A♭maj7

A♭1C3E♭5G7

Major triad with a major seventh: a half step below the root, an octave up.

Written the other way round it is G♯maj7 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukulele on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

43504x

hard

Fig. 3

43101x

hard

Fig. 4

43104x

hard

Fig. 5

4310xx

easy

Fig. 6

43604x

hard

What is true of it

A♭maj7 is A♭, C, E♭ and G — 1, 3, 5 and 7 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 43504x: 4 fingers, held at the 3rd 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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

first inversion

A♭maj7/C

x35044

second inversion

A♭maj7/E♭

xx1014

third inversion

A♭maj7/G

335044

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♭7dominant seventh A♭m7minor seventh A♭m(maj7)minor major seventh A♭major A♭mminor A♭dimdiminished

Cmaj7 C♯maj7 D♭maj7 Dmaj7 D♯maj7 E♭maj7 Emaj7 Fmaj7 all 374