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Fig. 1 · Abmaj7 on the keyboard

piano chord

A♭maj7

A♭1C3E♭5G7

Major triad with a major seventh: a half step below the root, an octave up.

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

on guitaron ukulelethe scale

What is true of it

A♭maj7 is A♭, C, E♭ and G — 1, 3, 5 and 7 counted from A♭.

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

A♭ in other shapes

A♭7dominant seventhA♭m7minor seventhA♭m(maj7)minor major seventhA♭majorA♭mminorA♭dimdiminished

Cmaj7C♯maj7D♭maj7Dmaj7D♯maj7E♭maj7Emaj7Fmaj7all 374