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Fig. 1 · Abm7 · moderate

ukulele chord

A♭m7

A♭1C♭♭3E♭5G♭♭7

Minor triad with a minor seventh. The same four notes as a major sixth chord a third above.

Written the other way round it is G♯m7 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

1322

moderate

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Fig. 3

x879

easy · no 5

What is true of it

A♭m7 is A♭, C♭, E♭ and G♭ — 1, b3, 5 and b7 counted from A♭.

These are also the notes of B6/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 1322: 4 fingers, 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.

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♭m7/C♭

4646

7
second inversion

A♭m7/E♭

8879

11
third inversion

A♭m7/G♭

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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♭7dominant seventhA♭maj7major seventhA♭m(maj7)minor major seventhA♭majorA♭mminorA♭dimdiminished

Cm7C♯m7D♭m7Dm7D♯m7E♭m7Em7Fm7all 374