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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

A♭m9

A♭1C♭♭3E♭5G♭♭7B♭9

A minor seventh with a ninth on top.

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

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What is true of it

A♭m9 is A♭, C♭, E♭, G♭ and B♭ — 1, b3, 5, b7 and 9 counted from A♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 5, the 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

No fingering of A♭m9 fits a hand on the ukulele: inside four frets, with the strings that sound next to each other and the root underneath, there is nothing to hold.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 2 — 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

first inversion

A♭m9/C♭

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second inversion

A♭m9/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.

A♭ in other shapes

A♭add9added ninthA♭9dominant ninthA♭maj9major ninthA♭majorA♭mminorA♭dimdiminished

Cm9C♯m9D♭m9Dm9D♯m9E♭m9Em9Fm9all 374