G♯7

G♯1B♯3D♯5F♯♭7

Major triad, minor seventh. The chord that wants to resolve a fourth up.

Written the other way round it is A♭7 — 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

102x

open · no 5

Fig. 3

1023

open · no 5

Fig. 4

1323

moderate

Fig. 5

x889

moderate · barre · no 5

What is true of it

G♯7 is G♯, B♯, D♯ and F♯ — 1, 3, 5 and b7 counted from G♯.

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

The easiest of the 4 fingerings below is 102x: 2 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

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

1 of the 4 need a barre.

It leaves out the 5. 4 strings cannot carry 4 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

1 string stays silent.

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

G♯7/B♯

5646

second inversion

G♯7/D♯

8889

third inversion

G♯7/F♯

bcbb

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

G♯maj7major seventh G♯m7minor seventh G♯m(maj7)minor major seventh G♯major G♯mminor G♯dimdiminished

C7 C♯7 D♭7 D7 D♯7 E♭7 E7 F7 all 374