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Fig. 1 · Abm6 · moderate

ukulele chord

A♭m6

A♭1C♭♭3E♭5F6

A minor triad with a major sixth added, which is why it is not simply a minor chord with a flat seventh.

Written the other way round it is G♯m6 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

1312

moderate · barre

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Fig. 3

x878

easy · no 5

What is true of it

A♭m6 is A♭, C♭, E♭ and F — 1, b3, 5 and 6 counted from A♭.

These are also the notes of Fm7♭5/A♭. 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 2 fingerings below is 1312: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 1st fret, held at the 1st 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 2 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 4 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are A♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

4
first inversion

A♭m6/C♭

4546

7
second inversion

A♭m6/E♭

8878

10
third inversion

A♭m6/F

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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.

A♭ in other shapes

A♭6major sixthA♭majorA♭mminorA♭dimdiminished

Cm6C♯m6D♭m6Dm6D♯m6E♭m6Em6Fm6all 374