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Fig. 1 · A#maj7 · moderate

guitar chord

A♯maj7

A♯1C𝄪3E♯5G𝄪7

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

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

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

600365

moderate

Fig. 3

600366

moderate

Fig. 4

60036x

easy

Fig. 5

x10231

moderate

Fig. 6

600335

moderate · no 5

What is true of it

A♯maj7 is A♯, C𝄪, E♯ and G𝄪 — 1, 3, 5 and 7 counted from A♯.

C𝄪 and G𝄪 are double sharps, and they have to be: every letter from A♯ upwards is used once, so the 3 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 5 fingerings below is 600365: 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.

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

first inversion

A♯maj7/C𝄪

x50365

second inversion

A♯maj7/E♯

100331

third inversion

A♯maj7/G𝄪

x00331

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 seventhA♯m7minor seventhA♯m(maj7)minor major seventhA♯majorA♯mminorA♯dimdiminished

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