D♭m(maj7)

D♭1F♭♭3A♭5C7

Minor triad, major seventh — the tonic chord of harmonic minor.

Written the other way round it is C♯m(maj7) — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukulele on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x42110

hard

Fig. 3

x46550

hard

Fig. 4

9ba999

moderate · barre

Fig. 5

x42520

hard · no 5

Fig. 6

x42550

hard · no 5

What is true of it

D♭m(maj7) is D♭, F♭, A♭ and C — 1, b3, 5 and 7 counted from D♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x42110: 4 fingers, held at the 1st 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.

1 of the 5 need a barre.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

D♭m(maj7)/F♭

032120

second inversion

D♭m(maj7)/A♭

446550

third inversion

D♭m(maj7)/C

x32120

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.

D♭ in other shapes

D♭7dominant seventh D♭maj7major seventh D♭m7minor seventh D♭major D♭mminor D♭dimdiminished

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