B m7#5 Chord on Mandola
How to play the B m7#5 chord on Mandola: fretboard diagrams, finger positions, the notes that build it, and alternate voicings up the neck.
The B m7#5 chord is a minor seventh with a raised fifth, an altered, unstable color. It is built from the notes B, D, G, A. This page shows how to play B m7#5 on Mandola with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
The G, D and A strings ring open in the lowest shape, with the remaining notes fretted at fret 11. B falls on the C string. It sounds from G3 up to A4.
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 B 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.