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Fig. 1 · Gbm · moderate

guitar chord

G♭m

G♭1B♭♭♭3D♭5

The major triad with its third lowered by a half step.

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

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

2
Fig. 2

244222

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

20422x

moderate

Fig. 4

2042xx

easy · no 5

2
Fig. 5

24422x

moderate · barre

2
Fig. 6

244225

hard · barre

What is true of it

G♭m is G♭, B♭♭ and D♭ — 1, b3 and 5 counted from G♭.

B♭♭ is a double flat, and it has to be: every letter from G♭ upwards is used once, so the b3 cannot be written any other way.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 244222: 3 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.

3 of the 5 need a barre.

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♭m/B♭♭

x04222

2
second inversion

G♭m/D♭

x4422x

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♭majorG♭dimdiminishedG♭augaugmentedG♭5power chordG♭sus2suspended secondG♭sus4suspended fourth

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