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[brad4d8]

I'm looking at a chord progression that has the following symbol that I've never seen before:
Bm5-/7. What is it?
Brad

[paynow]

Originally Posted by brad4d8

I'm looking at a chord progression that has the following symbol that I've never seen before:
Bm5-/7. What is it?
Brad

I can't verify whether this is right, but according to this website it seems to be another way to write Bm7b5:

Bm5-/7

I've never seen it written that way before.

[beasleybubba]

Where did you see that chord symbol?

[brad4d8]

Originally Posted by beasleybubba

Where did you see that chord symbol?

Here:
Walkin' My Baby Back Home chords by Nat King Cole
Brad

[FatJeff]

It's a Bm7b5 chord, otherwise known as a half-diminished (look at the fret diagram). I've never seen someone notate it that way. I consider it wrong, but the poster "ARICAL" doesn't seem to be a native English speaker, so that might account for it.

[paynow]

I'm convinced its Bm7b5 and even if that's not what they mean, that will work fine. Many of the websites like the one you're getting that chart from have incorrect chords.

Originally Posted by FatJeff

It's a Bm7b5 chord, otherwise known as a half-diminished (look at the fret diagram). I've never seen someone notate it that way. I consider it wrong, but the poster "ARICAL" doesn't seem to be a native English speaker, so that might account for it.

Yes. The website I linked to in my first response is Portuguese.

[beasleybubba]

I've never seen it written that way either, but Bm7b5 definitely makes sense in that harmonic context. I've never heard this tune but the way they've written it suggests that they mean a Bm7b5 with the 7 (an A) in the bass... the third inversion.

[brwnhornet59]

I doubt it. It seems like an archaic form. Seeing the slash with a number not a letter is like seeing B6/9. That does not make it B6/C#.

B-7b5, no inversion.

[bako]

On those sites if you run the cursor over the symbol it shows you a diagram.
The chord is definitely Bm7b5.

[beasleybubba]

Originally Posted by brwnhornet59

I doubt it. It seems like an archaic form. Seeing the slash with a number not a letter is like seeing B6/9. That does not make it B6/C#.

B-7b5, no inversion.

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[brad4d8]

Thanks everybody. 50 years of playing guitar and I never saw that one before.
Brad

[whatswisdom]

B half-diminished. I read in Bert Ligon's jazz resource book that by expressing the chord as "flat-five" implies that the 5th has been altered from its natural state.

[cosmic gumbo]

Did anyone say Bm7b5? My buddy Genghis said there are still horse tribes in Siberia and Mongolia that don't know modern english chord notation. They don't even care.

[brwnhornet59]

Yes Dm. Good analysis. But pray, speak a little less formally, you are working to hard at it.