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Fig. 1 · Gm7 · open

ukulele chord

Gm7

G1B♭♭3D5F♭7

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

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Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

0211

open

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Fig. 3

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easy · no 5

What is true of it

Gm7 is G, B♭, D and F — 1, b3, 5 and b7 counted from G.

These are also the notes of B♭6/G and A♯6/G. 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 0211: 3 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

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

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 4 — 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

3
first inversion

Gm7/B♭

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6
second inversion

Gm7/D

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10
third inversion

Gm7/F

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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.

G in other shapes

G7dominant seventhGmaj7major seventhGm(maj7)minor major seventhGmajorGmminorGdimdiminished

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