C♭ Minor 7♯5
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Practice C♭ Minor 7♯5
Reading about it is one thing. Drilling it is what makes it automatic.
Introduction
The C♭ Minor 7♯5 chord is a four-note chord made up of C♭, E♭♭, G, and B♭♭.
Notes
Key Signature
A chord has no key signature of its own, but the C♭ Minor 7♯5 is the tonic (i) chord of Cb Minor, which shares the signature of its relative major, D Major — 2 sharps (F♯, C♯).
Order of sharps
Sharps are added to a key signature in a fixed order. Each new sharp key adds the next sharp on the list.
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Chords in the Key of C♭ Minor
These are the triads built on each degree of the C♭ minor scale:
Same Notes, Other Names
The notes C♭ – E♭♭ – G – B♭♭ aren’t exclusive to this chord. Depending on which note is the bass and how the chord functions, the same pitches also spell:
C♭ Minor 7♯5 — Frequently Asked Questions
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References & Further Reading
The note names, intervals, fingering, and harmony on this chord page are grounded in the following sources. Public domain treatises and scores are linked to their full text; primary data reflects piano.org's own interval-derived dataset.
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piano.org(2024)
piano.org chord note dataset — 43 chord types × 18 keys, derived from interval construction rules
Primary data
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