In jazz harmony, the dominant seventh flat five may be considered an altered chord, created by lowering the fifth of a dominant seventh chord, and may use the whole-tone scale, as may the augmented minor seventh chord, or the Lydian ♭7 mode, as well as most of the modes of the Neapolitan major scale, such as the major Locrian scale, the leading whole-tone scale, and the Lydian minor scale.ĭominant seventh flat five chord table Chordĭominant seventh flat five chords for a guitar in standard tuning. In classical harmony, the chord is rarely seen spelled as a seventh chord and is instead most commonly found as the enharmonically equivalent French sixth chord. In diatonic harmony, the dominant seventh flat five chord does not naturally occur on any scale degree (as does, for example, the dominant seventh chord on the fifth scale degree of the major scale e.g. In this sense, there are only six 'unique' dominant seventh flat five chords. It is also frequently encountered in tritone substitutions. Because of this property, it readily functions as a pivot chord.

That is, it has the same notes as the dominant seventh flat five chord a tritone away (although they may be spelled differently), so for instance, F ♯ 7 ♭5 and C 7 ♭5 are enharmonically equivalent. This chord is enharmonically equivalent to its own second inversion. It can be represented by the integer notation. Audio playback is not supported in your browser.

E flat dominant 7th chord