B9♭5 guitar chord

How to play B9♭5 on guitar

The most common way, the first shape above: lay your index finger flat across the four strings from the D to the high E at the 1st fret, your middle finger on the A string at the 2nd fret, your ring finger on the G string at the 2nd fret and your little finger on the B string at the 2nd fret. Don’t play the low E string.

From the low E string x 2 1 2 2 1 (x: not played, 0: open)

What notes are in B9♭5?

B9♭5, B ninth flat five, is B, D♯, F, A and C♯: the root (B), the major third (D♯), the diminished fifth (F), the minor seventh (A) and the ninth (C♯). Its formula is 1 3 ♭5 ♭7 9.