What is a half-diminished chord and how do we play it on guitar?
When following chord charts, you may have come across a strange chord symbol that looks like a small circle with a line running diagonally through it.
That’s the symbol for a half-diminished chord, which is also known as a minor seventh flat five (m7b5) chord.
On this page, we answer all of your questions on this powerful chord, and show you multiple ways of playing it on guitar.
For each half-diminished chord shape, we provide an example chord progression, so you’ll have no problem in using it in your own compositions in future.
Read on to get started…
