G♯m

G♯1B♭3D♯5

The major triad with its third lowered by a half step.

Written the other way round it is A♭m — 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

1342

moderate

Fig. 3

x876

easy

What is true of it

G♯m is G♯, B and D♯ — 1, b3 and 5 counted from G♯.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 3, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 2 fingerings below is 1342: 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 G♯, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

G♯m/B

434x

second inversion

G♯m/D♯

x342

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♯major G♯dimdiminished G♯augaugmented G♯5power chord G♯sus2suspended second G♯sus4suspended fourth

Cm C♯m D♭m Dm D♯m E♭m Em Fm all 374