F half-diminished piano chord - Fm7b5

The F half-diminished chord is a 4-note chord consisting of the notes F, Ab, Cb and Eb.
You can see these notes highlighted in the interactive piano chart below.
The chord itself is often abbreviated as Fm7b5.

Interactive piano diagram for the F half-diminished chord

Piano keyboard displaying the F half-diminished chord with the notes E#FCbBG#AbD#Eb

Reduced chords

Chords that are a subset of Fm7b5. These contain less notes but all of them are included in Fm7b5.

Scales with Fm7b5

Below you find all scales that include Fm7b5:

  • minor blues
  • locrian
  • locrian pentatonic
  • super locrian pentatonic
  • altered
  • locrian #2
  • locrian 6
  • dorian #4
  • hungarian major
  • flamenco
  • bebop locrian
  • half-whole diminished
  • composite blues
  • messiaen's mode #3
  • chromatic

F half-diminished piano chord chart image

In case you prefer a non-interactive variant of the chord chart, we've embedded a PNG image below that shows the notes for the the Fm7b5 chord. Feel free to save or share the image as needed.

Piano chord chart for the F half-diminished chord (Fm7b5). The notes F, Ab, Cb and Eb are highlighted.