C2 up to Bb3.
Mandocello is strung in four courses of two, 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 C 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.