A♯maj7♭5 / B♭maj7♭5

4-note major 7th flat 5 on A♯ / B♭A♯, D, E, A.

Press to hear the chord strummed low to high.

A major seventh with a lowered fifth — the flat five lends a wistful, Lydian tilt to the major-seventh glow.

The notes

Pitches taken from the first fingering below — click any note to open its frequency page.

Interval formula

DegreeNoteWhat it is
1A♯root
3Dmajor third
♭5Eflat fifth (diminished)
7Amajor seventh

The formula reads in semitones above the root (A♯): 1, 3, ♭5, 7. A voicing may leave a tone out — often the fifth — but never adds one from outside this set.

Guitar fingerings · 4

1234
open position
5fr213411
from fret 5
6fr1234
from fret 6
8fr1234
from fret 8

Ukulele fingerings · 4

32
open position
231
open position
3fr1234
from fret 3
6fr2413
from fret 6

Read a diagram top-down: the thick bar is the nut, dots are where to press (the number is which finger), means play the open string, means don't play it. A bar across strings is a barre.

Other A♯ / B♭ chords

maj7♭5 chords on every root