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Fig. 1 · F#maj7 · hard

ukulele chord

F♯maj7

F♯1A♯3C♯5E♯7

Major triad with a major seventh: a half step below the root, an octave up.

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

on guitaron pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

8
Fig. 2

ba98

hard

6
Fig. 3

x668

moderate · barre · no 5

What is true of it

F♯maj7 is F♯, A♯, C♯ and E♯ — 1, 3, 5 and 7 counted from F♯.

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

The easiest of the 2 fingerings below is ba98: 4 fingers, held at the 8th 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 F♯, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

2
first inversion

F♯maj7/A♯

3524

6
second inversion

F♯maj7/C♯

6668

9
third inversion

F♯maj7/E♯

aa99

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.

F♯ in other shapes

F♯7dominant seventhF♯m7minor seventhF♯m(maj7)minor major seventhF♯majorF♯mminorF♯dimdiminished

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