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Fig. 1 · Ab7sus4 · moderate

guitar chord

A♭7sus4

A♭1D♭4E♭5G♭♭7

A dominant seventh with the fourth standing in for the third.

Written the other way round it is G♯7sus4 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

4
Fig. 2

444644

moderate · barre

4
Fig. 3

464644

moderate · barre

4
Fig. 4

44464x

moderate · barre

4
Fig. 5

46464x

moderate · barre

4
Fig. 6

444674

moderate · barre · no 5

What is true of it

A♭7sus4 is A♭, D♭, E♭ and G♭ — 1, 4, 5 and b7 counted from A♭.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 444644: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 4th fret, held at the 4th 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

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Fig. 7 — 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

4
first inversion

A♭7sus4/D♭

x44644

11
second inversion

A♭7sus4/E♭

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4
third inversion

A♭7sus4/G♭

xx4644

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♭sus2suspended secondA♭sus4suspended fourthA♭majorA♭mminorA♭dimdiminished

C7sus4C♯7sus4D♭7sus4D7sus4D♯7sus4E♭7sus4E7sus4F7sus4all 374