G♯m(maj7)

G♯1B♭3D♯5F𝄪7

Minor triad, major seventh — the tonic chord of harmonic minor.

Written the other way round it is A♭m(maj7) — 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

1332

moderate

Fig. 3

x87a

easy · no 5

What is true of it

G♯m(maj7) is G♯, B, D♯ and F𝄪 — 1, b3, 5 and 7 counted from G♯.

F𝄪 is a double sharp, and it has to be: every letter from G♯ upwards is used once, so the 7 cannot be written any other way.

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

The easiest of the 2 fingerings below is 1332: 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(maj7)/B

4746

second inversion

G♯m(maj7)/D♯

887a

third inversion

G♯m(maj7)/F𝄪

0342

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♯7dominant seventh G♯maj7major seventh G♯m7minor seventh G♯major G♯mminor G♯dimdiminished

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