Gaug

G1B3D♯♯5

Two major thirds stacked. Symmetrical: every note can be heard as the root.

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

0332

open

Fig. 3

x776

easy

Fig. 4

cbbx

easy

Fig. 5

cbba

hard

What is true of it

Gaug is G, B and D♯ — 1, 3 and #5 counted from G.

The easiest of the 4 fingerings below is 0332: 3 fingers, held at the 2nd fret.

1 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 6 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

Gaug/B

433x

second inversion

Gaug/D♯

x332

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.

G in other shapes

Gmajor Gmminor Gdimdiminished G5power chord Gsus2suspended second Gsus4suspended fourth

Caug C♯aug D♭aug Daug D♯aug E♭aug Eaug Faug all 374