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Fig. 1 · G#6 · hard

guitar chord

G♯6

G♯1B♯3D♯5E♯6

A major triad with a sixth added. The same four notes as a minor seventh chord a third below.

Written the other way round it is A♭6 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

3
Fig. 2

4635xx

hard

3
Fig. 3

4335xx

hard · no 5

Fig. 4

4331xx

hard · no 5

4
Fig. 5

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hard · no 5

6
Fig. 6

xx6868

moderate · barre

What is true of it

G♯6 is G♯, B♯, D♯ and E♯ — 1, 3, 5 and 6 counted from G♯.

These are also the notes of Fm7/G♯. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 4635xx: 4 fingers, held at the 3rd 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.

2 strings stay silent.

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

8
first inversion

G♯6/B♯

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second inversion

G♯6/D♯

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third inversion

G♯6/E♯

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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.

G♯ in other shapes

G♯m6minor sixthG♯majorG♯mminorG♯dimdiminished

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