7b5 chord

1. What is a 7b5 chord?
2. What is a 5'5 chord?
3. How do you use a flat 5 chord?

What is a 7b5 chord?

The dominant seventh flat five chord (7b5) is a dominant seventh chord with a fifth lowered by a semitone. It is built with a root (1), a major third (3), a diminished fifth (b5) and a minor seventh (b7). The dominant b5 chord is an extremely important sound in jazz music due to its dissonant and unresolved sound.

What is a 5'5 chord?

Secondary chords are a type of altered or borrowed chord, chords which are not part of the key the piece is in. ... Thus, the most common secondary chord, the dominant of the dominant, is written "V/V" and read as "five of five" or "the dominant of the dominant".

How do you use a flat 5 chord?

The flat five substitution is a chord that you can use as a substitute for any dominant chord. It applies very nicely to the 12 Bar Blues, because of the use of Dominant 7th chords.
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Flat Five Substitution.