GbBbFbAbCbFb
Fig. 1 · Gb11 · moderate

guitar chord

G♭11

G♭1B♭3D♭5F♭♭7A♭9C♭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 F♯11 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

212100

moderate · no 5

Fig. 3

222100

moderate · no 3, 5

Fig. 4

214100

moderate · no 5

Fig. 5

242100

moderate · no 3

Fig. 6

244100

moderate · no 3

What is true of it

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

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 212100: 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.

It leaves out the 5. 6 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

G♭11/B♭

646400

9
second inversion

G♭11/D♭

999999

third inversion

G♭11/F♭

012100

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.

G♭ in other shapes

G♭add9added ninthG♭9dominant ninthG♭maj9major ninthG♭majorG♭mminorG♭dimdiminished

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