×BbFGDbF
Fig. 1 · Bbm6 · moderate

guitar chord

B♭m6

B♭1D♭♭3F5G6

A minor triad with a major sixth added, which is why it is not simply a minor chord with a flat seventh.

Written the other way round it is A♯m6 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x13021

moderate

Fig. 3

x13023

moderate

Fig. 4

x1302x

open

Fig. 5

64506x

hard

Fig. 6

64306x

hard

What is true of it

B♭m6 is B♭, D♭, F and G — 1, b3, 5 and 6 counted from B♭.

These are also the notes of Gm7♭5/B♭. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x13021: 4 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

1 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

B♭m6/D♭

x45066

second inversion

B♭m6/F

113023

third inversion

B♭m6/G

31302x

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.

B♭ in other shapes

B♭6major sixthB♭majorB♭mminorB♭dimdiminished

Cm6C♯m6D♭m6Dm6D♯m6E♭m6Em6Fm6all 374