A# m7#5 Chord on Mandola
How to play the A# m7#5 chord on Mandola: fretboard diagrams, finger positions, the notes that build it, and alternate voicings up the neck.
The A# m7#5 chord is a minor seventh with a raised fifth, an altered, unstable color. It is built from the notes A#, C#, F#, G#. This page shows how to play A# m7#5 on Mandola with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
There is no open-string version on Mandola: the lowest shape barres fret 1 and covers 4 frets. A# falls on the A string. It sounds from C#3 up to A#4.
Mandola 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 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.