: Explaining the Meaning of the G#6b5 Piano Chord played in the Key of C Major How does one explaining the meaning of the G#6b5 Chord to another with little to no musical background of Chords?

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First, you find an intelligent name for the set of notes, not something dreamed up either by someone clueless, or with the intension of deliberate obfuscation.

You have the notes G#, B#, D, E#.

Now respell them as something that looks as if it might be related to C major: Ab, C, D, F.

So this is either an F minor 6 chord, or D half diminished seventh.

If you can't "explain the meaning" of either of those in C major, you need to learn what a II-V-I chord progression is.