About CmMaj7b5 — drop 2 voicings
CmMaj7b5 names three separate instructions: a minor 3rd, , and major 7th. The result is C, Eb, Gb and B.
The flat 5th is the only change from . It must sound, or the voicing is only . This is neither a half-diminished nor diminished-seventh chord.
Also written CmM7b5 or Cm(maj7)b5.
What is drop 2
Stack the four notes closely, then drop the second voice from the top an octave. It typically lands on four adjacent strings: the guitar’s workhorse voicing.
That result, 5–R–3–7, is the shape usually meant by drop 2. Named by its bass note, as the inversions are here, it is the 2nd inversion.
What to play over CmMaj7b5
Useful scales
- +DFAbA
Contains CmMaj7b5 and adds ninth, eleventh, sharp fifth and thirteenth.
Chords near CmMaj7b5
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The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.