G♭

G♭1B♭3D♭5

A major third and a perfect fifth over the root.

Written the other way round it is F♯ — 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

244322

hard · barre

Fig. 3

xx4322

hard

Fig. 4

2443xx

hard

Fig. 5

24432x

hard · barre

Fig. 6

xx4676

hard

What is true of it

G♭ is G♭, B♭ and D♭ — 1, 3 and 5 counted from G♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 3, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 244322: 4 fingers, one of them barring the 2nd fret, held at the 2nd 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.

2 of the 5 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

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♭/B♭

x1432x

second inversion

G♭/D♭

x4432x

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♭mminor G♭dimdiminished G♭augaugmented G♭5power chord G♭sus2suspended second G♭sus4suspended fourth

C C♯D♭D D♯E♭E F all 374