A♭m(maj7)

A♭1C♭♭3E♭5G7

Minor triad, major seventh — the tonic chord of harmonic minor.

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

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

1332

moderate

Fig. 3

x87a

easy · no 5

What is true of it

A♭m(maj7) is A♭, C♭, E♭ and G — 1, b3, 5 and 7 counted from A♭.

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

The easiest of the 2 fingerings below is 1332: 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

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

first inversion

A♭m(maj7)/C♭

4746

second inversion

A♭m(maj7)/E♭

887a

third inversion

A♭m(maj7)/G

0342

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 seventh A♭maj7major seventh A♭m7minor seventh A♭major A♭mminor A♭dimdiminished

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