D m7#5 Chord on Octave Mandolin
Play D m7#5 on Octave Mandolin: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.
The D m7#5 chord is a minor seventh with a raised fifth, an altered, unstable color. It is built from the notes D, F, A#, C. This page shows how to play D m7#5 on Octave Mandolin with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
The shape nearest the nut leaves the D course open and takes the rest at fret 1, reaching across 3 frets. The root is the D course itself. It sounds from A#2 up to F4.
Octave Mandolin 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 D 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.