A half-diminished or min7b5 chord is the seventh chord in the diatonic chord scale and consists of the root, b3, b5, and b7.
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It is commonly used as the ii chord in a ii-V7-i progression that resolves to a minor chord.
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The chord is built off the seventh mode of the major scale.
A minor 7th chord with a flatted fifth.
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