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Fig. 1 · Gbm9 on the keyboard

piano chord

G♭m9

G♭1B♭♭♭3D♭5F♭♭7A♭9

A minor seventh with a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is F♯m9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on guitaron ukulelethe scale

What is true of it

G♭m9 is G♭, B♭♭, D♭, F♭ and A♭ — 1, b3, 5, b7 and 9 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 5, the 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

G♭ in other shapes

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

Cm9C♯m9D♭m9Dm9D♯m9E♭m9Em9Fm9all 374