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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

guitar chord

A♭5

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Root and fifth, no third at all — neither major nor minor, which is the point.

Written the other way round it is G♯5 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

A♭5 is A♭ and E♭ — 1 and 5 counted from A♭.

No fingering of A♭5 fits a hand on the guitar: inside four frets, with the strings that sound next to each other and the root underneath, there is nothing to hold.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 2 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

A♭5/E♭

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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.

A♭ in other shapes

A♭majorA♭mminorA♭dimdiminished

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