Em7♭5 — bouzouki chord
Half-diminished (m7♭5) · 8 fingerings for trichordo (D–A–D)
Notes and intervals
Em7♭5 (E half-diminished) is built from E G B♭ D: intervals 1 ♭3 ♭5 ♭7.
Fingerings on D-A-D
Frets, low D · A · high D
- Root position: 2-1-0 (E B♭ D)
- Root position: 2-5-5 (E D G)
- 1st inversion: 5-5-2 (G D E)
- 1st inversion: 5-5-8 (G D B♭)
- 2nd inversion: 8-5-5 (B♭ D G)
- 2nd inversion: 8-7-5 (B♭ E G)
- 3rd inversion: 0-1-2 (D B♭ E)
- 3rd inversion: 12-10-8 (D G B♭)
The open courses D are chord tones, so shapes with a 0 let them ring.
In the dromoi
None of the dromoi on this site lists Em7♭5 among its chords, so it is shown here as a shape reference.
Trichordo (D-A-D) and tetrachordo (C-F-A-D)
These shapes are for the three-course trichordo. A tetrachordo’s A and D courses are tuned the same, so the top two notes stay put and the low-D bass note moves two frets up the C course. The first shape, 2-1-0 on trichordo, becomes C 4, A 1, D 0 on tetrachordo, with the F course left out.