4AbDbGbCEbBb
Fig. 1 · Ab11 · moderate

guitar chord

A♭11

A♭1C3E♭5G♭♭7B♭9D♭11

Six notes in theory; in practice the third is usually dropped, because the eleventh sits a half step above it.

Written the other way round it is G♯11 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

4
Fig. 2

444546

moderate · barre

11
Fig. 3

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moderate · barre · no 3

4
Fig. 4

444646

moderate · barre · no 3

4
Fig. 5

464646

hard · barre · no 3

11
Fig. 6

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moderate · barre · no 3, 5

What is true of it

A♭11 is A♭, C, E♭, G♭, B♭ and D♭ — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 11 counted from A♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 3, 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 444546: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 4th fret, held at the 4th fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are A♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

8
first inversion

A♭11/C

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11
second inversion

A♭11/E♭

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2
third inversion

A♭11/G♭

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An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

A♭ in other shapes

A♭add9added ninthA♭9dominant ninthA♭maj9major ninthA♭majorA♭mminorA♭dimdiminished

C11C♯11D♭11D11D♯11E♭11E11F11all 374